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Emergence : the connected lives of ants, brains, cities, and software / Steven Johnson.
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Johnson, Steven, 1968-

Title & Author:

Emergence : the connected lives of ants, brains, cities, and software / Steven Johnson.

Publication:

New York : Scribner, ©2004.

Description:

288 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
Originally published in hardcover in 2001.
"First Scribner trade paperback edition 2004"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-274) and index.
Introduction : here comes everybody! -- 1. The myth of the ant queen -- 2. Street level -- 3. The pattern match -- 4. Listening to feedback -- 5. Control artist -- 6. The mind readers -- 7. See what happens.
Summary:

Emergence is what happens when an interconnected system of relatively simple elements self-organizes to form more intelligent, more adaptive higher-level behavior. It's a bottom-up model rather than being engineered by a general or a master planner, emergence begins at the ground level. Systems that at first glance seem vastly different--ant colonies, human brains, cities, immune systems--all turn out to follow the rules of emergence. In each of these systems, agents residing on one scale start producing behavior that lies a scale above them: ants create colonies, urbanites create neighborhoods. Author Steven Johnson takes readers on an eye-opening intellectual journey from the discovery of emergence to its applications. He introduces us to our everyday surroundings, offering surprising examples of feedback, self-organization, and adaptive learning. Drawing upon evolutionary theory, urban studies, neuroscience, and computer games, Emergence is a guidebook to one of the key components of twenty-first-century culture. Until recently, Johnson explains, the disparate philosophers of emergence have worked to interpret the world. But today they are starting to change it. This book is the riveting story of that change and what it means for the future.

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ISBN:

9780684868769 (pbk.)
0684868768 (pbk.)
9780684868752
068486875X

Subject:

Self-organizing systems.
Swarm intelligence.
Systems engineering.
Systèmes auto-organisés.
Ingénierie des systèmes.
systems engineering.
Emergenz
Selbst organisierendes System
Verteiltes System

Added entries:

Jeanne Wolfe Collection

Holdings:

Location: Library main 269634
Call No.: BIB 201898
Status: Available

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