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    <namePart>Von Neumann, John</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1903-1957</namePart>
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    <namePart>Kurzweil, Ray</namePart>
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    <dateIssued encoding="marc">2012</dateIssued>
    <edition>3rd ed. /</edition>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <tableOfContents>The computer. The analog procedure ; The digital procedure ; Logical control ; Mixed numerical procedures ; Precision ; Characteristics of modern analog machines ; Characteristics of modern digital machines  -- The brain. Simplified description of the function of the neuron ; The nature of the nerve impulse ; Stimulation criteria ; The problem of memory within the nervous system ; Digital and analog parts in the nervous system ; Codes and their role in the control of the functioning of a machine ; The logical structure of the nervous system ; Nature of the system of notations employed: not digital but statistical ; The language of the brain not the language of mathematics.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">John von Neumann ; foreword by Ray Kurzweil.</note>
  <note>Previous ed.: 2000.</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references.</note>
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