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The comingled code :open source and economic development
In this book, Josh Lerner and Mark Schankerman, drawing on a new, large-scale database, show that open source and proprietary software interact in sometimes unexpected ways, and discuss the policy implications of these findings.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262289573
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- 1 online resource (xii, 238 pages) :illustrations
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Scholarship in the digital age :information, infrastructure, and the Internet
Scholars in all fields now have access to an unprecedented wealth of online information, tools, and services. The Internet lies at the core of an information infrastructure for distributed, data-intensive, and collaborative research. Although much attention has been paid to the new technologies making this possible, from digitized books to sensor networks, it is the underlying social and policy…
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- 9780262255783
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- 1 online resource (xxiv, 336 pages) :illustrations
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Distributed cognition and the will :individual volition and social context
"A Bradford book."Philosophers and behavioral scientists discuss what, if anything, of the traditional concept of individual conscious will can survive recent scientific discoveries that human decision-making is distributed across different brain processes and through the social environment.Recent scientific findings about human decision making would seem to threaten the traditional concept of …
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- 9780262282635
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- 1 online resource (ix, 369 pages) :illustrations
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Governance and information technology :from electronic government to informat…
Experts discuss moving beyond the notion of electronic government and its focus on technology and efficiency to a broader concept of "information government" that incorporates the role of information flows within government, between government and citizen.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262279291
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 314 pages) :illustrations
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Programmed visions :software and memory
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun argues that cycles of obsolescence & renewal result in part from the ways in which new media encapsulates a logic of programmability. In seeking to embody a future based on past data, new media becomes a metaphor for metaphor itself.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262295215
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 239 pages) :illustrations.
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Austere realism :contextual semantics meets minimal ontology
"A Bradford book."This work presents a provocative ontological-cum-semantic position stating that the right ontology is austere in its exclusion of numerous common-sense and scientific posits and that many statements employing such posits are nonetheless true.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262275682
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- 1 online resource (x, 219 pages) :illustrations.
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Foundational issues in human brain mapping
The field of neuroimaging has reached a watershed and critiques and emerging trends are raising foundational issues of methodology, measurement, and theory. Here, scholars reexamine these issues and explore controversies that have arisen in cognitive science, cognitive neuroscience, computer science, and signal processing.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262265850
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- 1 online resource (xii, 321 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) :illustrations (some color).
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Emergence :contemporary readings in philosophy and science
"A Bradford book."This reader collects in one easy, accessible place, classic writings on emergence from contemporary philosophy and science. This title includes contributions from the likes of John Searle, Stephen Weinberg, Thomas Schelling, Stephen Wolfram and Jenny Fodor.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9781435640740
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- 1 online resource (xv, 464 pages) :illustrations
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The ethics of protocells :moral and social implications of creating life in t…
Contributors explore the potential benefits, risks & ethical aspects of protocell technology, which creates simple forms of life from nonliving material.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262255301
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- 1 online resource (x, 365 pages) :illustrations.
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Handbook of developmental cognitive neuroscience
"A Bradford book."The second edition of an essential resource to the evolving field of developmental cognitive neuroscience, completely revised, with expanded emphasis on social neuroscience, clinical disorders, and imaging genomics.The publication of the second edition of this handbook testifies to the rapid evolution of developmental cognitive neuroscience as a distinct field. Brain imaging a…
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- 2nd ed.
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- 9780262280532
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- 1 online resource (xi, 923 pages) :illustrations (some color).
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