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Author : Mike Hally
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1862078394
This fascinating and engaging book describes the projects that came and went in the years before IBM ruled the world
Author : Mike Hally
Publisher : Granta Books (Uk)
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Computers
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119996853
Account of the birth of the modern computer from 1930-1960.
Author : B. Jack Copeland
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780199609154
Rev. ed. of: Alan Turing's automatic computing engine / edited by B. Jack Copeland.
Author : others
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-24
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780191625862
The mathematical genius Alan Turing, now well known for his crucial wartime role in breaking the ENIGMA code, was the first to conceive of the fundamental principle of the modern computer-the idea of controlling a computing machine's operations by means of a program of coded instructions, stored in the machine's 'memory'. In 1945 Turing drew up his revolutionary design for an electronic computing machine-his Automatic Computing Engine ('ACE'). A pilot model of the ACE ran its first program in 1950 and the production version, the 'DEUCE', went on to become a cornerstone of the fledgling British computer industry. The first 'personal' computer was based on Turing's ACE. Alan Turing's Automatic Computing Engine describes Turing's struggle to build the modern computer. The first detailed history of Turing's contributions to computer science, this text is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of the computer and the history of mathematics. It contains first hand accounts by Turing and by the pioneers of computing who worked with him. As well as relating the story of the invention of the computer, the book clearly describes the hardware and software of the ACE-including the very first computer programs. The book is intended to be accessible to everyone with an interest in computing, and contains numerous diagrams and illustrations as well as original photographs. The book contains chapters describing Turing's path-breaking research in the fields of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Artificial Life (A-Life). The book has an extensive system of hyperlinks to The Turing Archive for the History of Computing, an on-line library of digital facsimiles of typewritten documents by Turing and the other scientists who pioneered the electronic computer.
Author : Rolf Lohberg,Theo Lutz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Computers
ISBN : STANFORD:36105033137147
Author : Rizwan Qureshi
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-10
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781466968967
Rizwan Qureshi is from Columbus, Texas, USA. He writes all his personal knowledge, experiences, and 100 percent true information about demons, pains, painless diseases, and cancer/infection insects. He writes pure truth and only those things in this and book 1, whatever he was dealing and experiencing by himself. His source of knowledge is purely his own experiences with dealing with supernatural, invisible demons, different kind of invisible pains and painless diseases. According to him, cancer is a very easily treatable and curable disease. As he sees it, thousands of demons are residing in our houses around us. According to him, demons cannot perform any physical activity by themselves. He explains that, by nature, demons are very arrogant and extremely negative. The author suggested several practical ideas, procedures, and theories for common people, medical and modern science, on how they can learn and handle demons, pains, painless diseases, and insects responsible for cancer by themselves. The author is 100 percent sure that after reading his books, everyone will be aware and will be able to control the invisible parallel world around them. In this book, he writes clear instructions for individuals on how they can communicate and interact with the demons around them, how to make demons around them their friends, and how to ask demons to do some stuff for them. Author describes in detail how much stuff we can expect our demon friends to do for us. Author writes very clear and very easy instructions for an individual once someone decides to learn how to communicate with demons. He advices everyone to start practicing.
Author : Saul Gorn,Wallace Manheimer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Computers
ISBN : WISC:89037594645
Author : Alexander Bolonkin
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781300486282
Book is described the arrangement of the Universe. This is the scientific prediction of the non-biological (electronic) civilization and immortality of human being. Such a prognosis is predicated upon a new law, discovered by the author, for the development of complex systems. According to this law, every self-copying system tends to be more complex than the previous system, provided that all external conditions remain the same. The consequences are disastrous: humanity will be replaced by a new civilization created by intellectual robots (which the author refers to as "E-humans" and "E-beings"), These creatures, whose intellectual and mechanical abilities will far exceed those of man, will require neither food nor oxygen to sustain their existence. They may have the emotion. Capable of developing science, technology and their own intellectual abilities thousands of times faster than humans can, they will, in essence, be eternal.
Author : Tom Lean
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-11
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781472918352
How did computers invade the homes and cultural life of 1980s Britain? Remember the ZX Spectrum? Ever have a go at programming with its stretchy rubber keys? How about the BBC Micro, Acorn Electron, or Commodore 64? Did you marvel at the immense galaxies of Elite, master digital kung-fu in Way of the Exploding Fist or lose yourself in the surreal caverns of Manic Miner? For anyone who was a kid in the 1980s, these iconic computer brands are the stuff of legend. In Electronic Dreams, Tom Lean tells the story of how computers invaded British homes for the first time, as people set aside their worries of electronic brains and Big Brother and embraced the wonder-technology of the 1980s. This book charts the history of the rise and fall of the home computer, the family of futuristic and quirky machines that took computing from the realm of science and science fiction to being a user-friendly domestic technology. It is a tale of unexpected consequences, when the machines that parents bought to help their kids with homework ended up giving birth to the video games industry, and of unrealised ambitions, like the ahead-of-its-time Prestel network that first put the British home online but failed to change the world. Ultimately, it's the story of the people who made the boom happen, the inventors and entrepreneurs like Clive Sinclair and Alan Sugar seeking new markets, bedroom programmers and computer hackers, and the millions of everyday folk who bought in to the electronic dream and let the computer into their lives.
Author : Rizwan Qureshi
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781466992276
Rizwan Qureshi is from Columbus, Texas, USA. He writes all his personal knowledge, experiences, and 100% true information about demons, pains, painless diseases, and cancer/infection insects. He writes pure truth and only those things in this book and in book 1, whatever he was dealing and experiencing by himself. His source of knowledge is purely his own experiences with dealing with supernatural invisible demons, different kinds of invisible pains and painless diseases. According to him, cancer is a very easily treatable and curable disease. As he sees, thousands of demons are residing in our houses around us. According to him, demons cannot perform any physical activity by themselves. He explains that by nature demons are very arrogant and extremely negative. The author suggested several practical ideas, procedures, and theories for common people and medical and modern science on how they can learn and handle demons, pains, painless diseases, and insects responsible for cancer by themselves. The author is 100% sure that after reading his books, everyone will be aware and will be able to control the invisible parallel world around them. In this book, he writes clear instructions for individuals, how they can communicate and interact with the demons around them, how to make demons around them their friends, and how to ask demons to do some stuff for them. Author describes in detail how much stuff we can expect our demon friends to do for us. The author writes very clear and very easy instruction for an individual once someone decides to learn how to communicate with demons. He advices everyone to start, practicing everything in a very slow pace instead of rushing. He guarantees everyone that people will be able to detect, interact, communicate and will be able to make most demons around them their friends within a month, whoever will try it and will follow his instruction properly. He advices everyone to be very careful in case of learning telepathy because he believes 99.999999% of people may have some mental issues and mental sickness once they will get involve in practicing telepathy. So he is not recommending learning telepathy to everyone. He thinks it is enough for normal people to have awareness and contact with demons around them. He strongly feels this will not be dangerous or hurtful for anyone to detect, interact, communicate, and make demons, only around them, their friends. He is sure, even demons around you are more willing and dying to communicate with humans. "The author has described complete details of the non-Internet cyber attacks on computerized controlled machines and how these non-Internet cyber attacks are self-operative and beyond human control in his book 2. He reveals complete details, information, and scientific description of non-Internet cyber attacks on computerized semi- or full-auto-control machines and human body."
Author : Alexander Bolonkin
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011-12-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780124158108
This book debates the universe, the development of new technologies in the 21st century and the future of the human race. Dr Bolonkin shows that a human soul is only the information in a person’s head. He offers a new unique method for re-writing the main brain information in chips without any damage to the human brain. This is the scientific prediction of the non-biological (electronic) civilization and immortality of the human being. Such a prognosis is predicated upon a new law, discovered by the author, for the development of complex systems. According to this law, every self-copying system tends to be more complex than the previous system, provided that all external conditions remain the same. The consequences are disastrous: humanity will be replaced by a new civilization created by intellectual robots (which Dr Bolonkin refers to as "E-humans" and "E-beings"). These creatures, whose intellectual and mechanical abilities will far exceed those of man, will require neither food nor oxygen to sustain their existence. They may have the emotion. Capable of developing science, technology and their own intellectual abilities thousands of times faster than humans can, they will, in essence, be eternal. Demonstrates that the problem of immortality can only be solved by changing the biological human into an artificial form Discusses progress in robotics and other techologies
Author : Dale Purves
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-07
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783030710644
This book examines what seems to be the basic challenge in neuroscience today: understanding how experience generated by the human brain is related to the physical world we live in. The 25 short chapters present the argument and evidence that brains address this problem on a wholly trial and error basis. The goal is to encourage neuroscientists, computer scientists, philosophers, and other interested readers to consider this concept of neural function and its implications, not least of which is the conclusion that brains don’t “compute.”
Author : Stanislaw Lem
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780262366632
The first English translation of a nonfiction work by Stanisław Lem, which was "conceived under the spell of cybernetics" in 1957 and updated in 1971. In 1957, Stanisław Lem published Dialogues, a book "conceived under the spell of cybernetics," as he wrote in the preface to the second edition. Mimicking the form of Berkeley's Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous, Lem's original dialogue was an attempt to unravel the then-novel field of cybernetics. It was a testimony, Lem wrote later, to "the almost limitless cognitive optimism" he felt upon his discovery of cybernetics. This is the first English translation of Lem's Dialogues, including the text of the first edition and the later essays added to the second edition in 1971. For the second edition, Lem chose not to revise the original. Recognizing the naivete of his hopes for cybernetics, he constructed a supplement to the first dialogue, which consists of two critical essays, the first a summary of the evolution of cybernetics, the second a contribution to the cybernetic theory of the "sociopathology of governing," amending the first edition's discussion of the pathology of social regulation; and two previously published articles on related topics. From the vantage point of 1971, Lem observes that original book, begun as a search for methods "that would increase our understanding of both the human and nonhuman worlds," was in the end "an expression of the cognitive curiosity and anxiety of modern thought."
Author : Dick van Lente
Publisher : Morgan & Claypool
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-14
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781450398183
When electronic digital computers first appeared after World War II, they appeared as a revolutionary force. Business management, the world of work, administrative life, the nation state, and soon enough everyday life were expected to change dramatically with these machines’ use. Ever since, diverse prophecies of computing have continually emerged, through to the present day. As computing spread beyond the US and UK, such prophecies emerged from strikingly different economic, political, and cultural conditions. This volume explores how these expectations differed, assesses unexpected commonalities, and suggests ways to understand the divergences and convergences. This book examines thirteen countries, based on source material in ten different languages—the effort of an international team of scholars. In addition to analyses of debates, political changes, and popular speculations, we also show a wide range of pictorial representations of "the future with computers."
Author : Library of Congress. Subject Cataloging Division,Marguerite Vogeding Quattlebaum
Publisher : Washington : Library of Congress, Processing Department, Subject Cataloging Division
Page : 1366 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Subject headings
ISBN : MINN:31951000830035K