商品簡介
Tedow introduces the relatively new field of web science and supports the notion that the web is a new life form. Drawing from a variety of disciplines including life sciences, Tedow compares unprogrammed behaviors of the internet with the behaviors of life forms and finds marked similarities. He also finds that none of this is new, although it has been marred by web myth and folklore, but that the universe presents infinite possibilities for the definition of life. He also examines the spectrum of complexity, the importance of discreteness and symmetry, natural structures for man-made machines and he resulting curvature, positional information and scale-free networks, evolution through engineering, the boundless nature of organics, posthuman concepts, the physics of it all, counter arguments and objective opinions, and extra material on the semantic web. Annotation c2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Philip Tetlow is a Senior Certified IT Architect in IBM's Global Business Services Division, a Chartered Engineer, and an Open Group Master IT Architect. He has more than twenty years of experience in the IT industry, specializing in the application of Web-based technologies, metadata, and transformation techniques on large central government systems. He is a member of the World Wide Web Consortium and was responsible for coordinating its task force on the application of the semantic Web in software engineering.
