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The bird-eye view of computer science

Today I went to the library and borrow a huge book called "Computer Science --- Handbook (Second Edition)".

Cover of the book "Computer Science Handbook (Second Edition)

This book is edited by Allen B. Tucker, and it is a very comprehensive and encyclopedia-like book which contains almost every area in computer science. Here is its table of contents, I will post one article about my understanding everyday, please subscribe this blog and get the newest article!

Here's a very useful post designed by Dominic William. He also provides a video on Youtube.

Maps of Computer Science


Table of Contents of the book:

There are two articles in front of specialized sections, they are:

Now we will list all 11 sections and the papers inside each section:

Section I: Algorithms and Complexity

Section II: Architecture and Organization

Section III: Computational Science

Section IV: Graphics and Visual Computing

Section V: Human-Computer Interaction

Section VI: Information Management

Section VII: Intelligent Systems

Section VIII: Net-Centric Computing

Section IX: Operating Systems

Section X: Programming Languages

Section XI: Software Engineering

These 11 sections are defined by Computing Curricula (ACM website).


Notes:

[1] Bio scientist and NSF officer, cool!
[2] On 2004, she was only a bachelor student ......
[3] He is also a chess international master, and here's his scores on chessgames.com
[4] There was a politician also called Ziaur Rahman (Wikipedia)
[5] Other personal website is here
[6] In famous USA TV show "Silicon Valley", there is a famous score called "Weissman Score". But that Weissman is Tsachy Weissman, a professor from Stanford. More information can be found in here.
[7] Other websites about Luca Cardelli: (1) Wikipedia (2) Microsoft Research

This is just the beginning ......

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