Computer Science category: 2288 books
Computer Science Made Simple
Learn how hardware and software work-- and how to make them work for you!
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2010
Be smarter than your computer
If you don't understand computers, you can quickly be left behind in today's fast-paced, machine-dependent society.
Computer Science Made Simple offers a straightforward resource for technology novices and advanced techies alike. It clarifies all you need...
Algorithms to Live By
The Computer Science of Human Decisions
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
A fascinating exploration of how computer algorithms can be applied to our everyday lives, helping to solve common decision-making problems and illuminate the workings of the human mind
All our lives are constrained by limited space and time, limits that give rise to a particular set of problems....
Information Sciences and Systems 2014
Proceedings of the 29th International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
Based on a rigorous selection of submissions to The 29th International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences (ISCIS 2014), this books includes some of the most recent ideas and technical results in computer systems, computer science, and computer-communication networks. It offers the reader...
Computer Systems and Software Engineering
Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Professionals in the interdisciplinary field of computer science focus on the design, operation, and maintenance of computational systems and software. Methodologies and tools of engineering are utilized alongside computer applications to develop efficient and precise information databases. Computer...
by Steve Cushing
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
Exam Board: AQA
Level: GCSE
Subject: Computer Science
First Teaching: September 2016
First Exam: Summer 2018
Build student confidence and ensure successful progress through GCSE Computer Science.
- Builds students' knowledge and confidence through detailed topic coverage and key points
-...
by George Rouse, Sean O'Byrne
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
Exam Board: OCR
Level: GCSE
Subject: Computer Science
First Teaching: September 2016
First Exam: June 2018
Build student confidence and ensure successful progress through GCSE Computer Science. Our expert authors provide insight and guidance to meet the demands of the new OCR specification,...
Computer Science
An Interdisciplinary Approach
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
Named a Notable Book in the 21st Annual Best of Computing list by the ACM!
Robert Sedgewick and Kevin Wayne’s Computer Science: An Interdisciplinary Approach is the ideal modern introduction to computer science with Java programming for both students and professionals. Taking a broad, applications-based...
Adventures in Computer Science
From Classical Bits to Quantum Bits
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2017
The main focus of this textbook is the basic unit of information and the way in which our understanding of this has evolved over time. In particular the author covers concepts related to information, classical computing, logic, reversible computing, quantum mechanics, quantum computing, thermodynamics...
Turing's Vision
The Birth of Computer Science
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Turing's fascinating and remarkable theory, which now forms the basis of computer science, explained for the general reader.
In 1936, when he was just twenty-four years old, Alan Turing wrote a remarkable paper in which he outlined the theory of computation, laying out the ideas that underlie...
Digital Da Vinci
Computers in Music
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
The Digital Da Vinci book series opens with the interviews of music mogul Quincy Jones, MP3 inventor Karlheinz Brandenburg, Tommy Boy founder Tom Silverman and entertainment attorney Jay L. Cooper. A strong supporter of science, technology, engineering and mathematics programs in schools, The Black...
by Steve Cushing
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2016
Exam Board: Edexcel
Level: GCSE
Subject: Computer Science
First Teaching: September 2016
First Exam: Summer 2018
Build student confidence and ensure successful progress through GCSE Computer Science. Our expert author provides insight and guidance to meet the demands of the new Edexcel specification,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2014
This Handbook is concerned with principles of human factors engineering for design of the human-computer interface. It has both academic and practical purposes; it summarizes the research and provides recommendations for how the information can be used by designers of computer systems. The articles...
Digital Biology
How Nature Is Transforming Our Technology and Our Lives
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
*Imagine a future world where computers can create universes -- digital environments made from binary ones and zeros. Imagine that within these universes there exist biological forms that reproduce, grow, and think. Imagine plantlike forms, ant colonies, immune systems, and brains, all adapting, evolving,...
Performance Modeling and Design of Computer Systems
Queueing Theory in Action
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2013
Tackling the questions that systems designers care about, this book brings queueing theory decisively back to computer science. The book is written with computer scientists and engineers in mind and is full of examples from computer systems, as well as manufacturing and operations research. Fun and...