Download or read book Elsevier's Dictionary of Information Technology written by Jakob Hoepelman and published by Elsevier Science & Technology. This book was released on 1997 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Defines in English, occasionally at some length, over 4,500 terms and phrases used in computer science and related fields, and lists equivalents in German and French. Limited to technical terms the use of which in information technology cannot be divined from their conventional use in English; no translations are provided for terms that have no such equivalents and the concept is described in plain German or French. The English spelling is consistently American. Well cross-referenced. Of use to translators faced with technical material or scientists and students in information technology trying to squeeze information from a language in which they are not proficient. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.