本书是为开设计算机专业英语课程的普通高校和广大有志于自学计算机英语的人员而编写的教材。全书共15章，分为两大部分，一部分是传统的计算机科学技术领域，包括计算机系统、操作系统、数据库、数据结构、计算机网络等内容，另一部分是新兴的领域，包括信息**、信息**技术、地理信息系统、图像处理和电子商务等内容。每章包括两篇正文和两篇阅读材料以及练习。每篇正文后附有单词注解和难句翻译。正文属于精读、精讲的内容。阅读材料主要侧重相应领域的*新发展动态，选文主要来源于近三年的外文期刊和有关网站，目的是开拓学生的专业视野，激发学生的学习和阅读兴趣。本书内容新颖，选文来源宽泛，注重保持选文内容的原始性。

目录
第2版前言

第1版前言Chapter One The Fundamental of Computers

1-1Computers Types

1-2The Year 2038 Problem

Reading Material 1-1 History of Electronic Digital Computers

Reading Material 1-2 Quantum Computer

Exercises

Chapter Two Computer Architecture

2-1Computer Motherboard

2-2Memory Hierarchy in Cache-Based Systems

Reading Material 2-1 Multi-core (computing)

Reading Material 2-2 CPHASH: A Cache-Partitioned Hash Table

Exercises

Chapter Three Data Structure44

3-1Balanced Tree Data Structures

3-2Quicksort

Reading Material 3-1 Linked List

Reading Material 3-2 Managed Data: Modular Strategies for Data Abstraction

Exercises

Chapter Four Operating System

4-1 Operating System Structure

4-2 Free-Space Management

Reading Material 4-1 Linux

Reading Material 4-2 What Are the Differences between iOS and Android?

Exercises

Chapter Five Programming Languages

5-1 History of Programming Languages

5-2 Object-Oriented Programming

Reading Material 5-1 Introduction to the C# Language and the NET Framework

Reading Material 5-2 Pair Programming

Exercises

Chapter Six Database Systems

6-1 Introduction to Database Systems

6-2 Distributed Database117

Reading Material 6-1 From Databases to Dataspaces

Reading Material 6-2 Oracle Database

Exercises

Chapter Seven Computer Network

7-1 Smarter Cities Are Built on the Internet of Things

7-2 Sliding Window Protocols

Reading Material 7-1 IPv6

Reading Material 7-2 WiFi-Nano: Reclaiming WiFi Efficiency Through 800 ns Slots

Exercises

Chapter Eight Internet

8-1 TCP/IP

8-2 Introduction of IPv6

Reading Material 8-1 A Basic Guide to the Internet

Reading Material 8-2 What Is Web 2.0

Exercises

Chapter Nine Geographic Information System

9-1 GIS Introduction174

9-2 GIS Data180

Reading Material 9-1 Application of GIS Techniques in Hong Kongs Population Census

Reading Material 9-2 Demystifying the Persistent Ambiguity of GIS as “Tool Versus “Science”

Exercises

Chapter Ten Information Security

10-1 Security and Precaution on Computer Network

10-2 Computer Virus

Reading Material 10-1 A National Cyberspace Security Response System

Reading Material 10-2 How to Implement Trusted Computing

Exercises

Chapter Eleven Information Security Technologies

11-1 Introducing Firewalls to IPv6

11-2 An Introduction to Information Security

Reading Material 11-1 Intrusion Detection Systems and Intrusion Response Mechanism

Reading Material 11-2 Internet Security Architecture

Exercises

Chapter Twelve Digital Image Processing

12-1 A Basic Introduction to Image Processing

12-2 An Evaluation of Popular Copy-Move Forgery Detection Approaches (Part I)

Reading Material 12-1An Evaluation of Popular Copy-Move Forgery Detection Approaches (Part II)

Reading Material 12-2An Overview of JPEG-2000

Exercises

Chapter Thirteen Management Information System

13-1 Data Warehouse

13-2 Challenges of Big Data for Development

Reading Material 13-1 The Opportunity of Big Data for Development

Reading Material 13-2 Steps Involved in Building a Data Warehouse

Exercises

Chapter Fourteen E-Commerce

14-1 Electronic Commerce

14-2 E-Commerce and Its Impact in Logistic Management: A State of Art

Reading Material 14-1 Seven Practical Trends in B2B Marketing

Reading Material 14-2 Chinas E-Commerce Service Industry

Exercises

Chapter Fifteen The Future of Information Technology

15-1 Location-Based Social Networks: Users

15-2 Native XML Databases

Reading Material 15-1 3G Technology

Reading Material 15-2 Microsoft Azure for Research Overview

Exercises

References