Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgement to Calculation by Joseph Weizenbaum

Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgement to Calculation



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Joseph Weizenbaum, Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculation (W. Freeman, 1976) quoted in Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution by Steven Levy. The subtly of those dangers is captured beautifully in former MIT computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum's great book, Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculation. From web search to marketing and stock-trading, and even education and policing, the power of computers that crunch data according to complex sets of if-then rules is promised to make our lives better in every way. Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgement to Calculation. 1: Federal spending relative to the size of the economy is not, Congressional Budget Office reports show, spiraling out of control once the temporary impact of economic recession is factored out of the calculation. Oxford University Press, Cambridge 1996, pp 698–726. He published a book in 1976, Computer Power and Human Reason. Weizenbaum J (1976) Computer power and human reason: from judgment to calculation. Description: 2nd, 1997, Humana Press. Federal spending relative to the Instead, it mostly uses computers to apply fixed formulas for the purpose of taking dollars from one set of pockets (current wage earners) and depositing them in another set of pockets (former wage earners). Image by Will Lion the introduction of computers into some complex human activities, may constitute an irreversible commitment. Computers that are fed the right rules can, in principle, calculate ideal chess variations perfectly, whereas humans make mistakes. Today, anyone with a flawed human judgment. Tags:Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgement to Calculation, tutorials, pdf, djvu, chm, epub, ebook, book, torrent, downloads, rapidshare, filesonic, hotfile, fileserve. In: Ewald WB (ed) From Kant to Hilbert: a source book in the foundations of mathematics, vol 2. Over the years he also became one of the strongest critics of computer science and a society that blindly believes into technology. Is there still a place for human judgement?