This study takes the reader on a tour of the computer technology of the future - particularly the ability to use computers to mirror virtual reality. These images of reality depicted on computer screens, known as mirror worlds, will allow users to explore concepts in unprecedented detail.
The 1939 World's Fair was the last of the great expositions that began in the Victorian era. The world's fairs held after the Second World War lacked their predecessors' implicit faith in the future. David Gelernter's thesis is that the utopia depicted at the 1939 World's Fair was realized in the United States, but proved to be a mirage. What was ...
The 1939 World's Fair was the last of the great expositions that began in the Victorian era. The world's fairs held after the Second World War lacked their predecessors' implicit faith in the future. David Gelernter's thesis is that the utopia depicted at the 1939 World's Fair was realized in the United States, but proved to be a mirage. What was ...
Our national character, says David Gelernter, is prejudiced against beautiful technologya prejudice that has saddled us, in the computer age, with inelegant and ugly software, and the refusal to acknowledge the importance of aesthetics in science and engineering. In his central illustration, Gelernter asks why Apple, whose operational systems were ...
David Gelernter was an associate professor of computer science at Yale University when a package was delivered to his office in 1993. When he opened it, it exploded and nearly killed him. The Unabomber, who sent package bombs to Gelernter and other academics throughout the country, was later apprehended and, at the time of the book's publication, ...
A renowned computer scientist examines the full spectrum of human cognition, including creativity, common sense, spirituality, and dreaming, and describes the role emotion plays in these thought processes, explaining how it is possible to introduce emotions into artificial intelligence systems.
In this book Michael Heim provides the first consistent philosophical basis for critically evaluating the impact of word processing on our use of and ideas about language. This edition includes a new foreword by David Gelernter, a new preface by the author, and an updated bibliography. "Not only important but seminal, on the cutting-edge, ...
These contributions provide a timely overview of research being done in universities and industry on state-of-the-art programming languages and compilers for parallel computers.
Programming Linguistics examines a wide range of programming language designs, from Fortran to the newest research languages, to discover their common patterns, relationships, and antecedents.
Written for observant and non-observant Jews and anyone interested in religion, this remarkable book by the distinguished scholar David Gelernter seeks to answer the deceptively simple question: What is Judaism really about? Gelernter views Judaism as one of humanity's most profound and sublimely beautiful achievements. But because Judaism is a ...
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