1st Edition
Knowledge and Computing Computer Epistemology and Constructive Skepticism
By Tibor Vámos
Copyright 2010
226 Pages
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Central European University Press
This is the result of the author's extensive practical experience: a decade in computer process control using large scale systems, another decade in machine pattern-recognition for vision systems, and nearly a decade dealing with artificial intelligence and expert systems. These real-life projects have taught Vámos a critical appreciation of, and respect for, both abstract theory and the practical... Read more
Acknowledgements, Preface of Computer Epistemology, 1991, Foreword, 1 Why computer epistemology?, 2 Algebra, the discipline from the simplest to the most general, 3 Logic, the origin of all programming, 4 How uncertain uncertainty is?, 5 Excursion to the fields of ontology, Being and beliefs, 6 Conclusions, Appendices, References, Pictures credits, Name index, Subject index
Biography
Tibor Vámos is Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Chairman of the Board of the Computer and Automation Research Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Author of Computer Epistemology (1991), coeditor of the Neumann Compendium (1995) and Springer Handbook of Automation (2009). He was the President of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), engineering leader of several large scale industrial projects.
