Being Digital

Being Digital

Nicholas Negroponte

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • "Succinct and readable.... If you suffer from digital anxiety ... here is a book that lays it all out for you." --Newsday In lively, mordantly witty prose, Negroponte decodes the mysteries--and debunks the hype--surrounding bandwidth, multimedia, virtual reality, and the Internet, and explains why such touted innovations as the fax and the CD-ROM are likely to go the way of the BetaMax.

The Architecture Machine

Nicholas Negroponte

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Soft Architecture Machines

Nicholas Negroponte

A utopian view of the future relationship between architects and machines.

Ser digital

Nicholas Negroponte, Francisco Silva

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L'homme numérique

Nicholas Negroponte

La diffusion instantanée de l'information et de connaissances nous plonge dans une révolution technologique permanente dont nous sommes à la fois les agents, les témoins et les patients. Nous vivons une ère explosive. Cette mutation irréversible, inaugurée avec l'ordinateur, se définit aujourd'hui par le multimédia, et son principe fondamental, le numérique. Qu'est-ce que ce numérique, au champ d'application infini : le CD-Rom ? Internet ? les images virtuelles ? Autant de réalités aujourd'hui aussi concrètes que le papyrus, l'imprimerie ou le téléphone en d'autres temps ? Est-il, pour un adulte, sentiment plus pénible que celui d'être débordé, dépassé par des instruments de communication qui changent radicalement notre façon de vivre, de travailler, de penser ? A ces questions, à ce malaise, l'ouvrage de Nicholas NEGROPONTE, modèle d'intelligence pratique et visionnaire, apporte des réponses claires, vivantes et définitives.

Ser digital

Nicholas Negroponte

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A Universe of Atoms, An Atom in the Universe

Mark P. Silverman

jThis thoroughly updated and revised text contains a selection of well-written essays based on Silvermans work on a wide range of topics, including: quantum mechanics, including atomic and nuclear physics, electromagnetism and optics, gravity, thermodynamics, and the physics of fluids. Presenting a personal odyssey in physics, Silverman investigates processes for which no visualizable mechanism can be given, or that seem to violate fundamental physical laws (but do not). The discussions use little mathematics, and anyone with a little college physics will be able to read the book with pleasure. -Engagingly written -Easily understandable by both the general reader and the seasoned physicist -Covers a diversity of subjects from "hot" topics in contemporary physics to less widely known but subtle and intriguing issues in physics -Discusses real physical systems whose behavior provokes, surprises and challenges the imagination -This second edition is newly revised and updated

Being Digital

Nicholas Negroponte

A lively exploration of the mysteries of modern technology examines the realities of multimedia, virtual reality, the Internet, CD-ROM, and other innovations; speculates about technology's future; and analyzes the social implications of technology. Reprint. 125,000 first printing.

Artificial General Intelligence

Ben Goertzel, Cassio Pennachin

“Only a small community has concentratedon general intelligence. No one has tried to make a thinking machine . . . The bottom line is that we really haven’t progressed too far toward a truly intelligent machine. We have collections of dumb specialists in small domains; the true majesty of general intelligence still awaits our attack. . . . We have got to get back to the deepest questions of AI and general intelligence. . . ” –MarvinMinsky as interviewed in Hal’s Legacy, edited by David Stork, 2000. Our goal in creating this edited volume has been to ?ll an apparent gap in the scienti?c literature, by providing a coherent presentation of a body of contemporary research that, in spite of its integral importance, has hitherto kept a very low pro?le within the scienti?c and intellectual community. This body of work has not been given a name before; in this book we christen it “Arti?cial General Intelligence” (AGI). What distinguishes AGI work from run-of-the-mill “arti?cial intelligence” research is that it is explicitly focused on engineering general intelligence in the short term. We have been active researchers in the AGI ?eld for many years, and it has been a pleasure to gather together papers from our colleagues working on related ideas from their own perspectives. In the Introduction we give a conceptual overview of the AGI ?eld, and also summarize and interrelate the key ideas of the papers in the subsequent chapters.

InfoCulture

The Smithsonian Book of Information Age Inventions

Steven D. Lubar

Based on an exhibit at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History.

Parallel Computing Technologies

4th International Conference, PaCT-97, Yaroslavl, Russia, September 8-12, 1997. Proceedings

Victor Malyshkin

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Parallel Computing Technologies, PaCT-97, held in Yaroslavl, Russia, in September 1997. The volume presents a total of 54 contributions: 21 full papers, 20 short papers, 10 posters, and three tutorials. All papers were selected for inclusion in the proceedings from numerous submissions on the basis of three independent reviews. The volume covers all current topics in parallel processing; it is divided into sections on theory, software, hardware and architecture, applications, posters, and tutorials.

The Death of Expertise

The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters

Thomas M. Nichols

"In the early 1990s, a small group of "AIDS denialists," including a University of California professor named Peter Duesberg, argued against virtually the entire medical establishment's consensus that the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) was the cause of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. Science thrives on such counterintuitive challenges, but there was no evidence for Duesberg's beliefs, which turned out to be baseless. Once researchers found HIV, doctors and public health officials were able to save countless lives through measures aimed at preventing its transmission"--

Digital Computer Basics

United States. Bureau of Naval Personnel

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Digital Computer Basics

United States. Naval Education and Training Command

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Digital Computer Newsletter

Unknown author

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The Logic Design of Transistor Digital Computers

Gerald A. Maley, John Earle

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Being Digital

Nicholas Negroponte

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • "Succinct and readable.... If you suffer from digital anxiety ... here is a book that lays it all out for you." --Newsday In lively, mordantly witty prose, Negroponte decodes the mysteries--and debunks the hype--surrounding bandwidth, multimedia, virtual reality, and the Internet, and explains why such touted innovations as the fax and the CD-ROM are likely to go the way of the BetaMax.

The Preparation of Programs for an Electronic Digital Computer

With Special Reference to the EDSAC and the Use of a Library of Subroutines

Maurice Vincent Wilkes

This is often considered the first book on computer programming. It was written for the EDSAC (Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator) computer that began operation in 1949 as the world's first regularly operated stored program computer. The idea of a library of subroutines was developed for the EDSAC, and is described in this book. Maurice Wilkes lead the development of the EDSAC.