书名：Computer Science: A Very Short Introduction牛津通识读本：计算机科学
作者：Subrata Dasgupta
出版社名称：OUP Oxford
出版时间：2016
语种：英语
ISBN：9780198733461
商品尺寸：1.3 x 10.7 x 17.3 cm
包装：平装
页数：176（以实物为准）

在过去的六十年中，与计算机相关的技术的惊人发展是所有人都可以看到和体验的。然而，在专业计算机科学界以外，支持该技术的科学鲜为人知，鲜为人知。作为一门科学学科，计算机科学与分子生物学和认知科学一样，是第二次世界大战后zui重要的新科学之一。

在本简短介绍中，Subrata Dasgupta阐明了这些鲜为人知的领域，并考虑了计算机科学的概念基础。在讨论算法，编程以及顺序和并行处理时，他考虑了新兴的现代思想，例如生物计算和认知建模，对计算机科学作为人工科学的思想提出了挑战。

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Over the past sixty years, the spectacular growth of the technologies associated with the computer is visible for all to see and experience. Yet, the science underpinning this technology is less visible and little understood outside the professional computer science community. As a scientific discipline, computer science stands alongside the likes of molecular biology and cognitive science as one of the most significant new sciences of the post Second World War era.

In this Very Short Introduction, Subrata Dasgupta sheds light on these lesser known areas and considers the conceptual basis of computer science. Discussing algorithms, programming, and sequential and parallel processing, he considers emerging modern ideas such as biological computing and cognitive modelling, challenging the idea of computer science as a science of the artificial.

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ProfessorSubrata Dasgupta holds the Computer Science Trust Fund Eminent Scholar Chair in the School of Computing and Informatics, University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He was previously Dowty Professor of Computer Systems Engineering at University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, and has held various visiting positions at universities including Oxford and Cambridge. He has written 14 books on topics of technology, science, and creativity, including It Began with Babbage: the genesis of computer science (OUP, 2014).