On Computing: The Fourth Great Scientific Domain

by Paul S. Rosenbloom

Book Overview

Computing is not simply about hardware or software, or calculation or applications. Computing, writes Paul Rosenbloom, is an exciting and diverse, yet remarkably coherent, scientific enterprise that is highly multidisciplinary yet maintains a unique core of its own. In "On Computing," Rosenbloom proposes that computing is a great scientific domain on a par with the physical, life, and social sciences. Rosenbloom introduces a relational approach for...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262018322
• ISBN13: 9780262018326
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 307 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.2"