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Inside the World of Computing
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Title Page
Copyright
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
1 From the Calculator to the Supercomputer
1.1. Introduction
1.2. Some important concepts
1.3. Towards automation of calculations
1.4. The first programmable computers
1.5. Generations of computers
1.6. Supercomputers
1.7. What about the future?
2 Computer Networks and Their Applications
2.1. Introduction
2.2. A long history
2.3. Computer network infrastructure
2.4. Communication protocols and the Internet
2.5. Applications
2.6. Networks and security
3 Software
3.1. Introduction
3.2. From algorithm to computer program
3.3. Basic languages and operating systems
3.4. “High-level” programming and applications
3.5. Software development
3.6. Software verification and validation
3.7. Legal protection and distribution of software
3.8. The software market
4 Data: From Binary Element to Intelligence
4.1. Introduction
4.2. Data and information
4.3. The structuring of data towards information
4.4. Files and their formats
4.5. Databases
4.6. Intelligence and Big Data
4.7. Data ownership and Open Data
5 Technology Building Blocks
5.1. Embedded systems
5.2. Artificial intelligence (AI)
5.3. The Internet
5.4. Image processing and vision
5.5. Conclusion
6 Some Areas of Application
6.1. Robots
6.2. Virtual reality and augmented reality
6.3. Health
6.4. The connected (and soon autonomous?) car
6.5. The smart city
6.6. Smart mobility
6.7. The factory of the future
7 Societal Issues
7.1. Security
7.2. The respect of private life
7.3. Influence on social life
7.4. Dangers to democracy
7.5. The digital divide
7.6. Mastering the use of artificial intelligence
7.7. The intelligent prosthesis and the bionic man
7.8. Transhumanism
7.9. What kind of society for tomorrow?
Bibliography
Index
End User License Agreement
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