MTU Cork Library Catalogue

The digital villian : notes on the numerology, parapsychology, and metaphysics of the computer / Robert M. Baer.

By: Baer, Robert M.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, 1972Description: 187 p. ; 21 cm. + pbk.Subject(s): Computers and civilization | Electronic digital computers | Electronic data processingDDC classification: 301.243
Contents:
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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
General Lending MTU Bishopstown Library Lending 301.243 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00029518
Total holds: 0

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.

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