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" A Network Orange: "
Richard Crandall
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BL
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721425
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b541131
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Richard Crandall
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A Network Orange: : Logic and Responsibility in the Computer Age.\ Richard Crandall
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Edition
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New York: Springer-Verlag, 2011
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1461274435
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: 9781461274438
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| Contents
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1 A Conspiracy Of Parts.- * Doubly flawed anatomical design.- * Computer technology as a product of world war.- * The brilliance of John von Neumann.- * When there was one transistor per person.- * A game of leapfrog.- * The "cotasking" of biological systems.- * Neural networks and genetic algorithms.- * The promise of nanotechnology.- * Quantum computation.- * The fate of the conspiracy.- 2 Toward A Theory Of Machine Consciousness.- * The boondoggle of artificial intelligence.- * Double obfuscation.- * Extreme difficulty.- * Progress in AI.- * Input starvation.- * Output modes: expert systems and intelligent agents.- * The mysterious "Gedankenexperiment".- * A theory of machine consciousness.- 3 Multimedia: Melange Obscur.- * A night at the opera.- * The meaning of media.- * Visual data.- * Audio data.- * Text still suffers.- * Ink as data medium.- * Teleconferencing as canonical testbed.- * A scenario for unified multimedia.- * Scientific visualization and the demolition of science.- 4 A Network Orange.- * Unpredictability.- * Oracles and actors.- * The BBS as canonical educational testbed.- * Language mangling.- * The emergence of the World Wide Web.- * On the issue of network responsibility.- 5 Virtual Reality, And All That.- * What does virtual really mean?.- * VR implementations.- * The fascination with VR.- * From little reality to big reality.- * Simulating from the vacuum.- * Maps, models, and immersion.- * The Holy Grail.- * GVR.- 6 Education Be Not Automatic.- * Education pursuant to technology.- * What education is and what it is not.- * Incremental revolutions.- * Enriching the curriculum with the computer.- * Computer technology and liberal education.- * How not to teach writing.- * From words to pictures.- * The Scottish Verdict: not proven.
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Computers -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Computers and civilization.
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QA76.9.C66R534 2011
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Richard Crandall
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