Title: Understanding computers and cognition :
Authors: Winograd, Terry.; Flores, Fernando.
Date: 1986
Publisher: Ablex Pub. Corp.,
Physical description: xiv, 207 pages ; 24 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: Q
Abstract: Understanding Computers and Cognition presents an important and controversial new approach to understanding what computers do and how their functioning is related to human language, thought, and action. While it is a book about computers, Understanding Computers and Cognition goes beyond the specific issues of what computers can or can't do. It is a broad-ranging discussion exploring the background of understanding in which the discourse about computers and technology takes place. Understanding Computers and Cognition is written for a wide audience, not just those professionals involved in computer design or artificial intelligence. It represents an important contribution to the ongoing discussion about what it means to be a machine, and what it means to be human.
Contents: Part I. Theoretical Background. 1. Introduction --- 2. The rationalistic tradition --- 3. Understanding and Being --- 4. Cognition as a biological phenomenon --- 5. Language, listening, and commitment --- 6. Towards a new orientation ---- Part II. Computation, Thought, and Language. 7. Computers and representation --- 8. Computation and intelligence --- 9. Understanding language --- 10. Current directions in artificial intelligence ---- Part III. Design. Part III. Design --- 12. Using computers: a direction for design.
Notes: "Version of December 21, 1984." Includes index.
Subject headings (LCSH): Computers.; System design.