Understanding the Digital World (eBook)

What You Need to Know about Computers, the Internet, Privacy, and Security, Second Edition

Brian W. Kernighan (Autor)

eBook Download: PDF

2021
304 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-21896-0 (ISBN)

Infos

A brand-new edition of the popular introductory textbook that explores how computer hardware, software, and networks workComputers are everywhere. Some are highly visible, in laptops, tablets, cell phones, and smart watches. But most are invisible, like those in appliances, cars, medical equipment, transportation systems, power grids, and weapons. We never see the myriad computers that quietly collect, share, and sometimes leak personal data about us. Governments and companies increasingly use computers to monitor what we do. Social networks and advertisers know more about us than we should be comfortable with. Criminals have all-too-easy access to our data. Do we truly understand the power of computers in our world?In this updated edition of Understanding the Digital World, Brian Kernighan explains how computer hardware, software, and networks work. Topics include how computers are built and how they compute; what programming is; how the Internet and web operate; and how all of these affect security, privacy, property, and other important social, political, and economic issues. Kernighan touches on fundamental ideas from computer science and some of the inherent limitations of computers, and new sections in the book explore Python programming, big data, machine learning, and much more. Numerous color illustrations, notes on sources for further exploration, and a glossary explaining technical terms and buzzwords are included.Understanding the Digital World is a must-read for readers of all backgrounds who want to know more about computers and communications.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.3.2021
• Zusatzinfo: 58 color + 60 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Informatik ► Netzwerke ► Sicherheit / Firewall
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Web / Internet
• Schlagworte: Advertising • algorithm • algorithms • Analog • Analog-digital conversion • ASCII • Assembly language • Auxiliary memory • bandwidth • Binary number • Binary numbers • binary search • Bitcoin • bits • Bluetooth • Book • Bugs • Byte • Bytes • Cable • Caching • cellphones • Character encoding • Client (computing) • Cloud Computing • Compiler • compression • Computation • Computer • Computer data storage • Computer Program • Computer Science • computer vision • computing • Copyright • CPU • cryptography • Database • Data Mining • Data Science • desktop computer • device drivers • Dialog box • Digital electronics • disk file systems • Disks • Domain Name • DSL • DVD • Edward Snowden • Email • Encryption • eniac • Ethernet • Facial recognition system • file system • General Data Protection Regulation • government agency • high-level programming language • HTML • HTTPS • implementation • Infrastructure • Instance (computer science) • Instruction set • Integrated circuit • Intel • interfaces • IP • ip address • IP addresses • JavaScript • JPEG • Laptop • linear algorithms • Linux • Login • Loops • machine learning • Malware • Memory address • Microsoft • Mobile Phone • modems • Moore’s Law • Netflix • Networking • Networks • Notation • operating system • Operating Systems • Password • Personal Computer • Personally identifiable information • privacy • Processing (programming language) • Programmer • Programming language • Publication • Public-Key Cryptography • Python (programming language) • RAM • Requirement • result • root servers • Search • Server (computing) • Service Provider • Simulation • Smartphone • SMTP • Software • software development • Software System • Software systems • source code • SSH • Surveillance • TCP • Technology • Telephone company • telephones • Telnet • Tracking • Trojan Horses • Turing Award • Twitter • Unicode • UNIX • Virtual machine • Viruses • Web beacon • Web browser • Web Page • Web search engine • Web Server • Website • Wi-Fi • Wireless • word processor • World Wide Web • Worms • Your Computer (British magazine)
• ISBN-10: 0-691-21896-X / 069121896X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-21896-0 / 9780691218960