Tibor Vámos

Knowledge and Computing

A Course on Computer Epistemology

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Theoretical analysis of the most pragmatic device of today's world: the computer.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Amsterdam University Press
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9789639776647
• ISBN-10: 9639776645
• Artikelnr.: 29156223

Autorenporträt

Tibor Vámos is Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Chairman of the Board of the Computer and Automation Research Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Author of Computer Epistemology (1991), coeditor of the Neumann Compendium (1995) and Springer Handbook of Automation (2009). He was the President of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), engineering leader of several large scale industrial projects.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Preface of Computer Epistemology
1991
Foreword
1 Why computer epistemology?
2 Algebra
the discipline from the simplest to the most general
3 Logic
the origin of all programming
4 How uncertain uncertainty is?
5 Excursion to the fields of ontology
Being and beliefs
6 Conclusions
Appendices
References
Pictures credits
Name index
Subject index