Publisher's Synopsis
"The advent, in the 1980s, of low-cost, easy to use computers such as the IBM Personal Computer and the Apple II led to decades of expanding applications of computers in all aspects of life. Later, the Internet made it feasible to interconnect computers around the world which spurred even more uses of computers including cloud computing. The continued miniaturization and cost reduction of microelectronics has resulted in the prolifirization of mobile devices, an emergence of the Internet of Things (IoT), and the rise of on-chip parallel processing. Continued evolution of computer hardware coupled with advances in artificial intelligence and software will lead to even more sophisticated applications in the years to come"--.
