Knowledge and Computing: Computer Epistemology and Constructive Skepticism

Tibor Vámos

Published by Central European University Press 2010

Knowledge and Computing

Computer Epistemology and Constructive Skepticism

Tibor Vámos

https://doi.org/10.1515/9786155211805

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The result of the author's extensive practical experience: a decade in computer process control using large scale systems, another decade in machine pattern-recognition for vision systems, and nearly a decade dealing with artificial intelligence and expert systems. These real-life projects have taught Vámos a critical appreciation of, and respect for, both abstract theory and the practical methodology that grows out of—and, in turn, shapes—those theories.Machine representation means a level of formalization that can be expressed by the instruments of mathematics, whereas programming is not more and not less than a special linguistic translation of these mathematical formulae. How these all are related and controlled is a most practical philosophical and computation professional task. Wide experience in the practical fields of computer science, and the research of the underlying theoretical issues have led Vámos to the development of the attitude and activity of constructive skepticism.

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Vámos Tibor :

Tibor Vámos is Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Chairman of the Board of the Computer and Automation Research Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Author of Computer Epistemology (1991), coeditor of the Neumann Compendium (1995) and Springer Handbook of Automation (2009). He was the President of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), engineering leader of several large scale industrial projects.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgements Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Preface of Computer Epistemology Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
Foreword Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
Chapter 1 Why Computer Epistemology? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
Chapter 2 Algebra: The Discipline from the Simplest to the Most Gener Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
Chapter 3 Logic, the Origin of All Programming Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
Chapter 4 How Uncertain is Uncertainty? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
Chapter 5 Excursion to the Fields of Ontology, Being and Beliefs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
Chapter 6 Conclusions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
Appendices Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
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Language: English
Publisher: Central European University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 228
Keywords: Artificial intelligence; Computer science

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Published: February 20, 2010
ISBN: 9786155211805