Sistemas emergentes: o qué tienen en común hormigas, neuronas, ciudades y software

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Turner Publicaciones, 2003 - 258 páginas
El gur de la inform tica, Stephen Johnson, propone que la organizaci n espont nea y sin leyes expl citas que ocurre en las colonias de hormigas, en el cerebro humano o en las ciudades, se debe a las reglas de la emergencia seg n las cuales los agentes de un nivel inferior adoptan comportamientos de un nivel superior. Para demostrarlo, nos lleva a un recorrido por algunas aplicaciones de su teor a que incluyen la formaci n, en el futuro, de una World Wide Web inteligente.

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Steven Johnson was born on June 6, 1968. He received an undergraduate degree at Brown University, where he studied semiotics, and later went on to receive a graduate degree in English literature from Columbia University. He is the author of several books including Future Perfect: The Case for Progress in a Networked Age; Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation; The Invention of Air: A Story of Science, Faith, Revolution and the Birth of America; and The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic-and How it Changed Science, Cities and the Modern World. His book, How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World, was the subject of a six-part series on PBS, which he also hosted.

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