Papers by Stephen Robertson
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Libr Quart, 1994
... Fingers trained to guide tools to reshape the world in our image, bridging the gap between th... more ... Fingers trained to guide tools to reshape the world in our image, bridging the gap between those two infinities: human idea and tactile nature. ... This present work is then a test of the idea of nature as technology reveals it to us. ...
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Trec, 1998
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Proceedings of the 2006 International Workshop on Research Issues in Digital Libraries, Dec 12, 2006
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Trec, 2001
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電子情報通信学会誌, Sep 1, 2007
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Proceedings of the 4th Annual International Acm Sigir Conference, May 31, 1981
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Trec, 1999
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J Amer Soc Inform Sci, 1975
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Inex, 2006
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Information Retrieval, Apr 1, 2002
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Trec, 1999
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Papers by Stephen Robertson
Treading the line between philosophy and technical history, Robertson draws on his extensive technical knowledge to produce a text which is both thought-provoking and accessible to a wide range of readers. The book is wide in scope, exploring the development of technologies in such diverse areas as cryptography, visual art and music, and the postal system. Through all this, it does not simply aim to tell the story of computer developments but to show that those developments rely on a long history of humans creating technologies for increasingly sophisticated methods of manipulating information.
Through a clear structure and engaging style, it brings together a wealth of informative and conceptual explorations into the history of human technologies, and avoids assumptions about any prior knowledge on the part of the reader. As such, it has the potential to be of interest to the expert and the general reader alike.