After Digital looks at where the field of computation began and where it might be headed, and offers predictions about a collaborative future relationship between human cognition and mechanical computation.

• Preface


• Chapter 1: The Past of the Future of Computation


• Chapter 2: Computing Hardware: Analog


• Chapter 3: Computing Hardware: Digital


• Chapter 4: Software: Making a Digital Computer Do Something Useful


• Chapter 5: Human Understanding of Complex Systems


• Chapter 6: An Engineer's Introduction to Neuroscience


• Chapter 7: The Brain Works by Logic


• Chapter 8: The Brain Doesn't Work by Logic


• Chapter 9: Association


• Chapter 10: Cerebral Cortex: Basics


• Chapter 11: Cerebral Cortex: Columns and Collaterals


• Chapter 12: Brain Theory: History


• Chapter 13: Brain Theory: Constraints


• Chapter 14: Programming


• Chapter 15: Brain Theory: Numbers


• Chapter 16: Return to Cognitive Science


• Chapter 17: Loose Ends: Biological and Artificial


• Chapter 18: The Near Future


• Chapter 19: Apotheosis: Yes! Or No?


• Notes


• Index

James A. Anderson has been a member of the faculty of Brown University since 1973 and is now Professor in the Department of Cognitive, Linguistic and Psychological Sciences. He received an SB in physics and PhD in physiology both from MIT. He has published extensively in the area of computational models for cognition and memory and computational neuroscience.