Information Flow: The Logic of Distributed Systems (Paperback)
暫譯: 資訊流:分散式系統的邏輯 (平裝本)
Jon Barwise
- 出版商: Cambridge
- 出版日期: 2008-08-28
- 定價: $2,600
- 售價: 8.0 折 $2,080
- 語言: 英文
- 頁數: 292
- 裝訂: Paperback
- ISBN: 0521070996
- ISBN-13: 9780521070997
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商品描述
Information is a central topic in computer science, cognitive science, and philosophy. In spite of its importance in the "information age," there is no consensus on what information is, what makes it possible, and what it means for one medium to carry information about another. Drawing on ideas from mathematics, computer science, and philosophy, this book addresses the definition and place of information in society. The authors, observing that information flow is possible only within a connected distribution system, provide a mathematically rigorous, philosophically sound foundation for a science of information. They illustrate their theory by applying it to a wide range of phenomena, from file transfer to DNA, from quantum mechanics to speech act theory.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
資訊是計算機科學、認知科學和哲學中的核心主題。儘管在「資訊時代」中其重要性不言而喻,但對於資訊的定義、其可能性以及一種媒介如何承載另一種媒介的資訊,仍然沒有共識。本書借鑒數學、計算機科學和哲學的觀點,探討資訊在社會中的定義和地位。作者觀察到,資訊流動僅在連接的分配系統中才是可能的,因此為資訊科學提供了一個數學上嚴謹、哲學上合理的基礎。他們通過將理論應用於從檔案傳輸到DNA、從量子力學到言語行為理論等各種現象來說明他們的理論。