On the Foundations of Computing

NOTE EDITORE

Computing, today more than ever before, is a multi-faceted discipline which collates several methodologies, areas of interest, and approaches: mathematics, engineering, programming, and applications. Given its enormous impact on everyday life, it is essential that its debated origins are understood, and that its different foundations are explained. On the Foundations of Computing offers a comprehensive and critical overview of the birth and evolution of computing, and it presents some of the most important technical results and philosophical problems of the discipline, combining both historical and systematic analyses. The debates this text surveys are among the latest and most urgent ones: the crisis of foundations in mathematics and the birth of the decision problem, the nature of algorithms, the debates on computational artefacts and malfunctioning, and the analysis of computational experiments. By covering these topics, On the Foundations of Computing provides a much-needed resource to contextualize these foundational issues. For practitioners, researchers, and students alike, a historical and philosophical approach such as what this volume offers becomes essential to understand the past of the discipline and to figure out the challenges of its future.

SOMMARIO

1 - Introduction2 - A fundamental Crisis3 - Computing and Deciding4 - What is Computable?5 - Mechanical Computation6 - On the Nature of Algorithms7 - Computing as a Mathematical Discipline8 - The First Generation of Computers9 - The Laws of Evolution10 - Properties of Implemented Computations11 - Specification and Implementation12 - Computing as an Engineering Discipline13 - Elements of Experimental Computing14 - Models and Simulations15 - Formal Relations16 - Computing as an Experimental Discipline17 - Conclusions

AUTORE

Giuseppe Primiero is Associate Professor of Logic at the Department of Philosophy, University of Milan (Italy). He acts as President of the DHST Commission for the History and Philosophy of Computing (HaPoC) and Secretary General of the Association Computability in Europe (CiE). His research interests are primarily in Logic and Computation, Philosophy of Computing and Information.

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780198835646
• Dimensioni: 239 x 23.0 x 163 mm Ø 656 gr
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pagine Arabe: 318