Computer Sciences Volume 2
Software and Hardware
Book Details:
| Publisher: | Macmillan Science Library |
| Series: | MIX |
| Author: | Roger R. Flynn |
| Edition: | 1 |
| ISBN-10: | 0028655680 |
| ISBN-13: | 9780028655680 |
| Pages: | 332 |
| Published: | Jun 01 2002 |
| Posted: | Nov 19 2014 |
| Language: | English |
| Book format: | |
| Book size: | 5.74 MB |
Book Description:
Volume 2 describes software and hardware. Articles cover topics from system analysis and design, which is the cornerstone of building a system, to operating systems, compiler, and parallel processing, which discuss some of the technical aspects of computing. Telecommunication subjects range from network design to wireless technology to ATM transmission, while application-oriented articles include pattern recongnition, personal digital assistants (PDAs), and computer music. Essays concerning software products include object-oriented languages, client/server technology, invasive programs, and programming. Among the people featured in Volume 2 are John Bardeen (1908-1991), Walter H. Brattain (1902-1987), and William B. Shockley (1910-1989), inventors of the transistor; English mathematician George Boole (1815-1864), developer of Boolean logic; and Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922), inventor of the telephone. Rounding out Volume 2 are the technical asspects of hardware-related topics, including coding techniques, digital logic design, and cellular technology.
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