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Author : Heinz Zemanek
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Heinz Zemanek written by Heinz Zemanek and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selection of the author's works.
Author : Paul A. Youngman
Publisher : Camden House
ISBN 13 : 1571133925
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (711 download)
Download or read book We are the Machine written by Paul A. Youngman and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2009 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investigation of attitudes toward -- and unease with -- Information Technology, as reflected in recent German-language literature. Despite our embrace of the sheer utility and productivity it has made possible, the revolution in Information Technology has led to unease about its possible misuse, abuse, and even its eventual domination of humankind. That German culture is not immune to this sense of disquiet is reflected in a broad variety of German-language fiction since the 1940s. This first study of the literary reception of IT in German-speaking lands begins with an analysis of a seminal novel from the beginning of the computer age, Heinrich Hauser's Gigant Hirn (1948), then moves to its primary focus, the literature of the past two decades, ranging from Gerd Heidenreich's Die Nacht der Händler (1995) to Daniel Glattauer's novel Gut gegen Nordwind (2006). Along the way, it analyzes eleven works, including Barbara Frischmuth's novel Die Schrift des Freundes (1998), René Pollesch's drama world wide web-slums (2001), and Günter Grass's novella Im Krebsgang (2003). As wildly different in approach as these works are, each has much to offer this investigation of the imaginary border dividing the human from the technological, a lingering, centuries-old construct created to ease the anxiety that technology has given rise to throughout the ages. Paul A. Youngman is Associate Professor of German at the University of North Carolina-Charlotteand Director of the Center for Humanities, Technology, and Science.
Author : Ulf Hashagen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9783540426646
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (266 download)
Download or read book History of Computing: Software Issues written by Ulf Hashagen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2002-05-27 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reviews the present understanding of the history of software and establishes an agenda for further research. By exploring this current understanding, the authors identify the fundamental elements of software. The problems and questions addressed in the book range from purely technical to societal issues. Thus, the articles presented offer a fresh view of this history with new categories and interrelated themes, comparing and contrasting software with artefacts in other disciplines, so as to ascertain in what ways software is similar to and different from other technologies. This volume is based on the international conference "Mapping the History of Computing: Software Issues", held in April 2000 at the Heinz Nixdorf Museums Forum in Paderborn, Germany.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 934 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Current Research and Development in Scientific Documentation written by and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 934 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John A. N. Lee
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9781884964473
Total Pages : 1250 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (644 download)
Download or read book International Biographical Dictionary of Computer Pioneers written by John A. N. Lee and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1995 with total page 1250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Herbert Bruderer
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030409740
Total Pages : 2072 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Milestones in Analog and Digital Computing written by Herbert Bruderer and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-01-04 with total page 2072 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Third Edition is the first English-language edition of the award-winning Meilensteine der Rechentechnik; illustrated in full color throughout in two volumes. The Third Edition is devoted to both analog and digital computing devices, as well as the world's most magnificient historical automatons and select scientific instruments (employed in astronomy, surveying, time measurement, etc.). It also features detailed instructions for analog and digital mechanical calculating machines and instruments, and is the only such historical book with comprehensive technical glossaries of terms not found in print or in online dictionaries. The book also includes a very extensive bibliography based on the literature of numerous countries around the world. Meticulously researched, the author conducted a worldwide survey of science, technology and art museums with their main holdings of analog and digital calculating and computing machines and devices, historical automatons and selected scientific instruments in order to describe a broad range of masterful technical achievements. Also covering the history of mathematics and computer science, this work documents the cultural heritage of technology as well.
Author : Frank Land
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 019155491X
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book The Social Study of Information and Communication Technology written by Frank Land and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2004-06-17 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a useful text for advanced students of MIS and ICT courses, and for those studying ICT in related areas: Management and Organization Studies, Cultural Studies, and Technology and Innovation. As ICTs permeate every sphere of society - business, education, leisure, government, etc. - it is important to reflect the character and complexity of the interaction between people and computers, between society and technology. For example, the user may represent a much broader set of actors than 'the user' conventionally found in many texts: the operator, the customer, the citizen, the gendered individual, the entrepreneur, the 'poor', the student. Each actor uses ICT in different ways. This book examines these issues, deploying a number of methods such as Actor Network Theory, Socio-Technical Systems, and phenomenological approaches. Management concerns about strategy and productivity are covered together with issues of power, politics, and globalization. Topics range from long-standing themes in the study of IT in organizations such as implementation, strategy, and evaluation, to general analysis of IT as socio-economic change A distinguished group of contributors, including Bruno Latour, Saskia Sassen, Robert Galliers, Frank Land, Ian Angel, and Richard Boland, offer the reader a rich set of perspectives and ideas on the relationship between ICT and society, organizational knowledge and innovation.
Author : Ted Striphas
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231556608
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Algorithmic Culture Before the Internet written by Ted Striphas and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2023-06-06 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, algorithms exercise outsize influence on cultural decision-making, shaping and even reshaping the concept of culture. How were automated, computational processes empowered to perform this work? What forces prompted the emergence of algorithmic culture? Algorithmic Culture Before the Internet is a history of how culture and computation came to be entangled. From Cambridge, England, to Cambridge, Massachusetts, by way of medieval Baghdad, this book pinpoints the critical junctures at which algorithmic culture began to coalesce in language long before it materialized in the technological wizardry of Silicon Valley. Revising and extending the methodology of “keywords,” Ted Striphas examines changing concepts and definitions of culture, including the development of the field of cultural studies, and stresses the importance of language in the history of technology. Offering historical and interdisciplinary perspective on the relationship of culture and computation, this book provides urgently needed context for the algorithmic injustices that beset the world today.
Author : Peter Weibel
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9783211245620
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (456 download)
Download or read book Beyond Art: A Third Culture written by Peter Weibel and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-05-17 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new theory of culture presented with a new method achieved by comparing closely the art and science in 20th century Austria and Hungary. Major achievements that have influenced the world like psychoanalysis, abstract art, quantum physics, Gestalt psychology, formal languages, vision theories, and the game theory etc. originated from these countries, and influence the world still today as a result of exile nurtured in the US. A source book with numerous photographs, images and diagrams, it opens up a nearly infinite horizon of knowledge that helps one to understand what is going on in today’s worlds of art and science.
Author : H. Bekic
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9783540133780
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (337 download)
Download or read book Programming Languages and Their Definition written by H. Bekic and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1984-08 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lars Heide
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 0801898722
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Punched-Card Systems and the Early Information Explosion, 1880–1945 written by Lars Heide and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2009-04-27 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time when Internet use is closely tracked and social networking sites supply data for targeted advertising, Lars Heide presents the first academic study of the invention that fueled today’s information revolution: the punched card. Early punched cards helped to process the United States census in 1890. They soon proved useful in calculating invoices and issuing pay slips. As demand for more sophisticated systems and reading machines increased in both the United States and Europe, punched cards served ever-larger data-processing purposes. Insurance companies, public utilities, businesses, and governments all used them to keep detailed records of their customers, competitors, employees, citizens, and enemies. The United States used punched-card registers in the late 1930s to pay roughly 21 million Americans their Social Security pensions, Vichy France used similar technologies in an attempt to mobilize an army against the occupying German forces, and the Germans in 1941 developed several punched-card registers to make the war effort—and surveillance of minorities—more effective. Heide’s analysis of these three major punched-card systems, as well as the impact of the invention on Great Britain, illustrates how different cultures collected personal and financial data and how they adapted to new technologies. This comparative study will interest students and scholars from a wide range of disciplines, including the history of technology, computer science, business history, and management and organizational studies.
Author : Don Berkich
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030018008
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book On the Cognitive, Ethical, and Scientific Dimensions of Artificial Intelligence written by Don Berkich and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-01-28 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume explores the intersection between philosophy and computing. It features work presented at the 2016 annual meeting of the International Association for Computing and Philosophy. The 23 contributions to this volume neatly represent a cross section of 40 papers, four keynote addresses, and eight symposia as they cut across six distinct research agendas. The volume begins with foundational studies in computation and information, epistemology and philosophy of science, and logic. The contributions next examine research into computational aspects of cognition and philosophy of mind. This leads to a look at moral dimensions of man-machine interaction as well as issues of trust, privacy, and justice. This multi-disciplinary or, better yet, a-disciplinary investigation reveals the fruitfulness of erasing distinctions among and boundaries between established academic disciplines. This should come as no surprise. The computational turn itself is a-disciplinary and no former discipline, whether scientific, artistic, or humanistic, has remained unchanged. Rigorous reflection on the nature of these changes opens the door to inquiry into the nature of the world, what constitutes our knowledge of it, and our understanding of our place in it. These investigations are only just beginning. The contributions to this volume make this clear: many encourage further research and end with open questions.
Author : Adelheid Voskuhl
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022603416X
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Androids in the Enlightenment written by Adelheid Voskuhl and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, Adelheid Voskuhl investigates two automata - both depicting piano-playing women. These automata not oly play music, but also move their heads, eyes, and torsos to mimic a sentimental body technique of the 18th century: musicians were expected to generate sentiments in themselves while playing, then communicate them to the audience through bodily motions.
Author : Frank Schweitzer
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 9789056990275
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Self-Organization of Complex Structures written by Frank Schweitzer and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1997-07-16 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the past twenty years, a broad spectrum of theories and methods have been developed in physics, chemistry and molecular biology to explain structure formation in complex systems. These methods have been applied to many different fields such as economics, sociology and town planning, and this book reflects the interdisciplinary nature of complexity and self-organisation. The main focus is on the emergence of collective phenomena from individual or microscopic interactions. Presents a wide-ranging overview from fundamental aspects of the evolution of complexity, to applications in biology, ecology, sociology, economics, and urban structure formation.
Author : Andrew Pickering
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226667928
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (266 download)
Download or read book The Cybernetic Brain written by Andrew Pickering and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-04-15 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cybernetics is often thought of as a grim military or industrial science of control. But as Andrew Pickering reveals in this beguiling book, a much more lively and experimental strain of cybernetics can be traced from the 1940s to the present. The Cybernetic Brain explores a largely forgotten group of British thinkers, including Grey Walter, Ross Ashby, Gregory Bateson, R. D. Laing, Stafford Beer, and Gordon Pask, and their singular work in a dazzling array of fields. Psychiatry, engineering, management, politics, music, architecture, education, tantric yoga, the Beats, and the sixties counterculture all come into play as Pickering follows the history of cybernetics’ impact on the world, from contemporary robotics and complexity theory to the Chilean economy under Salvador Allende. What underpins this fascinating history, Pickering contends, is a shared but unconventional vision of the world as ultimately unknowable, a place where genuine novelty is always emerging. And thus, Pickering avers, the history of cybernetics provides us with an imaginative model of open-ended experimentation in stark opposition to the modern urge to achieve domination over nature and each other.
Author : Krzysztof R. Apt
Publisher : Morgan & Claypool
ISBN 13 : 1450397743
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Edsger Wybe Dijkstra written by Krzysztof R. Apt and published by Morgan & Claypool. This book was released on 2022-07-14 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edsger Wybe Dijkstra (1930–2002) was one of the most influential researchers in the history of computer science, making fundamental contributions to both the theory and practice of computing. Early in his career, he proposed the single-source shortest path algorithm, now commonly referred to as Dijkstra’s algorithm. He wrote (with Jaap Zonneveld) the first ALGOL 60 compiler, and designed and implemented with his colleagues the influential THE operating system. Dijkstra invented the field of concurrent algorithms, with concepts such as mutual exclusion, deadlock detection, and synchronization. A prolific writer and forceful proponent of the concept of structured programming, he convincingly argued against the use of the Go To statement. In 1972 he was awarded the ACM Turing Award for “fundamental contributions to programming as a high, intellectual challenge; for eloquent insistence and practical demonstration that programs should be composed correctly, not just debugged into correctness; for illuminating perception of problems at the foundations of program design.” Subsequently he invented the concept of self-stabilization relevant to fault-tolerant computing. He also devised an elegant language for nondeterministic programming and its weakest precondition semantics, featured in his influential 1976 book A Discipline of Programming in which he advocated the development of programs in concert with their correctness proofs. In the later stages of his life, he devoted much attention to the development and presentation of mathematical proofs, providing further support to his long-held view that the programming process should be viewed as a mathematical activity. In this unique new book, 31 computer scientists, including five recipients of the Turing Award, present and discuss Dijkstra’s numerous contributions to computing science and assess their impact. Several authors knew Dijkstra as a friend, teacher, lecturer, or colleague. Their biographical essays and tributes provide a fascinating multi-author picture of Dijkstra, from the early days of his career up to the end of his life.
Author : Everardo Reyes-Garcia
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119474981
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (194 download)
Download or read book The Image-Interface written by Everardo Reyes-Garcia and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Digital practices are shaped by graphical representations that appear on the computer screen, which is the principal surface for designing, visualizing, and interacting with digital information. Before any digital image or graphical interface is rendered on the screen there is a series of layers that affect its visual properties. To discover such processes it is necessary to investigate software applications, graphical user interfaces, programming languages and code, algorithms, data structures, and data types in their relationship with graphical outcomes and design possibilities. This book studies interfaces as images and images as interfaces. It offers a comprehensible framework to study graphical representations of visual information. It explores the relationship between visual information and its graphical supports, taking into account contributions from fields of visual computing. Graphical supports are considered as material but also as formal aspects underlying the representation of digital images on the digital screen.
