Information technology / Oxford Bookworms Stage 3 Paul A. Davies.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Oxford bookworms library. Stage 3. Factfiles.Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, Description: 72 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780194233927
  • 0194233928
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 428.6 22
LOC classification:
  • PE1126.A4 D35 2008
Contents:
The computer age -- In the beginning -- The first computer -- Alan Turing -- The history of the PC -- Bill Gates and Microsoft -- Humans against computers -- The Internet -- Power to the people -- Getting the message -- Moble phones -- Computer games -- I love you (and other viruses) -- Computer crimes -- The future.
Summary: It is a story of machines - from the ancient abacus to the small powerful computer chips of today. But it is also a story of people. Meet a woman who wrote computer programs two hundred years ago, a teenage millionaire, a man who began with a paperclip and ended with a house, and the criminals who want your name and your money.
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"First published in Oxford Bookworms, 2008"--Title page verso.

The computer age -- In the beginning -- The first computer -- Alan Turing -- The history of the PC -- Bill Gates and Microsoft -- Humans against computers -- The Internet -- Power to the people -- Getting the message -- Moble phones -- Computer games -- I love you (and other viruses) -- Computer crimes -- The future.

It is a story of machines - from the ancient abacus to the small powerful computer chips of today. But it is also a story of people. Meet a woman who wrote computer programs two hundred years ago, a teenage millionaire, a man who began with a paperclip and ended with a house, and the criminals who want your name and your money.

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