1.

Record Nr.

UNIBAS000015146

Autore

Moschovakis, Yiannis N.

Titolo

Notes on set theory / Yiannis N. Moschovakis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York [etc.] : Springer, c1994

ISBN

0-387-94180-0

Descrizione fisica

XIV, 272 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Collana

Undergraduate texts in mathematics

Disciplina

511.322

Soggetti

Insiemi - Teoria

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910454414303321

Autore

Bricklin Dan <1951->

Titolo

Bricklin on technology [[electronic resource] /] / Dan Bricklin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Indianapolis, IN, : Wiley Pub., Inc., 2009

ISBN

1-282-12204-5

9786612122040

0-470-50058-1

Edizione

[1st edition]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (515 p.)

Disciplina

303.48/34

303.4834

Soggetti

Computers and civilization

Information technology

System design

Technological innovations

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Bricklin on Technology; About the Author; Credits; Acknowledgments; Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction: Case Studies and Details; Why Delve Into Details?; The Mindset of an Engineer; Chapter 2: What Will People Pay For?; Cell Phone Use; Photographs; Getting Paid; Self-Expression; Chapter 3: The Recording Industry and Copying; Example from Another Industry; A Book Publisher Speaks; What Happened Since; Legal Issues with Copying; Chapter 4: Leveraging the Crowd; "The Cornucopia of the Commons" Essay; Related Writings; Chapter 5: Cooperation; Dan Ariely, March 2, 2008

Learning About Cooperation from the NavyChapter 6: Blogging and Podcasting: Observations through Their Development; About Blogging; Some General Comments about Creating Personal Material to Share on the Web; I Asked a Question and the World Answered; How Blogging Helped Blogger; Bloggers at the 2004 DNC in Boston; Podcasting; Chapter 7: Tools: My Philosophy about What We Should Be Developing; Some Specific Tools; The Value of Being General Purpose; Chapter 8: Hands On: Tablet and Gestural Computing; Gestures and No Pen; What the Devices of the Future Will Be Like

Looking at the Usability Aspects of a Famous SituationChapter 9: The Long Term; Chapter 10: The PC: Historical Information about an Important Tool; Source Material; Chapter 11: The Wiki: An Interview with Its Inventor; Ward Cunningham, February 14, 2007; Chapter 12: VisiCalc; The VisiCalc Story; Summing It All Up; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In a world that divides us, technology creates connection. Cell phones, e-mail, digital cameras, personal Web sites-they all join us, however tenuously, to what we value. Is connectivity what we're willing to pay for? Should technology be our servant or a tool that helps us do other things? What can we really learn from Napster? What would intelligent standards for touch-screen user interface look like? How does technology evolve, and what drives that evolution? For Dan Bricklin, technology cannot exist independently of the lives and needs of those who use it. For more than a decade he has s