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Constructed truths: truth and knowledge in a post-truth world
Zoglauer T., Springer International Publishing, Cham, Switzerland, 2023. 162 pp. Type: Book (3658399414), Reviews: (2 of 2)
Families gather during the holiday season, and heated discussions often erupt over politics and cultural values. This situation has become so frequent that it is standard fare in comedy sketches, jokes, and cartoons. It seems as though the opposin...
Mar 11 2024
Constructed truths: truth and knowledge in a post-truth world
Zoglauer T., Springer International Publishing, Cham, Switzerland, 2023. 162 pp. Type: Book (3658399414), Reviews: (1 of 2)
Many of us grew up used to having some news sources we could implicitly trust, such as well-positioned newspapers and radio or TV news programs. We knew they would only hire responsible journalists rather than risk diluting public trust and losing...
Mar 6 2024
Exact thinking in demented times: the Vienna Circle and the epic quest for the foundations of science
Sigmund K., Basic Books, Inc., New York, NY, 2017. 480 pp. Type: Book (978-0-465096-95-4)
This is an intellectual and personal collective biography of some of the greatest minds of the first half of the 20th century, written for a more or less general audience by Karl Sigmund, a professor of mathematics at the University of...
Apr 17 2019
Turing’s vision: the birth of computer science
Bernhardt C., The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2016. 208 pp. Type: Book (978-0-262034-54-8)
Books about Alan Turing’s life and work have always gone to one of two extremes, either to the complete technical or to the complete trivial focusing on, for example, Turing’s sexual preferences, which should be com...
Sep 29 2016
The scientific works of Rainer Kemp (1949-2004)
Flajolet P., Nebel M., Prodinger H. Theoretical Computer Science 355(3): 371-381, 2006. Type: Article
From the enumeration of leftist trees [1] to the basics of parsing context-free grammars, Rainer Kemp (1949--2004) had a major role in shaping the grounding of the analysis of algorithms. His research in the theory of formal l...
Aug 16 2006
Dark fiber (electronic culture history, theory, and practice series): tracking critical Internet culture
Lovink G., MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2003. 394 pp. Type: Book (9780262621809)
The Internet is portrayed in this book as three spaces: the space of state, the space of the market, and a third space called the digital commons. The digital commons is asserted to be more than a separate, well-defined zone. It is see...
Nov 26 2003
The Cellar Principle of State Transition and Storage Allocation
Bauer F. IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 12(1): 41-49, 1990. Type: Article
For today’s computer science student, it is surprising to learn how difficult a task the mechanical evaluation of arithmetic expressions and the correct implementation of recursive procedures was in the early days of compiler...
Jun 1 1991
Selected developments in Soviet mathematical cybernetics
Trakhtenbrot B., Delphic Associates, Inc., Falls Church, VA, 1986. Type: Book
The monograph presents a portion of a genealogical tree of computer scientists in the USSR, along the major branches leading from the three pioneers of mathematical logic: A. Markov, A. Kolmogorov, and P. Novikov. The term “c...
May 1 1987
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