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Essentials of Programming Languages, 3rd Edition

MIT Press, 2008

This book brings you face-to-face with the most fundamental idea in computer programming:

The interpreter for a computer language is just another program. It sounds obvious, doesn’t it? But the implications are profound. If you are a computational theorist, the interpreter idea recalls Gödel’s discovery of...

Logic of Analog and Digital Machines

Nova Press, 2010

Computer Science is a very young discipline compared to most others. Alan Turing published the seminal paper of the field in 1936. Around the same time, the militaries in Germany, UK, and US commissioned the first digital electronic computer projects. One of these, the Colossus at Bletchley Park in the UK, was used to break the...

Towards a Unified Modeling and Knowledge-Representation based on Lattice Theory: Computational Intelligence and Soft Computing Applications

Springer, 2006

By ‘model’ we mean a mathematical description of a world aspect. With the proliferation of computers a variety of modeling paradigms emerged under computational intelligence and soft computing. An advancing technology is currently fragmented due, as well, to the need to cope with different types of data in different application domains....

The Technical and Social History of Software Engineering

Addison Wesley, 2013

“Capers Jones has accumulated the most comprehensive data on every aspect of software engineering, and has performed the most scientific analysis on this data. Now, Capers performs yet another invaluable service to our industry, by documenting, for the first time, its long and fascinating history....

Semantic Techniques in Quantum Computation

Cambridge University Press, 2009

The idea of quantum computation, in the algorithmic sense, originated from the suggestion by Feynman (1982) that a computer based on the principles of quantum mechanics might be capable of efficiently simulating quantum systems of interest to physicists; such simulation seems to be very difficult with classical computers. Feynman’s...

A Science of Operations: Machines, Logic and the Invention of Programming (History of Computing)

Springer, 2011

Today, computers fulfil a dazzling array of roles, a flexibility resulting from the great range of programs that can be run on them.

A Science of Operations examines the history of what we now call programming, defined not simply as computer programming, but more broadly as the definition of the steps involved in...

The Measure of All Minds: Evaluating Natural and Artificial Intelligence

Cambridge University Press, 2017

Are psychometric tests valid for a new reality of artificial intelligence systems, technology-enhanced humans, and hybrids yet to come? Are the Turing Test, the ubiquitous CAPTCHAs, and the various animal cognition tests the best alternatives? In this fascinating and provocative book, José Hernández-Orallo formulates major...

A Course in Formal Languages, Automata and Groups (Universitext)

Springer, 2009

This book is based on notes for a master’s course given at Queen Mary, University of London, in the 1998/9 session. Such courses in London are quite short, and the course consisted essentially of the material in the first three chapters, together with a two-hour lecture on connections with group theory. Chapter 5 is a...

Materials Design and Applications II (Advanced Structured Materials)

Springer, 2018

This book highlights fundamental research on the design and application of engineering materials, and predominantly mechanical engineering applications. This area includes a wide range of technologies and materials, including metals, polymers, composites, and ceramics. Advanced applications include...

The Code Book: The Evolution of Secrecy from Mary, Queen of Scots to Quantum Cryptography

Doubleday, 1999

Codes have decided the fates of empires, countries, and monarchies throughout recorded history. Mary, Queen of Scots was put to death by her cousin, Queen Elizabeth, for the high crime of treason after spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham cracked the secret code she used to communicate with her conspirators. And thus the course of British history...

Alan Turing's Automatic Computing Engine: The Master Codebreaker's Struggle to Build the Modern Computer

Oxford University Press, 2005

the amount of information collected by the editor is huge and it offers interesting reading for anybody with a deep interest in computer history. EMS Newsletter Wonderful...The Essential Turing is a must. J. Bowen, The Times Higher Education Supplement This book (and the related website of the Turing Archive) will be an invaluable reference for...

The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology

Viking Adult, 2005

Advance Praise For The Singularity is Near

"Ray Kurzweil is the best person I know at predicting the future of artificial intelligence. His intriguing new book envisions a future in which information technologies have advanced so far and fast that they enable humanity to transcend its biological...

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