a beginners guide to Cybernetics
see also computing lore
computing for the radical Public
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Squeak by Mark Gudzial, Kim Rose
Squeak is a modern, open-source Smalltalk programming system with fast execution environments for all major platforms. It features a Morphic …
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The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
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The Selfish Gene is a 1976 book on evolution by the ethologist Richard Dawkins, in which the author builds upon …
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The Society of Mind by Marvin Minsky
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The Society of Mind is both the title of a 1986 book and the name of a theory of natural …
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Engines of Creation by K. Eric Drexler
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Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology is a 1986 molecular nanotechnology book written by K. Eric Drexler with …
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Godel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. Hofstadter
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this book applies Godel's seminal contribution to modern mathematics to the study of the human …
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Cybernetics : or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine by Norbert Wiener
Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine is a book written by Norbert Wiener and published …
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I Am a Strange Loop by Douglas R. Hofstadter
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I Am a Strange Loop is a 2007 book by Douglas Hofstadter, examining in depth the concept of a strange …
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