Title: Science fiction and computing : essays on interlinked domains /
Authors: Ferro, David L.; Swedin, Eric Gottfrid.
Publisher: McFarland & Co.,
Year: 2011
Subjects: Science fiction History and criticism; Computers in literature.; Computer science History.
Abstract: "Given the decline in students entering scientific, engineering and mathematical disciplines in the United States, this is a particularly important question within computer science. The 18 chapters in this work explore the importance of science fiction as a body of literature that has, through various means, facilitated the invention and use of computers, and continues to do so" --Provided by publisher.
Contents: Technology's other storytellers : science fiction as history of technology / Thomas Haigh -- Computers in science fiction :anxiety and anticipation / Chris Pak -- Murray Leinster and "A logic named Joe" / ERic G. Swedin and David L. Ferro -- Atorox, a Finnish fictional robot with a changing personality in the late 1940s / Jaakko Suominen -- Computer science on the planet Krypton / Gary Westfahl -- Manned space flight and artificial intelligence : "natural" trajectories of technology / PAul E. Ceruzzi -- "That does not compute" : the brittleness bottleneck and the problem of semantics in science fiction / Lisa Nocks -- "Hello, computer" : the interplay of Star Trek and modern computing / Joshua Cuneo -- Turn off the gringo machine! The "electronic brain" and cybernetic imagination in Brazilian cinema / Alfredo Suppia -- A (brave new) world is more than a few gizmos crammed together: science fiction and cyberculture / Thierry Bardini -- True risks? The pleasures and perils of cyberspace / JAnet Abbate -- Science fiction as myth : cultural logic in Gibson's Neuromancer / R.C. Alvarado -- Creating a techno-mythology for a new age : the production history of The Lawnmower Man / David A. Kirby -- Embodiment, emotion, and moral experiences : the human and the machine in film / Hunter Heyck -- "Predicting the present" : overclocking Doctorow's Overclocked / Graham J. Murphy -- "Low on milk. I love you!" / Howard Taylor -- Nanotechnology tomorrows: nanocritters and other tiny things in science fiction / Richard L. McKinney -- Imagining the omniscient computer / David Toomey.