Out Of Their Minds; The Lives And Discoveries of 15 Great Computer Scientists

Shasha, Dennis, and Lazere, Cathy

ISBN 10: 0387979921 / ISBN 13: 9780387979922

Edité par Copernicus [An Imprint of Springer-Verlag], New York, 1995

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xi, [1], 291, [1] pages. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrations. Glossary. References. Index. Ex-library with the usual library markings. DJ is in a plastic sleeve which is taped to the boards. Imagine living during the Renaissance and being able to interview that era's greatest scientists about their inspirations, discoveries, and personal interests. The latter half of our century has seen its own Renaissance--information technology has changed irrevocable the way we live, work, and think about the world. We are fortunate, therefore, that the authors of Out of Their Minds have been able to talk so candidly with the founders of computer science. The fifteen are divided into Linguists, Algorithmists, Architects, and Sculptors of Machine Intelligence. The individuals are John Backus, John McCarthy, Alan C. Kay, Edsger W. Dijkstra, Michael O Rabin, Donald E. Knuth, Robert E. Tarjan, Leslie Tamport, Steven Cook, Leonid Levin, Frederick P. Brooks, Jr., Burton J. Smith, W. Daniel Hillis, Edward A. Feigenbaum, and Douglas B. Lenat. "Out of Their Minds" profiles 15 of the planet's foremost computer scientists, including eight winners of the Turing Award, computing's Nobel Prize. Based on recent interviews, the scientists are revealed in fascinating anecdotes about their early inspirations and influences, contributions, and thoughts on the field's explosive future. "A fascinating collection of profiles and interviews with some of the men . who brought us (to the computing age)"--"The New York Times". Dennis Elliot Shasha is an American professor of computer science at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, a division of New York University.[1] He is also an associate director of NYU WIRELESS.[2] His current areas of research include work done with biologists on pattern discovery for microarrays, combinatorial design, network inference, and protein docking; work done with physicists, musicians, and professionals in finance on algorithms for time series; and work on database applications in untrusted environments. Other areas of interest include database tuning as well as tree and graph matching. Cathy Lazere is a freelance writer who specializes in international corporate finance and technology. She has worked as an editor at McGraw-Hill and Business International, a division of the Economist Group. Ms. Lazere holds a B.A. from Yale and an M.B.A. from New York University.

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• Titre: Out Of Their Minds; The Lives And Discoveries of 15 Great Computer Scientists
• Éditeur: Copernicus [An Imprint of Springer-Verlag], New York
• Date de parution: 1995
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0387979921
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780387979922
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: First Printing [Stated].
• État de l'article: Good
• État de la jaquette: Good

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Imagine living during the Renaissance and being able to interview that era's greatest scientists about their inspirations, discoveries, and personal interest. The latter half of our century has seen its own Renaissance - informations technology has changed irrevocable the way we live, work, and think about the world. We are fortunate, therefore, that the authors of Out of Their Minds have been able to talk so candidly with the founders of computer science...The 15 scientists whose work is profiled in the book have each made significant contributions to a part of the creation of the modern files of computer science. Some of the scientists are well-known: Donald Knuth, Alan Kay, Danny Hillis; others worked in areas of algorith development, computation, computer architecture, and design. Among the scientists are seven Turing Award winners, the equivalent of the Nobel Prize.