Screen LibraryOn computing：the fourth great scientific domain
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MIT Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, Mass. London |
| Publication Dates: | c2013. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xxiv, 307 p.: ill. ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780262018326 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0262018322 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | TP3 |
| CLC: | TP3-05 |
| Call Number: | TP3-05/R813-1 |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-287) and index. The Computing Sciences -- The Relational Approach -- Implementation -- Interaction -- Relational Macrostructure and Analyses -- Computing as a Great Scientific Domain -- Conclusion Computing isn't simply about hardware or software, or calculation or applications. Computing, writes Paul Rosenbloom, is an exciting and diverse, yet remarkably coherent, scientific enterprise that is highly multidisciplinary yet maintains a unique core of its own. In On Computing, Rosenbloom proposes that computing is a great scientific domain on a par with the physical, life, and social sciences. Rosenbloom introduces a relational approach for understanding computing, conceptualizing it in terms of forms of interaction and implementation, to reveal the hidden structures and connections amo |