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Table of contents

Syllabus

Course Description

Text

Grading

Point Allocation

Attendance

Course Schedule

Slides, Links & News

Class Rules

Slide 10

Computing Systems

Slide 12

Layers of a Computing System

Abstraction

Early History of Computing

Slide 16

First Generation Hardware (1951-1959)

Second Generation Hardware (1959-1965)

Third Generation Hardware (1965-1971)

Fourth Generation Hardware (1971-?)

Parallel Computing and Networking

First Generation Software (1951-1959)

Second Generation Software (1959-1965)

Third Generation Software (1965-1971)

Slide 25

Fourth Generation Software (1971-1989)

Fifth Generation Software (1990- present)

Computing as a Tool

Computing as a Discipline

Slide 30

Systems Areas of Computer Science

Application Areas of Computer Science

Slide 33

Slide 34

Slide 35

Making A Difference

Slide 37

Slide 38

Author: Vincent Costa

E-mail: vcosta@optonline.net