Deze auteur onderzoekt de ingewikkelde verbanden tussen kunstmatige intelligentie en de menselijke ervaring. Zijn werk duikt vaak in de ethische dilemma's en filosofische implicaties van technologieën die onze toekomst vormgeven. Door middel van inzichtelijke observaties en een duidelijke stijl nodigt hij lezers uit om na te denken over wat het betekent om mens te zijn in een steeds meer geautomatiseerde wereld.
The world is changing at an ever-increasing pace. Most of us have accepted the idea that the World Wide Web is now an important part of life and here to stay. Where will technology take us next? What is on the horizon? This text speaks to those who think about humanity's relationship to technology and our place in the world, discussing what will happen when intelligent robots become too smart.
Lisp is the second oldest computer language still in everyday use (the oldest if FORTRAN). Lisp was designed to make it possible to compute with abstract symbols rather than with numbers, and was used to do symbolic algebra. This book is about writing good programs in LISP. The dialect chosen to illustrate both LISP and good LISP is Common LISP. It is designed to be used in order, and it makes a fast-paced course (a single quarter) for enthusiastic undergraduates or graduate students with previous programming experience in a modern computer language. It both introduces Common LISP and shows how to write efficient and beautiful programs in it.
The failure of the French Revolution of 1789 to establish stable political institutions based on a liberal constitutional monarchy led to terror, civil war and instability for France and twenty-three years of almost uninterrupted war for the rest of Europe. This account documents the crucial twenty-four hours over the 9 and 10 August 1792 which led to the fall of the king and set in motion the chain of events that culminated in the Reign of Terror. During this period, over 40,000 people were brought before the Revolutionary Tribunal and guillotined.