How the Computer Changed History examines the development of the computer, how it works, and how it has become a standard machine used in businesses, homes, and industries. Features include essential facts, a glossary, selected bibliography, websites, source notes, and an index, plus a timeline and maps, charts, and diagrams. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division...

"Engaging images accompany information about personal computers. The combination of high-interest subject matter and narrative text is intended for students in grades 3 through 8"--

"Hundreds of millions of people use Apple products every day; several thousand work on its campus in Cupertino, California; but only a handful sit at the drawing board. [This book] tells the story of Apple in its prime--Steve Jobs's 'second act'--from the perspective of someone at the heart of the company. As a principal software engineer for the most iconic products ever to emerge from Apple, Ken Kocienda and his work embody its credo that technology...

In the 1940s and '50s, a group of eccentric geniuses gathered at the newly-created Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. Their joint project was the realization of the theoretical universal machine, an idea that had been put forth by mathematician Alan Turing. This group of brilliant engineers worked in isolation, almost entirely independent from industry and the traditional academic community; but because they relied exclusively...

Get the Summary of Walter Isaacson's The Innovators in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Innovators" by Walter Isaacson chronicles the history of the digital revolution, highlighting the contributions of key figures who merged creativity with technological innovation. Ada Lovelace, the daughter of Lord Byron, combined her poetic sensibility with a passion for mathematics, foreseeing the potential of Charles Babbage's...

Get the Summary of Brian Merchant's Blood in the Machine in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Blood in the Machine" delves into the socio-economic turmoil of early 19th-century England, where the Industrial Revolution's rise of automated machinery threatened traditional livelihoods. George Mellor, a skilled cropper, and Gravener Henson, a framework knitter and activist, become central figures in the narrative, representing...

Computer Intelligence (CI) is the combination of computer power and the increasingly sophisticated software which that power makes possible. CI has an ever-increasing impact on human society, the economy, and how we fight wars. Artificial Intelligence is a recent innovation with both an impressive impact and concerns over its dangers, but it is simply a tipping point in the evolution of CI. AI techniques are practical because CI passed a threshold...

"This book explores the topic of digital money, highlighting cryptocurrency's history, how it works, and its benefits and drawbacks"--

SLVIA...decades ago, an AI program escaped the NSA Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, and has never been re-captured...true story. Following a brutal massacre, the Ethiopian Ark of the Covenant - a revered religious artifact - sells on the international black market. Soon afterward, the death of an aging Saudi King spurs a flawed Saudi-Israeli peace deal, promoted by a polarizing former US president under criminal indictment and seeking political asylum. Elsewhere,...

"Recounts the story of how the Android development team overcame multiple early challenges to build an operating system that is now distributed to more than three million devices worldwide"--