The Discrete Charm of the Machine : Why the World Became Digital /

The genesis of the digital idea and why it transformed civilizationA few short decades ago we were informed by the smooth signals of analog television, radio, and vinyl discs; communicated with our analog telephones; and even computed with analog computers. Today our world is digital, built with zer...

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Autor principal: Steiglitz, Ken (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2019]
Temas:
Digital communications.
Technological innovations.
MATHEMATICS / History & Philosophy.
AND gate.
Alan Turing.
Algorithm.
Analog computer.
Analog device.
Analog signal.
Analog-to-digital converter.
Artificial neural network.
Autonomous robot.
Bell's theorem.
Calculation.
Charles Babbage.
Church-Turing thesis.
Classical physics.
Claude Shannon.
Compact disc.
Computation.
Computer music.
Computer program.
Computer science.
Computer scientist.
Computer.
Computing.
Data transmission.
Detection.
Difference engine.
Differential equation.
Digital data.
Digital electronics.
Digital signal processing.
Digital signal.
Diode.
Electrical network.
Electricity.
Electromagnetic radiation.
Electronics.
Exponential growth.
Field-effect transistor.
Fourier analysis.
High frequency.
Information theory.
Instance (computer science).
Instruction set.
Integrated circuit.
Integrator.
Isaac Asimov.
Johnson-Nyquist noise.
Laptop.
Laughter.
Logarithm.
Low frequency.
Mathematician.
Mathematics.
Measurement.
Microphone.
Microphotograph.
Microscope.
Molecule.
Moore's law.
NP-completeness.
Optical fiber.
P versus NP problem.
Patch panel.
Photograph.
Photon.
Physicist.
Probability.
Processing (programming language).
Proportionality (mathematics).
Punched card.
Quantity.
Quantum computing.
Quantum mechanics.
Radio wave.
Resistor.
Result.
Retransmission (data networks).
Richard Feynman.
Scientist.
Semiconductor.
Shot noise.
Silicon.
Simulation.
Solid-state electronics.
Sound recording and reproduction.
Standardization.
Technology.
Television.
Theorem.
Theoretical computer science.
Time complexity.
Transistor.
Turing machine.
Uncertainty.
Vacuum tube.
Vacuum.
Video.
Wafer (electronics).
Wave-particle duality.
Your Computer (British magazine).
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • To the Reader
  • Part I. A Century of Valves
  • 1. The Discrete Revolution
  • 2. What's Wrong with Analog?
  • 3. Signal Standardization
  • 4. Consequential Physics
  • 5. Your Computer Is a Photograph
  • Part II. Sound and Pictures
  • 6. Music from Bits
  • 7. Communication in a Noisy World
  • Part III. Computation
  • 8. Analog Computers
  • 9. Turing's Machine
  • 10. Intrinsic Difficulty
  • 11. Searching for Magic
  • Part IV. Today and Tomorrow
  • 12. The Internet, Then the Robots
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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