Computers and the Cybernetic Society

Academic Press Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1977 Book condition, Etat : Très Bon hardcover, illustrated binding grand In-8 1 vol. - 515 pages

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few figures 1st edition Contents, Chapitres : Presentation, table, xxi, Text, 494 pages - 1. About computers : The idea of a program - Moving and storing information - Teaching turtle to navigate - Text processing - 2. More about computers : Translators, operating systems, and time-sharing - Graphics and networks - The shrinking machine - Writing and rewriting large programs - 3. Simulating complex systems : The idea of simulation - Prey and predators - World simulation - 4. The rise of data bank : Data bank management - Computers, cash and crime - Data banks and privacy - 5. Artificial intelligence : Brains and computers - Machines that see and plan - Machines that understand natural language - Computers in war and peace - 6. Learning and working : Computers in education - Information flow in the cybernetic sociey - The impact of automation - 7. Networks and politics : Networks for planning - Democracy in the computer age - A brain for the planet earth - 8. Down and up from machine language : How hardware works - Programming and compiling - Index fine copy