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出版商:
Summit Valley Press
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出版日期:
2027-01-19
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售價:
$1,650
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貴賓價:
9.5 折
$1,567
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語言:
英文
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頁數:
208
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裝訂:
Quality Paper - also called trade paper
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ISBN:
0262064294
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ISBN-13:
9780262064293
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相關分類:
Computer-Science
商品描述
An engaging account of some of the most important shifts in computing and how they have changed how we design, build, program, analyze, connect, and use computers. From a pioneer in computing and programming languages, and a best-selling author.
We live in a world with far more computers than people. Those computers affect every aspect of our lives, sometimes for better and often for worse. In
Shifts, Brian Kernighan tells the story of how we got here, by describing nine shifts that dramatically changed computing--from the stored-program computer to high-level programming languages to billions of computers on the Internet to AI and LLMs. Most of these shifts weren't noticed while they were happening, but they are crystal clear in retrospect. For each shift, the author describes the historical context, explains the technology at an accessible level, and presents some of the people who made it happen.
The "shifts" share the common theme of looking at major changes that have affected how people build, program, and use computers. How did we get to where we are now? What can we learn from that? Can we predict where we might be going?
Shifts answers all these questions and more.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
一篇引人入勝的作品，介紹計算領域中一些最重要的轉變，以及這些轉變如何改變我們設計、建置、撰寫程式、分析、連接與使用電腦的方式。
作者 Brian Kernighan 是計算與程式語言領域的先驅，也是暢銷書作家。
我們生活在一個電腦數量遠多於人口的世界。這些電腦影響著我們生活的每一個層面，有時帶來改善，但更多時候也造成負面影響。在《Shifts》中，Brian Kernighan 透過描述九個徹底改變計算領域的轉變，講述我們如何走到今天：從儲存程式電腦（stored-program computer）、高階程式語言，到網際網路上數十億台電腦，再到 AI 與 LLM。
這些轉變大多是在發生當下未被察覺，但回頭來看卻清晰可見。針對每一項轉變，作者都說明其歷史背景，以易於理解的方式解釋相關技術，並介紹促成這些變革的人物。
這些「轉變」共同探討了重大變化如何影響人們建置、撰寫程式與使用電腦的方式。我們是如何走到今天的？我們能從中學到什麼？我們能否預測未來可能走向何方？《Shifts》回答了這些問題，以及更多相關問題。
作者簡介
Brian Kernighan is the William O. Baker *39 Professor in Computer Science at Princeton University. He is a cocreator of a number of tools for document preparation and of several programming languages, including AWK and AMPL, and the author of more than a dozen books, including The C Programming Language, The AWK Programming Language, and UNIX: A History. He is also a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
Brian Kernighan 是 Princeton University 電腦科學系 William O. Baker *39 講座教授。他共同創造了多種文件編排工具，以及數種程式語言，包括 AWK 和 AMPL；此外，他也是十多本書的作者，其中包括《The C Programming Language》、《The AWK Programming Language》和《UNIX: A History》。他同時也是 National Academy of Engineering 與 American Academy of Arts and Sciences 的院士。
