Skip to main content Accessibility help

We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.

Close cookie message
×
  1. Home
  2. Browse subjects
  3. Computer Science
  4. Computing: general interest
  5. Content listing

Refine search

Refine search

Access:
Content type:
Publication date:
Apply   From and To filters
Journals Show more
Publishers: Show more
Societies Show more
Series: Show more
Collections: Show more

Actions for selected content:

Select all | Deselect all
  • View selected items
  • Export citations
  • Download PDF (zip)
  • Save to Kindle
  • Save to Dropbox
  • Save to Google Drive

Save Search

You can save your searches here and later view and run them again in "My saved searches".

Please provide a title, maximum of 40 characters.
Cancel
×

76 results in Computing: general interest

Page 1 of 4

Data Structures and Algorithms in Java
  • A Project-Based Approach
  • Dan S. Myers
  • Published online:
    19 December 2024
    Print publication:
    31 October 2024
  • Learn with confidence with this hands-on undergraduate textbook for CS2 courses. Active-learning and real-world projects underpin each chapter, briefly reviewing programming fundamentals then progressing to core data structures and algorithms topics including recursion, lists, stacks, trees, graphs, sorting, and complexity analysis. Creative projects and applications put theoretical concepts into practice, helping students master the fundamentals. Dedicated project chapters supply further programming practice using real-world, interdisciplinary problems which students can showcase in their own online portfolios. Example Interview Questions sections prepare students for job applications. The pedagogy supports self-directed and skills-based learning with over 250 'Try It Yourself' boxes, many with solutions provided, and over 500 progressively challenging end-of-chapter questions. Written in a clear and engaging style, this textbook is a complete resource for teaching the fundamental skills that today's students need. Instructor resources are available online, including a test bank, solutions manual, and sample code.

Human Perception and Digital Information Technologies
  • Animation, the Body, and Affect
  • Edited by Tomoko Tamari
  • Published by:
    Bristol University Press
    Published online:
    18 December 2024
    Print publication:
    29 February 2024
  • This ground-breaking collection explores the ways in which digital information technologies form and influence human perception and experience. Defying technological determinism, it takes on board discursive perspectives from humanities, bringing digital media, affect and body studies into conversation with one another.

Mundania
  • How and Where Technologies Are Made Ordinary
  • Robert Willim
  • Published by:
    Bristol University Press
    Published online:
    17 December 2024
    Print publication:
    24 January 2024
  • Emerging technologies eventually disappear into the atmosphere of everyday life - they become ordinary and enmeshed in ignored infrastructures and patterns of behaviour. This is how Mundania takes form. Based on original research, this book uses the concept of mundania to better understand our relationship with technology.

Information Literacy through Theory
  • Edited by Alison Hicks, Annemaree Lloyd, Ola Pilerot
  • Published by:
    Facet
    Published online:
    26 March 2024
    Print publication:
    07 December 2023
  • Information literacy research is growing in importance, as evidenced by the steady increase in dissertations and research papers in this area. However, significant theoretical gaps remain.

    Information Literacy Through Theory provides an approachable introduction to theory development and use within information literacy research. It provides a space for key theorists in the field to discuss, interrogate and reflect on the applicability of theory within information literacy research, as well as the implications for this work within a variety of contexts. Each chapter considers a particular theory as its focal point, from information literacy and the social to information literacy through an equity mindset, and unpacks what assumptions the theory makes about key concepts and the ways in which the theory enables or constrains our understanding of information literacy.

    This book will provide a focal point for researchers, practitioners and students interested in the creation and advancement of conceptually rich information literacy research and practice.

Humor 2.0
  • How the Internet Changed Humor
  • Salvatore Attardo
  • Published by:
    Anthem Press
    Published online:
    28 February 2024
    Print publication:
    15 August 2023
  • The book shows how humor has changed since the advent of the internet: new genres, new contexts, and new audiences. The book provides a guide to such phenomena as memes, video parodies, photobombing, and cringe humor. Included are also in-depth discussions of the humor in phenomena such as Dogecoin, the joke currency, and the use of humor by the alt-right. It also shows how the cognitive mechanisms of humor remain unchanged. Written by a well-known specialist in humor studies, the book is engaging and readable, but also based on extensive scholarship.

Digital Disengagement
  • COVID-19, Digital Justice and the Politics of Refusal
  • Edited by Adi Kuntsman, Sam Martin, Esperanza Miyake
  • Published by:
    Bristol University Press
    Published online:
    25 January 2024
    Print publication:
    14 July 2023
  • Leading experts in the field ask what digital justice looks like in a time of pandemic across various interdisciplinary contexts and spheres in science, technology and society from public health to education, politics and everyday life.

Mistrust Issues
  • How Technology Discourses Quantify, Extract and Legitimize Inequalities
  • Garfield Benjamin
  • Published by:
    Bristol University Press
    Published online:
    24 January 2024
    Print publication:
    15 September 2023
  • Discussing the political understandings of trust and mistrust in the context of data, AI and technology at large, this book defines a process of trustification used by governments, corporations, researchers and the media to legitimise exploitation and the increasing of inequalities.

The Tensions of Algorithmic Thinking
  • Automation, Intelligence and the Politics of Knowing
  • David Beer
  • Published by:
    Bristol University Press
    Published online:
    21 June 2023
    Print publication:
    30 November 2022
  • In this pioneering book, David Beer redefines emergent algorithmic technologies as the new systems of knowing. He examines the acute tensions they create and how they are changing what is known and what is knowable.

Regulating Cross-Border Data Flows
  • Issues, Challenges and Impact
  • Bryan Mercurio, Ronald Yu
  • Published by:
    Anthem Press
    Published online:
    22 November 2022
    Print publication:
    16 August 2022
  • Data is now one of, if not the world's most valuable resource. The adoption of data-driven applications across economic sectors has made data and the flow of data so pervasive that it has become integral to everything we as members of society do - from conducting our finances to operating businesses to powering the apps we use every day. For this reason, governing cross-border data flows is inherently difficult given the ubiquity and value of data, and the impact government policies can have on national competitiveness, business attractiveness and personal rights. The challenge for governments is to address in a coherent manner the broad range of data-related issues in the context of a global data-driven economy.

    This book engages with the unexplored topic of why and how governments should develop a coherent and consistent strategic framework regulating cross-border data flows. The objective is to fill a very significant gap in the legal and policy setting by considering multiple perspectives in order to assist in the development of a jurisdiction's coherent and strategic policy framework.

Data Lives
  • How Data Are Made and Shape our World
  • Rob Kitchin
  • Published by:
    Bristol University Press
    Published online:
    05 January 2022
    Print publication:
    03 February 2021
  • Rob Kitchin explores how data-driven technologies have become essential to society, government and the economy. Blending scholarly analysis, biography and fiction, he demonstrates how data influence our daily lives.

Slow Computing
  • Why We Need Balanced Digital Lives
  • Rob Kitchin, Alistair Fraser
  • Published by:
    Bristol University Press
    Published online:
    12 March 2021
    Print publication:
    24 September 2020
  • Digital technologies should be making life easier. And to a large degree they are, transforming everyday tasks of work, consumption, communication, travel and play. But they are also accelerating and fragmenting our lives affecting our well-being and exposing us to extensive data extraction and profiling that helps determine our life chances. Initially, the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown seemed to create new opportunities for people to practice 'slow computing', but it quickly became clear that it was as difficult, if not more so, than during normal times. Is it then possible to experience the joy and benefits of computing, but to do so in a way that asserts individual and collective autonomy over our time and data? Drawing on the ideas of the 'slow movement', Slow Computing sets out numerous practical and political means to take back control and counter the more pernicious effects of living digital lives.

A DRIVER's Guide to European Repositories

The European Repository Landscape
  • Inventory Study into the Present type and Level of OAI-compliant Digital Respository Activities in the EU
  • Maurits van der Graaf, Kwame van Eijndhoven
  • Published by:
    Amsterdam University Press
    Published online:
    23 January 2021
    Print publication:
    10 January 2008
  • What is the current state of digital repositories for research output in the European Union? What should be the next steps to stimulate an infrastructure for digital repositories at a European level? To address these key questions, an inventory study into the current state of digital repositories for research output in the European Union was carried out as part of the DRIVER Project. The study produces a complete inventory of the state of digital repositories in the 27 countries of the European Union as per 2007 and provides a basis to contemplate the next steps in driving forward an interoperable infrastructure at a European level. This title is available in the OAPEN Library - http://www.oapen.org.

How to Write Good Programs
  • A Guide for Students
  • Perdita Stevens
  • Published online:
    10 July 2020
    Print publication:
    23 July 2020
  • Learning to program isn't just learning the details of a programming language: to become a good programmer you have to become expert at debugging, testing, writing clear code and generally unsticking yourself when you get stuck, while to do well in a programming course you have to learn to score highly in coursework and exams. Featuring tips, stories and explanations of key terms, this book teaches these skills explicitly. Examples in Python, Java and Haskell are included, helping you to gain transferable programming skills whichever language you are learning. Intended for students in Higher or Further Education studying early programming courses, it will help you succeed in, and get the most out of, your course, and support you in developing the software engineering habits that lead to good programs.

Python by Example
  • Learning to Program in 150 Challenges
  • Nichola Lacey
  • Published online:
    28 May 2019
    Print publication:
    16 May 2019
  • Python is today's fastest growing programming language. This engaging and refreshingly different guide breaks down the skills into clear step-by-step chunks and explains the theory using brief easy-to-understand language. Rather than bamboozling readers with pages of mind-numbing technical jargon, this book includes 150 practical challenges, putting the power in the reader's hands. Through creating programs to solve these challenges the reader will quickly progress from mastering the basics to confidently using subroutines, a graphical user interface, and linking to external text, csv and SQL files. This book is perfect for anyone who wants to learn how to program with Python. In particular, students starting out in computer science and teachers who want to improve their confidence in Python will find here a set of ready-made challenges for classroom use.

The Lexicon
  • James Pustejovsky, Olga Batiukova
  • Published online:
    19 March 2019
    Print publication:
    17 January 2019
  • What is the lexicon, what does it contain, and how is it structured? What principles determine the functioning of the lexicon as a component of natural language grammar? What role does lexical information play in linguistic theory? This accessible introduction aims to answer these questions, and explores the relation of the lexicon to grammar as a whole. It includes a critical overview of major theoretical frameworks, and puts forward a unified treatment of lexical structure and design. The text can be used for introductory and advanced courses, and for courses that touch upon different aspects of the lexicon, such as lexical semantics, lexicography, syntax, general linguistics, computational lexicology and ontology design. The book provides students with a set of tools which will enable them to work with lexical data for all kinds of purposes, including an abundance of exercises and in-class activities designed to ensure that students are actively engaged with the content and effectively acquire the necessary knowledge and skills they need.

Doing Better Statistics in Human-Computer Interaction
  • Paul Cairns
  • Published online:
    26 January 2019
    Print publication:
    07 February 2019
  • Each chapter of this book covers specific topics in statistical analysis, such as robust alternatives to t-tests or how to develop a questionnaire. They also address particular questions on these topics, which are commonly asked by human-computer interaction (HCI) researchers when planning or completing the analysis of their data. The book presents the current best practice in statistics, drawing on the state-of-the-art literature that is rarely presented in HCI. This is achieved by providing strong arguments that support good statistical analysis without relying on mathematical explanations. It additionally offers some philosophical underpinnings for statistics, so that readers can see how statistics fit with experimental design and the fundamental goal of discovering new HCI knowledge.

Calendrical Calculations
  • The Ultimate Edition
  • 4th edition
  • Edward M. Reingold, Nachum Dershowitz
  • Published online:
    22 March 2018
    Print publication:
    05 April 2018
  • An invaluable resource for working programmers, as well as a fount of useful algorithmic tools for computer scientists, astronomers, and other calendar enthusiasts, The Ultimate Edition updates and expands the previous edition to achieve more accurate results and present new calendar variants. The book now includes coverage of Unix dates, Italian time, the Akan, Icelandic, Saudi Arabian Umm al-Qura, and Babylonian calendars. There are also expanded treatments of the observational Islamic and Hebrew calendars and brief discussions of the Samaritan and Nepalese calendars. Several of the astronomical functions have been rewritten to produce more accurate results and to include calculations of moonrise and moonset. The authors frame the calendars of the world in a completely algorithmic form, allowing easy conversion among these calendars and the determination of secular and religious holidays. LISP code for all the algorithms is available in machine-readable form.

The Once and Future Turing
  • Computing the World
  • Edited by S. Barry Cooper, Andrew Hodges
  • Published online:
    05 March 2016
    Print publication:
    24 March 2016
  • Alan Turing (1912–1954) made seminal contributions to mathematical logic, computation, computer science, artificial intelligence, cryptography and theoretical biology. In this volume, outstanding scientific thinkers take a fresh look at the great range of Turing's contributions, on how the subjects have developed since his time, and how they might develop still further. The contributors include Martin Davis, J. M. E. Hyland, Andrew R. Booker, Ueli Maurer, Kanti V. Mardia, S. Barry Cooper, Stephen Wolfram, Christof Teuscher, Douglas Richard Hofstadter, Philip K. Maini, Thomas E. Woolley, Eamonn A. Gaffney, Ruth E. Baker, Richard Gordon, Stuart Kauffman, Scott Aaronson, Solomon Feferman, P. D. Welch and Roger Penrose. These specially commissioned essays will provoke and engross the reader who wishes to understand better the lasting significance of one of the twentieth century's deepest thinkers.

Computation, Proof, Machine
  • Mathematics Enters a New Age
  • Gilles Dowek
  • Translated by Pierre Guillot, Marion Roman
  • Published online:
    05 May 2015
    Print publication:
    05 May 2015
  • Computation is revolutionizing our world, even the inner world of the 'pure' mathematician. Mathematical methods - especially the notion of proof - that have their roots in classical antiquity have seen a radical transformation since the 1970s, as successive advances have challenged the priority of reason over computation. Like many revolutions, this one comes from within. Computation, calculation, algorithms - all have played an important role in mathematical progress from the beginning - but behind the scenes, their contribution was obscured in the enduring mathematical literature. To understand the future of mathematics, this fascinating book returns to its past, tracing the hidden history that follows the thread of computation. Along the way it invites us to reconsider the dialog between mathematics and the natural sciences, as well as the relationship between mathematics and computer science. It also sheds new light on philosophical concepts, such as the notions of analytic and synthetic judgment. Finally, it brings us to the brink of the new age, in which machine intelligence offers new ways of solving mathematical problems previously inaccessible. This book is the 2007 winner of the Grand Prix de Philosophie de l'Académie Française.

Page 1 of 4