The Second Age of Computer Science: From ALGOL Genes to Neural Nets

ISBN-13: 9780190843861 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 360 str.

Subrata DasGupta

Opis

Between the genesis of computer science in the 1960s and the advent of the World Wide Web around 1990, computer science evolved in significant ways. The author has termed this period the "second age of computer science." This book describes its evolution in the form of several interconnected parallel histories.

Recenzje

This is a well researched, well written and enjoyable book. 10 out of 10.

O autorze

Subrata Dasgupta is a scholar, teacher and writer. He holds the Computer Science Trust Fund Eminent Scholar Chair in the School of Computing & Informatics at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. For the past thirty years he has studied and written on the historical, philosophical, and cognitive nature of creativity in various fields including computer science, design, technology, art, natural science, and intellectual movements. He is the author of fifteen previous book including, most recently, It Began with Babbage (2014) and Computer Science: A Very Short Introduction (2016).