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Digitized: The Science of Computers and How it Shapes Our World (Record no. 5225)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780199678761
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 004
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Personal name Bentley, Peter J.
9 (RLIN) 374793
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Title Digitized: The Science of Computers and How it Shapes Our World
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. United Kingdom;
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Oxford University Press;
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 12 Sep 2013
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 292 Pages;
Other physical details Paperback
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. There's a hidden science that affects every part of your life. You are fluent in its terminology of email, WiFi, social networking, and encryption. You use its results when you make a telephone call, access the Internet, use any factory-produced product, or travel in any modern car. The discipline is so new that some prefer to call it a branch of engineering or mathematics. But it is so powerful and world-changing that you would be hard-pressed to find a single human being on the planet unaffected by its achievements. The science of computers enables the supply and creation of power, food, water, medicine, transport, money, communication, entertainment, and most goods in shops. It has transformed societies with the Internet, the digitization of information, mobile phone networks and GPS technologies. Here, Peter J. Bentley explores how this young discipline grew from its theoretical conception by pioneers such as Turing, through its growth spurts in the Internet, its difficult adolescent stage where the promises of AI were never achieved and dot-com bubble burst, to its current stage as a (semi)mature field, now capable of remarkable achievements. Charting the successes and failures of computer science through the years, Bentley discusses what innovations may change our world in the future.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Computer Science
9 (RLIN) 374794
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     Karachi Karachi Computing and the Internet 27/06/2016 15 4 004 PKLC000233 04/02/2020 14/01/2020 27/06/2016 Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17
    Dewey Decimal Classification     Lahore Lahore Computing and the Internet 07/05/2016 2 1 004 PKLC008769 02/05/2018 08/02/2018 07/05/2016 Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17