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Zusatztext 'Phil Tetlow was not only one of the world's first Web Scientists! but he takes great pleasure in pushing hard on just about every boundary within reach. His ideas are both fresh and profound and I am really pleased to see a work from him that will keep us all thinking. It is bound to be controversial! but then what is science without controversy?' Professor Dame Wendy Hall DBE FRS FREng 'Phil enjoys challenging current thinking. He is an engaging and thoughtful teacher' - Paul Martynenko! Vice President & Technical Executive! IBM Europe Informationen zum Autor Dr Philip Tetlow! CEng! FIET is a Certified IT Architect! Web Scientist and one time W3C member. He is a Senior Certified Executive IT Architect and member of the Technical Consultancy Group in IBM's Global Business Services division. Dr Tetlow has many years' experience of delivering large complex IT systems and has specialised in Web related architectures for nearly a decade. He has presented on Web Science at the Royal Society! London! and is a Visiting Fellow at the University of York! UK. Dr Tetlow is the author of the 2007 book The Web's Awake! which was arguably the first ever book on what is now known as web science. Klappentext The World Wide Web is truly astounding. If the Web is natural to its core! that raises some fundamental questions. It forces us! for example! to ask if the central properties of the Web might be more elemental than the truths we cling to from our understandings of the physical world. This book is about such questions. Zusammenfassung The World Wide Web is truly astounding. If the Web is natural to its core, that raises some fundamental questions. It forces us, for example, to ask if the central properties of the Web might be more elemental than the truths we cling to from our understandings of the physical world. This book is about such questions. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: Foreword! Yorick Wilks; Foreword. L.J. Rich; Preface; Introduction; Dot-to-dots point the way; Hitler! Turing and quantum mechanics; A different perspective on numbers! straight lines and other such mathematical curiosities; Twists! turns and nature's preference for curves; Curves of curves; To process or not?; Information and computation as a field; Why are conic sections important?; The gifts that Newton gave! Turing opened and which no chapter one has really appreciated yet; Einstein's torch bearers; Special relativity; General relativity; Beyond the fourth dimension; Time to reformulate with a little help from information retrieval research; Supporting evidence; Where does this get us?; References; Index. ...
