Edmund Berkeley and the social responsibility of computer professionals /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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[New York] : [San Rafael, California] :
Association for Computing Machinery ; Morgan & Claypool,
2015.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | ACM books ;
#6. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Abstract: | Edmund Callis Berkeley was born on March 20, 1909 in New York City. From 1918- 1923, he attended St. Bernard's School for Boys at 111 East 60th Street, where he learned about the sciences, the arts, creativity, and character. During that time, Berkeley recalled, "The first ambition I ever had was to paint black fences orange. In New York in the East Sixties when I was a child being taken to the park, I used to see every now and then men in white suits transforming dirty iron fences into radiant red-orange glory." Berkeley never lost this ambition to transform "what is" into "what could be." Ultimately, Berkeley's story is one of electronic computer development and politics. Ever the inventor, Berkeley transformed his visions of the future into intelligent machines to help people make good decisions. Ever the teacher, Berkeley transformed his trials into parables to help people tell truth from falsehood. With the perspective of time, we can follow his story somewhere in the grey areas between true and false. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource PDF (xii, 208 pages) : illustrations. Also available in print. |
| Format: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-208). |
| ISSN: | 2374-6777 ; |
| DOI: | 10.1145/2787754 |
| Access: | Abstract freely available; full-text restricted to subscribers or individual document purchasers. |