• DocumentCode
    1169234
  • Title

    What should an Educated Person Know About Computers?

  • Author

    Kernighan, Brian W.

  • Author_Institution
    Department of Computer Science, Princeton University, bwk@cs.princeton.edu
  • Volume
    13
  • Issue
    2
  • fYear
    2008
  • Firstpage
    5
  • Lastpage
    11
  • Abstract
    Everyone has high speed Internet access, everyone uses email to keep in touch with friends and family, and we all shop and search online. But most of the computing iceberg lies hidden below the surface. My view of what an educated person should know about computing focuses on three core pieces: hardware, software, and communications.
  • Keywords
    Computers; Data mining; Hardware; Internet; Probability density function; Software; Temperature sensors;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Solid-State Circuits Society Newsletter, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1098-4232
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/N-SSC.2008.4785733
  • Filename
    4785733