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The act of thinking
"A Bradford book."A new theory proposes that thinking is a learned action.In this remarkable monograph, Derek Melser argues that the core assumption of both folk psychology and cognitive science--that thinking goes on in the head--is mistaken. Melser argues that thinking is not an intracranial process of any kind, mental or neural, but is rather a learned action of the person.After an introduct…
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- 9780262279659
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 287 pages)
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The acquisition of syntactic knowledge
"This landmark work in computational linguistics is of great importance both theoretically and practically because it shows that much of English grammar can be learned by a simple program. The Acquisition of Syntactic Knowledge investigates the central questions of human and machine cognition: How do people learn language? How can we get a machine to learn language? It first presents an explici…
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- 0585368910
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- 1 online resource (xii, 368 pages) :illustrations.
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Acoustic phonetics
Content DescriptionOCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0585087202
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- 1 online resource (viii, 607 pages) :illustrations.
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A small matter of programming :perspectives on end user computing
A Small Matter of Programming asks why it has been so difficult for end users to command programming power and explores the problems of end user-driven application development that must be solved to afford end users greater computational power.Drawing on empirical research on existing end user systems, A Small Matter of Programming analyzes cognitive, social, and technical issues of end user pr…
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- 0585326290
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 162 pages) :illustrations
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Reinventing Los Angeles :nature and community in the global city
Describes how water politics, cars and freeways, and immigration and globalization have shaped Los Angeles, and how innovative social movements are working to make a more livable and sustainable city.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262274128
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- 1 online resource (viii, 430 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) :illustrations.
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The Microsoft antitrust cases :competition policy for the twenty-first century
A comprehensive account of the decades-long, multiple antitrust actions against Microsoft and an assessment of the effectiveness of antitrust law in the digital age.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262319218
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Entangled :technology and the transformation of performance
"Each chapter in Entangled focuses on a different form: theater scenography, architecture, video and image making, music and sound composition, body-based arts, mechanical and robotic art, and interactive environments constructed for research, festivals, and participatory urban spaces. Salter's exhaustive survey and analysis shows that performance traditions have much to teach other emerging pr…
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- 9780262315104
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- 1 online resource (xxxix, 460 pages) :illustrations
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Building IBM :shaping an industry and its technology
No company of the twentieth century achieved greater success and engendered more admiration, respect, envy, fear, and hatred than IBM. Building IBM tells the story of that company, how it was formed, how it grew, and how it shaped and dominated the information processing industry. Emerson Pugh presents substantial new material about the company in the period before 1945 as well as a new interpr…
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- 0585353468
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 405 pages) :illustrations.
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Brain, vision, memory :tales in the history of neuroscience
"A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0585024812
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 255 pages) :illustrations
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Bounded rationality :the adaptive toolbox
Report of the 84th Dahlem Workshop ... held in Berlin, March 14-19, 1999.In a complex and uncertain world, humans and animals make decisions under the constraints of limited knowledge, resources, and time. Yet models of rational decision making in economics, cognitive science, biology, and other fields largely ignore these real constraints and instead assume agents with perfect information and …
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- 0585388288
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- 1 online resource (xv, 377 pages) :illustrations
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