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Pattern on the Stone The Simple Ideas That Make Computers Work

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ISBN-10: 046502596X

ISBN-13: 9780465025961

Edition: 1999

Authors: W. Daniel Hillis

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Starting with an account of how computers are built and why they work, W. Daniel Hillis describes what they can and cannot do, before explaining how a computer can surpass its programmers and, finally, the quest for a Thinking Machine.
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Book details

List price: $15.95
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Basic Books
Publication date: 10/8/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.418
Language: English

Preface: Magic in the Stone
Nuts and Bolts
Universal Building Blocks
Programming
How Universal Are Turing Machines?
Algorithms and Heuristics
Memory: Information and Secret Codes
Speed: Parallel Computers
Computers That Learn and Adapt
Beyond Engineering
Further Reading
Acknowledgments
Index