The Computer age : a twenty-year view / edited by Michael L. Dertouzos and Joel Moses.

Title & Author:

The Computer age : a twenty-year view / edited by Michael L. Dertouzos and Joel Moses.

Publication:

Description:

xvi, 491 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Series:

MIT Bicentennial studies ; 6

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Current Copyright Fee: GBP15.00 0.
Library copy: 4th printing, 1983.

Resources:
Table of contents
French equivalent / Équivalent français

ISBN:

0262040557
9780262040556
0262540363
9780262540360

Subject:

Computers and civilization.
Ordinateurs et civilisation.
Datenverarbeitung
Aufsatzsammlung
Computers.
Sociale aspecten.
Ciencia Da Computacao Ou Informatica.
Computer systems Forecasts for 1979-1999

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Added entries:

Dertouzos, Michael L.
Moses, Joel.
MIT Bicentennial studies ; 6.

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Location: Library main 280804
Call No.: BIB 217817
Status: Available

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