Dalam buku Moths to the Flame, Gregory J.E. Rawlins mengajak pembaca awam untuk menjelajahi dunia komputer yang menarik dan terkadang menakutkan. Buku baru ini ditujukan bagi mereka yang baru mengenal komputer dan ingin tahu apa yang ada di balik layar. Buku ini menunjukkan apa yang dapat dilakukan komputer untuk kita dan kepada kita. Buku ini menceritakan kisah tentang bagaimana kita menjadi b…
This work provides insights into war and domestic insecurity terrorism, and the costs of war and peace from new research that takes the political economy perspective on conflict.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
Synthetic biology, which aims to design and build organisms that serve human needs, has potential applications that range from producing biofuels to programming human behaviour. The emergence of this new form of biotechnology, however, raises a variety of ethical questions - first and foremost, whether synthetic biology is intrinsically troubling in moral terms. Is it an egregious example of sc…
An overview of statistical methods for analyzing data from fMRI experiments.
"For two decades now I've been awaiting a book explaining computers and their social consequences to literate readers without using any unnecessary jargon or pedantry—or math. I wanted such a book to lend to all those friends who've pestered me about computers and to all the computer science students who've asked me about computers over the years. I particularly wanted a book that I could buy…
" ... held in Whistler, British Columbia ... annual conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) in December 2003"--Preface.Regression and classification methods based on similarity of the input to stored examples have not been widely used in applications involving very large sets of high-dimensional data. Recent advances in computational geometry and machine learning, however, ma…
In the "information age," information systems may serve as both weapons and targets. Although the media has paid a good deal of attention to information warfare, most treatments so far are overly broad and without analytical foundations. In this book Gregory Rattray offers a comprehensive analysis of strategic information warfare waged via digital means as a distinct concern for the United Stat…
In science, business, and policymaking—anywhere data are used in prediction—two sorts of problems requiring very different methods of analysis often arise. The first, problems of recognition and classification, concerns learning how to use some features of a system to accurately predict other features of that system. The second, problems of causal discovery, concerns learning how to predict…