Computer Science: A Very Short Introduction
Subrata Dasgupta · Oxford University Press eBooks · 2016
Over the past sixty years, there has been spectacular growth of the technologies associated with the computer. Yet, the science underpinning this technology is less visible and little understood outside the professional computer science community. As a scientific discipline, computer science stands alongside the likes of molecular biology and cognitive science as one of the most significant new sciences of the post-Second World War era. Computer Science: A Very Short Introduction considers the conceptual basis and core principles of computer science. Discussing algorithms, programming, and sequential and parallel processing, it considers emerging modern ideas such as biological computing and cognitive modelling, challenging the idea of computer science as a science of the artificial.