A History from Wittgenstein to the World Wide Web)
β Scribed by Watson, Peter
- Book ID
- 108060817
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 1 MB
- Series
- The Modern Mind - An Intellectual History of the 20th Century A Terrible Beauty; Ideas
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0060194138
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β¦ Synopsis
From Freud to Babbitt, from Animal Farm to Sartre to the Great Society, from the Theory of Relativity to counterculture to Kosovo, The Modern Mind is encyclopedic, covering the major writers, artists, scientists, and philosophers who produced the ideas by which we live. Peter Watson has produced a fluent and engaging narrative of the intellectual tradition of the twentieth century, and the men and women who created it.
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
The World Wide Web is a vast source of information accessible to computers, but understandable only to humans. The goal of the research described here is to automatically create a computer understandable knowledge base whose content mirrors that of the World Wide Web. Such a knowledge base would ena