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	Browse All Reviews > General Literature (A) > General (A.0) > Biographies/Autobiographies (A.0...)     Options: All Media Types Journals Proceedings Div Books Whole Books Other Date Reviewed Title Author Publisher Published Date Descending Ascending     1-10 of 18 Reviews about "Biographies/Autobiographies (A.0...)": Date Reviewed   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       Display 510152550100 per page
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