The digital villian : notes on the numerology, parapsychology, and metaphysics of the computer / Robert M. Baer.
By: Baer, Robert M
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Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 301.243 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00029518 |
Includes bibliographical references.
Part I: A view from within: the golden bit -- Prologue -- The semantics of computer science -- Computer pre-history: 1663 and all that -- Turing's mini super-computer -- The road to Bitsville -- The golden bit -- Games computers play -- Playing the game -- Computer pretense: the simulation extended -- Tricks computers play -- Artificial intelligence and intelligent artifice -- Part II: A view from without: the digital villain -- Prologue -- R.U.R. (Rossum's universal robots): man as machine -- The desk set: man vs. machine - the last victory -- Billion dollar brain: the computer as espionage agent -- Hour of the Robots: the computer as lover -- The tin men: the computer as sportsman, moralist and writer -- Giles Goat-boy: the computer as the military-scientific establishment -- 2001: the computer as traveling companion -- The tale of the big computer: the computer as Chaucer or how the opposition seen man.