The Second Age of Computer Science From Algol Genes to Neural Nets

Subrata Dasgupta is a scholar, teacher and writer. He holds the Computer Science Trust Fund Eminent Scholar Chair in the School of Computing & Informatics at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. For the past thirty years he has studied and written on the historical, philosophical, and cognitive nature of creativity in various fields including computer science, design, technology, art, natural science, and intellectual movements. He is the author of fifteen previous book including, most recently, It Began with Babbage (2014) and Computer Science: A Very Short Introduction (2016).