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THE science of computing touches every aspect of our lives, but how many of us really know how it works – or how we got to where we are today?
It’s quite a story. In Digitized, computer scientist Peter J. Bentley has to zip through decades to cram it all into just 240 pages. He looks at the way computing has grown from its early theoretical basis in mathematics to now encompass many things we take for…
