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Beyond calculation : the next fifty years of computing / Peter J. Denning, Robert M. Metcalfe, [editors] ; foreword by James Burke.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Copernicus, 1998.Description: xviii, 313p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780387985886:
  • 0387985883
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 004.0905
LOC classification:
  • .D348 1998
Contents:
revolution yet to happen / Gordon Bell & James N. Gray -- When they're everywhere / Vinton G. Serf -- Beyond limits / Bob Frankston -- The tide, not the waves / Edsger W. Dijkstra -- How to think about trends / Richard W. Hamming -- The coming age of calm technology / Mark Weiser & John Seely Brown
Growing up in the culture of simulation / Sherry Turkle -- Why it's good that computers don't work like the brain / Donald Norman -- The logic of dreams / David Gelernter -- End-running human intelligence / Franz L. Alt -- A world without work / Paul W. Abrahams -- The design of interaction / Terry Winograd
stumbling titan / Bob O. Evans -- The leaders of the future / Fernando Flores -- Information warfare / Larry Druffel -- Virtual feudalism / Abbe Mowshowitz -- Sharing our planet / Donald D. Chamberlin -- There and not there / William J. Mitchell & Oliver Strimpel -- The dynamics of innovation / Dennis Tsichritzis -- How we will learn / Peter J. Denning
Summary: Twenty-four experts tell about the future of computers in business, in science and in everyday life.
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
General Lending Carlow Campus Library General Lending 004.0905 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 42550

Originally published: 1997.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

[Part I The coming revolution] The revolution yet to happen / Gordon Bell & James N. Gray -- When they're everywhere / Vinton G. Serf -- Beyond limits / Bob Frankston -- The tide, not the waves / Edsger W. Dijkstra -- How to think about trends / Richard W. Hamming -- The coming age of calm technology / Mark Weiser & John Seely Brown

[Part II Computers and human identity] Growing up in the culture of simulation / Sherry Turkle -- Why it's good that computers don't work like the brain / Donald Norman -- The logic of dreams / David Gelernter -- End-running human intelligence / Franz L. Alt -- A world without work / Paul W. Abrahams -- The design of interaction / Terry Winograd

[Part III Business and innovation] The stumbling titan / Bob O. Evans -- The leaders of the future / Fernando Flores -- Information warfare / Larry Druffel -- Virtual feudalism / Abbe Mowshowitz -- Sharing our planet / Donald D. Chamberlin -- There and not there / William J. Mitchell & Oliver Strimpel -- The dynamics of innovation / Dennis Tsichritzis -- How we will learn / Peter J. Denning

Twenty-four experts tell about the future of computers in business, in science and in everyday life.

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