The two kinds of “structured analysis” just introduced are of course interrelated. Different LoEs—e.g., the end-user’s LoE of how an applications package is to be used versus the programmer’s LoE of how it is executed by the machine—are con…Hughes, P., & Brecht, G. (1976). Vicious circles and infinity: A panoply of paradoxes. London: Cape. Originally published: Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1975.
Kant, I. (1998). Critique of pure reason repr. w. corr. (trans: Guyer, P., & Woo…
Ron McClamrock
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McClamrock develops the concept of "Levels of Description" (LoD) and "Levels of Analysis" (LoA) to formalize how systems can be understood at different scales of abstraction—a framework that proves essential for thinking about the gap between high-level user experience and low-level machine execution in computational systems. His work appears here to ground discussion of how AI systems operate across multiple representational and operational registers simultaneously, allowing the course to move beyond naive notions of what a "system" actually does or means.
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