图书信息：
书    名：计算机与通信专业英语(修订第三版)
作    者：徐秀兰
出 版 社：北京邮电大学出版社
出版日期：2003年01月第1版

内容简介：
 摘要本书主要取材于上世纪90年代以后国外发表的共40余种最新材料。内容广泛,语言现象丰富。所选内容既有基础理论,又尽量跟踪最近两三年内公众关心的热点与新技术。教材内容基本能覆盖计算机、通信这两个专业常用的技术词汇、词组及常见的科技语法。
教材的编写对于所选专题除正文外,还列出了较多的关键字、注释、习题及部分参考译文。对于某些较难的语法现象,除给出相应的参考译文外还对语法现象予以分析。在本书的最后还附有习题解答及生词表,以供读者快速查阅。
本书可作为计算机与通信两个专业学生的英语教材,也可供其他工程专业作为专业英语教材或参考书,还可作为从事计算机、通信、信息等工作的技术人员的自学教材或参考书。

目录：
UNIT 1 A New Computing Model--Pervasive (Ubiquitous) Computing
1-1 What Is Pervasive Computing?
1-2 Challenges to Pervasive Computing
1-3 Turn Pervasive Computing into Mediated Spaces
Reading Material: Smart Spaces and Hardware Prototypes
Exercises
UNIT 2 Computer Systems
2-1 Why Should People Care of a Computer System?
2-2 What Should People Do with a Computer System?
2-3 Designing for Performance
2-4 Pentium and PowerPC Evolution
Exercises
UNIT 3 Design Technologies of CPU
3-1 The Complex Instruction Set Computer--CISC
3-2 Definition of Reduced Instruction Set Computer---RISC
3-3 VLIW Microprocessors
Exercises
UNIT 4 Primary-Memory Organization and I/O Devices
4-1 Primary-Memory Organization
4-2 External Deviees and Their Control
.4-3 I/0 Devices
Exercises
UNIT 5 Operating System
5-1 What Is an Operating System?
5-2 Operating System Structure
5-3 Case Study: Windows 2000
5-4 What Is Linux?
Exercises
UN-rr 6 Programming
6-1 Programming Languages
6-2 The Need for a New Style of Programming
6-3 What Is Object-orientation7
6-4 Visual Programming
6-5 What Is Java?
Exercises
UNIT 7 Database Systems
7-1 Introduction to Database System
7-2 Describing and Storing Data in a DBMS
7-3 Parallel Databases
7-4 Distributed Databases
Exercises
UNIT 8 Decision Support Systems
8-1 Introduction to Decision Support
8-2 Data Warehousing
8-3 On-Line Analytic Processing
8-4 Data Mining
Exercises
UNIT 9 Basic Concepts of Pattern Recognition
9-1 What Are The Pattern Recognition and Classification Problems?
9-2 Approaches to Recognition and Classification
9-3 Features and Their Distributions
Exercises
UNIT 10 Computer Networks
10-1 What Is a Network?
10-2 The Major Types of Networks
10-3 Network Protocols
10-4 IPv6 Overview
Exercises
UNIT 11 Network Security
11-1 Where Do Security Threats Come from?
11-2 Encryption Methods
11-3 Access Control
11-4 Firewalls: Intemet Security
Exercises
UNIT 12 Multimedia
12-1 What Is Multimedia?
12-2 Multimedia Hardware
12-3 Multimedia Networking
12-4 Multimedia Software: Applications
12-5 Defining Hypertext, Hypermedia and Multimedia
Exercises
UNIT 13 Digital Sound Technology
13-1 The Physics of Sound
13-2 Digital Sampling
13-3 Sampling Theory Meets Multimedia
Exercises
UNIT 14 Image Processing
14-1 Representation of Images
14-2 Image Data Compression
14-3 A Practical Drawing Program of "Computer Graphics"
Exercises
UNIT 15 Broadband ISDN and ATM
15-1 Basic Concepts of B-ISDN
15-2 ATM--a Mechanism of Transporting and Switching Information for B-ISDN
15-3 The B-ISDN Reference Model
Exercises
UNIT 16 Satellites
16-1 Satellite Fundamentals
16-2 Uplinks and Dowulinks
16-3 Satellite Antenna Design
16-4 Two-degree Satellite Spacing and the Antenna Performance Standard
Exercises
UNIT 17 Optical Fiber Commum'cations
17-1 The General System
17-2 Advantages of Optical Fiber Communication
17-3 Optical Light Sources and Optical Detectors
Exercises
UNIT 18 Mobile Wireless Personal Connnunicafiom
18-1 Radio Technology and Personal Communication Concepts
18-2 CDMA and Other Spectrmn Sharing Concepts
18-3 Development of GSM
18-4 Third-Generation (3G) Wireless Technology
Reading Material: Examples of Existing CDMA System
Exercises
UNIT 19 Access Network (Subscriber Loop) Technologies
19-1 The Migration from Copper to Optical Fiber Subscriber loops
19-2 Extending the Life of Copper Subscriber Loops
19-3 The High-bit-rate Digital Subscriber loop (HDSL)
19-4 The Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Loop (ADSL)
19-5 Hybrid Fiber-coax Access Networks
Exercises
UNIT 20 New Computing Types in the Future
20-1 Introduction to Optical Computing
20-2 High Performance Processing Systems of the Future
20-3 An Overview of Quantum Computing
Reading Material: Quantum Computer Today
Exercises
Answers/习题解答
Translations for Texts( Partial ) / 参考译文(部分)
Bibliography/参考文献
List of New Words/词汇表