Computation
Finite and Infinite Machines
by Marvin Lee Minsky
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books, Programming, and Technology.
Man has within a single generation found himself sharing the world with a strange new species: the computers and computerlike machines. Neither history, nor philosophy, nor common sense will tell us how these machines will affect us, for they do not do "work" as did machines of the Industrial Revolution. Instead of dealing with materials...
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books, Programming, and Technology.
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Alan Kay
“It is actually a 'math book' — with lots of ideas, theorems, proofs, etc., — but presented in the friendliest way imaginable by a great mind.”
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