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_aLee, Edward A., _d1957- _eauthor. |
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_aPlato and the nerd : _bthe creative partnership of humans and technology / _cEdward Ashford Lee. |
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_aCambridge, Massachusetts : _bThe MIT Press, _c[2017] |
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_a[Piscataqay, New Jersey] : _bIEEE Xplore, _c[2017] |
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_a1 PDF (xvi, 266 pages) : _billustrations. |
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504 | _aIncludes bibliographical references and index. | ||
505 | 0 | _aPreface; I Yang; 1 Shadows on the Wall; 1.1 Nerds; 1.2 Artificial and Natural; 1.3 Design and Discovery; 1.4 Engineering and Science; 2 Inventing Laws of Nature; 2.1 The Unknown Knowns; 2.2 Models of Nature; 2.3 Models Are Wrong; 3 Models of Models of Models of Models of Things; 3.1 Technological Tapestries; 3.2 Complexity Simplified; 3.3 Transitivity of Models; 3.4 Reductionism; 4 Hardware Is Ephemeral; 4.1 Hard and Soft; 4.2 Semiconductors; 4.3 Digital Switches; 4.4 Logic Gates; 4.5 Logic Diagrams; 4.6 Digital Machines; 5 Software Endures; 5.1 Self-Scaffolding | |
505 | 8 | _a5.2 Instruction Set Architectures5.3 Programming Languages; 5.4 Operating Systems; 5.5 Libraries, Languages, and Dialects; 5.6 The Cloud; 6 Evolution and Revolution; 6.1 Normal Engineering; 6.2 Crisis and Failure; 6.3 Crisis and Opportunity; 6.4 Models in Crisis; II Yin; 7 Information; 7.1 Pessimism Becomes Optimism; 7.2 Information-Processing Machines; 7.3 Measuring Information; 7.4 Continuous Information; 8 The Limits of Software; 8.1 Universal Machines?; 8.2 Undecidability; 8.3 Cardinality; 8.4 Digital Physics?; 9 Symbiosis; 9.1 The Notion of a Continuum | |
505 | 8 | _a9.2 The Impossible Becomes Possible9.3 Digital Psyche?; 9.4 Symbiotic Partnership; 9.5 Incompleteness; 10 Determinism; 10.1 Laplace's Demon; 10.2 The Butterfly Effect; 10.3 Incompleteness of Determinism; 10.4 The Hard and the Soft of Determinism; 11 Probability and Possibility; 11.1 The Bayesians and the Frequentists; 11.2 Continuums, Again; 11.3 Impossibility and Improbability; 12 Final Thoughts; 12.1 Dualism; 12.2 Obstacles; 12.3 Autonomy and Intelligence; Bibliography; Index | |
506 | _aRestricted to subscribers or individual electronic text purchasers. | ||
520 | 8 | _aIn this book, Edward Ashford Lee makes a bold claim: that the creators of digital technology have an unsurpassed medium for creativity. Technology has advanced to the point where progress seems limited not by physical constraints but the human imagination. Writing for both literate technologists and numerate humanists, Lee makes a case for engineering -- creating technology -- as a deeply intellectual and fundamentally creative process. Explaining why digital technology has been so transformative and so liberating, Lee argues that the real power of technology stems from its partnership with humans. | |
530 | _aAlso available in print. | ||
538 | _aMode of access: World Wide Web | ||
588 | _aPrint version record. | ||
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_aTechnology _xPhilosophy. |
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_aComputer science _vPopular works. |
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_aComputer science. _2fast |
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_aCreative ability. _2fast |
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_aTechnology _xPhilosophy. _2fast |
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_aPopular works. _2fast |
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655 | 4 | _aElectronic books. | |
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_aIEEE Xplore (Online Service), _edistributor. |
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_aMIT Press, _epublisher. |
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_iPrint version: _aLee, Edward A., 1957- _tPlato and the nerd. _dCambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2017] _z9780262036481 _w(DLC) 2016056891 _w(OCoLC)967774879 |
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_3Abstract with links to resource _uhttp://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/bkabstractplus.jsp?bkn=8076701 |
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