The Architecture Of Computer Hardware, Systems Software, & Networking: An Information Technology Approach, Fifth Edition
- 16h 8m
- Irv Englander
- John Wiley & Sons (US)
- 2014
This newly revised text retains its gentle approach to introducing MIS students to fundamental computer hardware, systems software, and data concepts. As in previous editions, the goal of this book is to provide the fundamentals of computer architecture which are essential to the workplace survival of Information Systems graduates. This text provides a careful, in depth, non-engineering introduction to the inner workings of modern computer systems.
Overall, the 5th edition pays more attention to the variety of computer devices available today, including smartphones and tablets, while continuing to emphasize the basic principles of computer architecture, and the similarities of all of these devices. It has been the author’s continuing position that the basic principles in the design of computer technology have not changed in many years; that the so-called new designs are changes in implementation and application rather than concept.
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 Systems at Bentley University, where he taught full-time for thirty-three years.
In this Book
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Computers and Systems
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An Introduction to System Concepts and Systems Architecture
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Number Systems
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Data Formats
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Representing Numerical Data
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The Little Man Computer
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The CPU and Memory
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CPU and Memory: Design, Enhancement, and Implementation
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Input/0utput
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Computer Peripherals
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Modern Computer Systems
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Networks and Data Communications—An Overview
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Ethernet and TCP/IP Networking
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Communication Channel Technology
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Operating Systems: An Overview
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The User View of Operating Systems
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File Management
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The Internal Operating System
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