Dem Computer ins Hirn geschaut

This book takes you behind the scenes of computer science, makes the underlying ideas understandable and lets you discover amazing parallels to the living. Step by step, you will dive into the world of computers and learn how electricity can be used to calculate, how computers are constructed and communicate with the outside world, what sophisticated methods there are to record information, how a network of computers becomes a world computer, how information can be cleverly coded and encrypted, where computers reach their limits, and how computer science and biology can be thought together to gain insights into the world. Numerous real-world examples enrich the presentation, showing how close automated and natural information processing are. So if you are looking for a lively, interdisciplinary, and richly illustrated introduction to computer science and like to think outside the box, this book will be a treasure trove for you.