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Isaac Newton's natural philosophy
Newton studies have undergone radical changes in the last half-century as more of his work has been uncovered and more details of his life and intellectual context have come to light. This volume singles out two strands in recent Newton studies: the intellectual background to Newton's scientific thought and both specific and general aspects of his technical science. The essays make new claims c…
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- 9780262269490
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- 1 online resource (xx, 354 pages) :illustrations.
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Logic programming :proceedings of the eleventh International Conference on Lo…
Conference proceedings presenting the state-of-the-art in Logic Programming.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262257145
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- 1 online resource (xx, 752 pages).
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Mechanics of robotic manipulation
"A Bradford book."""Manipulation" refers to a variety of physical changes made to the world around us. Mechanics of Robotic Manipulation addresses one form of robotic manipulation, moving objects, and the various processes involved--grasping, carrying, pushing, dropping, throwing, and so on. Unlike most books on the subject, it focuses on manipulation rather than manipulators. This attention to…
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- 9780262256629
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- 1 online resource (xi, 253 pages) :illustrations.
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Me++ :the cyborg self and the networked city
"With Me++ the author of City of Bits and e-topia completes an informal trilogy examining the ramifications of information technology in everyday life. William Mitchell describes the transformation of wireless technology in the hundred years since Marconi: the scaling up of networks and the scaling down of the apparatus for transmission and reception. He examines the effects of wireless linkage…
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- 9780262280020
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- 1 online resource (259 pages)
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Managing European Union enlargement
Leading international economists assess the effects of the 2004 expansion of the European Union.In May 2004 the European Union will undergo the largest expansion in its history when ten countries--Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia--become members. The number of new members and their diversity make this "big bang" enlargement p…
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- 9780262268202
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- 1 online resource (vi, 313 pages) :illustrations.
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Making space :the development of spatial representation and reasoning
"A Bradford book."Spatial competence is a central aspect of human adaptation. To understand human cognitive functioning, we must understand how people code the locations of things, how they navigate in the world, and how they represent and mentally manipulate spatial information. Until recently three approaches have dominated thinking about spatial development. Followers of Piaget claim that in…
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- 9780262280594
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- 1 online resource (xii, 262 pages) :illustrations.
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Making Silicon Valley :innovation and the growth of high tech, 1930-1970
In Making Silicon Valley, Christophe Lecuyer shows that the explosive growth of the personal computer industry in Silicon Valley was the culmination of decades of growth and innovation in the San Francisco-area electronics industry. Using the tools of science and technology studies, he explores the formation of Silicon Valley as an industrial district, from its beginnings as the home of a few r…
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- 9780262322591
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- 1 online resource (407 pages) :illustrations.
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Made-up minds :a constructivist approach to artificial intelligence
Outgrowth of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology."Made-Up Minds addresses fundamental questions of learning and concept invention by means of an innovative computer program that is based on the cognitive-developmental theory of psychologist Jean Piaget. Drescher uses Piaget's theory as a source of inspiration for the design of an artificial cognitive system calle…
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- 0585349851
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- 1 online resource (x, 220 pages) :illustrations.
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Low-density parity-check codes
"MIT Press.""This is a complete presentation of all important theoretical and experimental work done on low-density codes. Low-density coding is one of the three techniques thus far developed for efficient communication over noisy channels with an arbitrarily low probability of error. A principal result of information theory is that if properly coded information is transmitted over a noisy chan…
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- 9780262256216
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Looking into pictures :an interdisciplinary approach to pictorial space
"A Bradford book."AnnotationOCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262275163
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 417 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates) :illustrations (some color).
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