PDF-[BOOK]-Computing: A Concise History (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series)

The history of computing could be told as the story of hardware and software or the story of the Internet or the story of smart handheld devices with subplots involving IBM Microsoft Apple Facebook and Twitter In this concise and accessible account of the invention and development of digital technology computer historian Paul Ceruzzi offers a broader and more useful perspective He identifies four major threads that run throughout all of computings technological development digitizationthe coding of information computation and control in binary form ones and zeros the convergence of multiple streams of techniques devices and machines yielding more than the sum of their parts the steady advance of electronic technology as characterized famously by Moores Law and the humanmachine interface Ceruzzi guides us through computing history telling how a Bell Labs mathematician coined the word digital in 1942 to describe a highspeed method of calculating used in antiaircraft devices and recounting the development of the punch card for use in the 1890 US Census He describes the ENIAC built for scientific and military applications the UNIVAC the first general purpose computer and ARPANET the Internets precursor Ceruzzis account traces the worldchanging evolution of the computer from a roomsize ensemble of machinery to a minicomputer to a desktop computer to a pocketsized smart phone He describes the development of the silicon chip which could store everincreasing amounts of data and enabled everdecreasing device size He visits that hotbed of innovation Silicon Valley and brings the story up to the present with the Internet the World Wide Web and social networking. 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It is the basis of the new approach in computing where we do not write programs but collect data the idea is to learn the algorithms for the tasks automatically from data. As computing devices grow more ubiquitous, a larger part of our lives and work is recorded digitally, and as Big Data has gotten bigger, the theory of machine learning--the foundation of efforts to process that data into knowledge--has also advanced. In this book, machine learning expert Ethem Alpaydin offers a concise overview of the subject for the general reader, describing its evolution, explaining important learning algorithms, and presenting example applications. Alpaydin offers an account of how digital technology advanced from number-crunching mainframes to mobile devices, putting today\'s machine learning boom in context. 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In this concise and accessible account of the invention and development of digital technology, computer historian Paul Ceruzzi offers a broader and more useful perspective. He identifies four major threads that run throughout all of computing\'s technological development: digitization--the coding of information, computation, and control in binary form, ones and zeros the convergence of multiple streams of techniques, devices, and machines, yielding more than the sum of their parts the steady advance of electronic technology, as characterized famously by Moore\'s Law and the human-machine interface. Ceruzzi guides us through computing history, telling how a Bell Labs mathematician coined the word digital in 1942 (to describe a high-speed method of calculating used in anti-aircraft devices), and recounting the development of the punch card (for use in the 1890 U.S. Census). He describes the ENIAC, built for scientific and military applications the UNIVAC, the first general purpose computer and ARPANET, the Internet\'s precursor. Ceruzzi\'s account traces the world-changing evolution of the computer from a room-size ensemble of machinery to a minicomputer to a desktop computer to a pocket-sized smart phone. He describes the development of the silicon chip, which could store ever-increasing amounts of data and enabled ever-decreasing device size. He visits that hotbed of innovation, Silicon Valley, and brings the story up to the present with the Internet, the World Wide Web, and social networking. A concise history of spaceflight, from military rocketry through Sputnik, Apollo, robots in space, space culture, and human spaceflight today.Spaceflight is one of the greatest human achievements of the twentieth century. The Soviets launched Sputnik, the first satellite, in 1957 less than twelve years later, the American Apollo astronauts landed on the Moon. In this volume of the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Michael Neufeld offers a concise history of spaceflight, mapping the full spectrum of activities that humans have developed in space.Neufeld explains that the space program should not be equated only with human spaceflight. Since the 1960s, unmanned military and commercial spacecraft have been orbiting near the Earth, and robotic deep-space explorers have sent back stunning images of faraway planets. Neufeld begins with the origins of space ideas and the discovery that rocketry could be used for spaceflight. He then discusses the Soviet-U.S. Cold War space race and reminds us that NASA resisted adding female astronauts even after the Soviets sent the first female cosmonaut into orbit. He analyzes the two rationales for the Apollo program: prestige and scientific discovery (this last something of an afterthought). 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As computing devices grow more ubiquitous, a larger part of our lives and work is recorded digitally, and as Big Data has gotten bigger, the theory of machine learning--the foundation of efforts to process that data into knowledge--has also advanced. In this book, machine learning expert Ethem Alpaydin offers a concise overview of the subject for the general reader, describing its evolution, explaining important learning algorithms, and presenting example applications. Alpaydin offers an account of how digital technology advanced from number-crunching mainframes to mobile devices, putting today\'s machine learning boom in context. He describes the basics of machine learning and some applications the use of machine learning algorithms for pattern recognition artificial neural networks inspired by the human brain algorithms that learn associations between instances, with such applications as customer segmentation and learning recommendations and reinforcement learning, when an autonomous agent learns act so as to maximize reward and minimize penalty. Alpaydin then considers some future directions for machine learning and the new field of data science, and discusses the ethical and legal implications for data privacy and security. The Desired Brand Effect Stand Out in a Saturated Market with a Timeless Brand The Benefits of Reading Books,Most people read to read and the benefits of reading are surplus. But what are the benefits of reading. Keep reading to find out how reading will help you and may even add years to your life!.The Benefits of Reading Books,What are the benefits of reading you ask? 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