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This book presents fundamental contributions to computer science as written and recounted by those who made the contributions themselves. As such, it is a highly original approach to a living history of the field of computer science. The scope of the book is broad in that it covers all aspects of computer science, going from the theory of computation, the theory of programming, and the theory of computer system performance, all the way to computer hardware and to major numerical applications of computers.

A Computer Science Reader covers the entire field of computing, from its technological status through its social, economic and political significance. The book's clearly written selections represent the best of what has been published in the first three-and-a-half years of ABACUS, Springer-Verlag's internatioanl quarterly journal for computing professionals. Among the articles included are: - U.S. versus IBM: An Exercise in Futility? by Robert P. Bigelow - Programmers: The Amateur vs. the Professional by Henry Ledgard - The Composer and the Computer by Lejaren Hiller - SDI: A Violation of Professional Responsibility by David L. Parnas - Who Invented the First Electronic Digital Computer? by Nancy Stern - Foretelling the Future by Adaptive Modeling by Ian H. Witten and John G. Cleary - The Fifth Generation: Banzai or Pie-in-the-Sky? by Eric A. Weiss This volume contains more than 30 contributions by outstanding and authoritative authors grouped into the magazine's regular categories: Editorials, Articles, Departments, Reports from Correspondents, and Features. A Computer Science Reader will be interesting and important to any computing professional or student who wants to know about the status, trends, and controversies in computer science today.

An introduction to computer science. Using real-life analogies and examples, this text introduces coverage of the World Wide Web and the Java programming language and includes a larger emphasis on the object-oriented paradigm and networking.

This work fully covers all course/exam requirements for existing syllabuses and forthcoming subject specifications for Advanced Level, BTEC, City and Guilds and new computer and IT technologies. Each chapter provides extra help through introductory summaries; 'Did You Know That' sections; hint boxes; screen dumps of examples; and, highlighted key text and revision summaries. Student-friendly material is supported with tables, diagrams, photographs, and examples for accessible and comprehensive learning. Revised and extended business, scientific and real-time applications chapters with past examination questions provided throughout for consolidation and practice. Full-colour sections showing the use of colour in computing are included throughout. It provides thorough coverage on the influence of the Internet.

This book deals with experience management in the context of real-world applicability and realistic applications. A particular focus is given by the requirements that arise in complex problem solving and by the fact that modern experience management must be implemented as Internet-based applications. Concrete application areas that are discussed in this book are electronic commerce, diagnosis of complex technical equipment, and electronic design reuse. This book explores how experience management can be supported by information technology, especially by techniques that stem from knowledge-based systems, case-based reasoning, machine learning, and process modeling. It surveys different methods in a unified terminology and investigates them with respect to application requirements. Further, the process of application development and maintenance is highlighted, pointing out successful practically proven ways for obtaining and operating experience management applications.

Imagine visiting friends hundreds of miles away without having to leave your own home. Visualize touring structures or monuments that have yet to be built. What if surgeons could operate on patients that were in another country? Imagine if astronauts could walk on Mars without ever having to leave Earth! With the modern advances of computer technology and virtual reality, such fantasies are becoming realities. This completely revised and updated edition of Virtual Reality explores the development of this groundbreaking scientific field and its fascinating possibilities for life at home, at work, and during leisure hours. This book provides an overview of virtual reality's history, the tools and techniques used to mimic the physical world, the fields in which virtual reality is being used, and some of the obstacles that virtual reality's supporters have had to overcome. This new edition catches up with the developments that have taken place in the past five years, including problems that virtual reality businesses have encountered as a result of the technology boom-and-bust economic cycle that took place during the last few years of the twentieth century.

This book covers all of the Java language, its standard libraries, and utilities from an object-oriented perspective. Special emphasis is put on using a step-by-step methodology for problem solving, and a diagrammatic notation forms the basis for subsequent algorithmic development.In terms of programming, it covers object-orientation, software design, structured programming, graphical user interfacing, data representation, animation, and networking. From the start, solutions are presented via a special graphics package so the reader can appreciate the physical significance of the underlying mathematics.Non-computer scientists who need to learn the Java programming language to apply in an engineering and/or scientific environment.

This non-software specific textbook helps prepare students for the Advanced Placement Test for the C++ Exam A. The many hands-on exercises throughout the book provide immediate reinforcement of the concepts learned.

Parallel computing is becoming an increasingly cost effective and affordable means for providing enormous computing power, and massively parallel (MPP) machines have been relatively easy to build. However, designing good parallel algorithms that can efficiently use the hardware resources to get the maximum performance remains a challenge. This text discusses the design and use of practical parallel algorithms for solving problems in a growing application area whose computational requirements are enormous - VLSI CAD applications. It also examines practical parallel algorithms (written in C and pseudo-C) for all forms of parallel programming - shared memory, MIMD, message passing distributed MIMD and SIMD, for a variety of interesting applications, with experimental results.