In the 17th century, Descartes put forth the metaphor of the machine to explain the functioning of living beings. In the 18th century, La Mettrie extended the metaphor to man. The clock was then used as the paradigm of the machine. In the 20th century, this metaphor still held but the clock was replaced by a computer. Nowadays, the organism is viewed as a robot obeying signals emanating from a ...

After some previous comments, thoughts and self-justification, the talk will address first what the speaker understands about the concepts of Information Systems Engineering and Software Engineering from the research point of view. Some works from other authors about research approaches and facts on those disciplines will be presented and, in some sense, incorporated to the speaker’s claim. The...

In the 17th century, Descartes put forth the metaphor of the machine to explain the functioning of living beings. In the 18th century, La Mettrie extended the metaphor to man. The clock was then used as the paradigm of the machine. In the 20th century, this metaphor still held but the clock was replaced by a computer. Nowadays, the organism is viewed as a robot obeying signals emanating from a ...

In the 17th century, Descartes put forth the metaphor of the machine to explain the functioning of living beings. In the 18th century, La Mettrie extended the metaphor to man. The clock was then used as the paradigm of the machine. In the 20th century, this metaphor still held but the clock was replaced by a computer. Nowadays, the organism is viewed as a robot obeying signals emanating from a ...

In the 17th century, Descartes put forth the metaphor of the machine to explain the functioning of living beings. In the 18th century, La Mettrie extended the metaphor to man. The clock was then used as the paradigm of the machine. In the 20th century, this metaphor still held but the clock was replaced by a computer. Nowadays, the organism is viewed as a robot obeying signals emanating from a ...

that gained speed in the nineteenth and twentieth century in the western world, a typical modernist practice of technology politics emerged. The concepts of modernization and modernity need to be handled with care, of course, since their use may easily lead to an identification with modernizers, actors who have invented and used these labels to advance their cause. In addition, using these conc...

with the publication of the first book by menger, the austrian school was established in 1871. while different factors such as migration of the austrian scholars to foreign countries and focus on market mechanisms against the ideas of down drift from crisis led to the decline of this school in 1930s, it reemerged in 1970s due to the same factors, too. the purposes in this research– by using lib...

Evolutionnists have often had a marked tendency to think that, in the course of times, planetary events were not very different from those occuring during a human life. However, when a « not human » time scale is used, the history of our planet appears to be profoundly and frequently disturbed by extreme events. These events, even not always instantaneous, impose because of their amplitude a se...