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Artificial intelligence and learning environments
"A Bradford book.""Reprinted from Artificial intelligence: an international journal, volume 42, number 1, 1990"--Title page verso.New perspectives and techniques are shaping the field of computer-aided instruction. These essays explore cognitively oriented empirical trials that use AI programming as a modeling methodology and that can provide valuable insight into a variety of learning problems…
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- 1st MIT Press ed.
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- 9780262288514
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- 1 online resource (162 pages) :illustrations.
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Leveraging distortions :explanation, idealization, and universality in science
"An original argument about how scientific models often times distort reality rather than accurately reflect it. And it's this distortion that often gives scientific models their epistemic power"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262365820
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Decentralization and local governance in developing countries: a comparative …
Over the past three decades the developing world has seen increasing devolution of political and economic power to local governments. Decentralization is considered an important element of participatory democracy and, along with privatization and deregulation, represents a substantial reduction in the authority of national governments over economic policy. The contributors to Decentralization a…
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- 9780262267694
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- 1 online resource (vi, 363 pages)
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Deliberative democracy: essays on reason and politics
"The anthology opens with four key essays - by Jon Elster, Jurgen Habermas, Joshua Cohen, and John Rawls - that helped establish the current inquiry into deliberative models of democracy. The nine essays that follow represent the latest efforts of leading democratic theorists to tackle various problems of deliberative democracy. All the contributions address tensions that arise between reason a…
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- 9780262268936
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- 1 online resource (xxx, 447 pages)
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Analog VLSI circuits and principles
Neuromorphic engineers work to improve the performance of artificial systems through the development of chips and systems that process information collectively using primarily analog circuits. This book presents the central concepts required for the creative and successful design of analog VLSI circuits. The discussion is weighted toward novel circuits that emulate natural signal processing. Un…
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- 1 online resource (xx, 434 pages) :illustrations
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Parallel distributed processing :explorations in the microstructure of cognit…
"A Bradford book."What makes people smarter than computers? These volumes by a pioneering neurocomputing group suggest that the answer lies in the massively parallel architecture of the human mind. They describe a new theory of cognition called connectionism that is challenging the idea of symbolic computation that has traditionally been at the center of debate in theoretical discussions about …
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- 9780262291262
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Parallel MIMD computation :the HEP supercomputer and its applications
Experts in high-speed computation agree that the rapidly growing demand for more powerful computers can only be met by a radical change in computer architecture, a change from a single serial processor to an aggregation of many processors working in parallel. At present, our knowledge about multi-processor architectures, concurrent programming or parallel algorithms is very limited. This book d…
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- 9780262256537
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- 1 online resource (411 pages) :illustrations.
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Artificial experts :social knowledge and intelligent machines
In Artificial Experts, Collins explains what computers can't do, but he also studies the ordinary and extraordinary things that they can do. He argues that the machines we create are limited because we cannot reproduce in symbols what every community knows, yet we give our machines abilities by the way we embed them in our society. He unfolds a compelling account of the difference between human…
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 266 pages) :illustrations.
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Artificial life IV :proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on the S…
Held at MIT, Cambridge, Mass., July 6th-8th, 1994."A Bradford book.""The field of artificial life has recently emerged through the interaction of research in biology, physics, parallel computing, artificial intelligence, and complex adaptive systems. The goal is to understand, through synthetic experiments, the organizational principles underlying the dynamics (usually the nonlinear dynamics) o…
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- 9780262286756
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- 1 online resource (xii, 444 pages) :illustrations (some color).
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Artificial life IX :proceedings of the ninth International Conference on the …
"A Bradford book."Artificial Life is an interdisciplinary effort to investigate the fundamental properties of living systems through the simulation and synthesis of life-like processes. The young field brings a powerful set of tools to the study of how high-level behavior can arise in systems governed by simple rules of interaction. Some of the fundamental questions include:What are the princip…
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 589 pages) :illustrations
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