The Basis of Computing

The URLs given here accompany Part I of the book Computers and People. There are other URL collections for Part II on the uses of computers, . . ,

Where a date such as (050809) is given following a URL, this gives the data the URL was last looked at by the author, in this example the date being the 9th of September 2005.


Chapter 1: The Basis of Computing
Technology Technology

AHRC Centre for the Evolutionary Analysis of Cultural Behaviour, Resources (050908)
The Boxgrove Project (see also Mark Roberts in British Archaeology (050908))


Digital Technology

Vervet monkey language (050908)

Glossogenetics (a book subtitled "The Origin and Evolution of Language" (050908))
The Hominid Brain ("hominid language abilities may be quite old, perhaps predating the toolmaking abilities that appear in stone" (050908))


People and Computers
Computers and People

Ian Hacking, The vanishing point, Australian Financial Review, 2005 September 16 (an interesting book review on, among other things, Alzheimer's disease and the problem of consciousness; London Review of Books)


The Law and Property