A committee of the National Research Council recommends a broader and better-planned research and education agenda for computer science and engineering. Not technical, but addressed to industry inside
Vannevar Bush, the engineer who designed the world's most powerful analog computer, predicted the development of a new kind of computing machine he called Memex. For many computer and information scie
In this landmark work on early conceptual and lexical development, Ellen Markmanexplores the fascinating problem of how young children succeed at the task of inducing concepts.Backed by extensive expe
The Handbook of Theoretical Computer Science provides professionals and students with a comprehensive overview of the main results and developments in this rapidly evolving field. Volume A covers mode
John von Neumann (1903-1957) was unquestionably one of the most brilliant scientistsof the twentieth century. He made major contributions to quantum mechanics and mathematical physicsand in 1943 began
A Computer Perspective is an illustrated essay on the origins and first lines of development of the computer. The complex network of creative forces and social pressures that have produced the compute
Presents studies of human cognition in situations that involve cooperation, especially situations involving human-computer interaction. The volume aims to find a common thread or concept that underlie
"Specification and transformation of programs" is short for a methodology of software development where, from a formal specification of a problem to be solved, programs correctly solving that problem
In this volume the author gives an introduction to the theory of group representations and their applications in image science. The main feature of the presentation is a systematic treatment of the in
This text has been produced for the benefit of students in computer and infor- mation science and for experts involved in the design of microprocessors. It deals with the design of complex VLSI chips,
Robots can play a major role in the service industries. And it is in that direction that robotics needs to turn, Joseph Engleberger asserts, not toward the routine factory jobs of the past. Engleberge
Winner, 1989, category of Computer Science, Professional/Scholarly Publishing Annual Awards Competition presented by the Association of American Publishers, Inc. With 10,000 entries, this dictionary i
Since the publication of the first edition, parallel computing technology has gained considerable momentum. A large proportion of this has come from the improvement in VLSI techniques, offering one to
