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Gale Virtual Reference Library This link opens in a new windowThe Library's Wikipedia! General overviews on a variety of topics related to computer science.
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The Computer - A Very Short Introduction by Darrel InceCall Number: QA76.5 I77 2011
Publication Date: 2011
In print at the Library. "Looks at the basic concepts behind all computers, the changes in hardware and software that allowed computers to become so small and commonplace, the challenges produced by the computer revolution. . .the Internet and the advent of "cloud computing," and the promise of whole new horizons opening up with quantum computing and computing using DNA." - Publisher's overview.
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