• DocumentCode
    1316402
  • Title

    The Computer in the Mirror

  • Author

    Grier, David Alan ; Dumbacher, Erin Dian

  • Volume
    45
  • Issue
    10
  • fYear
    2012
  • Firstpage
    128
  • Lastpage
    128
  • Abstract
    Computer science seems to be moving rapidly into the social sciences, not to build machines that simulate our actions but to hold up a mirror to our lives. The Web extra at http://youtu.be/mz2UiSn-oZk is an audio podcast of authors David Alan Grier and Erin Dian Dumbacher, in which they discuss how computer science seems to be moving rapidly into the social sciences, not to build machines that simulate our actions but to hold up a mirror to our lives.
  • Keywords
    Internet; social sciences; Web extra; audio podcast; computer science; human action simulation; social sciences; computer science; computing and society; machine learning; social science;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Computer
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9162
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MC.2012.356
  • Filename
    6329901