Most people are baffled by how computers work and assume that they will never understand them. What they don't realize—and what Daniel Hillis's short book brilliantly demonstrates—is that computers' seemingly complex operations can be broken down into a few simple parts that perform the same simple procedures over and over again. Computer wizard Hillis offers an easy-to-follow ...(展开全部)

Most people are baffled by how computers work and assume that they will never understand them. What they don't realize—and what Daniel Hillis's short book brilliantly demonstrates—is that computers' seemingly complex operations can be broken down into a few simple parts that perform the same simple procedures over and over again. Computer wizard Hillis offers an easy-to-follow ...(展开全部)

Every day, we use our computers to perform remarkable feats. A simple web search picks out a handful of relevant needles from the world's biggest haystack: the billions of pages on the World Wide Web. Uploading a photo to Facebook transmits millions of pieces of information over numerous error-prone network links, yet somehow a perfect copy of the photo arrives intact. Without ...(展开全部)

Every day, we use our computers to perform remarkable feats. A simple web search picks out a handful of relevant needles from the world's biggest haystack: the billions of pages on the World Wide Web. Uploading a photo to Facebook transmits millions of pieces of information over numerous error-prone network links, yet somehow a perfect copy of the photo arrives intact. Without ...(展开全部)

迈克尔·鲁尔曼，畅销美食作家，曾就读于美国厨艺学院（Culinary Institute of America）。勤于笔耕又精于烹饪，堪称是最有厨师灵魂的作家。美食写作生涯获奖无数，曾与多位名厨共事。与美国主厨托马斯·凯勒（Thomas Kel ler）合作《法国洗衣 店餐厅食谱》（The French Laundry Cookbook）、与法国主厨埃里克·里佩尔（Eric Ripert）合著《回归烹饪》（A Return to Cooking）等书，另著有《完美烹饪全书：一看就懂的1000个料理关键字》（The Elements of Cooking）《大厨的诞生》(The Making of a Chef)《大厨的灵魂》(The Soul of a Chef)《美食黄金比例》(RATIO:The Simple Codes Behind the C...(展开全部)

罗里·萨瑟兰，OgilvyOne现任执行创意总监，曾任英国奥美集团副董事长、奥美旗下“行为科学实践”项目创始人。《旁观者》周刊专栏作家，曾任英国广告从业者协会（The Institute of Practitioners in Advertising）主席，该协会是英国广告、媒体和营销传播机构的专业组织。他的TED演讲浏览超过750万次。现住在伦敦。

高罗佩（1910—1967），荷兰外交官，著名汉学家，先后在荷兰驻日本、中国、印度、马来西亚等国的使馆工作，精通多种欧亚语言，是中西文化交流史上的传奇人物。他曾评价自己一身三任：外交官是他的职业，汉学是他的终身事业，写小说是他的业余爱好。代表作有《琴道》《秘戏图考》《中国古代房内考》等，而大型推理探案小说系列“大唐狄公案”在东西方读者中影响巨大。

Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart invites readers to embark on a new journey into a land of rationality that differs from the familiar territory of cognitive science and economics. Traditional views of rationality tend to see decision makers as possessing superhuman powers of reason, limitless knowledge, and all of eternity in which to ponder choices. To understand decisions...(展开全部)

Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart invites readers to embark on a new journey into a land of rationality that differs from the familiar territory of cognitive science and economics. Traditional views of rationality tend to see decision makers as possessing superhuman powers of reason, limitless knowledge, and all of eternity in which to ponder choices. To understand decisions...(展开全部)