Introduction
1: Can you compute?
2: Disposable computing
3: Your life in binary digits
4: Monkeys with world-spanning voices
5: My computer made me cry
6: Building bionic brains
7: A computer saved my life
Dr. Peter J. Bentley has been called a creative maverick computer
scientist. He is an Honorary Reader at the Department of Computer
Science, University College London (UCL), Collaborating Professor
at the Korean Advanced Institute for Science and Technology
(KAIST), a contributing editor for WIRED UK, a consultant and a
freelance writer. He has published approximately 200 scientific
papers and is author of seven other books, including the popular
science books
Digital Biology, The Book of Numbers and The Undercover Scientist.
He is a regular contributor to television and radio.
I have always thought that no book deserved 10 out of 10, but for
this one I make an exception.
*BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT*
A richly interesting survey of computer science
*Steven Poole, The Guardian*
Computer science has become so pervasive in modern life that it can
seem invisible or be taken for granted; Bentley succeeds in
bringing this hidden world to light.
*Library Journal*
Anyone looking for a neat illustration of how technology has
infiltrated our everyday lives need look no further than the first
few pages of Digitized
*Engineering and Technology Magazine*
An entertaining and informative popular science study of computer
science.
*New York Journal of Books*
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