WWW: The End of Time - Couverture souple

Wagner, Dr. Neal R.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1522700374 ISBN 13 : 9781522700371

Editeur : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

Synopsis

In the near future, civilization collapses, in a novel about computers, the environment and religion. "He was going to get the three of them out of that terrible place if he had to stir up half the globe. Later he would worry about consequences, unintended side effects ... " The disaster starts when three scientists on vacation in Mongolia are captured in secret and forced to work on a nuclear weapons project. Two men based in the huge virtual city of Atlantis carry out an elaborate rescue attempt that spirals out of control, starting nuclear and biological warfare, and a worldwide economic breakdown. A precocious young deaf girl plays a crucial role leading up to the collapse. In the aftermath, as she struggles to survive in a small Missouri town, she writes diary entries that are intertwined with the main chapters. Her town is isolated and ravaged by diseases, but a new religious group called the Sweepers helps them cope with their many deaths. Secrets float in the air like ghosts, waiting for some resolution.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Neal R. Wagner recently retired as Associate Professor of Computer Science from the University of Texas at San Antonio. In addition to UTSA, he taught at the University of Texas at El Paso, the University of Houston, and Drexel University. He received a PhD degree in mathematics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He taught and did research in that area for several years until he turned to the Dark Side (computers). He then specialized in cryptography and database security, with thirty scientific articles published. He received grants from several sources, including the National Science Foundation. He is best known for early work on digital fingerprints and for discovering a specialized approach to create public-key cryptosystems based on the word problem for groups. He studied for a year at the University of Hamburg, and for two years he worked on realtime simulations of the Space Shuttle at NASA's Johnson Space Center.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1522700374
• ISBN 13: 9781522700371
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 348
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Manufactured by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg