The Structure of Digital Computing: From Mainframes to Big Data - Softcover

Grossman, Robert L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1936298007 ISBN 13: 9781936298006

Publisher: Open Data Press, 2012

Synopsis

The Structure of Digital Computing takes a fifty year perspective on computing and discusses what is significant, what is novel, what endures, and why it is all so confusing. The book tries to balance two point of views: digital computing as viewed from a business perspective, where the focus is on marketing and selling, and digital computing from a research perspective, where the focus is on developing fundamentally new technology.

About this title

About the Author

Robert L. Grossman is a faculty member at the University of Chicago and a Partner of Open Data Group. At the University of Chicago, he is the Director of the Center for Data Intensive Science and a Professor in the Division of Biological Sciences.  He is also a Senior Fellow in the Institute for Genomics and Systems Biology and the Computation Institute.  He founded Open Data Group in 2002, and since then it has been one of the leaders in building predictive models over big data.

From the Back Cover

"If you have ever wondered whether there is any structure beneath all the noise in the marketplace about computing, this is the book to read."

-Stuart Bailey, Founder and CTO of Infoblox

"Reading this book will help you understand the basic concepts and trends that have shaped computing for the past half century and that will continue to do so for the forseeable future."

-Joel J. Mambretti, Director of the International Center for Advanced Internet Research at Northwestern University

Edition details

• Publisher: Open Data Press
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1936298007
• ISBN 13: 9781936298006
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 282