The Pattern on the Stone: The Simple Ideas That Make Computers Work

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The Pattern on the Stone: The Simple Ideas that Make Computers Work is a book by W. Daniel Hillis, published in 1998 by Basic Books (ISBN 0-465-02595-1). The book attempts to explain concepts from computer science in layman's terms by metaphor and analogy. The book moves from Boolean algebra through topics such as information theory, parallel computing, cryptography, algorithm, heuristic, universal computing, Turing machine, and promising technologies such as quantum computing and emergent... full article at wikipedia

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