Computing Tomorrow - Future Research Directions in Computer Science

Klappentext Collection of essays dealing with the future of computer science as a research subject. Zusammenfassung First published in 1996! this stimulating collection of essays by distinguished computer scientists celebrates the achievements of research and speculates about the unsolved problems in computer science which require future investigation. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Contributors; 1. The complexity of algorithms M. D. Atkinson; 2. Building novel software: the researcher and the marketplace P. J. Brown; 3. Prospects for artificial intelligence Alan Bundy; 4. Structured parallel programming: theory meets practice John Darlington, Yi-ke Guo and Hing Wing To; 5. Computer science and mathematics J. H. Davenport; 6. Paradigm merger in natural language processing Gerald Gazdar; 7. Large databases and knowledge reuse P. M. D. Gray; 8. The global-yet-personal information system J. R. Gurd and C. B. Jones; 9. Algebra and models C. A. R. Hoare; 10. Real-time computing Mathai Joseph; 11. Evaluation of software dependability Bev Littlewood; 12. Engineering safety-critical systems John A. McDermid; 13. Semantic ideas in computing Robin Milner; 14. Computers and communications R. M. Needham; 15. Interactive computing in tomorrow's computer science William Newman; 16. On the importance of being the right size Simon Peyton Jones; References; Index.

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• Authors: R. Milner, I. C. Wand, Ian Wand, Ian (University of York) Milner Wand, Ian Milner Wand
• Assisted by: Robin Milner (Editor), Milner Robin (Editor), Ian Wand (Editor), Wand Ian (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.07.1996
• EAN: 9780521460859
• ISBN: 978-0-521-46085-9
• No. of pages: 384
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > General, dictionaries; COMPUTERS / Computer Science, LAW / Computer & Internet, Ethical & social aspects of IT, Legal aspects of IT, COMPUTERS / Social Aspects, Digital and information technologies: Legal aspects