Computer e cervello

Picked this up to read with a friend who said they were reading it so I'm still waiting for them to finish it. I think it was really cool reading for understanding the advent of computer architecture and where it was at this point and seeing computers compared to the brain. This book combined all th Leggi tutto

A short series of lecture notes written by the great mathematician and physicist John von Neumann while on his deathbed. The book is split into two sections, the first of which details early computing devices and their functioning. Essentially, logical "organs" are orchestrated in sequential pattern Leggi tutto

Ho scoperto questo libro per caso, curiosando nella libreria di mia sorella. Conosco l'autore, John von Neumann, per la teoria dei giochi e sono stata incuriosita dal titolo del libro. E' un manoscritto incompleto in quanto Neumann morì prima di completarlo e in realtà lo scopo non era scrivere un li Leggi tutto

Perhaps more so than Alan Turing, (If we accept the intro by Kirtzweil, a man with serious credentials), John von Neuman was one of the most important figures in developing the basic architecture of the modern digital computer. The two did work together, but von Neuman was the senior and I propose h Leggi tutto

The midpoint of this short manuscript is the literary equivalent of the beat switch in Nights by Frank Ocean

It's really sad that this is not completed. It's like you just finish an appetizer and get thrown out of the restaurant. Anyhow, I love his writing and recommend it as an important text. He carefully analyze the computer-brain analogy in terms of memory, logic, arithmetic, capacity, precision and pr Leggi tutto

Too short to really bring anything new to the table (save some tantalizing references to analog computing I need chase down in more detail), but also too short to piss you off or demand more than a half hour. More like a pamphlet than a real book, I was worried I might put this in my pocket and send Leggi tutto