Author: J. Paxton
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230271057
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1579
Book Description
The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.
The Statesman's Year-Book 1976-77
Author: J. Paxton
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230271057
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1579
Book Description
The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230271057
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1579
Book Description
The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.
Report of the Council
Author: Science Research Council (Great Britain)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Research
Languages : en
Pages : 852
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Research
Languages : en
Pages : 852
Book Description
New Serial Titles
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 1700
Book Description
A union list of serials commencing publication after Dec. 31, 1949.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 1700
Book Description
A union list of serials commencing publication after Dec. 31, 1949.
ERDA Energy Research Abstracts
Author: United States. Energy Research and Development Administration
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 1030
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 1030
Book Description
ERDA Energy Research Abstracts
Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 992
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 992
Book Description
Reflections on Programming Systems
Author: Liesbeth De Mol
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 331997226X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
This book presents a historical and philosophical analysis of programming systems, intended as large computational systems like, for instance, operating systems, programmed to control processes. The introduction to the volume emphasizes the contemporary need of providing a foundational analysis of such systems, rooted in a broader historical and philosophical discussion. The different chapters are grouped around three major themes. The first concerns the early history of large systems developed against the background of issues related to the growing semantic gap between hardware and code. The second revisits the fundamental issue of complexity of large systems, dealt with by the use of formal methods and the development of `grand designs’ like Unix. Finally, a third part considers several issues related to programming systems in the real world, including chapters on aesthetical, ethical and political issues. This book will interest researchers from a diversity of backgrounds. It will appeal to historians, philosophers, as well as logicians and computer scientists who want to engage with topics relevant to the history and philosophy of programming and more specifically the role of programming systems in the foundations of computing.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 331997226X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
This book presents a historical and philosophical analysis of programming systems, intended as large computational systems like, for instance, operating systems, programmed to control processes. The introduction to the volume emphasizes the contemporary need of providing a foundational analysis of such systems, rooted in a broader historical and philosophical discussion. The different chapters are grouped around three major themes. The first concerns the early history of large systems developed against the background of issues related to the growing semantic gap between hardware and code. The second revisits the fundamental issue of complexity of large systems, dealt with by the use of formal methods and the development of `grand designs’ like Unix. Finally, a third part considers several issues related to programming systems in the real world, including chapters on aesthetical, ethical and political issues. This book will interest researchers from a diversity of backgrounds. It will appeal to historians, philosophers, as well as logicians and computer scientists who want to engage with topics relevant to the history and philosophy of programming and more specifically the role of programming systems in the foundations of computing.
The Software Arts
Author: Warren Sack
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262352370
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
An alternative history of software that places the liberal arts at the very center of software's evolution. In The Software Arts, Warren Sack offers an alternative history of computing that places the arts at the very center of software's evolution. Tracing the origins of software to eighteenth-century French encyclopedists' step-by-step descriptions of how things were made in the workshops of artists and artisans, Sack shows that programming languages are the offspring of an effort to describe the mechanical arts in the language of the liberal arts. Sack offers a reading of the texts of computing—code, algorithms, and technical papers—that emphasizes continuity between prose and programs. He translates concepts and categories from the liberal and mechanical arts—including logic, rhetoric, grammar, learning, algorithm, language, and simulation—into terms of computer science and then considers their further translation into popular culture, where they circulate as forms of digital life. He considers, among other topics, the “arithmetization” of knowledge that presaged digitization; today's multitude of logics; the history of demonstration, from deduction to newer forms of persuasion; and the post-Chomsky absence of meaning in grammar. With The Software Arts, Sack invites artists and humanists to see how their ideas are at the root of software and invites computer scientists to envision themselves as artists and humanists.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262352370
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
An alternative history of software that places the liberal arts at the very center of software's evolution. In The Software Arts, Warren Sack offers an alternative history of computing that places the arts at the very center of software's evolution. Tracing the origins of software to eighteenth-century French encyclopedists' step-by-step descriptions of how things were made in the workshops of artists and artisans, Sack shows that programming languages are the offspring of an effort to describe the mechanical arts in the language of the liberal arts. Sack offers a reading of the texts of computing—code, algorithms, and technical papers—that emphasizes continuity between prose and programs. He translates concepts and categories from the liberal and mechanical arts—including logic, rhetoric, grammar, learning, algorithm, language, and simulation—into terms of computer science and then considers their further translation into popular culture, where they circulate as forms of digital life. He considers, among other topics, the “arithmetization” of knowledge that presaged digitization; today's multitude of logics; the history of demonstration, from deduction to newer forms of persuasion; and the post-Chomsky absence of meaning in grammar. With The Software Arts, Sack invites artists and humanists to see how their ideas are at the root of software and invites computer scientists to envision themselves as artists and humanists.
Greening the Alliance
Author: Simone Turchetti
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022659582X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Following the launch of Sputnik, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization became a prominent sponsor of scientific research in its member countries, a role it retained until the end of the Cold War. As NATO marks sixty years since the establishment of its Science Committee, the main organizational force promoting its science programs, Greening the Alliance is the first book to chart NATO’s scientific patronage—and the motivations behind it—from the organization’s early days to the dawn of the twenty-first century. Drawing on previously unseen documents from NATO’s own archives, Simone Turchetti reveals how its investments were rooted in the alliance’s defense and surveillance needs, needs that led it to establish a program prioritizing environmental studies. A long-overlooked and effective diplomacy exercise, NATO’s “greening” at one point constituted the organization’s chief conduit for negotiating problematic relations between allies. But while Greening the Alliance explores this surprising coevolution of environmental monitoring and surveillance, tales of science advisers issuing instructions to bomb oil spills with napalm or Dr. Strangelove–like experts eager to divert the path of hurricanes with atomic weapons make it clear: the coexistence of these forces has not always been harmonious. Reflecting on this rich, complicated legacy in light of contemporary global challenges like climate change, Turchetti offers both an eye-opening history of international politics and environmental studies and a thoughtful assessment of NATO’s future.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022659582X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Following the launch of Sputnik, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization became a prominent sponsor of scientific research in its member countries, a role it retained until the end of the Cold War. As NATO marks sixty years since the establishment of its Science Committee, the main organizational force promoting its science programs, Greening the Alliance is the first book to chart NATO’s scientific patronage—and the motivations behind it—from the organization’s early days to the dawn of the twenty-first century. Drawing on previously unseen documents from NATO’s own archives, Simone Turchetti reveals how its investments were rooted in the alliance’s defense and surveillance needs, needs that led it to establish a program prioritizing environmental studies. A long-overlooked and effective diplomacy exercise, NATO’s “greening” at one point constituted the organization’s chief conduit for negotiating problematic relations between allies. But while Greening the Alliance explores this surprising coevolution of environmental monitoring and surveillance, tales of science advisers issuing instructions to bomb oil spills with napalm or Dr. Strangelove–like experts eager to divert the path of hurricanes with atomic weapons make it clear: the coexistence of these forces has not always been harmonious. Reflecting on this rich, complicated legacy in light of contemporary global challenges like climate change, Turchetti offers both an eye-opening history of international politics and environmental studies and a thoughtful assessment of NATO’s future.
Literature for United States Aquaculture
Author: John B. Forbes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aquaculture
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aquaculture
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description