The computer and the brain
By: John von Neumann ; with a foreword by Paul M. Churchland and Patricia S. Churchland.
Contributors: Churchland, Paul M., 1942-; Churchland, Patricia Smith.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Series: Mrs. Hepsa Ely Silliman memorial lectures
Publisher: Yale Nota Bene
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New Haven, CT
Language: eng
Format: Softcover
Number of pages: 82
Copyright date: 1986
Subjects: Computers.; Cybernetics.
Description: This second edition has a foreword by Churchland & Churchland (c) 2000
Table of contents: label: Contents
pagenum: vii; label: Foreword to the Second Edition
pagenum: xi; label: Preface, by Klara von Neumann
pagenum: xxiii; label: Introduction
pagenum: 1; label: PART 1
title: THE COMPUTER
pagenum: 3; title: The Analog Procedure
pagenum: 3; title: The Conventional Basic Operations
pagenum: 4; title: Unusual Basic Operations 4; title: The Digital Procedure
pagenum: 6; title: Markers, Their Combinations and Embodiments
pagenum: 6; title: Digital Machine Types and Their Basic Components
pagenum: 7; title: Parallel and Serial Schemes
pagenum: 8; title: The Conventional Basic Operations
pagenum: 8; title: Logical Control
pagenum: 11; title: Plugged Control
pagenum: 12; title: Logical Tape Control
pagenum: 12; title: The Principle of Only One Organ for Each Basic Operation
pagenum: 13; title: The Consequent Need for a Special Memory Organ
pagenum: 14; title: Control by ``Control Sequence'' Points
pagenum: 14; title: Memory-Stored Control
pagenum: 17; title: Modus Operandi of the Memory-Stored Control
pagenum: 19; title: Mixed Forms of Control
pagenum: 20; title: Mixed Numerical Procedures
pagenum: 22; title: Mixed Representations of Numbers. Machines Built on This Basis
pagenum: 22; title: Precision
pagenum: 24; title: Reasons for the High (Digital) Precision Requirements
pagenum: 26; title: Characteristics of Modern Analog Machines
pagenum: 28; title: Characteristics of Modern Digital Machines
pagenum: 29; title: Active Components; Questions of Speed
pagenum: 30; title: Number of Active Components Required
pagenum: 30; title: Memory Organs. Access Times and Memory Capacities
pagenum: 31; title: Memory Registers Built from Active Organs
pagenum: 32; title: The Hierarchic Principle for Memory Organs
pagenum: 33; title: Memory Components; Questions of Access
pagenum: 34; title: Complexities of the Concept of Access Time
pagenum: 36; title: The Principle of Direct Addressing
pagenum: 37; label: PART 2
title: THE BRAIN
pagenum: 39; title: Simplified Description of the Function of the Neuron
pagenum: 39; title: The Nature of the Nerve Impulse
pagenum: 40; title: The Process of Stimulation
pagenum: 42; title: The Mechanism of Stimulating Pulses by Pulses; Its Digital Character
pagenum: 43; title: Time Characteristics of Nerve Response, Fatigue, and Recovery
pagenum: 44; title: Size of Neuron. Comparisons with Artificial Components
pagenum: 47; title: Energy Dissipation. Comparisons with Artificial Components
pagenum: 49; title: Summary of Comparisons
pagenum: 50; title: Stimulation Criteria
pagenum: 52; title: The Simplest-Elementary Logical
pagenum: 52; title: More Complicated Stimulation Criteria
pagenum: 53; title: The Threshold
pagenum: 55; title: The Summation Time
pagenum: 55; title: Stimulation Criteria for Receptors
pagenum: 56; title: The Problem of Memory within the Nervous System
pagenum: 60; title: Principles for Estimating the Capacity of the Memory in the Nervous System
pagenum: 61; title: Memory Capacity Estimates with These Stipulations
pagenum: 63; title: Various Possible Physical Embodiments of the Memory
pagenum: 64; title: Analogies with Artificial Computing Machines
pagenum: 66; title: The Underlying Componentry of the Memory Need Not Be the Same as That of the Basic Active Organs
pagenum: 66; title: Digital and Analog Parts in the Nervous System
pagenum: 68; title: Role of the Genetic Mechanism in the Above Context
pagenum: 69; title: Codes and Their Role in the Control of the Functioning of a Machine
pagenum: 70; title: The Concept of a Complete Code
pagenum: 70; title: The Concept of a Short Code
pagenum: 71; title: The Function of a Short Code
pagenum: 72; title: The Logical Structure of the Nervous System
pagenum: 74; title: Importance of the Numerical Procedures
pagenum: 74; title: Interaction of Numerical Procedures with Logic
pagenum: 75; title: Reasons for Expecting High Precision Requirements
pagenum: 75; title: Nature of the System of Notations Employed: Not Digital but Statistical
pagenum: 76; title: Arithmetical Deterioration. Roles of Arithmetical and Logical Depths
pagenum: 78; title: Arithmetical Precision or Logical Reliability, Alternatives
pagenum: 79; title: Other Statistical Traits of the Message System That Could Be Used
pagenum: 80; title: The Language of the Brain Not the Language of Mathematics
pagenum: 80