Dictionary of Computer and Internet Terms (Barron's Business Guides)

Extensively updated to reflect recent hi-tech innovations, this book defines more than 1,300 terms for home computer users and computer science students. Terms relate to applications, commands, functions, operating systems, image processing, networking, and much more.

Douglas Downing teaches economics and quantitative methods and is undergraduate program director for the School of Business and Economics at Seattle Pacific University. He is the author of several books in both Barron's Easy Way and Business Review series. He is also the author of Java Programming the Easy Way and Dictionary of Mathematics Terms, published by Barron's Educational Series, Inc. He holds the Ph.D. degree in economics from Yale University.

Michael Covington is Associate Director of the Artificial Intelligence Center at the University of Georgia. He is a contributing editor for Poptronics magazine and is the author of Computer Science Study Keys (published by Barron's). He holds the Ph.D. degree in linguistics from Yale University.

Melody Mauldin Covington is a graphic designer living in Athens, Georgia. She is the author of Dictionary of Desktop Publishing (published by Barron's).