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Machine learners :archaeology of a data practice
Machine learning - programming computers to learn from data - has spread across scientific disciplines, media, entertainment, and government. Medical research, autonomous vehicles, credit transaction processing, computer gaming, recommendation systems, finance, surveillance, and robotics use machine learning. Machine learning devices (sometimes understood as scientific models, sometimes as oper…
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- 9780262342551
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 252 pages) :illustrations
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The digital rights movement: The role of technology in subverting digital cop…
The evolution of activism against the expansion of copyright in the digital domain, with case studies of resistance including eBook and iTunes hacks.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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The Software Arts
An alternative history of software that places the liberal arts at the very center of software's evolution. In The Software Arts, Warren Sack offers an alternative history of computing that places the arts at the very center of software's evolution. Tracing the origins of software to eighteenth-century French encyclopedists' step-by-step descriptions of how things were made in the workshops of …
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- 9780262352369
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- 1 online resource (400 pages) :illustrations.
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English-Japanese, Japanese-English Dictionary of Computer and Data-Processing…
Parallel title in Japanese vernacular and romanized form.Winner, 1989, category of Computer Science, Professional/Scholarly Publishing Annual Awards Competition presented by the Association of American Publishers, Inc. With 10,000 entries, this dictionary is the most complete of its kind. It is a major contribution to more accurate sharing of scientific and technological information. The dictio…
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- 9780262290852
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Humour the computer
You don't have to have a degree in computer science to enjoy this unique collection of funny stories, parodies, laughable true-life incidents, comic song lyrics, and jokey poems from the world of computing. Humour the Computer brings together a selection of some of the best computer-related, humorous material culled from a variety of sources: news groups and FTP sites on the Internet, The New Y…
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- 9780262291101
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 226 pages) : illustrations
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Using Computers: The Human Factors of Information Systems
A Bradford book.""Industry veteran Raymond Nickerson provides an extensive introduction to the information technology revolution that is transforming industrial society. He focuses particularly on the study of person-computer interaction, noting how computers are affecting their users and society as a whole, and describes a variety of ways in which information technology is expected to develop …
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- 9780262256711
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 434 pages) :illustrations
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Text, ConText, and HyperText: Writing with and for the Computer
Includes index."Edward Barrett is a Lecturer in the Writing Program at MIT.""Text, ConText, and HyperText is included in the Information Systems series, edited by Michael Lesk.""Text, ConText, and HyperText presents recent developments in three related and important areas of technical communication: the design of effective documentation; the impact of new technology and research on technical wr…
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A robot ping-pong player :experiment in real-time intelligent control
This tour de force in experimental robotics paves the way toward understanding dynamic environments in vision and robotics. It describes the first robot able to play, and even beat, human ping-pong players.Constructing a machine to play ping-pong was proposed years ago as a particularly difficult problem requiring fast, accurate sensing and actuation, and the intelligence to play the game. The …
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- 9780262255615
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 275 pages) :illustrations.
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The Computer Contradictionary (Second Edition)
Originaly published: The devil's DP dictionary. New York : McGraw-Hill, 1981."New computer cultures and their jargons have burgeoned since this book's progenitor, The Devil's DP Dictionary, was published in 1981. This updated version of Stan Kelly-Bootle's romp through the data processing "laxicon" is a response to the "Unix pandemic" that has swept academia and government, to the endlessly hyp…
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- 2nd ed.
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- 9780262276955
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 239 pages) :illustrations
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Computer Methods in the Analysis of Large-Scale Social Systems (Second Edition)
Contributions to this edition of Computer Methods have been extensively revised and contain much new material--updating the proceedings of a conference held in 1964 at the Joint Center for Urban Studies of MIT and Harvard University. In this conference social scientists experienced in computer use compared notes on the problems and benefits encountered in their studies with beginners in compute…
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- 9780262255721
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- 1 online resource (iv, 207, 7 pages)illustrations
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