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Author Henderson, Harry, 1951- author.

Title Encyclopedia of computer science and technology / Harry Henderson
Edition Fourth Edition
Published New York, N.Y. : Facts On File, 2021

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Description 1 online resource
Series Science Encyclopedia
Science Encyclopedia
Contents 3D printing -- Acceptable use policy -- Active Server Pages (ASP) -- Ada -- Addressing -- Adobe Systems -- Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) -- Agent-based programming -- Agile software development -- Aiken, Howard -- ALGOL -- Algorithms in computer science -- Amazon.com -- Amdahl, Gene M. -- America Online (AOL) -- Analog and digital -- Analog computer -- Andreessen, Marc -- Android (operating system) -- Anonymity and the Internet -- APL -- App -- Apple Corporation -- Applet -- Application programming interface (API) -- Application service provider (ASP) -- Application software -- Application suite -- Arduino -- Arithmetic logic unit (ALU) -- Array -- Art and the computer -- Artificial intelligence (AI) -- Artificial life (AL) -- Assembler -- Association for Computing Machinery -- Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (Ajax) -- ATT -- Auditing in data processing -- Augmented reality -- Authentication -- Authoring systems -- Automatic programming -- Awk -- Backup and archive systems -- Backus-Naur form (BNF) -- Banking and computers -- BASIC -- Basic Input-Output System (BIOS) -- Bayesian analysis -- Bell, C. Gordon -- Bell Laboratories -- Bezos, Jeffrey P. -- Big data -- Binding (computer science) -- Bioinformatics -- Biometrics -- Bitmapped image -- Bits and bytes -- BitTorrent -- Bitwise operations -- Blockchain -- Blogs and blogging -- Bluetooth -- Body implants and prostheses -- Boolean operators -- Boot sequence -- Botnet -- Brain-computer interface -- Branching statements -- Breazeal, Cynthia -- Brin, Sergey -- Broadband -- Brooks, Rodney -- Buffering -- Bugs and debugging -- Bulletin board systems (BBS) -- Business applications of computers -- C -- C++ -- C# -- Cable modem -- Cache -- Calculator -- CAPTCHA -- Cars and computing -- Cascading style sheets (CSS) -- CD-ROM and DVD-ROM -- Cellular automata -- Censorship and the Internet -- Central processing unit (CPU) -- Cerf, Vinton D. -- Certification of computer professionals -- Characters and strings -- Chatbots -- Chess and computers -- Chipset -- Chrome OS and Chromebooks -- Chrome (web browser) -- Cisco Systems -- Class -- Client-server computing -- Clock speed -- Clojure (programming language) -- Cloud computing -- Codec -- Cognitive science and computers -- Color in computing -- Comcast -- Common Business-Oriented Language (COBOL) -- Common gateway interface (CGI) -- Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) -- Compatibility and portability -- Compiler -- Computability and complexity -- Computer animation -- Computer bus -- Computer chip -- Computer crime and security -- Computer engineering -- Computer forensics -- Computer games -- Computer graphics -- Computer industry -- Computer industry benchmarks -- Computer industry in Asia -- Computer industry in Europe -- Computer literacy -- Computer music -- Computer science -- Computer terminal -- Computer virus -- Computer vision -- Computer-aided design and manufacturing (CAD/CAM) -- Computer-aided instruction (CAI) -- Computer-aided software engineering (CASE) -- Computerized typography -- Computers and disaster planning and recovery -- Concurrent programming -- Conferencing systems -- Constants and literals -- Container (software) -- Content management -- Content moderation -- Cooperative processing -- Counterterrorism and computers -- COVID-19 pandemic and computing -- Craigslist -- Crowdfunding -- Crowdsourcing -- CRT monitor -- Cunningham, Howard -- Customer relationship management (CRM) -- Cyberlaw -- Cybernetics -- Cyberspace advocacy groups -- Cyberspace and cyber culture -- Cyberstalking and harassment -- Cyberterrorism
Data -- Data abstraction -- Data acquisition -- Data breach -- Data communications -- Data compression -- Data conversion -- Data dictionary -- Data mining -- Information security -- Data structures -- Data types -- Data warehouse -- Database administration -- Database management system (DBMS) -- Decision support system -- Dell, Inc. -- Demon (computer science) -- Design patterns -- Desktop publishing (DTP) -- Developing nations and computing -- Device driver -- Diffie, Bailey Whitfield -- Digital bandwidth -- Digital cash and cryptocurrency -- Digital certificate -- Digital convergence -- Digital dashboard -- Digital divide -- Digital music and video players -- Digital photography -- Digital projector -- Digital rights management (DRM) -- Digital subscriber line (DSL) -- Digital video editing -- Digital video recorder (DVR) -- Disabled persons and computing -- Distance education -- Distributed computing -- Doctorow, Cory -- Document model -- Document Object Model (DOM) -- Documentation of program code -- Domain name system (DNS) -- Dreyfus, Hubert -- Drone -- Drupal -- e-readers -- eBay -- e-books and digital libraries -- e-commerce -- Edge (web browser) -- Education and computers -- Education in the computer field -- e-government -- Eiffel -- Electromagnetic pulse (EMP) -- Electronic Arts -- Electronic voting systems -- Email -- Embedded computer system -- Emoticons and emoji -- Employment in the computer field -- Emulation -- Encryption -- Engelberger, Joseph -- Enterprise computing -- Entrepreneurs in computing -- Enumerations and sets -- Ergonomics of computing -- Erlang (programming language) -- Error correction -- Error handling -- Ethics of computing -- Expert systems -- Extensible markup language (XML) -- Facebook -- Facial recognition -- Fault tolerance -- Feigenbaum, Edward -- Fiber optics -- File (computer science) -- File server -- File transfer protocols -- File-sharing and P2P networks -- Motion picture industry and computing -- Financial software -- Finite-state machine -- Firefox -- Firewall -- FireWire -- Fitness monitors and apps -- Flag (computer science) -- Flash and smart mobs -- USB flash drive -- Flat-panel display -- Floppy disk -- Flowchart (computer science) -- Font -- Forth -- Fortran -- Fractals in computing -- Functional languages -- Fuzzy logic in computer science
Game consoles -- Gamification -- Gates, Bill -- General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR) -- Genetic algorithms -- Geographic information system (GIS) -- Gesture recognition -- Gibson, William -- Git (software management) -- Global Positioning System (GPS) -- Globalization and the computer industry -- Go (Golang) -- Google -- Google Drive -- Government funding of computer research -- Graphics card -- Graphics formats -- Graphics tablet -- Green computing -- Grid computing -- Groupware -- Grove, Andrew S. -- Hackers and hacking -- Hadoop -- Handwriting recognition -- Haptic interfaces -- Hard disk -- Hashing -- Haskell -- Health care and computing -- Heap -- Help systems -- Hexadecimal system -- History of computing -- Hollerith, Herman -- Home media center -- Home office -- Hopper, Grace Murray -- HTML, DHTML, and XHTML -- Hypertext and hypermedia -- IBM PC -- IBM Watson computer -- Identity in the online world -- Identity theft -- IEEE Computer Society -- Image processing -- Information design -- Information retrieval -- Information warfare -- Input/output (I/O) -- Installation of software -- Intel Corporation -- Intellectual property and computing -- Intelligent personal assistant -- International Business Machines (IBM) -- Internationalization and localization -- Internet -- Internet applications programming -- Internet cafés and "hot spots" -- Internet hosting service -- Internet of Things -- Internet organization and governance -- Internet radio -- Internet service provider (ISP) -- Interpreter -- iOS -- iPhone -- iRobot Corporation -- iTunes -- Java -- JavaScript -- JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) -- Job control language (JCL) -- Jobs, Steve -- Journalism and computers -- Journalism and the computer industry -- Joy, Bill -- Kay, Alan -- Kernel -- Keyboard -- Kleinrock, Leonard -- Knowledge base -- Knowledge representation -- Knuth, Donald -- Kotlin (programming language) -- Kubernetes -- Kurzweil, Ray -- Language translation software -- Lanier, Jaron -- Laptop computer -- Law enforcement and computers -- Legal software -- Lessig, Lawrence -- Libraries and computing -- Licklider, J. C. R. -- Light emitting diode (LED) -- Linguistics and computing -- Linux -- LISP -- List processing -- Local area network (LAN) -- Logo -- Loop (computer science) -- Low code and no code development -- Lua -- Machine learning -- Macintosh -- Macro -- Maes, Pattie -- Mainframe -- Maker movement -- Management information system (MIS) -- Map information and navigation systems -- Marketing of software -- Markup languages -- Mashups -- Mathematics of computing -- Mathematics software -- Mauchly, John William -- McCarthy, John -- Measurement units used in computing -- Memory (computer science) -- Memory management -- Memristor -- Message passing -- Metadata -- Microprocessor -- Microsoft Corporation -- Microsoft .NET -- Microsoft Office -- Microsoft Windows -- Middleware -- Military applications of computers -- Mind-mapping software -- Minicomputer -- Minsky, Marvin Lee -- MIT Media Lab -- Mitnick, Kevin D. -- Mixed reality -- Mobile communications -- Modeling languages -- Modem -- Molecular computing -- Moore, Gordon Earle -- Motherboard -- Motion picture industry and computing -- Motorola Corporation -- Mouse (computer) -- MS-DOS -- Multimedia -- Multiprocessing -- Multitasking (computer science)
Nanotechnology -- Natural language processing -- Near field communication (NFC) -- Negroponte, Nicholas -- Net neutrality -- Etiquette in the digital world -- Netnews and newsgroups -- Network (computer science) -- Networked storage -- Neumann, John von -- Neural interfaces -- Neural network -- Nonprocedural languages -- Numeric data -- Object-oriented programming (OOP) -- Office automation -- Office suites (software) -- Omidyar, Pierre -- Online advertising -- Online auctions -- Online chat -- Online frauds and scams -- Online gambling -- Online games -- Online investing -- Online job searching and recruiting -- Online music and video distribution -- Online reputation -- Online research -- Online services -- Ontologies and data models -- Open-source movement -- Operating system (OS) -- Operators and expressions -- Optical character recognition (OCR) -- Optical computing -- Oracle Corporation -- OS X -- Package manager (software) -- Page, Larry -- Papert, Seymour -- Parallel port -- Parsing -- Pascal -- Pattern recognition -- Penetration testing -- Perl -- Personal computer (PC) -- Personal digital assistant (PDA) -- Personal health information management -- Personal information manager (PIM) -- Philosophical and spiritual aspects of computing -- Phishing and spoofing -- PHP -- PL/I -- Plug and play -- Plug-in -- Podcasting -- Pointers and indirection -- Political activism and the Internet -- Popular culture and computing -- Portable document format (PDF) -- Posthumanism and Transhumanism -- PostScript -- Power grid and computing -- Power management -- Powered exoskeleton -- PowerShell (Microsoft) -- Predictive analytics -- Presentation software -- Printers -- Privacy in the digital age -- Privacy policy -- Procedures and functions -- Program library -- Programming as a profession -- Programming environment -- Programming languages -- Project management software -- Prolog -- Pseudocode -- Psychology of computing -- Punched cards and paper tape -- Python -- Quantum computing -- Queue -- R (Programming Language) -- Radio frequency identification (RFID) -- Random number generation -- Raspberry Pi -- Raymond, Eric -- Real-time processing -- Recursion -- Reduced instruction set computer (RISC) -- Redundant array of inexpensive disks (RAID) -- Regular expression -- Representational state transfer (REST) -- Research laboratories in computing -- Reverse engineering -- Rheingold, Howard -- Rich Text Format (RTF) -- Risks of computing -- Ritchie, Dennis -- Robotics -- RPG -- RSS -- Ruby -- Rust (programming language) -- Sandbox -- SAP -- Satellite Internet service -- Scala (programming language) -- Scanner -- Scheduling and prioritization in computing -- Science fiction and computing -- Scientific computing applications -- Scripting languages -- Search engine -- Semantic web -- Senior citizens and computing -- Serial port -- Service-oriented architecture (SOA) -- Shannon, Claude E. -- Shareware and freeware -- Sharing economy -- Shell (computer science) -- Simonyi, Charles -- Simula -- Simulation -- Smalltalk -- Smart buildings and homes -- Smart card -- Smart TV -- Smart watch -- Smartphone -- Snowden, Edward -- SOAP -- Social graph -- Social impact of computing -- Social networking -- Social network games -- Social robots -- Social sciences and computing -- Software agent -- Software engineering -- Software piracy and counterfeiting -- Software quality assurance -- Solid state drive -- Sony -- Sorting and searching -- Sound file formats -- Space exploration and computers -- Spafford, Eugene H. -- Spam -- Speech recognition and synthesis -- Spreadsheet -- Spyware and adware -- Stack -- Stallman, Richard -- Standards in computing -- Statistics and computing -- Stoll, Clifford -- Streaming (computer science) -- Stroustrup, Bjarne -- Structured programming -- Structured query language (SQL) -- Sun Microsystems -- Supercomputer -- Supply chain management -- Surveillance capitalism -- Surveillance technologies -- Sutherland, Ivan Edward -- Swartz, Aaron -- Swift (programming language) -- System administrator -- Systems analyst -- Systems programming
Tablet (computer) -- Tape drives -- Tcl -- Technical support -- Technical writing in the computer industry -- Technological singularity -- Technology policy -- Telecommunications and computers -- Telecommuting -- Telepresence -- Template (computer science) -- Text editor -- Texting and instant messaging -- Thunderbolt -- Torvalds, Linus -- Touchscreen -- Tramiel, Jack -- Transaction processing -- Transmission control protocol/Internet protocol (TCP/IP) -- Transportation network companies -- Tree -- Trends in computer science and emerging technologies -- Trolling (Internet) -- Turing, Alan Mathison -- Turkle, Sherry -- Twitter -- Internet of Things -- Universal serial bus (USB) -- UNIX -- User documentation -- User groups -- User interface (UI) -- User-created content -- Variable (computer science) -- Version control -- Videoconferencing -- Virtual community -- Virtual organization -- Virtual reality -- Virtualization -- Visual Basic -- Visual Basic Scripting (VBScript) -- Voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) -- Wales, Jimmy -- Watson (IBM) -- Wearable computers -- Web 2.0 and beyond -- Web analytics -- Web browser -- Web cookies -- Web filter -- Web portal -- Web server -- Web services -- Webcam -- Webmaster -- Web design -- Weizenbaum, Joseph -- Wiener, Norbert -- Wikis and Wikipedia -- Windows subsystem for Linux (WSL) -- Wireless computing -- Wirth, Niklaus -- Wizard -- Wolfram, Stephen -- Women and minorities in computing -- Word processing -- WordPress -- Workstation -- World Wide Web (WWW) -- Wozniak, Steve -- Y2K problem -- Yahoo! Inc. -- Yelp -- Young people and computing -- YouTube -- Zuckerberg, Mark
Summary Praise for the previous edition:;"One of the most user-friendly and enlightening books for field outsiders, this handy volume promotes clear understanding of a complex subject
Notes 9-Academic
Print version record
Subject Computer science.
Science.
Electronic Data Processing
Science
sciences (philosophy)
science (modern discipline)
Computer science
Science
Genre/Form Encycopedias
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781438198828
1438198825