The second age of computer science : from ALGOL genes to neural nets /
By the end of the 1960s, a new discipline named computer science had come into being. A new scientific paradigm - the 'computational paradigm' - was in place, suggesting that computer science had reached a certain level of maturity. Yet as a science it was still precociously young. New for...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2020.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | By the end of the 1960s, a new discipline named computer science had come into being. A new scientific paradigm - the 'computational paradigm' - was in place, suggesting that computer science had reached a certain level of maturity. Yet as a science it was still precociously young. New forces, some technological, some socio-economic, some cognitive impinged upon it, the outcome of which was that new kinds of computational problems arose over the next two decades. Indeed, by the beginning of the 1990's the structure of the computational paradigm looked markedly different in many important respects from how it was at the end of the 1960s. Author Subrata Dasgupta named the two decades from 1970 to 1990 as the second age of computer science to distinguish it from the preceding genesis of the science and the age of the Internet/World Wide Web that followed. |
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| Item Description: | Previously issued in print: 2018. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxv, 326 pages) : illustrations. |
| Audience: | Specialized. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780197559826 (ebook) 0197559824 (ebook) 0190843888 9780190843885 |