A new framework for understanding computing: a coherent set of
principles spanning technologies, domains, algorithms,
architectures, and designs. Computing is usually viewed as a
technology field that advances at the breakneck speed of Moore's
Law. If we turn away even for a moment, we might miss a
game-changing technological breakthrough or an earthshaking
theoretical development. This book takes a different perspective,
presenting computing as a science governed by fundamental
principles that span all technologies. Computer science is a
science of information processes. We need a new language to
describe the science, and in this book Peter Denning and Craig
Martell offer the great principles framework as just such a
language. This is a book about the whole of computing-its
algorithms, architectures, and designs. Denning and Martell divide
the great principles of computing into six categories:
communication, computation, coordination, recollection, evaluation,
and design. They begin with an introduction to computing, its
history, its many interactions with other fields, its domains of
practice, and the structure of the great principles framework. They
go on to examine the great principles in different areas:
information, machines, programming, computation, memory,
parallelism, queueing, and design. Finally, they apply the great
principles to networking, the Internet in particular. Great
Principles of Computing will be essential reading for professionals
in science and engineering fields with a "computational" branch,
for practitioners in computing who want overviews of less familiar
areas of computer science, and for non-computer science majors who
want an accessible entry way to the field.
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