TY  - BOOK
T1  - Understanding the digital world what you need to know about computers, the Internet, privacy, and security
A1  - Kernighan, Brian W.
LA  - English
PP  - Princeton, New Jersey
PB  - Princeton University Press
YR  - 2017
UL  - https://tuklas.up.edu.ph/Record/UP-99796217613163569
AB  - Computers are everywhere. Some of them are highly visible, in laptops, tablets, cell phones, and smart watches. But most are invisible, like those in appliances, cars, medical equipment, transportation systems, power grids, and weapons. We never see the myriad computers that quietly collect, share, and sometimes leak vast amounts of personal data about us. Through computers, governments and companies increasingly monitor what we do. Social networks and advertisers know far more about us than we should be comfortable with, using information we freely give them. Criminals have all-too-easy access to our data. Do we truly understand the power of computers in our world? Based on the author's Princeton course Computers in Our World, this book is intended as a compact but detailed and thorough explanation of how computers and communications systems work, for non-technical readers. It explains how today's computing and communications world operates, from hardware through software to the Internet and the web, also addressing the social, political and legal issues that new technology creates.
OP  - 238
NO  - Revised edition of: D is for digital. 2011.
CN  - QA 76 K45 2017
SN  - 9780691176543
KW  - Computer science : Popular works.
KW  - Computer networks : Security measures : Popular works.
ER  -