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The practical intellect : computers and skills / Bo Göranzon.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Artificial intelligence and societyPublisher: London ; New York : Springer-Verlag, [1993]Copyright date: ©1993Description: 1 online resource (x, 113 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781447138686 (electronic bk.)
  • 1447138686 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Practical intellect.; No titleDDC classification:
  • 006.3 20
Online resources:
Partial contents:
1. Computers and Knowledge. Tabulation -- a Classic Use of Computer Technology. Operations Analysis and Computerization. The Introduction of the 'Dialogue Computer'. Using Time-Sharing in Planning. Computers and Skills -- the Automation of Advanced Calculations. Understanding a Computer System -- 2. The Computerization of a Work Process: A Case Study of the Long-term Effects on Professional Skills. The Research Method. The County Agricultural Boards and Forest Valuation. The Main Sources of Information. The Development of a Forest Valuation Method. Standardization. What were the Effects on Judgment over Time? The Intermittent Function -- a New Occupational Group. A Crowing Conflict. Automated Cost Estimates. The Local View. Maintenance of the Forest Rangers' Professional Skills. The Phenomenon of Duality -- 3. The Dream of the Exact Language. Ars Magna: Thinking as Calculation. Clavis Magna. The Effectiveness of Language. What is meant by 'Interpreting' a Calculation? The Principle of the Economy of Thought. Alternatives to the Mathematical View of Knowledge in the Age of Enlightenment. Rhythm in Work: Thinking as Doing. Diderot's Paradox -- 4. Literature, Language and Learning: Turing's Paradox and the Metaphor of Caliban. Research Method: Art as a Source of Knowledge. The Turing Machine. Turing -- the Paradox. Turing's Man. Theatre and Technology. Literature, Reflection and the Theory of Knowledge. The Metaphor of Caliban in our Technological Culture -- 5. The Practical Intellect. Is the Computer a Tool? EDP at the Social Insurance Offices -- a Case Study. The ALLFA Project. The Research Method -- the Study Circle. Computerized Administration. The Inner Weather Picture. Practice: Rule Following. Certainty in Action. Three Categories of Knowledge in a Practice. Transferring a Working Culture. Socrates as Knowledge Engineer. Transferring Ethics in a Working Culture -- a Socratic Task. Expertise -- 6. Education and Professional Knowledge. Computation and Analytical Skills. The Information Society. Education for the Practical Intellect. Judging Light in Photography. A Final Comment.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 105-110) and index.

1. Computers and Knowledge. Tabulation -- a Classic Use of Computer Technology. Operations Analysis and Computerization. The Introduction of the 'Dialogue Computer'. Using Time-Sharing in Planning. Computers and Skills -- the Automation of Advanced Calculations. Understanding a Computer System -- 2. The Computerization of a Work Process: A Case Study of the Long-term Effects on Professional Skills. The Research Method. The County Agricultural Boards and Forest Valuation. The Main Sources of Information. The Development of a Forest Valuation Method. Standardization. What were the Effects on Judgment over Time? The Intermittent Function -- a New Occupational Group. A Crowing Conflict. Automated Cost Estimates. The Local View. Maintenance of the Forest Rangers' Professional Skills. The Phenomenon of Duality -- 3. The Dream of the Exact Language. Ars Magna: Thinking as Calculation. Clavis Magna. The Effectiveness of Language. What is meant by 'Interpreting' a Calculation? The Principle of the Economy of Thought. Alternatives to the Mathematical View of Knowledge in the Age of Enlightenment. Rhythm in Work: Thinking as Doing. Diderot's Paradox -- 4. Literature, Language and Learning: Turing's Paradox and the Metaphor of Caliban. Research Method: Art as a Source of Knowledge. The Turing Machine. Turing -- the Paradox. Turing's Man. Theatre and Technology. Literature, Reflection and the Theory of Knowledge. The Metaphor of Caliban in our Technological Culture -- 5. The Practical Intellect. Is the Computer a Tool? EDP at the Social Insurance Offices -- a Case Study. The ALLFA Project. The Research Method -- the Study Circle. Computerized Administration. The Inner Weather Picture. Practice: Rule Following. Certainty in Action. Three Categories of Knowledge in a Practice. Transferring a Working Culture. Socrates as Knowledge Engineer. Transferring Ethics in a Working Culture -- a Socratic Task. Expertise -- 6. Education and Professional Knowledge. Computation and Analytical Skills. The Information Society. Education for the Practical Intellect. Judging Light in Photography. A Final Comment.

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