Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii

Semiotics of Programming

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Considers what computers can and cannot do, analysing how computer sign systems compare to humans through a concept of reflexivity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 487g
• ISBN-13: 9780521516556
• ISBN-10: 0521516552
• Artikelnr.: 28112494

Autorenporträt

Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Creative Informatics at the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology at the University of Tokyo, Japan. Her major areas of interest are computational linguistics, natural language processing, and computational semiotics. Her previous books include Text Entry Systems: Mobility, Accessibility, Universality (co-edited with I. Scott MacKenzie) and a joint translation (with Kyo Kageura) of Troisième cours de linguistique générale (1910-1911): d'après les cahiers d'Emile Constantin by Ferdinand de Saussure.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Computer signs in programs
Part I. Models of Signs: 3. The Babylonian confusion
4. Marriage of signifier and signified
5. Being and doing in programs
Part II. Kinds of Signs and Content: 6. The statement x := x + 1
7. Three kinds of content in programs
8. An instance vs. the instance
Part III. Systems of Signs: 9. Structural humans vs. constructive computers
10. Sign and time
11. Reflexivity and evolution
12. Conclusion.