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The Civic Potential of Video Games
This report focuses on the civic aspects of video game play among youth. According to a 2006 survey, 58 percent of young people aged 15 to 25 were civically "disengaged," meaning that they participated in fewer than two types of either electoral activities (defined as voting, campaigning, etc.) or civic activities (for example, volunteering). Kahne and his coauthors are interested in what role …
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The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age
In this report, Cathy Davidson and David Theo Goldberg focus on the potential for shared and interactive learning made possible by the Internet. They argue that the single most important characteristic of the Internet is its capacity for world-wide community and the limitless exchange of ideas. The Internet brings about a way of learning that is not new or revolutionary but is now the norm for …
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Disaster robotics
This book acts as a guide to the theory and practice of disaster robotics. It can serve as an introduction for researchers and technologists, a reference for emergency managers, and a textbook in field robotics. After an overview of rescue robotics in the context of emergency informatics, it provides a chronological summary and formal analysis of the thirty-four documented deployments of robots…
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- 9780262321303
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- 1 online resource (xvl, 224 pages) :illustrations.
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The New Science of Cities
A proposal for a new way to understand cities and their design not as artifacts but as systems composed of flows and networks.
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Borges and memory :encounters with the human brain
Discusses the science of memory and the interpretation of memory in the novels of Jorge Luis Borges and earlier literatures.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262305877
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- 1 online resource (ix, 213 pages) :illustrations
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A guide for the young economist
This book is an invaluable guide for young economists working on their dissertations, preparing their first articles for submission to professional journals, getting ready for their first presentations at conferences and job seminars, or facing their first refereeing assignments. In clear, concise language--a model for what he advocates--William Thomson shows how to make written and oral presen…
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- 0585387907
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 118 pages) : illustrations (some color)
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HAL's legacy : 2001's computer as dream and reality
I became operational... in Urbana, Illinois, on January 12, 1997. Inspired by HAL's self-proclaimed birth date, HAL's Legacy reflects upon science fiction's most famous computer and explores the relationship between science fantasy and technological fact. The informative, nontechnical chapters written especially for this book describe many of the areas of computer science critical to the des…
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- 9780262284455
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- 1 online resource (xxi, 384 pages) : illustrations (some color)
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- 001 HAL
Ham radio's technical culture
Decades before the Internet, ham radio provided instantaneous, global, person-to-person communication. Hundreds of thousands of amateur radio operators—a predominantly male, middle- and upper-class group known as "hams"—built and operated two-way radios for recreation in mid twentieth century America. In Ham Radio's Technical Culture, Kristen Haring examines why so many men adopted the tech…
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 220 pages) : illustrations.
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A hammer in their hands : a documentary history of technology and the African…
Scholars working at the intersection of African-American history and the history of technology are redefining the idea of technology to include the work of the skilled artisan and the ingenuity of the self-taught inventor. Although denied access through most of American history to many new technologies and to the privileged education of the engineer, African-Americans have been engaged with a r…
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- 0262162253
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 397 pages) : illustrations
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The handbook of brain theory and neural networks
"A Bradford Book.""Dramatically updating and extending the first edition, published in 1995, the second edition of The Handbook of Brain Theory and Neural Networks presents the enormous progress made in recent years in the many subfields related to the two great questions: How does the brain work? and, How can we build intelligent machines? Once again, the heart of the book is a set of almost 3…
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- 0262011972
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 1290 pages) : illustrations.
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