Mirror Worlds

or The Day Software Puts the Universe in a Shoebox... How it Will Happen and What it Will Mean

David Gelernter (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

1993
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-507906-7 (ISBN)

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How `mirror worlds' programming can be structured and used based on current and presently developing computer components and technology.

In this fascinating book - part speculation, part explanation, Gelernter takes us on a tour of the computer technology of the near future. Mirror Worlds, he contends, will allow us to explore the world in unprecedented depth and detail without ever changing out of our pyjamas! Gelernter does much more than just speculate about how this amazing new software will be used - he shows us how it will be made, explaining carefully and in detail how to build a mirror world using technology already available. Mirror Worlds offers a lucid and humanistic account of the coming software revolution, told by a computer scientist at the cutting edge of his field.

David Gelernter is Associate Professor of Computer Science at Yale University and an expert in programming languages and methods, and in artificial intelligence.

Mirror worlds?; The orb; Disembodied machines; Space, time and multi-time; The deluge; Simple mind machines; Building mirror worlds; Epilogue; Notes; Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.1.1996
Zusatzinfo	halftones, line figures
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	363 g
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Programmiersprachen / -werkzeuge
	Informatik ► Software Entwicklung ► User Interfaces (HCI)
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Web / Internet
ISBN-10	0-19-507906-X / 019507906X
ISBN-13	978-0-19-507906-7 / 9780195079067
Zustand	Neuware