"Unlike other texts that cover only one aspect of the field, The Elements of Computing Systems gives students an integrated and rigorous picture of applied computer science, as it comes to play in the construction of a simple yet powerful computer systems." "Indeed, the best wa…
"Unlike other texts that cover only one aspect of the field, The Elements of Computing Systems gives students an integrated and rigorous picture of applied computer science, as it comes to play in the construction of a simple yet powerful computer systems." "Indeed, the best wa…
N. Katharine Hayles explores how the impact of code on life has become comparable to that of speech and writing - as language and code have grown entangled, the lines that once separated humans from machines, analog from digital and old technologies from new ones have become blu…
We live in a world, according to N. Katherine Hayles, where new languages are constantly emerging, proliferating, and fading into obsolescence. These are languages of our own making: the programming languages written in code for the intelligent machines we call computers. Hayles…
Die NSA, einer der umstrittensten Geheimdienste der USA, verfügt über einen Super-Computer, der in der Lage ist, jeden erdenklichen Code innerhalb kürzester Zeit zu entschlüsseln. Auf diese Weise kann die chiffrierte Kommunikation von Terroristen, Drogenhändlern und anderen Krim…
