Great Principles of Computing

基本信息

Series:The MIT Press

Format:Paperback / softback 320 pages, 95 b&w illus.; 190 Illustrations, unspecified

Publisher:MIT Press Ltd

Imprint:MIT Press

ISBN:9780262527125

Published:16 Jan 2015

Weight:444g

Dimensions:230 x 153 x 16 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

一个理解计算的新框架：一套横跨技术、领域、算法、架构和设计的连贯原则。

计算通常被视为一个以摩尔定律的极快速度发展的技术领域。如果我们哪怕离开一会儿，我们就可能错过改变游戏规则的技术突破或震撼人心的理论发展。本书采取了不同的视角，将计算作为一门受跨越所有技术的基本原则支配的科学。计算机科学是一门关于信息过程的科学。我们需要一种新的语言来描述这门科学，而在本书中，彼得·丹宁和克雷格·马泰尔提供的大原则框架正是这样一种语言。这是一本关于整个计算的书--其算法、架构和设计。

丹宁和马特尔将计算的伟大原则分为六个类别：通信、计算、协调、回忆、评估和设计。他们首先介绍了计算、它的历史、它与其他领域的许多互动、它的实践领域，以及伟大原则框架的结构。他们继续研究不同领域的伟大原则：信息、机器、编程、计算、记忆、并行、队列和设计。最后，他们将这些伟大的原则应用于网络，特别是互联网。

计算的伟大原则》将是具有 "计算 "分支的科学和工程领域的专业人员的必读书目，也是希望对计算机科学中不太熟悉的领域进行概述的计算从业者的必读书目，同时也是希望获得该领域入门方法的非计算机科学专业的学生的必读书目。

A new framework for understanding computing: a coherent set of principles spanning technologies, domains, algorithms, architectures, and designs.

Computing is usually viewed as a technology field that advances at the breakneck speed of Moore's Law. If we turn away even for a moment, we might miss a game-changing technological breakthrough or an earthshaking theoretical development. This book takes a different perspective, presenting computing as a science governed by fundamental principles that span all technologies. Computer science is a science of information processes. We need a new language to describe the science, and in this book Peter Denning and Craig Martell offer the great principles framework as just such a language. This is a book about the whole of computing—its algorithms, architectures, and designs.

Denning and Martell divide the great principles of computing into six categories: communication, computation, coordination, recollection, evaluation, and design. They begin with an introduction to computing, its history, its many interactions with other fields, its domains of practice, and the structure of the great principles framework. They go on to examine the great principles in different areas: information, machines, programming, computation, memory, parallelism, queueing, and design. Finally, they apply the great principles to networking, the Internet in particular.

Great Principles of Computing will be essential reading for professionals in science and engineering fields with a “computational” branch, for practitioners in computing who want overviews of less familiar areas of computer science, and for non-computer science majors who want an accessible entry way to the field.

作者简介

彼得·J·丹宁是加州蒙特雷海军研究生院的计算机科学杰出教授。他是《创新者之路》的作者之一。成功创新的基本实践》和《计算的伟大原则》的作者之一，这两本书都由麻省理工学院出版社出版。

Peter J. Denning is Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California. He is the coauthor of The Innovator's Way: Essential Practices for Successful Innovation and Great Principles of Computing, both published by the MIT Press.

克雷格·H·马泰尔是海军研究生院计算机科学系的副教授。

Craig H. Martell is Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the Naval Postgraduate School.