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Understanding Information and Computation: From Einstein to Web Science book cover

1st Edition

Understanding Information and Computation From Einstein to Web Science

By Philip Tetlow Copyright 2012
408 Pages
by Routledge

408 Pages
by Routledge

408 Pages
by Routledge
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The World Wide Web is truly astounding. It has changed the way we interact, learn and innovate. It is the largest sociotechnical system humankind has created and is advancing at a pace that leaves most in awe. It is an unavoidable fact that the future of the world is now inextricably linked to the future of the Web. Almost every day it appears to change, to get better and increase its hold on us.... Read more
Contents: Foreword, Yorick Wilks; Foreword. L.J. Rich; Preface; Introduction; Dot-to-dots point the way; Hitler, Turing and quantum mechanics; A different perspective on numbers, straight lines and other such mathematical curiosities; Twists, turns and nature's preference for curves; Curves of curves; To process or not?; Information and computation as a field; Why are conic sections important?; The gifts that Newton gave, Turing opened and which no chapter one has really appreciated yet; Einstein's torch bearers; Special relativity; General relativity; Beyond the fourth dimension; Time to reformulate with a little help from information retrieval research; Supporting evidence; Where does this get us?; References; Index.

Biography

Dr Philip Tetlow, CEng, FIET is a Certified IT Architect, Web Scientist and one time W3C member. He is a Senior Certified Executive IT Architect and member of the Technical Consultancy Group in IBM’s Global Business Services division. Dr Tetlow has many years’ experience of delivering large complex IT systems and has specialised in Web related architectures for nearly a decade. He has presented on Web Science at the Royal Society, London, and is a Visiting Fellow at the University of York, UK. Dr Tetlow is the author of the 2007 book The Web's Awake, which was arguably the first ever book on what is now known as web science.

'Phil Tetlow was not only one of the world's first Web Scientists, but he takes great pleasure in pushing hard on just about every boundary within reach. His ideas are both fresh and profound and I am really pleased to see a work from him that will keep us all thinking. It is bound to be controversial, but then what is science without controversy?' Professor Dame Wendy Hall DBE FRS FREng ’Phil enjoys challenging current thinking. He is an engaging and thoughtful teacher’ - Paul Martynenko, Vice President & Technical Executive, IBM Europe
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