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Beowulf cluster computing with Linux
Beowulf clusters, which exploit mass-market PC hardware and software in conjunction with cost-effective commercial network technology, are becoming the platform for many scientific, engineering, and commercial applications. With growing popularity has come growing complexity. Addressing that complexity, Beowulf Cluster Computing with Linux and Beowulf Cluster Computing with Windows provide syst…
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- 9780262286770
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- 1 online resource (xxxiii, 496 pages) :illustrations.
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Beyond Hegel and Nietzsche :philosophy, culture, and agency
Are Hegel and Nietzsche philosophical opposites? Can twentieth-century Continental philosophers be categorized as either Hegelians or Nietzscheans? In this book Elliot Jurist places Hegel and Nietzsche in conversation with each other, reassessing their relationship in a way that affirms its complexity. Jurist examines Hegel's and Nietzsche's claim that philosophy and culture are linked and expl…
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- 0585442681
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- 1 online resource (xii, 355 pages).
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Communications policy in transition :the Internet and beyond
Papers from the 28th Telecommunications Policy Research Conference held in Alexandria, Va. in the Fall of 2000.Until the 1980s, it was presumed that technical change in most communications services could easily be monitored from centralized state and federal agencies. This presumption was long outdated prior to the commercialization of the Internet. With the Internet, the long-forecast converge…
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- 9780262270717
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- 1 online resource (xxii, 425 pages) :illustrations
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E-topia :"urban life, Jim--but not as we know it"
"The global digital network is not just a delivery system for email, Web pages, and digital television. It is a whole new form of urban infrastructure - one that will change the forms of our cities as dramatically as railroads, highways, electric power supply, and telephone networks did in the past. In this book, William J. Mitchell examines this new infrastructure and its implications for our …
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- 0585108978
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- 1 online resource (184 pages)
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Learning mathematics and Logo
These original essays summarize a decade of fruitful research and curriculum development using the LISP-derived language Logo. They discuss a range of issues in the areas of curriculum, learning, and mathematics, illustrating the ways in which Logo continues to provide a rich learning environment, one that allows pupil autonomy within challenging mathematical settings.Essays in the first sectio…
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- 9780262290883
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- 1 online resource (xxi, 483 pages) :illustrations.
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Learning in embedded systems
"A Bradford book."It is the first detailed exploration of the problem of learning action strategies in the context of designing embedded systems that adapt their behavior to a complex, changing environment; such systems include mobile robots, factory process controllers, and long-term software databases.Learning to perform complex action strategies is an important problem in the fields of artif…
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- 0262288508
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- 1 online resource (xi, 176 pages) :illustrations
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The land that could be :environmentalism and democracy in the twenty-first ce…
"In this book environmentalist and lawyer William Shutkin describes a new kind of environmental and social activism spreading across the nation, one that joins the pursuit of environmental quality with that of civic health and sustainable local economies. In the face of challenges posed by often corrosive market forces and widespread social disaffection, this civic environmentalism is creating …
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- 9780262283618
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- 1 online resource (xx, 273 pages).
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Kernel methods in computational biology
"A Bradford book."Modern machine learning techniques are proving to be extremely valuable for the analysis of data in computational biology problems. One branch of machine learning, kernel methods, lends itself particularly well to the difficult aspects of biological data, which include high dimensionality (as in microarray measurements), representation as discrete and structured data (as in DN…
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- 0262256924
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- 1 online resource (ix, 400 pages) :illustrations.
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Islamic science and the making of the European Renaissance
"The Islamic scientific tradition has been described many times in accounts of Islamic civilization and in general histories of science, with most authors tracing its beginnings to the appropriation of ideas from other ancient civilizations - the Greeks in particular. In this thought-provoking and original book, George Saliba argues that, contrary to the generally accepted view, the foundations…
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- 9780262282888
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- 1 online resource (xi, 315 pages) :illustrations.
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Is human nature obsolete? :genetics, bioengineering, and the future of the hu…
Papers from a conference held in spring 2001 at the University of Scranton.As our scientific and technical abilities expand at breathtaking speeds, concern that modern genetics and bioengineering are leading us to a posthuman future is growing. Is Human Nature Obsolete? poses the overarching question of what it is to be human against the background of these current advances in biotechnology. It…
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- 9780262267571
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- 1 online resource (x, 422 pages).
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