The second age of computer science : from ALGOL genes to neural nets

Between the genesis of computer science in the 1960s and the advent of the World Wide Web around 1990, computer science evolved in significant ways. The author has termed this period the "second age of computer science." This book describes its evolution in the form of several interconnect...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Dasgupta, Subrata
Format:	eBook Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York Oxford University Press 2018 Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Edition:	1
Subjects:	ALGOL (Computer program language) Computer science Computer science > History > 20th century Genetic programming (Computer science) Neural networks (Computer science)
ISBN:	9780190843861, 0190843861
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Table of Contents:

Cover -- The Second Age of Computer Science -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- 1. Algol Genes -- 2. Abstractions All the Way -- 3. In the Name of Architecture -- 4. Getting to Know Parallelism -- 5. Very Formal Affairs -- 6. A Symbolic Science of Intelligence -- 7. Making (Bio)Logical Connections -- Epilogue: "Progress" in the Second Age of Computer Science -- Bibliography -- Index