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"Mitchel Resnick's book is one of the very few in the field ofcomputing with an interdisciplinary discourse that can reach beyondthe technical community to philsophers, psychologists, and historiansand sociologists of science." Sherry Turkle , Professor, Program in Science, Technology, and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Mitchel Resnick is Associate Professor in the Media Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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- Hardcover: 192 pages
- Publisher: MIT Press (July 1994)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0262181622
- ISBN-13: 978-0262181624
- Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.9 x 0.4 inches
- Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
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I picked up this book while browsing the Computer Science section. The first line on the back cover drew me in: "How does a bird flock keep its movements so graceful and synchronized?" Unfortunately, this question (and others similar) was never really answered in the book. Rather than an intellectual or philosophical discussion of how organized behaviors develop from non-centrally-controlled systems in real life, the book seems to focus on why it happens in simplified computer simulations. The book is really about looking at organized behaviors from a decentralized perspective - using computer simulations to aid in this perspective. (Termite mounds, for example, aren't created by a "seed or lead" termite, they're in fact created by the behaviors common to individual termites, and the interaction of those termites with the environment, as is demonstrated in a simplified computer simulation.)