Book description
Showing students what they can do with their computing degree, this text uses concrete examples and case studies to highlight the positive work of real computing professionals and organizations from around the world. Each chapter profiles a corporation, nonprofit organization, or entrepreneur involved in computing-centric activities that clearly benefit society or the environment, including cultural adaptation in a developing country, cutting-edge medicine and healthcare, educational innovation, endangered species work, and help for overseas voters. Ancillaries for students and instructors are available on a supplementary web page.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Introductione
- Acknowledgments
- Author
- 1 Poverty alleviation in the remote Peruvian Andes
- 2 Improving patient care with digital image management
- 3 Internet voting for overseas citizens
- 4 Social networking and computer modeling aid sea turtles
- 5 Best practice recommendations in children’s medical care
- 6 Protecting lives using the results of earthquake modeling
- 7 When following your passion means forming your own business
- Index
- Color Insert
Product information
- Title: Computers and Society
- Author(s):
- Release date: April 2016
- Publisher(s): CRC Press
- ISBN: 9781439885567
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