Facing Cancer Without God - Couverture souple

Miller, Matt L.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0966857313 ISBN 13 : 9780966857313

Editeur : Forward Publishing, 2014

Synopsis

In April 2007, Matt Miller, a lifelong non-smoker, was diagnosed with fatal lung cancer at age 44. An atheist and computer scientist, he began writing a journal to leave behind for his two daughters so that they would understand his philosophy of life. This is not a "God-bashing" book. It is his thoughts about the sources of solace in a world without God. With examples from Walter Mitty and Rambo, football, neurology, Camus, and his own flights of fantasy, he finds hope in science, reason, and our collective humanity. The result is an unsentimental, often funny, and inspirational reckoning with death. "If I exist in an uncaring universe and have been raised from childhood to believe in the process of evidentiary reasoning," Matt asks, "can I find the emotional support I need to carry on in the face of a devastating disease?" His answer is a resounding yes.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Matt L. Miller was a pioneering computer scientist with an eccentric and one-of-a-kind view on life. After high school he went directly to work programming for the Nobel prize-winning physicist Robert Wilson at Bell Labs. A year later he entered the University of Rochesteer and graduated with a degree in cognitive science. He tried to breaking into Hollywood as a screenwriter, but soon decided he wanted to live life, not write about it. He worked his way across Europe, teaching computer science at universities in Denmark and Czechoslovakia. Though he hoped to make it around the world, he didn't get beyond Lithuania where he fell in love with his future wife, Giedre Andrasiunaite. In 1997, he returned to New Jersey to work for NEC Labs. There he pioneered digital watermarking technology, co-founded a start-up company that commercialized watermarking for digital rights management, and co-authored the definitive textbook on the subject. At the time of his diagnosis with lung cancer, he was working on applying machine learning to the detection of cancer cells. He died at age 46 just shy of three years from his diagnosis, leaving behind his wife and two daughters, Fia and Ada.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forward Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0966857313
• ISBN 13: 9780966857313
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 138
• Éditeur: Miller Natalie Ross, Moyer Kermit
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