| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 194 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Prelude: Emily Shops at Virtualemporia.com 1 -- Part 1 Essential Character of Computer Science 9 -- 1 Essential Character of Computer Science 11 -- What Is Computer Science? 12 -- Salient Characteristics of Computer Science Research 15 -- Computer Science Research Involves Symbols and Their Manipulation 15 -- Computer Science Research Involves the Creation and Manipulation of Abstraction 17 -- Computer Science Research Creates and Studies Algorithms 19 -- Computer Science Research Creates Artificial Constructs, Notably Unlimited by Physical Laws 19 -- Computer Science Research Exploits and Addresses Exponential Growth 20 -- Computer Science Research Seeks the Fundamental Limits on What Can Be Computed 21 -- Computer Science Research Often Focuses on the Complex, Analytic, Rational Action That Is Associated with Human Intelligence 23 -- Part 2 Selected Perspectives on Computer Science 25 -- 2 Exponential Growth, Computability, and Complexity 27 -- Harnessing Moore's Law / Mark D. Hill 28 -- Computability and Complexity / Jon Kleinberg, Christos Papadimitriou 37 -- Quantum Information Processing / Charles H. Bennett 51 -- 3 Simulation 57 -- Real Scientific Hero of 1953 / Steven Strogatz 58 -- Making a Computational Splash / Ronald Fedkiw 61 -- 4 Abstraction, Representation, and Notations 65 -- Abstraction: Imposing Order on Complexity in Software Design / Mary Shaw 66 -- Programming Languages and Computer Science / Alfred V. Aho, James Larus 74 -- 5 Data, Representation, and Information 79 -- Database Systems: A Textbook Case of Research Paying Off / Jim Gray 80 -- Computer Science Is to Information as Chemistry Is to Matter / Michael Lesk 88 -- History and the Fundamentals of Computer Science / Edward L. Ayers 96 -- 6 Achieving Intelligence 101 -- Experiment-Analyze-Generalize Loop in Computer Science Research: A Case Study / Tom Mitchell 103 -- "I'm Sorry Dave, I'm Afraid I Can't Do That": Linguistics, Statitics, and Natural-Language Processing Circa 2001 / Lillian Lee 111 -- Computer Game Playing: Beating Humanity at Its Own Game / Daphne Koller, Alan Biermann 119 -- 7 Building Computing Systems of Practical Scale 127 -- Internet: An Experiment That Escaped from the Lab / Larry Peterson, David Clark 129 -- Many-to-Many Communication: A New Medium / Amy Bruckman 134 -- Cryptography / Madhu Sudan 144 -- Strategies for Software Engineering Research / Mary Shaw 151 -- 8 Research Behind Everyday Computation 159 -- How You Got Microsoft Word / Jeffrey Ullman 161 -- VisiCalc, Spreadsheets, and Programming for the Masses, Or "How a Killer App Was Born" / James D. Foley 167 -- Internet Searching / Peter Norvig 174 -- 9 Personal Statements of Passion About Computer Science Research 179 -- Legacy of Computer Science / Gerald Jay Sussman 180 -- Fairy Tales / Allen Newell 184 -- Revisiting "What Is Computer Science" / Allen Newell 189 -- Appendix Agenda of July 25-26, 2001, Symposium 193. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Computer science.
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Computer science. |
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on the Fundamentals of Computer Science: Challenges and Opportunities.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Computer science. Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, ©2004 0309093015 0309545293 (DLC) 2004303866 (OCoLC)56818630 |
| ISBN |
0309545293 (electronic book) |
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9780309545297 (electronic book) |
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0309093015 (paperback) |
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9780309093019 (paperback) |
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