January 2014
Beginner
672 pages
25h 52m
English
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The Architecture of Computer Hardware, Systems Software, & Networking: An Information Technology Approach, 5th Edition
by Irv Englander
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Dr. Irv Englander has been involved in many different aspects of the computing field for more than fifty years. He has designed logic circuits, developed integrated circuits, developed computer architectures, designed computer-controlled systems, designed operating systems, developed application software, created the initial system design for a large water-monitoring system, performed software auditing and verification of critical control software, and developed and specified hardware components and application software as a consultant for business systems large and small.
As an educator, he has contributed papers and given workshops on end-user computing, e-commerce, and on various aspects of IS and IT pedagogy. He was an invited contributor and reviewer for the IS-97 and IS-2002 information systems curricula, and continues to publish and take an interest in the technical infrastructure components of the IS/IT curriculum. He is actively involved in the application of new technology to information systems. Most recently he served as a faculty advisor to a low-cost supercomputing student research project, which was presented at the ACM/IEEE Computer Society Supercomputing Conference SC13.
Dr. Englander has a Ph.D. from MIT in Computer Science. His doctoral thesis was based on the design of a large image-processing software laboratory. At MIT, he won the Supervised Investors Award for outstanding teaching. He holds the rank of Professor Emeritus of Computer Information ...
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