Sunday, November 13, 2011

[DMANET] New book about Turing Award winner Peter Naur

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`Pluralism in Software Engineering: Turing Award Winner Peter Naur Explains'
--- by Edgar G. Daylight
--- amazon: http://www.amazon.com/dp/949138600X

The 2005 Turing Award winner Peter Naur reflects back on his long career in computing, discussing several topics:
+ How do mathematics and programming relate?
+ What does philosophy have to do with software engineering?
+ How is life like at the neural level of the nervous system?
+ How important and how unpopular is Turing's 1936 paper today?

The book is published by Lonely Scholar: http://www.lonelyscholar.com/node/7
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