Computer Power and Human Reason

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Computer Power and Human Reason

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ISBN: 9780716704638
作者: Joseph Weizenbaum
格式: 平装
其它标题: Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculation
出版社: W.H. Freeman & Company
发行时间: 1976 -3
语言: 英语
装订: Paperback
价格: USD 16.95
页数: 300

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From Judgement to Calculation

Joseph Weizenbaum   

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PREFACE<br > This book is only nominally about computers. In an impor-<br >tant sense, the computer is used here merely as a vehicle for m~)ving<br >certain ideas that are much more important than computers. The<br >reader who looks at a few of this book s pages and turns away in<br >fright because he spots an equation or a bit of computer jargon here<br >and there should reconsider. He may think that he does not know<br >anything about computers, indeed, that computers are too compli-<br >cated for ordinary people to understand. But a major point of this<br >book is precisely that we, all of us, have made the world too much<br >into a computer, and that this remaking of the world in the image of<br >the computer started long before there were any electronic comput-<br >ers. Now that we have computers, it becomes somewhat easier to see<br >this imaginative transformation we have worked on the world. Now<br >we can use the computer itself--that is the idea of the computer--as<br >a metaphor to help us understand what we have done and are doing.<br > We are all used to hearing that the computer is a powerful<br >new instrument. But few people have any idea where the power of a<br >computer comes from. Chapters I to III are devoted to explaining just<br >QQ<br ><br >

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