The Computer age a twenty-year view

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors Dertouzos, Michael L., Moses, Joel
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1979.
SeriesMIT bicentennial studies Massachusetts Institute of Technology ; 6.
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9780262256001
Physical Description1 online zdroj (xvi, 491 p.) : ill.

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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Prospects for the individual: The computer in the home / Joel Moses
  • The return of the Sunday painter / Nicholas P. Negroponte
  • Individualized automation / Michael L. Dertouzos
  • Toward convivial computing / Terry Winograd
  • Computers and learning / Seymour A. Papert
  • Computers and government / J.C.R. Licklider
  • 2. Trends in traditional computer uses: The use of computers for business functions / Victor A. Vyssotsky
  • Scientific use of computers / Sidney Fernbach
  • 3. Socioeconomic effects and expectations: The social framework of the information society / Daniel Bell
  • The consequences of computers for centralization and decentralization / Herbert A. Simon
  • The computer and world affairs / Robert G. Gilpin
  • Regulation and computer services / Roger G. Noll
  • Computers and modeling / Martin Shubik
  • The economics of information / Kenneth J. Arrow
  • 4. Trends in the underlying technologies: Hardware prospects and limitations / Robert N. Noyce
  • Computers and communications / B.O. Evans
  • Sophisticated software: the road to science and Utopia / Marvin Denicoff
  • Computer science and the representation of knowledge / Marvin L. Minsky
  • Current research frontiers in computer science / Alan J. Perlis
  • 5. Critiques: Once more: the computer revolution / Joseph Weizenbaum
  • A reply to Weizenbaum / Daniel Bell
  • Another reply to Weizenbaum / Michael L. Dertouzos.