The Essential Guide to Computing: The Story of Information Technology - Softcover

Walters, E. Garrison

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0130194697 ISBN 13: 9780130194695

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 2000

Synopsis

An overview of the industry covers the history of computing technology, state of the art hardware, software development, and network communications infrasructures, protocols, and applications.

About this title

About the Author

E. GARRISON WALTERS is Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs with the Ohio Board of Regents. He led initial development of OhioLINK, a statewide computer system for academic library users, and helped plan the expansion of Ohio's Internet-connected statewide computer network to link all public and most independent colleges in the state. Dr. Walters resides in Columbus, Ohio.

From the Back Cover

• The complete, easy-to-understand guide to ITnow and in the future!
• Computers, networks, and pervasive computing
• Hardware, operating systems, and software
• How networks work: LANs, WANs, and the Internet
• E-business, the Web, and security

The guide for ANYONE who needs to understand the key technologies driving today's economy and high tech industries!

You can't afford not to understand the information revolution that's sweeping the world-but who's got time for all the acronyms and hype most technology books give you?The Essential Guide to Computing demystifies the digital society we live in with an intelligent, thorough, and up-to-date explanation of computer, networking, and Internet technologies. It's perfect for smart professionals who want to get up to speed, but don't have computer science or engineering degrees! You'll find up-to-the-minute coverage on all of today's hottest technologies including:

• The evolution of computing: from the room-sized "monoliths" of the 1950s to today's global Internet
• Preview of the next revolution: "pervasive computing"
• Computer hardware: microprocessors, memory, storage, I/O, displays, and architecture
• Windows, Macintosh, UNIX/Linux, DOS, NetWare, Palm: what operating systems do, and how they compare
• Programming languages: from machine language to advanced object-oriented technologies
• Key software applications: databases, spreadsheets, word processing, voice recognition, and beyond
• Microsoft and the software industry: where they stand, where they're headed
• How networks work: LANs, WANs, packet switching, hardware, media, and more
• The Internet, e-commerce, and security
• Enterprise applications: data warehousing, Web-centered development, and groupware

Whether you're a consumer, investor, marketer, or executive, this is your start-to-finish briefing on the information technologies that have changed the world-and the coming technologies that will transform it yet again!

Edition details

• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0130194697
• ISBN 13: 9780130194695
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 528