Originally, the word ''computing'' was synonymous with counting and calculating, and a science that deals with the original sense of computing mathematical Calculation s. "Computing" has come to mean the '''operation''' and usage of '''computing''' Machine s, the ElectricalProcess es carried out within the computing Hardware itself, and the theoretical concepts governing them ( Computer Science ).
The discipline of computing is the systematic study of algorithmic processes that describe and transform information: their theory, analysis, design, efficiency, implementation, and application. The fundamental question underlying all the computing is 'What can be (efficiently) automated?'
DBLP , as of February 2006 , now lists over 725 000 bibliographic entries on computer science and several thousand links to the home pages of Computer Scientist s
After the commoditization of Memory , attention turned to optimizing CPU performance at the instruction level. Various methods of speeding up the fetch-execute cycle include:
