This course has four purposes: (1) to learn about the hierarchy of abstractions and implementations that comprise a modern computer system; (2) to demystify the machine and the tools that we use to ...

The importance of computers in getting Neil Armstrong and his colleagues to the Moon and back to Earth cannot be underestimated. But the sort of technology available to Nasa in the early 1960s was ...

Computers are all around us. How does this affect the world we live in? This course is a broad introduction to computing technology for humanities and social science students. Topics will be drawn ...

NEW YORK, March 9, 2010 /PRNewswire/ — ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery today named Charles P.Thacker the winner of the 2009 ACM A.M. Turing Award for his pioneeringdesign and realization ...