Talking back to the machine : computers and human aspiration /
In early 1997, the Association for Computing Machinery celebrated its golden jubilee with a special conference and a book, Beyond Calculation: The Next Fifty Years of Computing. The success of Beyond Calculation led the ACM to produce this sequel, Talking Back to the Machine. This book captures the...
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New York :
Copernicus,
1998.
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| Acesso em linha: | Publisher description Table of contents only |
Sumário:
- Then Now / Peter J. Denning
- Opening Connections / James Burke
- 1. The Folly of Prediction / Gordon Bell
- 2. Life Without Bits / Carver Mead
- 3. Alternative Computing / Joel Birnbaum
- 4. Very Personal Computers / Pattie Maes
- 5. I, Software / Nathan Myhrvold
- 6. The Lost Art of Storytelling / Bran Ferren
- 7. The Digital Battlefield / William Perry
- 8. Entering the Age of Convenience / Fernando Flores
- 9. In the Belly of the Net / Vinton G. Cerf
- 10. When Computers Become Human / Brenda Laurel
- 11. A Half Century of Surprises / Maurice Wilkes
- 12. The Interactive Classroom / Elliot Soloway
- 13. Delivering Bandwidth Like Pizza / Reed Hundt
- 14. Weird Futures / Bruce Sterling
- 15. Teleportation, Time Travel, and Immortality / Raj Reddy
- 16. Pulling Diamonds from the Clay / Murray Gell-Mann
- Closing Connections / James Burke
- The Relics of '97 / David J. Kasik.