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It Began with Babbage : the Genesis of Computer Science.
As a field, computer science occupies a unique scientific space, in that its subject matter can exist in both physical and abstract realms. An artifact such as software is both tangible and not, and must be classified as something in between, or ""liminal."" The study and product...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford University Press, USA,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; It Began with Babbage; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue; 1. Leibniz's Th eme, Babbage's Dream; 2. Weaving Algebraic Patterns; 3. Missing Links; 4. Entscheidungsproblem : What's in a Word?; 5 Toward a Holy Grail; 6 Intermezzo; 7 A Tangled Web of Inventions; 8 A Paradigm Is Born; 9 A Liminal Artifact of an Uncommon Nature; 10 Glimpses of a Scientifi c Style; 11 I Compute, Th erefore I Am; 12. "The Best Way to Design . . ."; 13 Language Games; 14. Going Heuristic; 15 An Explosion of Subparadigms; 16 Aesthetica; Epilogue; Dramatis Personae1; Bibliography; Index.