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Loading... The Computer and the Brain 3e (Silliman Memorial Lectures) (The Silliman Memorial Lectures Series) (original 1958; edition 2012)by John Von Neumann (Author), Ray Kurzweil (Author)
Work InformationThe Computer and the Brain by John VON NEUMANN (1958)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. The book was of interest mostly for historical reasons but the comparisons between computing and neurophysiological components (as they were known at the time) and some of the analogising between computing machines and the human neurobiological system were interesting. It's a pity von Neumann didn't finish and deliver the lectures before he died. ( ) Von Neumann's unfinished last work comparing digital computers with the human brain. Works through his estimations and comparisons of various capabilities, e.g., that the human brain has about 3.5 PB of storage. Concludes that the architecture of the brain and central nervous system is so different from that of the digital computer that it implies a completely different (programming) language of mathematics and logic is used. Impressive little book which along with Turing's work, et al., founded the field of computer science as we know it. Of most interest if you are interested in the history and foundations of modern computer science, otherwise the concepts here will be so familiar that you will know many of them already. After 50 years, this book by the genius John von Neumann is still relevant in many aspects. I wish I had read this before I started my cognitive science education or before I have written my cog. sci. thesis. Neumann's insights into the architecture of the information processing of the brain is what many scientists today consider a nearly standard framework. Anybody in interested in the intersection of computing science and brain research should read this short and sharp book, not only for its contents but also for Neumann's style. no reviews | add a review
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In this classic work, one of the greatest mathematicians of the twentieth century explores the analogies between computing machines and the living human brain. John von Neumann, whose many contributions to science, mathematics, and engineering include the basic organizational framework at the heart of today's computers, concludes that the brain operates both digitally and analogically, but also has its own peculiar statistical language.In his foreword to this new edition, Ray Kurzweil, a futurist famous in part for his own reflections on the relationship between technology and intelligence, places von Neumann's work in a historical context and shows how it remains relevant today. No library descriptions found. |
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