October 11, 2008 [Originally published 12/16/07]
In my last post, I talked about some of the Stupid Book Covers in my collection. After that, I figured I should also go ahead and talk about some of the book covers in my collection that are actually good.
Behold! More covers!!
Literature, Offbeat October 11, 2008 [Originally published 12/10/07]
One thing that I've noticed over the years is that Computer Science books usually have covers that have nothing to do with the subject at hand. Some covers just have a colorful design with no real picture, some feature random animals, and others are, well, just plain stupid.
Here are some of the worst book covers that I have in my personal collection.
Literature, Offbeat October 9, 2008 [Originally published 08/10/07]
A new book is out, entitled Computer Science Reconsidered: The Invocation Model of Process Expression. In this book, the author, Karl M. Fant, seeks to remove mathematics, more specifically, the notion of the algorithm, from it's position as the foundation of Computer Science.
"Mathematicians and computer scientists are pursuing fundamentally different aims, and the mathematician's tools are not as appropriate as was once supposed to the questions of the computer scientist. The primary questions of computer science are not of computational possibilities but of expressional possibilities. Computer science does not need a theory of computation; it needs a comprehensive theory of process expression."
There are so many things wrong with this man's ideas that I don't know if I'll be able to fit it all in one blog post, but I'll do my best to sum it all up.
Algorithm, Literature, Programming 
