The Bactra Review   Subject Index

Computers and Computing


  Dana H. Ballard, An Introduction to Natural Computation
  Daniel C. Dennett, Brainchildren: Essays on Designing Minds
  Marco Dorigo and Marco Colombetti, Robot Shaping: An Experiment in Behavior Engineering
  Greg Egan, Permutation City
  Gary William Flake, The Computational Beauty of Nature: Computer Explorations of Fractals, Chaos, Complex Systems, and Adaptation
  David Hand, Heikki Mannila and Padhraic Smyth, Principles of Data Mining [Review forthcoming]
  John H. Holland, Keith J. Holyoak, Richard E. Nisbett and Paul R. Thagard, Induction: Processes of Inference, Learning, and Discovery
  Andrew Ilachinski, Cellular Automata: A Discrete Universe
  Michael J. Kearns and Umesh V. Vazirani, An Introduction to Computational Learning Theory
  Heinz Pagels, The Dreams of Reason
  Rolf Pfeifer and Christian Scheier, Understanding Intelligence [Review forthcoming]
  William Poundstone, Labyrinths of Reason: Paradox, Puzzles and the Frailty of Knowledge
  William Poundstone, The Recursive Universe [Review forthcoming]
  Mitchel Resnick, Turtles, Termites and Traffic Jams: Explorations in Massively Parallel Microworlds
  Herbert Simon, The Sciences of the Artificial [Review forthcoming]
  Chris Thornton, Truth from Trash: How Learning Makes Sense
  Sholom M. Weiss and Nitin Indurkhya, Predictive Data Mining: A Practical Guide [Review forthcoming]
  G. Pascal Zachary, Endless Frontier: Vannevar Bush, Engineer of the American Century [Review forthcoming]
Cf. Artificial Life; Cellular Automata; Cognitive Science; Design; the Information Society; Logic; Self-organization, Complexity, etc.