A Network Orange : Logic and Responsibility in the Computer Age by Richard E., Levich, Marvin Crandall - used book

EAN (ISBN-13): 9780387946474
ISBN (ISBN-10): 0387946470
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Publishing year: 1998
Publisher: Springer
130 Pages
Weight: 0,404 kg
Language: eng/Englisch

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Author: Richard Crandall; Marvin Levich
Title: A Network Orange - Logic and Responsibility in the Computer Age
Publisher: Springer; Springer US
130 Pages
Publishing year: 1998-06-08
New York; NY; US
Weight: 0,400 kg
Language: English
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106,71 CHF (CH)
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BB; Computers and Society; Hardcover, Softcover / Informatik, EDV; Digital- und Informationstechnologien: soziale und ethische Aspekte; Verstehen; Audio; Oracle; algorithms; chaos; multimedia; responsibility; visualization; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet); Multimedia Information Systems; Computational Mathematics and Numerical Analysis; Computers and Society; Computer and Information Systems Applications; Multimedia Information Systems; Computational Mathematics and Numerical Analysis; Angewandte Informatik; Grafische und digitale Media-Anwendungen; Numerische Mathematik; BC; EA

1 A Conspiracy Of Parts.- • Doubly flawed anatomical design.- • Computer technology as a product of world war.- • The brilliance of John von Neumann.- • When there was one transistor per person.- • A game of leapfrog.- • The “cotasking” of biological systems.- • Neural networks and genetic algorithms.- • The promise of nanotechnology.- • Quantum computation.- • The fate of the conspiracy.- 2 Toward A Theory Of Machine Consciousness.- • The boondoggle of artificial intelligence.- • Double obfuscation.- • Extreme difficulty.- • Progress in AI.- • Input starvation.- • Output modes: expert systems and intelligent agents.- • The mysterious “Gedankenexperiment”.- • A theory of machine consciousness.- 3 Multimedia: Mélange Obscur.- • A night at the opera.- • The meaning of media.- • Visual data.- • Audio data.- • Text still suffers.- • Ink as data medium.- • Teleconferencing as canonical testbed.- • A scenario for unified multimedia.- • Scientific visualization and the demolition of science.- 4 A Network Orange.- • Unpredictability.- • Oracles and actors.- • The BBS as canonical educational testbed.- • Language mangling.- • The emergence of the World Wide Web.- • On the issue of network responsibility.- 5 Virtual Reality, And All That.- • What does virtual really mean?.- • VR implementations.- • The fascination with VR.- • From little reality to big reality.- • Simulating from the vacuum.- • Maps, models, and immersion.- • The Holy Grail.- • GVR.- 6 Education Be Not Automatic.- • Education pursuant to technology.- • What education is and what it is not.- • Incremental revolutions.- • Enriching the curriculum with the computer.- • Computer technology and liberal education.- • How not to teach writing.- • From words to pictures.- • The Scottish Verdict: not proven.