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F. A. Hayek: economics, political economy and social philosophy
Boettke P., Palgrave Macmillan, London, UK, 2019. 323 pp. Type: Book (978-1-137411-59-4)
Understanding and modeling complex phenomena, including businesses, requires abstraction: “the process of suppressing irrelevant detail to establish a simplified model, or the result of that process” [1]. As noted b...
Jul 13 2020
Harmonies of disorder: Norbert Wiener: a mathematician-philosopher of our time
Montagnini L., Springer International Publishing, New York, NY, 2017. 307 pp. Type: Book (978-3-319506-56-2)
Norbert Wiener was one of the great geniuses of the 20th century. Harmonies of disorder is a brilliant biography that carefully details every aspect of Wiener’s background and contributions without using any equations, making...
Jan 3 2018
Dark hero of the information age: in search of Norbert Wiener the father of cybernetics
Conway F., Siegelman J., Basic Books, Inc., New York, NY, 2006. 423 pp. Type: Book (9780465013715)
A child prodigy; a brilliant, absent-minded, eccentric professor; the father of cybernetics; a humanist; a rebel; and a fragile unsung hero--these are all titles that describe Norbert Wiener. Describing him in this way, howeve...
Oct 31 2007
Fred Terman at Stanford: building a discipline, a university, and Silicon Valley
Gillmor C., Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA, 2004. 642 pp. Type: Book (9780804749145)
This huge book gives three intermingled histories. Overall, it is a long, detailed, and loving biography of Fred Terman (1900-1982), a brilliant, accomplished, but unassuming electrical engineer; inspiring educator; and visionary and s...
Sep 12 2006
Logical dilemmas: the life and work of Kurt Gödel
Dawson J., A. K. Peters, Ltd., Natick, MA, 2005. 376 pp. Type: Book (9781568812564)
I first heard of Kurt Gödel many years ago, when I read Hofstadter’s amazing book [1]. Since then, I have seen Gödel’s name and ideas appear in a variety of places. This book, however, is the first...
Jan 19 2006
Alfred Tarski: life and logic
Feferman A., Feferman S., Cambridge University Press, New York, NY, 2004. Type: Book (9780521802406)
This biography of Alfred Tarski is an engaging, well-written account of one of the great logicians of the twentieth century. It gives both a clear presentation of Tarski’s intellectual accomplishments, and a balanced portrait...
Feb 9 2005
Changing lives through technology
Ubiquity staff . Ubiquity 5(6): 1-1, 2004. Type: Article
This article has an apt title. It is an interview with a visionary man, one who will probably remain at the forefront of the digital convergence movement for years to come. What sets David Nagel apart from most other chief executive of...
Jun 24 2004
Understanding me: lectures and interviews
McLuhan M., McLuhan S., Staines D., MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2004. 317 pp. Type: Book (9780262134422)
This is a collection of interviews and lectures by Marshall McLuhan, edited by his daughter, Stephanie McLuhan, and his friend and colleague, David Staines. The title is a play on the title of his 1964 seminal work
Understanding med...
May 7 2004
It was fun
Turski W. Information Processing Letters 88(1-2): 7-12, 2003. Type: Article
This outstanding essay is a part of the Festschrift issue of
Information Processing Letters
, celebrating Turski’s sixty-fifth birthday. Turski describes his activities in the areas of “being a ...
Apr 28 2004
Makin’ numbers: Howard Aiken and the computer
Cohen I., Welch G. (ed), Campbell R. (ed) MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1999. Type: Divisible Book
To those interested in the history of computing, the name Howard Aiken is familiar, yet little of a definitive nature has been written about him--until now. These two volumes, well-written and handsomely produced by the MIT Pr...
Oct 1 1999
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