The Pattern on the Stone
The Simple Ideas That Make Computers Work
Published on 30. November 1998
Book
Hardback
176 pages
978-0-297-81541-9 (ISBN)
Description
Starting with an account of how computers are built and why they work, Daniel Hillis describes what they acn and cannot do - at the resent time - before explaining how a computer can surpass its programmer, and finally, the quest for a thinking machine.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Orion Publishing Co
Illustrations
illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
423 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-297-81541-9 (9780297815419)
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Daniel Hillis is one of the world's hottest computer scientists. He was co-founder and chief scientist of the Thinking Machines Corporation and principalarchitect of the company's major product, the Connection Machine. He is an Editor of several scientific journals, including Artificial Life and Future Generation Computer Systems and is currently Vice President and Disney Fellow at Walt Disney Imagineering.Adam Hart-Davis is a freelance photographer, writer and broadcaster. He won awards for the BBC 2 series, Local Heroes and his pu