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Insatiable Curiosity: Innovation in a Fragile Future
An influential scholar in science studies argues that innovation tames the insatiable and limitless curiosity driving science, and that society's acute ambivalence about this is an inevitable legacy of modernity.Curiosity is the main driving force behind scientific activity. Scientific curiosity, insatiable in its explorations, does not know what it will find, or where it will lead. Science nee…
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Insatiable curiosity : Innovation in a Fragile Future
An influential scholar in science studies argues that innovation tames the insatiable and limitless curiosity driving science, and that society's acute ambivalence about this is an inevitable legacy of modernity.Curiosity is the main driving force behind scientific activity. Scientific curiosity, insatiable in its explorations, does not know what it will find, or where it will lead. Science nee…
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Neural network learning and expert systems
"Granino A. Kom has been a Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Arizona and has worked in the aerospace industry for a decade. He is the author of ten other engineering texts and handbooks.""A Bradford Book.""Most neural network programs for personal computers simply control a set of fixed, canned network-layer algorithms with pulldown menus. This new tutorial offers hands-o…
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- 0585040281
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 365 pages) :illustrations
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Neural network design and the complexity of learning
"A Bradford book.""Using the tools of complexity theory, Stephen Judd develops a formal description of associative learning in connectionist networks. He rigorously exposes the computational difficulties in training neural networks and explores how certain design principles will or will not make the problems easier. Judd looks beyond the scope of any one particular learning rule, at a level abo…
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- 0585359342
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- 1 online resource (150 pages) :illustrations.
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Neural networks and natural intelligence
"A Bradford book."Stephen Grossberg and his colleagues at Boston University's Center for Adaptive Systems are producing some of the most exciting research in the neural network approach to making computers "think." Packed with real-time computer simulations and rigorous demonstrations of these phenomena, this book includes results on vision, speech, cognitive information processing; adaptive pa…
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- 9780262315937
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- 1 online resource (xi, 637 pages) :illustrations
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Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the …
Many teens today who use the Internet are actively involved in participatory cultures—joining online communities (Facebook, message boards, game clans), producing creative work in new forms (digital sampling, modding, fan videomaking, fan fiction), working in teams to complete tasks and develop new knowledge (as in Wikipedia), and shaping the flow of media (as in blogging or podcasting). A gr…
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Internet architecture and innovation
Today--following housing bubbles, bank collapses, and high unemployment--the Internet remains the most reliable mechanism for fostering innovation and creating new wealth. The Internet's remarkable growth has been fueled by innovation. In this pathbreaking book, Barbara van Schewick argues that this explosion of innovation is not an accident, but a consequence of the Internet's architecture--a …
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- 1 online resource (xii, 574 pages) : illustrations
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Neurodevelopmental disorders
"Until recently, genetic, neuroanatomical, and psychological investigations on neurodevelopmental disorders were carried out independently. Now, tremendous advances across all disciplines have brought us toward a new scientific frontier: the integration of molecular genetics with a developmental cognitive neuroscience. The goal is to understand the basic mechanisms by which genes and environmen…
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- 9780262284653
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- 1 online resource (xii, 614 pages) :illustrations.
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Biomedical signal analysis Contemporary Methods and Applications
"Biomedical signal analysis has become one of the most important visualization and interpretation methods in biology and medicine. Many new and powerful instruments for detecting, storing, transmitting, analyzing, and displaying images have been developed in recent years, allowing scientists and physicians to obtain quantitative measurements to support scientific hypotheses and medical diagnose…
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 415 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)
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The enclave economy : Foreign Investment and Sustainable Development in Mexic…
Analyzes the extent to which foreign investment in Mexico's information technology sector brought economic, social, and environmental benefits to Guadalajara.Foreign investment has been widely perceived as a panacea for developing countries--as a way to reduce poverty and kick-start sustainable modern industries. The Enclave Economy calls this prescription into question, showing that Mexico's p…
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