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Barriers to riches
Why isn't the whole world as rich as the United States? Conventional views holds that differences in the share of output invested by countries account for this disparity. Not so, say Stephen Parente and Edward Prescott. In Barriers to Riches, Parente and Prescott argue that differences in Total Factor Productivity (TFP) explain this phenomenon. These differences exist because some countries ere…
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- 1st MIT Press ed.
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- 0262281252
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 164 pages) :illustrations.
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Artificial life :an overview
"A Bradford book."Artificial life, a field that seeks to increase the role of synthesis in the study of biological phenomena, has great potential, both for unlocking the secrets of life and for raising a host of disturbing issues -- scientific and technical as well as philosophical and ethical. This book brings together a series of overview articles that appeared in the first three issues of th…
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- 0585036152
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- 1 online resource (xi, 340 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates) :illustrations (some color).
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Artificial intelligence at MIT :expanding frontiers.
The broad range of material included in these volumes suggests to the newcomer the nature of the field of artificial intelligence, while those with some background in AI will appreciate the detailed coverage of the work being done at MIT. The results presented are related to the underlying methodology. Each chapter is introduced by a short note outlining the scope of the problem begin taken up …
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- 0262322323
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- 1 online resource (682 pages).
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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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End of the Wild, The.
A wake-up call that argues that although it may be too late to save biodiversity, we can take steps to save our ecosystems.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262300049
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- 1 online resource (108 pages)
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Gottfried Semper :in search of architecture
Includes indexes.Translated by the author.Herrmann traces his life, analyzes his writings, including his major work, Der Stil, and presents translations of recently uncovered texts.Preface by Adolf Max Vogt For the generation after Karl Frederich Schinkel, Gottfried Semper (1803-1879) was the most admired architect in Germany. His buildings, such as the opera houses in Dresden and two museums i…
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- 0262367971
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- 1 online resource (xxii, 320 pages :illustrations
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Learning kernel classifiers :theory and algorithms
Linear classifiers in kernel spaces have emerged as a major topic within the field of machine learning. The kernel technique takes the linear classifier--a limited, but well-established and comprehensively studied model--and extends its applicability to a wide range of nonlinear pattern-recognition tasks such as natural language processing, machine vision, and biological sequence analysis. This…
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- 9780262256339
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- 1 online resource (xx, 364 pages) :illustrations.
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Language, logic, and concepts :essays in memory of John Macnamara
"A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0585337012
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- 1 online resource (xxvii, 470 pages) :illustrations
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Kinetics of high-temperature processes
"The MIT Press."A symposium on condensed-phase processes at high temperatures, particularly in nonmetal systems, which presents a record of recent efforts to understand the field and apply this understanding to complex systems.Title from vendor webpage (IEEE Xplore; viewed on Feb. 14, 2013).A symposium on condensed-phase processes at high temperatures, particularly in nonmetal systems, which pr…
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- 9780262310819
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Iterative arrays of logical circuits
"MIT Press."An exploration of the techniques for analyzing the behavior of one- and two-dimensional iterative networks formed of discrete, or logical elements, showing that most questions about the behavior of iterative systems are recursively undecidable.Title from vendor webpage (IEEE Xplore; viewed on Feb. 14, 2013).An exploration of the techniques for analyzing the behavior of one- and two-…
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- 9780262256322
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