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Fields of Computer Science
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Impact Of Computer Systems
The preceding sections of this article give some idea of the pervasiveness of computer technology in society. Many products used…
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Computational methods and numerical analysis
The mathematical methods needed for computations in engineering and the sciences must be transformed from the continuous to the discrete…
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Artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI) is an area of research that goes back to the very beginnings of computer science. The idea…
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Types of database models
File systems of varying degrees of sophistication satisfied the need for information storage and processing for several years. However, large…
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Information systems and databases
File storage Computers have been used since the 1950s for the storage and processing of data. An important point to…
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Job scheduling
The allocation of system resources to various tasks, known as job scheduling, is a major assignment of the operating system.…
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Operating systems
Development of operating systems In early computers, the user typed programs onto punched tape or cards, from which they were…
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Programming languages
Early languages Programming languages are the languages in which a programmer writes the instructions that the computer will ultimately execute.…
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Linking processors
Multiprocessor design Creating a multiprocessor from a number of uniprocessors (one CPU) requires physical links and a mechanism for communication…
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Basic computer operation
The operation of such a computer, once a program and some data have been loaded into RAM, is as follows.…