Summary |
With a broadened scope, more emphasis on applied computing, and more than 70 chapters either new or significantly revised, the Computer science Handbook, Second Edition is exactly the kind of reference today’s computer scientists, software engineers, and IT Professionals need. All of the material found in the first edition is now up to date and augmented by a wealth of additional coverage. The discussions now reflect the explosive growth of the Internet, the increasing importance of subjects like massively parallel computation, and the key issues at the intersection of the technology and the people it impacts.
Highlights of the Second Edition:
• Coverage that reaches across all 11 subject areas of the discipline as defined in Computing Curricula 2001, now the standard taxonomy
• More than 70 chapters revised or replaced
• Emphasis on a more practical/applied approach to IT topics such as information management, net-centric computing, and human-computer interaction
• More than 150 contributing authors—all recognized experts in their respective specialties
• Incorporates new chapters covering areas that include cryptography, computational chemistry, cognitive modeling, scripting languages, data compression, and eventdriven programming
• Co-published by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
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