A leading mind in the world of artificial intelligence answers the provocative question: "Can we introduce emotion into the computer?"

Can we introduce emotion into the computer? David Gelernter, one of the leading lights in artificial intelligence today, begins The Muse in the Machine with this provocative question. In providing an answer, he not only points to a future revolution in computers, but radically changes our views of the human mind itself. Bringing together insights from computer science, cognitive psychology, philosophy of mind, and literary theory, David Gelernter...

Contains the edited versions of research papers presented at the 5th Workshop on Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing, held at Yale University, USA, in August 1992. A cross-section of contemporary developments in the field are provided.

This volume contains papers selected for presentation at the 6th Annual Workshop on Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing. The workshop was hosted by the Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology. All major research efforts in parallel languages and compilers are represented in this workshop series.

This volume presents revised versions of the 32 papers accepted for the Seventh Annual Workshop on Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing, held in Ithaca, NY in August 1994.
The 32 papers presented report on the leading research activities in languages and compilers for parallel computing and thus reflect the state of the art in the field. The volume is organized in sections on fine-grain parallelism, align- ment and distribution, postlinear loop transformation, parallel structures, program analysis, computer communication, automatic parallelization, languages for parallelism,...

The Internet has so entirely transformed virtually all aspects of everyday life that it seems almost impossible to assess its impact. Here, 19 esteemed scholars from around the world tackle the topic from different angles. Manuel Castells, David Gelernter, Juan Ignacio Vazquez, Evgeni Morozov, Mikko Hypponen, Yochai Benkler, Federico Casalegno, David Crystal, Lucien Engelen, Patrik Wikstrom, Peter Hirshberg, Paul DiMaggio and Edward Castronova address such matters as the -Internet of things-; the sociology of the Internet; cybercrime and Internet security; the future of work; the Internet and...