From Boolean Logic to Switching Circuits and Automata: Towards Modern Information Technology (Studies in Computational Intelligence, Band 335) - Softcover

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Radomir Stankovic received the B.Sc. degree in electronic engineering from the Faculty of Electronics, University of Ni v, Serbia, Yugoslavia in 1976, and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in applied mathematics from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia, in 1984 and 1986, respectively. Currently, he is a Professor at Department of Computer Science, University of Ni v, Serbia, Yugoslavia. His research interests include spectral techniques, switching theory and multiple-valued logic, and signal processing. He is a member of IEICE. Jaakko Astola (Fellow IEEE) received B.Sc., M.S.c, Licentiate and Ph.D. degrees in mathematics (specializing in error-correcting codes) from Turku University, Finland, in 1972, 1973, 1975, and 1978 respectively. From 1993 he has been Professor of Signal Processing and Director of Tampere International Center for Signal Processing leading a group of about 60 scientists and was nominated Academy Professor by Academy of Finland (2001-2006). His research interests include signal processing, coding theory, spectral techniques and statistics.

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Logic networks and automata are facets of digital systems. The change of the design of logic networks from skills and art into a scientific discipline was possible by the development of the underlying mathematical theory called the Switching Theory. The fundamentals of this theory come from the attempts towards an algebraic description of laws of thoughts presented in the works by George J. Boole and the works on logic by Augustus De Morgan.

As often the case in engineering, when the importance of a problem and the need for solving it reach certain limits, the solutions are searched by many scholars in different parts of the word, simultaneously or at about the same time, however, quite independently and often unaware of the work by other scholars. The formulation and rise of Switching Theory is such an example.

This book presents a brief account of the developments of Switching Theory and highlights some less known facts in the history of it. The readers will find the book a fresh look into the development of the field revealing how difficult it has been to arrive at many of the concepts that we now consider obvious . Researchers in the history or philosophy of computing will find this book a valuable source of information that complements the standard presentations of the topic.