Computer Science - E-book - ePub

Humans have always had the need to tell. In the darkmillennia of prehistory, people used fingers or made incisionson bones. There are about 4000 years early civilizationsdeveloped elaborate numbering system to record transactionsfrom business to astronomical cycles. The hand tools calculationappear millennia later. Today, the prodigious complexity ofcalculations, as well as the whole set of activities with noapparent relationship to numbers are made by thesesophisticated "electronic brains" called computers.
Experts arerushing to point out that a computer is a brain, is just anothertool, another machine designed to reduce the work or extendour dominion over the world. In this book, you will learn more about the science ofcomputing through subtle explanations and summarizedchapters. Once pointed out the importance and necessity of thestudy of history in general and, more specifically, the history ofscience and technology, it is easy to see that the study of theHistory of Computing is an impressive relief in the vastlandscape of scientific knowledge.
Just remember that theimpact of this technology in our society is immense and ourincreasing dependence on it.