Praise for the previous edition:
"...an excellent reference resource that is easy to navigate...Highly recommended..."—Choice
"Highly recommended."—Library Media Connection
"Recommended for high-school, public, and academic libraries."—Booklist
Computers play a crucial role in our day-to-day lives. Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Technology, Fifth Edition provides a detailed examination of this fascinating field for students and general readers alike. This necessary update boasts new material—a total of more than 600 updated entries, dozens of which are new to this edition, that reflect the latest advances in the field of computer science.
Major corporations and organizations in the computer field are now covered, as well as many new biographies of leaders and newsmakers in the computer science field. Further reading sections have been revised and expanded to allow readers to find other relevant and trusted sources for their research
New entries include:
- Altman, Sam
- Arm (processor architecture)
- Bing (Microsoft)
- Copilot (Microsoft)
- Dark Web
- Deepfake
- Edge computing
- Generative AI
- Hinton, Geoffrey
- Influencers
- Large Language Model (LLM)
- Neural processing unit (NPU)
- OpenAI
- Reddit
- Right to repair
- SCADA
- Scratch (programming language)
- Virtual private network
and more.