CHAPTER 1
Computer Systems
TABLE OF CONTENTS
The fundamental question of computer science
The fundamental question of computer science is: What can be automated? Just as the machines developed during the Industrial Revolution automated manual labor, computers automate the processing of information. When electronic computers were developed in the 1940s, their designers built them to automate the solution of mathematical problems. Since then, however, computers have applications as diverse as financial accounting, cinema production, and smartphones. The spread of computers is so relentless that new areas ...
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