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 among its disciplines. He argues for the continuing vitality of computing, surveying the leading edge in computing's combination with other domains, from biocomputing and brain-computer interfaces to crowdsourcing and virtual humans to robots and the intermingling of the real and the virtual. He explores forms of higher order coherence, or macrostructures, over complex computing topics and organizations, such as computing's role in the pursuit of science and the structure of academic computing. Finally, he examines the very notion of a great scientific domain in philosophical terms, honing his argument that computing should be considered the fourth great scientific domain... |