On Computing: The Fourth Great Scientific Domain (Hardcover)

Paul S. Rosenbloom

  • 出版商: MIT
  • 出版日期: 2012-11-02
  • 售價: $1,365
  • 貴賓價: 9.8$1,338
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 336
  • 裝訂: Hardcover
  • ISBN: 0262018322
  • ISBN-13: 9780262018326
  • 相關分類: Computer-Science資訊科學
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Computing isn't simply about hardware or software, or calculation or applications. Computing, writes Paul Rosenbloom, is an exciting and diverse, yet remarkably coherent, scientific enterprise that is highly multidisciplinary yet maintains a unique core of its own. In On Computing, Rosenbloom proposes that computing is a great scientific domain on a par with the physical, life, and social sciences. Rosenbloom introduces a relational approach for understanding computing, conceptualizing it in terms of forms of interaction and implementation, to reveal the hidden structures and connections among its disciplines. He argues for the continuing vitality of computing, surveying the leading edge in computing's combination with other domains, from biocomputing and brain-computer interfaces to crowdsourcing and virtual humans to robots and the intermingling of the real and the virtual. He explores forms of higher order coherence, or macrostructures, over complex computing topics and organizations, such as computing's role in the pursuit of science and the structure of academic computing. Finally, he examines the very notion of a great scientific domain in philosophical terms, honing his argument that computing should be considered the fourth great scientific domain. Rosenbloom's proposal may prove to be controversial, but the intent is to initiate a long overdue conversation about the nature and future of a field in search of its soul. Rosenbloom, a key architect of the founding of University of Southern California's Institute for Creative Technologies and former Deputy Director of USC's Information Sciences Institute, offers a broader perspective on what computing is and what it can become.

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計算機科學並不僅僅涉及硬體或軟體、計算或應用程式。保羅·羅森布魯姆寫道,計算機科學是一個令人興奮且多樣化的科學領域,具有高度跨學科性,但同時保持著獨特的核心。在《關於計算機科學》一書中,羅森布魯姆提出計算機科學是與物理、生命和社會科學相媲美的偉大科學領域。羅森布魯姆引入了一種「關聯性」方法來理解計算機科學,將其概念化為「互動」和「實現」的形式,以揭示其學科之間的隱藏結構和聯繫。他主張計算機科學的持續活力,調查了計算機科學與其他領域結合的前沿,從生物計算和腦-計算機界面到群眾外包和虛擬人類,再到機器人和現實與虛擬的交融。他探討了複雜計算機科學主題和組織的高階一致性形式,例如計算機科學在追求科學和學術計算機結構中的角色。最後,他從哲學角度檢視了偉大科學領域的概念,並強調計算機科學應被視為第四個偉大科學領域。羅森布魯姆的提議可能引起爭議,但其目的是引發一場關於這個正在尋找靈魂的領域的本質和未來的長期對話。羅森布魯姆是南加州大學創意技術研究所的創始人之一,曾擔任該校資訊科學研究所的副所長,他對計算機科學的定義提供了更廣泛的觀點,以及其未來可能的發展方向。