Hardware, Software and Impact

Index

Objective: Discuss the economic incentives driving the evolution of hardware and software and relate this progress to Moore's law. The index for this Chapter is:

• Segment 1: Index
• Segment 2: Hardware I
  • Background
  • Von Neumann Digital Computer
• Segment 3: Harware II
• Parallel Computing
• Distributed Computing
• Artificial Neural Network
• DNA computer
• Segment 2: Software
  • Market Forces: Software
  • Quasi-intelligent Software
• Segment 3: Impact of Computation
  • Impact does not require computers to think
  • Mathematics and science
  • Engineering and policy
  • Business and administration
  • All human activities