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1001 Computer Words You Need to Know explains and illuminates the essential vocabulary of computers and the Internet. This comprehensive, but never condescending guide to the language of the electronic age carefully defines and explains every term with a sample sentence, and many entries havesupplementary notes. In addition, the book includes a number of quick miniguides to managing your online life - dealing with Windows and Macs (and sometimes *nix), burning CDs and downloading files, word processing, spread-sheeting, connecting to the Internet (dialup, cable, DSL, wireless) surfing,IMing and emailing, taking digital photos, coping with networks, memory, and drives, and just plain coping with your computer. The backmatter contains an extensive list of helpful websites and an essay about online language and etiquette.

A complete lexicon of technical information, the Dictionary of Computer Science, Engineering, and Technology provides workable definitions, practical information, and enhances general computer science and engineering literacy. It spans various disciplines and industry sectors such as: telecommunications, information theory, and software and hardware systems. If you work with, or write about computers, this dictionary is the single most important resource you can put on your shelf. The dictionary addresses all aspects of computing and computer technology from multiple perspectives, including the academic, applied, and professional vantage points. Including more than 8,000 terms, it covers all major topics from artificial intelligence to programming languages, from software engineering to operating systems, and from database management to privacy issues. The definitions provided are detailed rather than concise. Written by an international team of over 80 contributors, this is the most comprehensive and easy-to-read reference of its kind. If you need to know the definition of anything related to computers you will find it in the Dictionary of Computer Science, Engineering, and Technology.

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With the emergence of many new branches of ethical debate and discourse in such areasas computer science, genetic engineering, and environmental sciences, there is anincreasing need for a reference work that clearly outlines the many ethical issues inscience and technology that have arisen in modern societies. Encyclopedia ofEthics in Science and Technology is the only single-volume resource to provideextensive coverage of such issues. Historically and internationally comprehensive, the encyclopedia features more than 400entries that describe the varied ethical controversies in science and technology: laws,precedent-setting cases, regulations, agencies and organizations, ethical principles,concepts, people, and important events. Also covered are phenomena that are at the fringesof science but have important ethical implications, including voodoo deaths andexperimental research into extrasensory perception (ESP). All entries are written in anobjective manner, allowing readers to reach an even-handed understanding of thesecontroversial issues. Coverage includes acid rain, Chernobyl nuclear accident, Darwin, electromagneticradiation, ethics of care, fraudulent research, genetic engineering, Internet andinformation ethics, lead poisoning and neurological problems, organ donation, plagiarism,Rousseau, Three Mile Island nuclear accident, and video games/desensitization to violence.