Milestones in Computer Science and Information TechnologyBloomsbury Academic, 2003. aug. 30. - 392 oldal Using the same approach as the popular Milestones in Science and Technology and Milestones in Health and Medicine, this unique reference features more than 600 concise entries describing the most significant advances in the field of computer science and information technology. Arranged in a convenient A-to-Z format, entries explain topics in a wide variety of categories, including hardware, software, theory, mathematics, programming, languages, memory, architecture, applications, and graphics. |
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... called raster graphics . As with television , an image is cre- ated by lighting discrete spots of phosphor , each called a pixel ( picture element ) , and letting the eye merge them into a picture . As part of a raster graphics system ...
... called " clock arithmetic , ” and it is also called remainder arithmetic or residue arithmetic because in the system just used as an example , 53 divided by 24 is 5 , not 2 , be- cause we care about the remainder , not the nor- mal ...
... called trackballs were awarded to William F. Alexander in 1958 , Rob- ert A. Koster in 1967 , Norman J. Bose ( the first to use the term " Track Ball " ) in 1971 , and Tom R. Luque in 1983 , the last of which is most similar to the ...
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Listing of Cited References | 283 |
Classification of Articles | 297 |
Chronological Index | 343 |
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