J. Robert Logan
ABSTRACT
The time is ripe for a completely new philosophy in the area of “design”. We are accustomed to thinking that the task of working out causal relationships requires the “feel” that only a human can provide. There is no concrete evidence to support this.
There is evidence to the effect that design can be relegated to the field of data processing. It can be made completely deterministic. This being the case, we turn our attentions to applicable data processing techniques.
Index Terms
- The P method, a design philosophy
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