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| Frontmatter |
| Contents |
| Preface |
| A quick tour through the book |
| Acknowledgments |
| Prologue Blog entry from Jonathan Hey |
| Beginnings of a revolution |
| The hardware |
| The software is in the holes |
| Programming languages and software engineering |
| Algorithmics |
| Mr Turings amazing machines |
| Moores law and the silicon revolution |
| Computing gets personal |
| Computer games |
| Lickliders Intergalactic Computer Network |
| Weaving the World Wide Web |
| The dark side of the web |
| Artificial intelligence and neural networks |
| Machine learning and natural language processing |
| The end of Moores law |
| The third age of computing |
| Computers and science fiction an essay |
| Epilogue From Turings padlocked mug to the present day |
| Length scales |
| Computer science research and the information technology industry |
| How to read this book |
| Notes |
| Suggested reading |