Giuseppe Primiero

On the Foundations of Computing

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

On the Foundation of Computing offers a comprehensive and critical overview of the birth and evolution of computing, and analyses some of the most important technical results and philosophical problems of the discipline, combining both historical and systematic analyses.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 156mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 527g
• ISBN-13: 9780198835653
• ISBN-10: 0198835655
• Artikelnr.: 57009654

Autorenporträt

Giuseppe Primiero is Associate Professor of Logic at the Department of Philosophy, University of Milan (Italy). He acts as President of the DHST Commission for the History and Philosophy of Computing (HaPoC) and Secretary General of the Association Computability in Europe (CiE). His research interests are primarily in Logic and Computation, Philosophy of Computing and Information.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Introduction
2: A fundamental Crisis
3: Computing and Deciding
4: What is Computable?
5: Mechanical Computation
6: On the Nature of Algorithms
7: Computing as a Mathematical Discipline
8: The First Generation of Computers
9: The Laws of Evolution
10: Properties of Implemented Computations
11: Specification and Implementation
12: Computing as an Engineering Discipline
13: Elements of Experimental Computing
14: Models and Simulations
15: Formal Relations
16: Computing as an Experimental Discipline
17: Conclusions