What Computing Is All About by Jan Lavan De Snepscheut
I have always been fascinated with engineering. From Roman bridges and jumbo jets to steam engines and CD players, it is the privilege of the en- gineer to combine scientific insights and technical possibilities into useful and elegant products. Engineers get a great deal of satisfaction from the usefulness and beauty of their designs. Some of these designs have a major impact on our daily lives, others enable further scientific insights or shift limits of technology. The successful engineer is familiar with the scientific basis of the field and the technology of the components, and has an eye for the envisioned applications. For example, to build an airplane, one had better understand the physics of motion, the structural properties of alu- minum, and the size of passengers. And the physics of motion requires a mastery of mathematics, in particular calculus. Computers are a marvel of modern engineering. They come in a wide variety and their range of applications seems endless. One of the charac- teristics that makes computers different from other engineering products is their programmability. Dishwashers have some limited programming capa- is not the key part of the device. Their essential part is some bility, but it enclosed space where the dishes are stored and flushed with hot water. Computers are embedded in many different environments, but in their case the programming capability is the essential part. All computers are programmed in more or less the same way.-
The Science of Programming
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A Theory of Objects
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Numerical Geometry of Non-Rigid Shapes
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Computer Systems
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Algebraic Approaches to Program Semantics
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Set Theory for Computing
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Beauty Is Our Business
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Parameterized Complexity
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A Discipline of Multiprogramming
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Asynchronous Circuits
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The Design of Well-Structured and Correct Programs
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String-Rewriting Systems
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Error-Free Polynomial Matrix Computations
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Prototyping-Oriented Software Development
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An Introduction to Formal Language Theory
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The Synthesizer Generator
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Methods and Applications of Error-Free Computation
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Adaptive Information Processing
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Reliable Computer Systems
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Programming with Sets
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Programming in Modula-2
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Adaptive Signal Processing
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Predicate Calculus and Program Semantics
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Algorithmic Algebra
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Programming with Specifications
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Probabilistic Analysis of Algorithms
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Expert Systems and Probabilistic Network Models
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Algorithmic Language and Program Development
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Object-Oriented Database Programming
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The Design and Analysis of Algorithms
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Software Configuration Management Using Vesta
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The Origins of Digital Computers
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Larch: Languages and Tools for Formal Specification
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ML with Concurrency
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The Synthesizer Generator Reference Manual
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Language Equations
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On a Method of Multiprogramming
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Programming Methodology
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Abstraction, Refinement and Proof for Probabilistic Systems
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Super-Recursive Algorithms
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Specification and Development of Interactive Systems
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Geometric Fundamentals of Robotics
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Evolutionary Synthesis of Pattern Recognition Systems
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Reverse Engineering of Object Oriented Code
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High Performance Discovery In Time Series
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Panoramic Vision
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| ISBN 13 | 9781461276395 |
| ISBN 10 | 146127639X |
| Title | What Computing Is All About |
| Author | Jan Lavan De Snepscheut |
| Series | Monographs In Computer Science |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Springer-Verlag New York Inc. |
| Year published | 2011-09-22 |
| Number of pages | 478 |
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