Customer Review: The author provides a balanced view of the "singularity" and gives Ray Kurzweil his due. The suggestion that humans learn programming languages to make us somewhat more acceptable to our AI successors is a bit of a stretch, as if we were dogs learning tricks to keep our owners feeding us. Of course,... more info
Customer Review: Seymour Cray was a genius who devoted his life to high performance computing. This book does a great job of conveying the intensity it takes to be great in your field of choice. Even an exceptional man like Cray encounters major problems which cannot always be overcome. It was also enjoyable to... more info
Customer Review: This books is utter rubbish : edited by Buyya and NOT written by Buyya. It's simply a compilation of research articles written by different authors. Rajkumar buyya has written ONLY the first introductory chapter, so his knowledge about the subject is seriously questionable. On the top of... more info
Customer Review: I guess every geek would have watched the movie "2001: The Space Odyssey" when the year 2001 arrived and asked a question what's missing? Why we still don't have anything even close to HAL? This book tries to answer the question by giving you essays written by experts in specific areas of computing.... more info
