The Dream Machine: Exploring the Computer AgeThe Dream Machine is the story of the development of the computer and the remarkable people behind it. It is hard to interpret a revolution when you are in the midst of one, but this book is an attempt to do just that. The Dream Machine explores the computer age from the earliest attempts to represent numbers and mechanize calculation; from these modest beginnings emerged a dream of a general-purpose machine unlike anything the world had ever known before. |
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... brain worked but it was obvi- ously different in construction to a computer . The brain had billions of neurons that were highly inter- connected . The computer , on the other hand , was made up of thousands of valves laid out with a ...
... brain worked but it was obvi- ously different in construction to a computer . The brain had billions of neurons that were highly inter- connected . The computer , on the other hand , was made up of thousands of valves laid out with a ...
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... brain . Even though she used her - bodily senses very little , her intel- ligence was still embodied in a physical brain . Her brain learned by example and acquired skill at understanding stories by tuning its neurons . Perhaps there ...
... brain . Even though she used her - bodily senses very little , her intel- ligence was still embodied in a physical brain . Her brain learned by example and acquired skill at understanding stories by tuning its neurons . Perhaps there ...
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... brain - like machines ' called perceptrons . Although primitive com- pared to the human brain , perceptrons were similar in that they learned by example rather than by being pro- grammed . Perceptrons did especially well at visual ...
... brain - like machines ' called perceptrons . Although primitive com- pared to the human brain , perceptrons were similar in that they learned by example rather than by being pro- grammed . Perceptrons did especially well at visual ...
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