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  • It Began with Babbage

    The Genesis of Computer Science

    by Subrata Dasgupta ...
    As a field, computer science occupies a unique scientific space, in that its subject matter can exist in both physical and abstract realms. An artifact such as software is both tangible and not, and must be classified as something in between, or "liminal." The study and production of liminal artifacts allows for creative possibilities that are, and have been, possible only in computer science. In ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD

  • Computer Science

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Subrata Dasgupta ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Over the past sixty years, the spectacular growth of the technologies associated with the computer is visible for all to see and experience. Yet, the science underpinning this technology is less visible and little understood outside the professional computer science community. As a scientific discipline, computer science stands alongside the likes of molecular biology and cognitive science as one ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • The Second Age of Computer Science

    From Algol Genes to Neural Nets

    by Subrata Dasgupta ...
    By the end of the 1960s, a new discipline named computer science had come into being. A new scientific paradigm--the 'computational paradigm'--was in place, suggesting that computer science had reached a certain level of maturity. Yet as a science it was still precociously young. New forces, some technological, some socio-economic, some cognitive impinged upon it, the outcome of which was that new ... Read more

    $38.39 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Renaissance Considered as a Creative Phenomenon

    Explorations in Cognitive History

    by Subrata Dasgupta ...
    By using the fresh investigative language of cognitive history, a symbiosis of the methods of cognitive science and historical inquiry, this book departs from almost all previous approaches to Renaissance studies.The Renaissance has attracted the attention of distinguished scholars from many different vantage points – political, social, economic, intellectual, and cultural. In this volume, Subrata ... Read more

    $81.06 CAD

  • Reconciling Art and Technology

    A Shared Cognitive History

    by Subrata Dasgupta ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Cultural History
    This book examines two venerable cultures, art and technology, and uses the young "interdiscipline" of cognitive history combined with case studies of both ancient and modern artifacts to explore, and unveil, some of the bridges by which this reconciliation of two seemingly distant and oppositional cultures can be effected.Art and technology are commonly regarded as oppositional. While both are ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • A Cognitive-Historical Approach to Creativity

    by Subrata Dasgupta ...
    At the heart of creativity is the practice of bringing something new into existence, whether it be a material object or abstract idea, thereby making history and enriching the creative tradition.A Cognitive Historical Approach to Creativity explores the idea that creativity is both a cognitive phenomenon and a historical process. Blending insights and theories of cognitive science with the skills, ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Computer Science

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Subrata Dasgupta ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Over the past sixty years, the spectacular growth of the technologies associated with the computer is visible for all to see and experience. Yet, the science underpinning this technology is less visible and little understood outside the professional computer science community. As a scientific discipline, computer science stands alongside the likes of molecular biology and cognitive science as one ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • Voice of The Rain Season

    by Subrata Dasgupta ...
    On a September Saturday afternoon in 2011, Martin Shawncross and Joya Bose in perfect synchrony surrendered their respective virginities. That Martin, a twenty-one-year-old American, had waited so long for this momentous personal event would have scandalized his friends and family were they to know about it. That Joya, a twenty-five-year-old Bengali, did not wait longer for this same experience ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    The Second Age of Computer Science

    From Algol Genes to Neural Nets

    by Subrata Dasgupta ...
    Narrated by Mike Chamberlain ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 38 min

    By the end of the 1960s, a new discipline named computer science had come into being. A new scientific paradigm—the 'computational paradigm'—was in place, suggesting that computer science had reached a certain level of maturity. Yet as a science it was still precociously young. New forces, some technological, some socio-economic, some cognitive impinged upon it, the outcome of which was that new ... Read more

    $35.72 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Critical Discourse in Bangla

    Edited by Subha Chakraborty Dasgupta, Subrata Sinha ...
    Series series Critical Discourses in South Asia
    This volume forms a part of the Critical Discourses in South Asia series which deals with schools, movements, and discursive practices in major South Asian languages. It offers crucial insights into the making of Bengali or Bangla literature and its critical tradition across a century. The book brings together English translation of major writings of influential figures dealing with literary ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

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  • Statistics

    A Very Short Introduction

    by David J. Hand ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Modern statistics is very different from the dry and dusty discipline of the popular imagination. In its place is an exciting subject which uses deep theory and powerful software tools to shed light and enable understanding. And it sheds this light on all aspects of our lives, enabling astronomers to explore the origins of the universe, archaeologists to investigate ancient civilisations, ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • Logic

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Graham Priest ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Logic is often perceived as having little to do with the rest of philosophy, and even less to do with real life. In this lively and accessible introduction, Graham Priest shows how wrong this conception is. He explores the philosophical roots of the subject, explaining how modern formal logic deals with issues ranging from the existence of God and the reality of time to paradoxes of probability ... Read more

    $7.59 CAD