James A Anderson

After Digital

Computation as Done by Brains and Machines

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

After Digital looks at where the field of computation began and where it might be headed, and offers predictions about a collaborative future relationship between human cognition and mechanical computation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. April 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 261mm x 184mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 885g
• ISBN-13: 9780199357789
• ISBN-10: 0199357781
• Artikelnr.: 47866483

Autorenporträt

James A. Anderson has been a member of the faculty of Brown University since 1973 and is now Professor in the Department of Cognitive, Linguistic and Psychological Sciences. He received an SB in physics and PhD in physiology both from MIT. He has published extensively in the area of computational models for cognition and memory and computational neuroscience.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Chapter 1: The Past of the Future of Computation
Chapter 2: Computing Hardware: Analog
Chapter 3: Computing Hardware: Digital
Chapter 4: Software: Making a Digital Computer Do Something Useful
Chapter 5: Human Understanding of Complex Systems
Chapter 6: An Engineer's Introduction to Neuroscience
Chapter 7: The Brain Works by Logic
Chapter 8: The Brain Doesn't Work by Logic
Chapter 9: Association
Chapter 10: Cerebral Cortex: Basics
Chapter 11: Cerebral Cortex: Columns and Collaterals
Chapter 12: Brain Theory: History
Chapter 13: Brain Theory: Constraints
Chapter 14: Programming
Chapter 15: Brain Theory: Numbers
Chapter 16: Return to Cognitive Science
Chapter 17: Loose Ends: Biological and Artificial
Chapter 18: The Near Future
Chapter 19: Apotheosis: Yes! Or No?
Notes
Index