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100 1 Alesso, H. Peter
245 10 Connections :|bPatterns of Discovery
250 1st ed
264 1 Hoboken :|bJohn Wiley & Sons, Incorporated,|c2008
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505 0 Intro -- Connections -- Contents -- Foreword --
Acknowledgments -- Organization of this Book --
Introduction -- Stories -- Connecting Information --
Patterns -- Patterns of Discovery -- Forecasting Tools --
The Big Picture -- Forecasts -- Chapter 1. Connecting
Information -- The Google Story -- The Information
Revolution -- Defining Information -- Looking Good --
Google Connects Information -- Patterns of Discovery --
Forecast for Connecting Information -- Chapter 2.
Connecting Circuits -- Moore's Law Story -- Edison's
Electric Light -- The Vacuum Tube Diode -- The First
Programmable Computers -- ENIAC -- The Transistor -- How
Transistors Work -- Proof of Principle for the Transistor
-- The Microprocessor -- How Microprocessors Work --
Moore's Law -- Patterns of Discovery -- Forecast for
Connecting Circuits -- Chapter 3. Connecting Chips -- The
Personal Computer Story -- Vannevar Bush -- Douglas
Engelbart -- Robert Taylor -- J. C. R. Licklider -- Alan
Kay -- Butler Lampson -- Charles (Chuck) Thacker --
Personal Computing -- The Xerox Alto -- Apple Computer --
IBM PC -- Patterns of Discovery -- Forecast for Connecting
Chips -- Chapter 4. Connecting Processes -- The Software
Story -- John von Neumann -- Claude Shannon -- The
Evolution of Programming Languages -- Sir Charles Antony
(Tony) Richard Hoare -- Software as an Industry --
Software Productivity -- Fourth Generation Languages --
Proprietary Versus Open Standards -- Emergent Fifth
Generation Languages (5GLs) -- Charles Simonyi -- William
H. Gates III -- Linus Torvalds -- Patterns of Discovery --
Forecast for Connecting Processes -- Chapter 5. Connecting
Machines -- The Ethernet Story -- Xerox PARC and Ethernet
-- Robert Metcalf -- Patterns of Discovery -- Forecast for
Connecting Machines -- Chapter 6. Connecting Networks --
The Internet Story -- Vinton Cerf -- Transition to the
World Wide Web
505 8 Tim Berners-Lee -- Patterns of Discovery -- Forecast for
Connecting Networks -- Chapter 7. Connecting Devices --
The Ubiquitous Computing Story -- Ubiquitous Computing --
Mark Weiser -- Jeff Hawkins -- Patterns of Discovery --
Forecast for Connecting Devices -- Chapter 8. Connecting
the Web -- The Ubiquitous Web Story -- Michael Dertouzos -
- Project Oxygen -- Perfect Search -- Tim Berners-Lee and
the Semantic Web -- Patterns of Discovery -- Forecast for
Connecting the Web -- Chapter 9. Connecting Intelligence -
- The Ubiquitous Intelligence Story -- Kurt Gödel -- Alan
Turing -- Marvin Minsky -- Ubiquitous Intelligence -- The
Web "Brain" -- What Is Web Intelligence? -- Patterns of
Discovery -- Forecast for Connecting Intelligence --
Chapter 10. Connecting Patterns -- Ray Kurzweil --
Evolving Complex Intelligence -- Accelerating Returns and
the Singularity -- The Software of Intelligence --
Patterns -- Connecting Patterns -- Patterns of Discovery -
- Forecast for Connecting Patterns -- Epilogue --
Bibliography -- Glossary -- Index
520 H. Peter Alesso is an innovator with twenty years of
research experience at LawrenceLivermore National
Laboratory (LLNL). As Engineering Group Leader at LLNL, he
has leda team of computer scientists and engineers in a
wide range of successful software and hardware research
projects. He has published several software titles,
numerous scientific journaland conference articles, and
four books. Craig F. Smith, PhD, is a Fellow of the
American Association for the Advancement ofScience and is
the Lawrence Livermore Chair Professor at the Naval
Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. His areas of
interest include sensors, robotics, and automated systems;
information technology applications; and future energy
systems. Dr. Smith has coauthoredthree books and has
published numerous scientific journal and conference
articles on advanced engineering topics
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