Author : RAJARAMAN, V.
Publisher : PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 938934753X
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (893 download)
Book Synopsis GROUNDBREAKING INVENTIONS IN INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY by : RAJARAMAN, V.
Download or read book GROUNDBREAKING INVENTIONS IN INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY written by RAJARAMAN, V. and published by PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd.. This book was released on 2020-08-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advances in computers and communications have revolutionised the way we live. This has happened in a short span of sixty-five years. Today we wonder how people lived without access to mobile phones and the Internet. • This book seeks to answer the following questions lucidly to a non-specialist general reader: • How did this revolution happen? • What groundbreaking inventions led to this revolution? • Why are they groundbreaking inventions? • Who were the innovators and inventors of these technologies? • What led them to these inventions? Fifteen groundbreaking inventions: Fortran, Integrated Circuits, Relational Database Management Systems, Local Area Networks, Personal Computers, Public Key Encryption, Computer Graphics, Internet, GPS, World Wide Web, Search Engines, Digitisation and Compression of Multimedia, Mobile Computing, Cloud Computing, and Deep Learning (AI) are described cogently by Professor V. Rajaraman, a doyen of Computer Science education and research in India. TARGET AUDIENCE • Students, academicians, professionals in the field of ICT • Anyone who wants to know about ICT