Search results for “[Subject: computers-general]”

• Author(s): W. Daniel Hillis • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Computer ScienceMost people are baffled by how computers work and assume that they will never understand them. What they don't realize -- and what Da...

• Author(s): Lois H. Gresh • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Television - History & CriticismThe depiction of computers on the various "Star Trek" series has ranged from lame to breathtakingly imaginative. Thi...

• Author(s): Seymour A. Papert • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Teaching - Subjects - Science & TechnologyIn this revolutionary book, a renowned computer scientist explains the importance of teaching children...

• Author(s): Gerard J. Milburn • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Physics - Quantum TheoryQuantum computing, the reduction of computing elements to sizes far smaller than that of present-day chips, down to the size...

• Author(s): James Bailey • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Philosophy & Social AspectsThrough the first fifty years of the computer revolution, scientists have been trying to program electronic circuits to pr...

• Author(s): Neil Gershenfeld • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: GeneralWhat if you could someday put the manufacturing power of an automobile plant on your desktop? It may sound far-fetched-but then, thirty years ...