Organised to work for you, it has several features that make it an invaluable and accessible reference. These include:
- Cross references to closely related articles to ensure that you don’t miss relevant information
- Appendices covering abbreviations and acronyms, notation and units, and a timeline of significant milestones in computing have been included to ensure that you get the most from the book.
- A comprehensive index containing article titles, names of persons cited, references to sub-categories and important words in general usage, guarantees that you can easily find the information you need.
Classification of articles around the following nine main themes allows you to follow a self study regime in a particular area:
- Hardware
- Computer Systems
- Information and Data
- Software
- Mathematics of Computing
- Theory of Computation
- Methodologies
- Applications
- Computing Milieux.
Presenting a wide ranging perspective on the key concepts and developments that define the discipline, the Concise Encyclopedia of Computer Science is a valuable reference for all computer users.