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Gilder, George

The silicon eye / George Gilder - New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2005 - 318 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Prologue : who is Carver Mead? -- Delbrück bursts in -- The fourth camera -- Merrill’s view -- The charged competition -- Annealing neurons -- FF -- Beyond the silicon gate -- Tobermory -- The Hopfield net -- Carverland -- Michelle -- Misha -- Synaptics -- The analog perplex -- Seizing the sword -- The cat -- Teleology at Oxford -- White rabbit -- Merrill’s magic -- Lyon’s den of many colors -- Photokina 2000 and beyond -- Foveon’s disruptive challenge -- Holy kammoli! -- Foveon raw in Vegas -- Epilogue : camera’s end

ISBN: 0393057631

Subjects--Personal Names:
Mead, Carver
Faggin, Federico, 1941-

Subjects--Topical Terms:
High technology industries--California--Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County)
Digital electronics
Photography--Digital techniques
Electronic digital computers
Artificial intelligence

Dewey Class. No.: 338.76 / G468T