高凯、张永强编著的《计算机专业英语（第2版）》精选C#、Java以及Android移动开发平台、分布式系统、网络信息检索与搜索引擎技术、开源信息检索工具、人工智能、绿色计算、云计算、无线传感网、物联网、虚拟化技术、统一通信、下一代网络服务技术、ACM图灵奖获奖科学家事迹简介、IT职业规划等很新IT科技及相关内容，选材广泛，内容丰富，配有单词注解、难句翻译、相关专业知识说明、背景知识介绍等。读者在学习本书的同时，还可以了解科技英语中常用的语法，掌握常用的计算机专业英语词汇和表达方式，提高计算机专业知识的阅读和理解能力。本书选材新颖、图文并茂，具有系统性、优选性、技术前瞻性，适合作为高等院校学生和专业技术人员学习计算机专业英语的教材及工具书，并可作为信息技术领域的技术人员和管理人员的参考用书。

高凯，男，汉族，教授；博士毕业于上海交通大学计算机应用技术专业，省级重点学科“计算机软件与理论”中“信息检索与云计算”方向学术带头人，硕士研究生导师；中国计算机学会计算机应用专委会通信委员，国外学术期刊International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology副主编，5th/6th/7th/8th International Conference on Modelling，Identification and Control程序委员会委员；主要研究方向为大数据搜索与挖掘、自然语言处理、网络信息检索、社会计算等。

  
\tChapter 1 Programming and Mobile Development Platform
Section 1 C# and the .NET Framework
Section 2 Java Overview
Section 3 Android Platform
Background Knowledge
Thinking and Exercising
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Chapter 2 Introduction on Distributed System
Section 1 Definition of a Distributed System
Section 2 Distributed System Goal I：Making Resources Accessible
Section 3 Distributed System Goal II：Making Distribution Transparency
Section 4 Distributed System Goal III：Openness
Section 5 Distributed System Goal IV：Scalability
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Thinking and Exercising
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Chapter 3 Web Search
Section 1 Background and History
Section 2 Web Characteristics
Section 3 Advertising as the Economic Model
Section 4 The Search User Experimence
Section 5 Intellectualized Techniques in Search Engine
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Chapter 4 Introduction on Information Retrieval Tools
Section 1 Evolution of Information Organization and Access
Section 2 Understanding Lucene
Section 3 Indexing and searching
Section 4 Nutch——Case study Based on Lucene
Section 5 Introduction on Elasticsearch
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Thinking and Exercising
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Chapter 5 Introduction on Artifi Intelligence
Section 1 What is AI?
Section 2 The History of Artifi Intelligence （Part 1）
Section 3 The History of Artifi Intelligence （Part II）
Section 4 The State of the Art
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Chapter 6 Green Computing
Section 1 Approaches to Green Computing
Section 2 Future of Green Computing
Section 3 Ways of implementation
Section 4 Green IT：The next burning issue for business
Section 5 Conclusion
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Thinking and Exercising
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Chapter 7 Cloud Computing
Section 1 Introduction
Section 2 Why Cloud Computing?
Section 3 Benefits of Cloud Computing
Section 4 Cloud Computing Drawbacks
Section 5 Cloud Computing Technologies
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Chapter 8 Wireless Sensor Networks
Section 1 Sensor Network Applications
Section 2 Embedded Network Technology
Section 3 Systems Challenge
Section 4 Self-Organized Networks
Section 5 Conserving Power and Bandwidth
Section 6 Privacy and Conclusion
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Thinking and Exercising
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Chapter 9 The Internet of Things
Section 1 What is the Internet of Things?
Section 2 Technologies for the Internet of Things
Section 3 Market Opportunities
Section 4 Challenges and Concerns
Section 5 Implications for the Developing World
Section 6 2020：A Day in the Life
Section 7 A New Ecosystem
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Thinking and Exercising
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Chapter 10 Virtualization
Section 1 Introduction
Section 2 Common Terminology
Section 3 Companies Using Virtualization
Section 4 Why Virtualized Technology?
Section 5 Benefits of Virtualization
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Thinking and Exercising
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Chapter 11 Unified Communications
Section 1 Introduction
Section 2 Enter Unified Communications
Section 3 The Real-Time Communications Dashboard
Section 4 Communications Enabled Business Process
Section 5 Enterprise Business Case for Unified Communications
Section 6 Just In Time Fetch The Expert
Section 7 Challenges and Conclusion
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Thinking and Exercising
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Chapter 12 Next Generation Network Services
Section 1 NGN Value Proposition for Service Providers
Section 2 Next Generation Services
Section 3 Next Generation Service Architecture
Section 4 Conclusions
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Thinking and Exercising
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Chapter 13 Introduction on the ACM Turing Award
Section 1 About Turing
Section 2 About ACM
Section 3 Turing Award and Some Award Scientists
Section 4 Turing Award Recipients and Citations
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Thinking and Exercising
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Chapter 14 IT Careers Planning
Section 1 Personal Growth
Section 2 "You've got to find what you love，"Jobs says
Section 3 Bill Gates Speaks with Young Leaders on "Leadership， Responsibility and Innovation"
Section 4 IT Workers Improve Your Writing Skills
Section 5 The 10 Worst Mistakes Career Changers Make
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