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The Cambridge Quintet: A Work of Scientific Speculation
John Casti
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Description for The Cambridge Quintet: A Work of Scientific Speculation
Paperback. *John L Casti has created a fascinating, genre-bending book an accessible novel of ideas which explores the fundamental nature of mind and machine. Num Pages: 208 pages, portraits. BIC Classification: PDA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 206 x 126 x 13. Weight in Grams: 244.
By 1949, the idea of duplicating human thought processes in a computer was starting to surface, as the outgrowth of code-breaking work done by Alan Turing and others in Britain during the Second World War. This ingenious work of speculative scientific fiction reconstructs what might have been said during the animated conversation flowing around Snow's rooms that fateful in Cambridge. The quintet's debate anticipates all of the basic questions which have surrounded artificial intelligence in the fifty years since. Can a machine think or merely process information? Is the brain simply ... Read more
By 1949, the idea of duplicating human thought processes in a computer was starting to surface, as the outgrowth of code-breaking work done by Alan Turing and others in Britain during the Second World War. This ingenious work of speculative scientific fiction reconstructs what might have been said during the animated conversation flowing around Snow's rooms that fateful in Cambridge. The quintet's debate anticipates all of the basic questions which have surrounded artificial intelligence in the fifty years since. Can a machine think or merely process information? Is the brain simply ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780349108537
SKU
V9780349108537
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Ref
99-1
About John Casti
John L Casti is a member of the faculty of the Santa Fe Institute and a professor at the Technical University of Vienna. He is the author of PARADIGMS LOST etc.
Reviews for The Cambridge Quintet: A Work of Scientific Speculation
Thought-provoking ... Snow himself might well have approved
NEW SCIENTIST
Enthralling, fascinating, Casti not only captures the excitement, but makes the ideas he relates intelligible to the layman.
SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
These are difficult and important issues and it is to Casti's credit that his book explains them more clearly and concisely than any other I have ... Read more
NEW SCIENTIST
Enthralling, fascinating, Casti not only captures the excitement, but makes the ideas he relates intelligible to the layman.
SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
These are difficult and important issues and it is to Casti's credit that his book explains them more clearly and concisely than any other I have ... Read more