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Thinking on the Web
H. Peter Alesso
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Description for Thinking on the Web
Paperback. * Provides valuable insight into the progress and direction of development of the World Wide Web and its likely future applications in science and business. * Reviews the prospects for the Web to develop intelligent services (such as online businesses, games, purchases, new search capabilities, and accessibility to trustworthy information). Num Pages: 292 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: UDB; UY. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 162 x 14. Weight in Grams: 456.
What Is Thinking?
What Is Thinking?
What is Turing's Test? What is Gödel's Undecidability Theorem? How is Berners-Lee's Semantic Web logic going to overcome paradoxes and complexity to produce machine processing on the Web?
Thinking on the Web draws from the contributions of Tim Berners-Lee (What is solvable on the Web?), Kurt Gödel (What is decidable?), and Alan Turing (What is machine intelligence?) to evaluate how much "intelligence" can be projected onto the Web.
The authors offer both abstract and practical perspectives to delineate the opportunities and challenges of a "smarter" Web through a threaded series of vignettes and a thorough review ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
292
Condition
New
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780471768661
SKU
V9780471768661
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99-50
About H. Peter Alesso
H. Peter Alesso is an innovator with twenty years' research experience at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). As Engineering Group Leader at LLNL, he led a team of computer scientists and engineers in innovative applications across a wide range of supercomputers, workstations, and networks. He has published several software titles and scientific journal and conference articles, and is the author ... Read more
Reviews for Thinking on the Web
?Anyone with experience of HCI will want to read this book which after all, has provided a new and entirely different way of providing a stimulus to a subject that is very much in need of direction.? (Kybernetes, 2009) "Thinking on the Web offers a fascinating history and impressive background of the age we are living through, and serves ... Read more