Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
0 ratings
Ebook153 pages3 hours
Computing Perspectives
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
5/5
()
About this ebook
In this insightful collection of essays, Maurice Wilkes shares his unique perspective on the development of computers and the current state of the art. These enlightening essays discuss the foundational ideas behind modern computing and provide a solid grounding for the appreciation of emerging computer technologies.
Wilkes, one of the founders of computing, has provided enormous contributions to the development of computers, including the design and construction of the EDSAC computer and early development of programming for a stored program computer. He was responsible for the concept of microprogramming. Wilkes also wrote the first paper to appear on cache memories and was an early worker in the field of wide bandwidth local area networks. In 1992 he was awarded the prestigious Kyoto Prize for Advanced Technology.
These essays will be of interest to everyone involved with computers and how they arrived at their present state. Wilkes presents his perspectives with keen historical sensibility and engineering practicality. Readers are invited to consider these observations and form their own perspectives on the present state of the computer art.
Related to Computing Perspectives
Titles in the series (19)
Network Processor Design: Issues and Practices See MIPS Run Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Network Processor Design: Issues and Practices Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe System Engineers Handbook Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Digital Arithmetic Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Network Processor Design: Issues and Practices Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Computing Perspectives Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Cache and Memory Hierarchy Design: A Performance Directed Approach Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Interconnection Networks Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Grid 2: Blueprint for a New Computing Infrastructure Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsARM System Developer's Guide: Designing and Optimizing System Software Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Principles and Practices of Interconnection Networks Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsParallel Computer Architecture: A Hardware/Software Approach Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsComputers as Components: Principles of Embedded Computing System Design Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Architecture of Network Systems Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5An Introduction to Direct Access Storage Devices Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGlobus® Toolkit 4: Programming Java Services Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related ebooks
Communication Nets: Stochastic Message Flow and Delay Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Parallel Processing for Artificial Intelligence 1 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Nine Algorithms That Changed the Future: The Ingenious Ideas That Drive Today's Computers Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPseudorandomness and Cryptographic Applications Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMachine Learning for Future Fiber-Optic Communication Systems Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMathematical Experiments on the Computer Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLearning Automata: An Introduction Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsReadings in Computer Vision: Issues, Problem, Principles, and Paradigms Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsComputational Number Theory and Modern Cryptography Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Applied Automata Theory Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWho Rules the Net?: Internet Governance and Jurisdiction Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNanomaterials-Based Charge Trapping Memory Devices Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAlgorithms, Graphs, and Computers Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWi-Fi and the Bad Boys of Radio: Dawn of a Wireless Technology Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMarkov Processes: An Introduction for Physical Scientists Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Dynamic Programming: Sequential Scientific Management Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsJulia as a Second Language Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMore is Different: Fifty Years of Condensed Matter Physics Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Logician and the Engineer: How George Boole and Claude Shannon Created the Information Age Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Finite Automata: Behavior and Synthesis Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Monolithic Nanoscale Photonics-Electronics Integration in Silicon and Other Group IV Elements Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMathematical Methods of Statistics (PMS-9), Volume 9 Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Continuous Geometry Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Guide to RISC Microprocessors Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Science of Baseball: Batting, Bats, Bat-Ball Collisions, and the Flight of the Ball Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLearning Automata: Theory and Applications Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsScience in the Age of Computer Simulation Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Five of Maxwell's Papers Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Computers For You
Mastering ChatGPT: 21 Prompts Templates for Effortless Writing Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5101 Awesome Builds: Minecraft® Secrets from the World's Greatest Crafters Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Mega Box: The Ultimate Guide to the Best Free Resources on the Internet Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Procreate for Beginners: Introduction to Procreate for Drawing and Illustrating on the iPad Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLearning the Chess Openings Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Deep Search: How to Explore the Internet More Effectively Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Quantum Computing For Dummies Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSQL QuickStart Guide: The Simplified Beginner's Guide to Managing, Analyzing, and Manipulating Data With SQL Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5CompTIA Security+ Get Certified Get Ahead: SY0-701 Study Guide Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Storytelling with Data: Let's Practice! Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The ChatGPT Millionaire Handbook: Make Money Online With the Power of AI Technology Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAWS Certified Cloud Practitioner All-in-One Exam Guide (Exam CLF-C01) Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Artificial Intelligence: The Complete Beginner’s Guide to the Future of A.I. Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Grokking Algorithms: An illustrated guide for programmers and other curious people Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ultimate Guide to Mastering Command Blocks!: Minecraft Keys to Unlocking Secret Commands Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Elon Musk Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5CompTIA IT Fundamentals (ITF+) Study Guide: Exam FC0-U61 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTor and the Dark Art of Anonymity Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Practical Lock Picking: A Physical Penetration Tester's Training Guide Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5CompTIA Security+ Practice Questions Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5The Professional Voiceover Handbook: Voiceover training, #1 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5AP® Computer Science Principles Crash Course Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsEverybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related podcast episodes
044 | Tamara Munzner 0% found this document useful#92 - SARA HOOKER - Fairness, Interpretability, Language Models 0% found this document useful#54 Gary Marcus and Luis Lamb - Neurosymbolic models 0% found this document usefulExplaining maths without Numbers: Tim Harford speaks to mathematician Milo Beckman about the beauty of maths. 0% found this document usefulLiving on the Edge (Computing) 0% found this document usefulEpisode 49: μ: Securing Metals Supply 0% found this document useful06-18-2021 - Best of Caller Questions 0% found this document usefulBatteries: Is battery technology the key to a sustainable and emission free world? Evan Davis chairs. 100% found this document usefulThe cathedral and the bazaar: Imagine you have two choices of how to build some… 0% found this document useful#110 Dr. STEPHEN WOLFRAM - HUGE ChatGPT+Wolfram announcement! 0% found this document usefulCausal Trees: What do you get when you combine the causal infer… 0% found this document usefulArtificial Intelligence: Melvyn Bragg examines whether we are near to achieving the thinking, feeling computer. 0% found this document usefulDeploying Edge and Embedded AI Systems with Heather Gorr - #655 0% found this document useful
Related articles
Editor’s Note TechfastlyArticle
Editor’s Note
Apr 1, 2022
Dear Readers, eBPF is a ground-breaking technology derived from the Linux kernel that allows sandboxed programmes to operate within an operating system kernel. It stands for Extended Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF). eBPF was first published in diminish
1 min readFROM BITS 01 TO QuBITS TechfastlyArticle
FROM BITS 01 TO QuBITS
Oct 1, 2021
4 min readHow the Slowest Computer Programs Illuminate Math’s Fundamental Limits QuantaArticle
How the Slowest Computer Programs Illuminate Math’s Fundamental Limits
Dec 10, 2020
6 min readWhy a Hedge Fund Started a Video Game Competition NautilusArticle
Why a Hedge Fund Started a Video Game Competition
Nov 30, 2017
There’s a weird way in which a hedge fund is a confluence of everything. There’s the money of course—Two Sigma, located in lower Manhattan, manages over $50 billion, an amount that has grown 600 percent in 6 years and is roughly the size of the econo
9 min readThe Lightning Seeds Linux FormatArticle
The Lightning Seeds
Apr 6, 2021
1 min readThe Nerds Who Conquered Silicon Valley MoneyWeekArticle
The Nerds Who Conquered Silicon Valley
Apr 2, 2021
2 min readThe Fundamental Limits of Machine Learning NautilusArticle
The Fundamental Limits of Machine Learning
Sep 20, 2016
5 min readXi Jinping's Trillion-yuan Baby, Bigger Than Older Growth Markets In Asia, Is Poised For The Next Spurt Of Growth. Here's Why Post MagazineArticle
Xi Jinping's Trillion-yuan Baby, Bigger Than Older Growth Markets In Asia, Is Poised For The Next Spurt Of Growth. Here's Why
Jul 25, 2020
7 min readKolmogorov Complexity and Our Search for Meaning NautilusArticle
Kolmogorov Complexity and Our Search for Meaning
Aug 2, 2018
Was it a chance encounter when you met that special someone or was there some deeper reason for it? What about that strange dream last night—was that just the random ramblings of the synapses of your brain or did it reveal something deep about your u
8 min readUnderstanding Pennsylvania’s Proposed Bill on Handling Fetal Remains FactCheck.orgArticle
Understanding Pennsylvania’s Proposed Bill on Handling Fetal Remains
Jun 4, 2021
6 min readQuantum Entanglement Could Take GPS To The Next Level FuturityArticle
Quantum Entanglement Could Take GPS To The Next Level
Apr 20, 2020
3 min readIntroduction to eBPF Revolutionizing Linux Kernel Technology TechfastlyArticle
Introduction to eBPF Revolutionizing Linux Kernel Technology
Apr 1, 2022
6 min readHow To File Your Taxes For Free Online With Deadline Day Nearing Los Angeles TimesArticle
How To File Your Taxes For Free Online With Deadline Day Nearing
May 11, 2021
Taxes may be one of life's certainties. But paying to pay them isn't. In many other countries, the government does the math for you and tells you how much to pay, at no cost to you (beyond the taxes you are paying in the first place). In America, the
3 min readSum-of-Three-Cubes Problem Solved for ‘Stubborn’ Number 33 QuantaArticle
Sum-of-Three-Cubes Problem Solved for ‘Stubborn’ Number 33
Mar 26, 2019
4 min readMargaret O’Mara: Silicon Valley is as American as Apple (Pie) Literary HubArticle
Margaret O’Mara: Silicon Valley is as American as Apple (Pie)
Jun 30, 2020
3 min readArtificial Intelligence Is Already Weirdly Inhuman: What kind of world is our code creating? NautilusArticle
Artificial Intelligence Is Already Weirdly Inhuman: What kind of world is our code creating?
Aug 6, 2015
13 min readHow Classical Cryptography Will Survive Quantum Computers NautilusArticle
How Classical Cryptography Will Survive Quantum Computers
Dec 27, 2017
4 min readSeeing The Light Linux FormatArticle
Seeing The Light
Jun 28, 2022
7 min readWe Need an FDA For Algorithms NautilusArticle
We Need an FDA For Algorithms
Nov 1, 2018
In the introduction to her new book, Hannah Fry points out something interesting about the phrase “Hello World.” It’s never been quite clear, she says, whether the phrase—which is frequently the entire output of a student’s first computer program—is
10 min readAmid Crypto’s Wild West, Binance Says A Sheriff Is Needed AppleMagazineArticle
Amid Crypto’s Wild West, Binance Says A Sheriff Is Needed
Nov 19, 2021
4 min readWhy Is Chaos Theory Important? All About SpaceArticle
Why Is Chaos Theory Important?
Jan 3, 2020
1 min readPlastic Chips Maximum PCArticle
Plastic Chips
Sep 14, 2021
1 min readIntel and AMD Team Up: A Future Core Chip Will Have Radeon Graphics Inside PCWorldArticle
Intel and AMD Team Up: A Future Core Chip Will Have Radeon Graphics Inside
Dec 4, 2017
6 min readOrchestral Manoeuvres In The Docker Linux FormatArticle
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Docker
Feb 9, 2021
Jonni’s been arguing with me this issue – he thinks Linux Format readers don’t need virtual machine orchestration. Of course, as always, he’s right, but I’ve never let being wrong stop me before… Just because you don’t actually “need” something doesn
1 min readLog4j Software Flaw ‘Endemic,’ New Cyber Safety Panel Says TechLife NewsArticle
Log4j Software Flaw ‘Endemic,’ New Cyber Safety Panel Says
Jul 16, 2022
2 min readThe Elon Musk Impersonators of the Internet The AtlanticArticle
The Elon Musk Impersonators of the Internet
Jul 21, 2018
3 min readCan Virtual Reality Help Seniors? Study Hopes To Find Out TechLife NewsArticle
Can Virtual Reality Help Seniors? Study Hopes To Find Out
Jun 5, 2021
3 min readHow to Build a Search Engine for Mathematics: The Surprising Power of Neil Sloane’s Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences.: The surprising power of Neil Sloane’s Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences. NautilusArticle
How to Build a Search Engine for Mathematics: The Surprising Power of Neil Sloane’s Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences.: The surprising power of Neil Sloane’s Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences.
Oct 22, 2015
On the average summer Saturday, the mathematician Neil Sloane woke up to a crisis. “There are always crises,” he said— albeit crises of the teapot tempest variety. One Saturday over breakfast, he faced an inbox message titled “edits from outer space.
10 min readSilq Is An Easier Quantum Programming Language FuturityArticle
Silq Is An Easier Quantum Programming Language
Jun 22, 2020
3 min readThe Dawn Of Wireless Electricity Is Finally Upon Us. This Is How New Zealand Will Do It. Popular Mechanics South AfricaArticle
The Dawn Of Wireless Electricity Is Finally Upon Us. This Is How New Zealand Will Do It.
Dec 17, 2021
2 min read
Reviews for Computing Perspectives
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
5/5
1 rating0 reviews
Book preview
Computing Perspectives - Maurice V. Wilkes
Enjoying the preview?
Page 1 of 1