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The breathtakingly rapid pace of change in computing makes it easy to overlook the pioneers who began it all. Written by Martin Davis, respected logician and researcher in the theory of computation, The Universal Computer: The Road from Leibniz to Turingexplores the fascinating lives, ideas, and discoveries of seven remarkable mathematicians. It tells the stories of the unsung heroes of the computer age {u2013} the logicians.

Google has grown from nothing in 1998 to a multinational tech giant. We tell that story, we identify the drivers of success. Founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin didn't want to sell advertising at first. Now Google search is a giant advertising cash cow ... MODEL EMPLOYER We go inside the Googleplex near San Francisco to find the people and projects. Google prides itself on being a model employer, offering great pay and benefits to its staff whose...

After becoming more productive and creative to a degree only dreamed of earlier in my career, and after teaching computer literacy, writing software manuals, and conducting seminars, the author wants to share with us some insights about the fears that are so closely associated with the computer revolution. We are all going through this transition period, until we emerge into the joys of the Information Age. This little book acknowledges the dark side...

Explore how artificial intelligence will change your job as new research shows how much of what you do could be done by robots. From truck drivers to lawyers and doctors, affected workers are brought face to face with AI experts.

When interaction between a person and a machine is well designed, using the machine is natural. Many computer systems are confusing, annoying, or ineffective. Many users have encountered computer systems that are hard to understand, and harder to use. Human factors is the study of how people and machines interact, and a technology for creating designs that work well in human terms. Human factors engineers are concerned with designing safer, more productive,...

"Informatics and Nursing: Opportunities and Challenges provides students with the core knowledge to understand technology while using informatics to discover and manipulate information. With this text, students are able to access, manage, and present clinical data. The Sixth Edition is designed to capture cutting-edge advancement in nursing informatics core competencies and to teach students how informatics should be integrated into practice while...