A Computer Perspective
Charles Eames
Ray Eames
Edited by Glen Fleck
Robert Staples, Producer
Introduction by I. Bernard Cohen
A sequence of 20th century ideas, events, and artifacts from the history of the information machine.
Hardcover 1973 / Paperback 1990
The Computer and the Mind
Philip Johnson-Laird
In a field choked with seemingly impenetrable jargon, Johnson-Laird has done the impossible: written a book about how the mind works that requires no advance knowledge of artificial intelligence, neurophysiology, or psychology. The mind, he says, depends on the brain in the same way as the execution of a program of symbolic instructions depends on a computer, and can thus be understood by anyone willing to start with basic principles of computation and follow his step-by-step explanations.
Hardcover 1988 / Paperback