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COMPUTER SCIENCE
Computers today are far more than the number crunchers. Today, computers
are used to store and manage information in the form of words, numbers, sounds, and
pictures. With the invention of the computer, a few people began to see the potential for
faster management of this information flow. Even though computers were at first used
mainly for mathematical calculation, it wasnt long before businesses began to
understand how their ability to speed the handling of information could be used as a
competitive advantage over other companies that had not yet computerized. Soon
businesses were racing to convert information into forms that could be managed by
computers.
Computer science is the study of computers and how they can be used.
Specialists in computer science say that this field of knowledge is very interesting
because it deals with computer-aided-design (CAD) and computer-aided-
manufacturing (CAM). Computers are intended to improve the productivity of labour of
scientists, designers, engineers, managers, and other specialists, because computers
offer quick and optimal solutions. One of the main goals of using CAD/CAM is to
shorten the time between designing and manufacturing.
Today, much of the worlds information has been computerized and the race has
changed to finding new ways to use it. The world's businesses, libraries, governments,
and educational institutions now need people who are willing to learn new ways to
process information. The end of the twentieth century marked a new beginning both for
computer professionals and for computer users. It will be the period in which we all
come to terms with the computer. Computers came in our life and to our houses and
now we can solve our everyday problems with their help. We now realize that although
computers will affect everyones life, we won't have to change the way we do things
because computer professionals are finding ways to adapt the computer to our needs,
instead of the other way around. In fact, as computers take on additional roles in our
lives, we may not even realize that we are using a computer. Soon computers, in one
form or another, will have a role to play as we use automobiles or public transportation
to get to work, as we buy products and services, as we teach, as we learn, as we are
entertained, and as we carry out our jobs at every level in every occupation.
Computers can perform many functions: they can do mathematical, and logical
operations, mathematical operations including arithmetic and algebraic operations,
such as addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, raising to a power,
differentiating and integrating. Logical operations include comparing, selecting, sorting
and matching.
Computers can be divided into simple and complex devices. Simple computers
such as calculators can perform addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. As far
as complex computers are concerned they can do different logical operations and
some of them even have artificial intelligence.
CIENCIAS DE LA COMPUTACIN
Las computadoras de hoy son mucho ms que los nmeros crujidores. Hoy
en da, las computadoras se utilizan para almacenar y administrar
informacin en forma de palabras, nmeros, sonidos e imgenes. Con la
invencin de la computadora, algunas personas empezaron a ver el
potencial para una gestin ms rpida de este flujo de informacin. A pesar
de que las computadoras se utilizaron en un primer momento
principalmente para el clculo matemtico, no pas mucho tiempo antes de
que las empresas comenzaron a entender cmo su capacidad para acelerar
el manejo de la informacin podra ser utilizado como una ventaja
competitiva sobre otras empresas que an no informatizado. Pronto las
empresas estaban compitiendo para convertir la informacin en formas que
podran ser manejadas por las computadoras.