Written as a series of conversations with influential computer scientists, mathematicians and physicists, this book provides access to the inner thinking of those who have made essential contributions to the development of computing and its applications. You will learn about the interviewees' education, career path, influences, methods of work, how they cope with failure and success, how they relax, how they see the future, and much more.

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The personalities featured in the book come from all parts of the world and represent the hottest fields in computing. They include Dines Bjorner, Erol Gelenbe, David Harel, Juris Hartmanis, Kurt Mehlhorn, Arto Salomaa, Joseph Sifakis, Joseph F Traub and Ian H Witten, who discuss the theoretical aspects of computer science. Interviews with Jon Borwein, Douglas Bridges, Gregory Chaitin, Francoise Chatelin and Jozef Gruska cover mathematical modelling. Discussions with Rod Downey, Giuseppe Longo, Yuri Manin, Solomon Marcus, Mioara Mugur-Schachter and Grzegorz Rozenberg focus on scientific applications. The arrival of the internet has seen computing intrude into almost all aspects of our lives, and Brian E Carpenter, Eric Goles, Yuri Gurevich, Hermann Maurer, Moshe Y Vardi and Reinhard Wilhelm explore the social aspects of computing.

Editor: Cristian S. Calude
Publisher: Imperial College Press
Date: September 3, 2015
Pages: 450
ISBN:978-1783266432
Print:1783266430
Kindle: B0132IUEF2

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