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Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Illustrations
- 000 Introduction
- Computers uncovered
- The science of computers
- 001 Can You Compute?
- Understanding the impossible
- Turing's unstoppable machines
- Turing' s legacy
- Complexity is simple
- Does P = NP?
- Oracles and other complexities
- Theoretical futures
- 010 Disposable Computing
- Thinking logically
- Building brains
- Anatomy of a digital brain
- The end of the beginning
- The Law of Moore
- The future is many
- Beyond von Neumann
- 011 Your Life in Binary Digits
- Learning to program computers
- Climbing higher
- Bases for data
- Software crisis
- Virtual futures
- 100 Monkeys with World-Spanning Voices
- Diverse connections
- Inter-networking
- Addressing for success
- Spinning webs over networks
- Weaving tangled webs
- Webs of deceit
- Digital lives
- 101 My Computer Made Me Cry
- The birth of friendly computing
- Seeing with new eyes
- Photos and chicken wire
- Waking dreams
- It's not what you do but the way that you do it
- My pet computer
- Human-computer integration
- 110 Building Bionic Brains
- Teaching computers how to play
- The birth of intelligence
- The seasons of AI
- Intelligence from feet to head
- Adaptation by natural selection
- Learning to learn, predicting the predictors
- Complex futures
- 111 A Computer Changed My Life
- Computer creativity
- Computational biology
- Computer medicine
- Computer detectives
- Endnotes
- Bibliographic Notes
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- X
- Z
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