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This is the second collection of A. K. Dewdney's popular Computer Recreations columns, drawn from Scientific American. The author discusses some of today's hottest topics including chaos, computer viruses, and artificial landscapes.Tags
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Recreations, his column which appeared in Scientific American for more than eight years. He has been an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Western Ontario in Canada since 1968, and is president of Turing Omnibus, Inc. Among his many books on computer science, science and mathematics are Two Hundred Percent of Nothing show more (1993), an effort to expose abuses of math and statistics in everyday life and its companion work, Yes, We Have No Neutrons (1997). Dewdney is also interested in growing and distributing rare native trees, as manifested in his book, Hungry Hollow: The Story of a Natural Place (1998). Hungry Hollow examines the elements of a natural habitat in both time and space. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical title
- The Magic Machine: A Handbook of Computer Sorcery
- Original title
- The Magic Machine: A Handbook of Computer Sorcery
- Original publication date
- 1990
- Original language
- English
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- Genres
- Technology, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, Science & Nature
- DDC/MDS
- 794.81536 — Arts & recreation Recreation, sports, and performing arts Chess, Computer Games / Card Games Electronic games Computer programming
- LCC
- QA76.6 .D5173 — Science Mathematics Mathematics Instruments and machines Calculating machines Electronic computers. Computer science
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- English, Portuguese
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