Exploring Extreme Programming
The Sciences of the Artificial (3/e), Herbert A. Simon, MIT, 1996. The Tree of Knowledge, Humberto R. Maturana and Francisco J. Varela, Shambhala, 1992. These books represent two very different approaches to understanding the nature of intelligence. Simon comes from Continue reading Review – The Sciences of the Artifical, The Tree of Knowledge
Hidden Order, John H. Holland. Addison-Wesley, 1995. This is a readable and interesting introduction to Holland’s approach to complex adaptive systems. It touches on agents and emergence, and considers models that are being designed and built in software. The clarity Continue reading Review – Hidden Order
Understanding Computers and Cognition: A New Foundation for Design, Terry Winograd and Fernando Flores. Addison-Wesley, 1987. My favorite part is the notion of explicit conversations for action: making requests, counter-proposals, etc. (Reviewed Nov., ’02)