Computer Technology and Computer Programming

In a world permeated by technology, we sometimes struggle to keep pace with an ever-changing landscape. With historical and full-color photographs complementing documentary texts, Odysseys in Technolo

Is the universe actually a giant quantum computer? According to Seth Lloyd--professor of quantum-mechanical engineering at MIT and originator of the first technologically feasible design for a working

Follow the Link: A Journey Through Technology explores how some of today's greatest inventions came to be - and takes the reader on a journey through a network of knowledge. It tells the story of how

The computer is here to stay and indeed indispensable in today’s world. What with laptops and ipadds, iphones, video games, cell phones and so on.For whether we know it or not computer devices like ce

Ready to learn how to code a game? Get an introduction to programming with this fun and accessible guide. Learn HTML and JavaScript. Design and build five interactive computer games. Create cool graph

The cry for and against computers in the classroom is a topic of concern to parents, educators, and communities everywhere. Now, from a Silicon Valley hero and bestselling technology writer comes a po

Ray Kurzweil is the inventor of the most innovative and compelling technology of our era, an international authority on artificial intelligence, and one of our greatest living visionaries. Now he offe

You may be surprised to learn that microchips are the new oil—the scarce resource on which the modern world depends. Today, military, economic, and geopolitical power are built on a foundation of computer chips. Virtually everything—from missiles to microwaves—runs on chips, including cars, smartphones, the stock market, even the electric grid. Until recently, America designed and built the fastest chips and maintained its lead as the #1 superpower, but America’s edge is in danger of slipping, undermined by players in Taiwan, Korea, and Europe taking over manufacturing. Now, as Chip War reveals, China, which spends more on chips than any other product, is pouring billions into a chip-building initiative to catch up to the US. At stake is America’s military superiority and economic prosperity.Economic historian Chris Miller explains how the technology works and why it’s so important, recounting the fascinating events that led to the United States perfecting the chip design, and to Ameri

Electronics guru Simon Monk makes it easy to learn BeagleBone Black programming skills!Learn how to program the BeagleBone Black—the wildly popular single-board computer--using JavaScript and the nati

The explosive story of the tech giant Nvidia - the producer of the only chip anyone involved in AI wants - and its charismatic, uncompromising, complicated CEO, Jensen HuangWINNER OF THE FT SCHRODERS BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025A SUNDAY TIMES, ECONOMIST AND FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR‘Gripping and brilliantly told’ MUSTAFA SULEYMAN‘Highly entertaining’ GUARDIAN‘Excellent’ ECONOMIST 'Riveting ... exceptional' RAY KURZWEIL‘Page-turning’ DAVID EPSTEINThis is the story of the company that is inventing the future.Nvidia is the world’s first $5-trillion company and the most important corporation on Earth. Led by its charismatic CEO, Jensen Huang, it has gone from video game equipment manufacturer to conquering the global market for AI hardware, reinventing the computer and shaping life as we know it.With unprecedented access to Huang, award-winning investigative journalist Stephen Witt takes us inside Nvidia to tell the definitive story of the greatest technology company of our times.

上網好好玩，有遊戲、影片、還能交新朋友！但也不是每件事都安全可靠。這本輕鬆有趣的圖文書，教孩子如何聰明使用手機、平板和電腦，保護自己、找到適合的內容，還學會做個線上線下都友善的好朋友。一起讓科技變成生活好幫手，而不是大麻煩！Introduce kids to online safety with this must-have book for any kid who gets tablet, phone, or computer time! Buy this book if you’re looking for:★ A fun, accessible, kid-friendly guide to safe, healthy, and productive screen time ★ A gift for a kid getting their first phone★ Ways to start conversations and set boundaries around social media use The on-screen world is super exciting—there are games, and new friends, and funny videos! But too much of a good thing isn’t always healthy, and not everything you see online can be trusted. Luckily, this book is here to help you navigate the highs and lows of screen time. Through hilarious comics and vibrant illustrations, readers of all ages will discover how to make good choices, use devices responsibly, find content that’s just right, and be a good friend on and offline. Ultimately technology should ENHANCE your life, NOT overtak

Think like a coder--the fun guide to Scratch programming for ages 8-12Scratch is a visual computer language designed especially for kids, and Scratch Programming for Beginners is the perfect book to i

Explore the exciting but potentially disastrous world of digital technology, robotics, computer science, and electronics with fun sci-fi flair and hands-on projects. Sean Connolly's award-winning scie

When computer programming pioneer Admiral Grace Hopper discovered a moth causing problems in a mechanical computer, the term debugging was born. This book explores how fixing programming and hardware

A must-have book for every young person who uses a mobile or cordless phone, iPad, laptop, wireless computer or other wireless device.Beautifully-illustrated, with clear and easy-to-understand text, t

Automotive Technology: The Electronic Classroom is a complete teaching/learning system using text and multimedia resources for a computer centered approach. Each volume in the series consists of a hig

In this perceptive and provocative look at everything from computer software that requires faster processors and more support staff to antibiotics that breed resistant strains of bacteria, Edward Tenn

***Winner of the Financial Times Business Book of the Year award******Selected as one of Barack Obama's Favourite Books of 2023***這是一場關於爭奪全球最重要資源——微晶片技術的史詩戰役！ 在現代世界，軍事、經濟、地緣政治的力量，全都建立在電腦晶片的基礎上。美國之所以能保持超級大國地位，就是因為它一直領先於晶片技術的發展，帶動了無數科技的進步。（從汽車、手機到股市，甚至電力系統，幾乎一切都依賴晶片！）但現在這份優勢正面臨挑戰，因為過去全球化晶片產業、讓台灣、韓國和歐洲接手製造的策略，可能威脅美國的利益。《晶片戰爭》中，經濟史學家克里斯·米勒揭示了美國如何在晶片設計上奠定領先地位，甚至用更快的晶片打敗蘇聯。而如今，中國正投入數十億美元，展開晶片版的「曼哈頓計畫」，試圖趕上美國。 晶片之爭將決定我們的未來！'Pulse quickening. A nonfiction thriller - equal parts The China Syndrome and Mission Impossible' New York TimesAn epic account of the decades-long battle to control the world's most critical resource—microchip technologyPower in the modern world - military, economic, geopolitical - is built on a foundation of computer chips. America has maintained its lead as a superpower because it has dominated advances in computer chips and all the technology that chips have enabled. (Virtually everything runs on chips: cars, phones, the stock market, even the electric grid.

A Grand-Canyon-sized gap exists between the expectations of computer users and what an IT department can effectively do. This gap creates many victims-on both sides! This book builds an easy-to-cross

Your subconscious mind is like a computer, says author Dr. Tom Kersting. For years you've been programming it with eating habits that make you overweight. The Kersting solution for losing weight and k