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Artificial life VII :proceedings of the seventh International Conference on A…
"A Bradford book."The term "artificial life" describes research into synthetic systems that possess some of the essential properties of life. This interdisciplinary field includes biologists, computer scientists, physicists, chemists, geneticists, and others. Artificial life may be viewed as an attempt to understand high-level behavior from low-level rules -- for example, how the simple interac…
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Robotics: Science and systems IV
Robotics: Science and Systems IV spans a wide spectrum of robotics, bringing together researchers working on the foundations of robotics, robotics applications, and analysis of robotics systems. This volume presents the proceedings of the fourth annual Robotics: Science and Systems conference, held in 2008 at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. The papers presented cover a rang…
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Chips and change: How crisis reshapes the semiconductor industry
How the chip industry has responded to a series of crises over the past twenty-five years, often reinventing itself and shifting the basis for global competitive advantage. For decades the semiconductor industry has been a driver of global economic growth and social change. Semiconductors, particularly the microchips essential to most electronic devices, have transformed computing, communica…
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The balancing act :combining symbolic and statistical approaches to language
Selected papers, rev., of a workshop held at the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, N.M., on July 1, 1994.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Balkan as metaphor :between globalization and fragmentation
Pioneering essays on the idea of the Balkan as a body of knowledge and a cultural metaphor.Balkan. Somewhere between a tragedy and a myth, a place and a condition, the term is perhaps best understood as a metaphor. It has been used and abused in academia by proponents of opposing political views. Multiculturalism has appropriated it, as have postmodernism and postcommunism. It is used pejorativ…
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The Digital Youth Network: Cultivating Digital Media Citizenship in Urban Com…
An ambitious project to help economically disadvantaged students develop technical, creative, and analytical skills across a learning ecology that spans school, community, home, and online.
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Beowulf cluster computing with Windows
Beowulf clusters, which exploit mass-market PC hardware and software in conjunction with cost-effective commercial network technology, are becoming the platform for many scientific, engineering, and commercial applications. With growing popularity has come growing complexity. Addressing that complexity, Beowulf Cluster Computing with Linux and Beowulf Cluster Computing with Windows provide syst…
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- 1 online resource (xxxiii, 445 pages) :illustrations.
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Beyond late development :Taiwan's upgrading policies
A study of how latecomers catch up in high-tech industries and modern services, based on an in-depth analysis of Taiwan's premier enterprises and government policies.In this book Alice Amsden and Wan-wen Chu cover new ground by analyzing the phenomenon of high-end catch-up. They study how leading firms from the most advanced latecomer countries like Taiwan have increased their market share in m…
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Carbon coalitions :business, climate politics, and the rise of emissions trading
An examination of how a transnational coalition of firms and NGOs influenced the emergence of emissions trading as a central component of global climate governance.Over the past decade, carbon trading has emerged as the industrialized world's primary policy response to global climate change despite considerable controversy. With carbon markets worth $144 billion in 2009, carbon trading represen…
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Norbert Wiener - A Life in Cybernetics :Ex-Prodigy: my childhood and youth an…
Includes bibliographical references and index.Norbert Wiener's celebrated autobiography, available for the first time in one volume.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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