计算机英语

CHAPTER 1 BASIC CONCEPT

1.1 Storage

1.1.1 Hard Disks

1.1.2 Floppy Disks

1.1.3 How Hard and Floppy Disks Work

1.1.4 Compact Disks

1.1.5 Uses of Floppy Disks

1.1.6 Uses of Compact Disks

1.2 Outer Hardware

1.2.1 The Basics

1.2.2 Input Devices

1.2.3 Output Devices

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Flash Memory

CHAPTER 2 HOW HARD DISKS WORK

2.1 Hard Disk Basics

2.2 Cassette Tape vs. Hard Disk

2.3 Capacity and Performance

2.4 Inside: Electronics Board

2.5 Inside: Beneath the Board

2.6 Inside: Platters and Heads

2.7 Storing the Data

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How Tape Recorders Work

CHAPTER 3 HOW COMPUTER MONITORS WORK

3.1 The Basics

3.2 Display Technology Background

3.3 Display Technology: VGA

3.4 Display Technology: DVI

3.5 Viewable Area

3.6 Maximum Resolution and Dot Pitch

3.7 Refresh Rate

3.8 Color Depth

3.9 Power Consumption

3.10 Monitor Trends: Flat Panels

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Liquid crystal display

CHAPTER4 COMPUTER MICE

4.1 Evolution

4.2 The Optical Mouse

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Floppy Disk Drives

CHAPTER 5 HOW BITS AND BYTES WORK

5.1 Decimal Numbers

5.2 Bits

5.3 Bytes

5.4 Bytes: ASCH

5.5 Slandard ASCII Character Set

5.6 Lots of Bytes

5.7 Binary Math

5.8 Qaick Recap

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How Boolean Logic Works

CHAPTER 6 MICROPROCESSORS

6.1 Microprocessor History

6.2 Microprocessor Progression

6.3 Inside a Microprocessor

6.4 Microprocessor Instructions

6.5 Decoding Microprocessor Instructions

6.6 Microprocessor Performance

6.7 Microprocessor Trends

6.8 64-bit Processors

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E-Commerce

CHAPTER 7 APPLICATION SOFTWARE

7.1 What is Software

7.2 Programming Languages

7.2.1 Assemblers

7.2.2 Compilers and interpreters

7.2.3 Nonprocedural Languages

7.3 Libraries

7.4 The Program Development Process

7.4.1 Problem Definition

7.4.2 Planning

7.4.3 Writing the Program

7.4.4 Debug and Documentation

7.4.5 Maintenance

7.5 Writing your Own Programs

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Computer software

CHAPTER 8 COMPILER

8.1 Introduction to Compiler

8.2 Introduction and history

8.3 Types of compilers

8.4 Compiled vs interpreted languages

8.5 Compiler design

8.6 Compiler front end

8.7 Compiler back end

8.8 Notes

8.9 References

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Assembly language

CHAPTER 9 HOW JAVA WORKS

9.1 A Little Terminology

9.2 Downloading the Java Compiler

9.3 Your First Program

9.4 Understanding What Just Happened

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How Perl Works

CHAPTER 10 POSITIONING VISUAL C++ IN THE DESKTOP DATABASE MARKET

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C++

CHAPTER 11 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

11.1 Overview

11.2 Strong AI and weak AI

11.2.1 Strong artificial intelligence

11.2.2 Weak artificial intelligence

11.2.3 Philosophical criticism and support of strong AI

11.3 History Development of AI theory

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Alan Turing

CHAPTER 12 NEURAL NETWORK

12.1 Structure

12.1.1 Models

12.1.2 Calculations

12.2 Advantages

12.3 Applications

12.3.1 Usefulness

12.3.2 Real life applications

12.4 Types of neural networks

12.4.1 Single-layer perceptron

12.4.2 Multi-layer perceptron

12.4.3 Recurrent network

12.4.4 Hopfield network

12.4.5 Boltzwann machine

12.4.6 Committee of machines

12.4.7 Instantaneously trained networks

12.4.8 Spiking neural networks

12.5 Relation to optimization techniques

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Genetic Algorithm

CHAPTER 13 HOW DSL WORK

13.1 Telephone Lines

13.2 Asymmetrical DSL

13.3 Distance Limitations

13.4 Splitting the Signal: CAP

13.5 Splitting the Signal: DMT

13.6 DSL Equipment

13.7 DSL Equipment: Transceiver

13.8 DSL Equipment: DSLAM

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How Telephones Work

CHAPTER 14 INTERNET INFRASTRUCTURE

14.1 A Network Example

14.2 Bridging The Divide

14.3 Backbones

14.4 Intemet Protocol: IP Addresses & Domain Name System

14.5 Uniform Resource Locators

14.6 Clients,Servers and Ports

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Modem

DNS

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Client-server

CHAPTFR 15 HOW INTERNET SEARCH ENGINES WORK

15.1 Looking at the Web

15.1.1 An Itsy-Bitsy Beginning

15.1.2 Meta Tags

15.2 Building the Index

15.3 Building a Search

15.4 Future Search

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Internet Explorer

CHAPTER 16 ENCRYPTION

16.1 In the Key of

16.1.1 Symmetric Key

16.1.2 Public Key

16.2 Hash This

16.3 Are You Authentic

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Identity Theft

CHAPTER 17 TAKING A CLOSER LOOK AT THE DCE

17.1 Common threads

17.2 Remote calls

17.3 Directory services

17.4 Distributed Security Service

17.5 Distributed File System

17.6 Distributed time service

17.7 Extending andusing the DCE

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How to Kerberize your site

CHAPTER 18 HOW MP3 FILES WORK

18.1 introduction to MP3 files

18.2 The MP3 Format

18.3 Using the MP3 Format

18.4 Downloading and Listening

18.5 Creating Your Own

18.6 Distributing Original Music

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Sound Cards

USB Ports

CHAPTER 19 SHOCKWAVE 3-D TECHNOLOGY

19.1 Uses of Shockwave Technology

19.2 Making 3-D Content Accessible

19.3 Developing New 3-D Content

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Computer Viruses

CHAPTER 20 HOW PLAYSTATION 2 WORKS

20.1 History

20.2 Console

20.3 Controller

20A Games

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How Video Game Systems Work