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Making Silicon Valley :innovation and the growth of high tech, 1930-1970
In Making Silicon Valley, Christophe Lecuyer shows that the explosive growth of the personal computer industry in Silicon Valley was the culmination of decades of growth and innovation in the San Francisco-area electronics industry. Using the tools of science and technology studies, he explores the formation of Silicon Valley as an industrial district, from its beginnings as the home of a few r…
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- 9780262322591
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- 1 online resource (407 pages) :illustrations.
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Leonardo's laptop :human needs and the new computing technologies
"Ben Shneiderman's book dramatically raises computer users' expectations of what they should get from technology. He opens their eyes to new possibilities and invites them to think freshly about future technology. He challenges developers to build products that better support human needs and that are usable at any bandwidth. Shneiderman proposes Leonardo da Vinci as an inspirational muse for th…
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- 9780262256988
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- 1 online resource (xi, 269 pages) :illustrations
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Meaning and mental representation
"A Bradford book."In this provocative study, Robert Cummins takes on philosophers, both old and new, who pursue the question of mental representation as an abstraction, apart from the constraints of any particular theory or framework. Cummins asserts that mental representation is, in fact, a problem in the philosophy of science, a theoretical assumption that serves different explanatory roles w…
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- 0262530961
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- 1 online resource (viii, 180 pages) :illustrations.
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The LOCUS distributed system architecture
"Computer systems consisting of many machines will be the norm within a few years. However, making a collection of machines appear as a single, coherent system - in which the location of files, servers, programs, or users is invisible to users who do not wish to know - is a very difficult problem. LOCUS, a distributed version of the popular operating system Unix, provides an excellent solution.…
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- 0262288419
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- 1 online resource (xv, 148 pages) :illustrations.
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The Massively parallel processor
The development of parallel processing, with the attendant technology of advanced software engineering, VLSI circuits, and artificial intelligence, now allows high-performance computer systems to reach the speeds necessary to meet the challenge of future complex scientific and commercial applications. This collection of articles documents the design of one such computer, a single instruction mu…
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- 0262256827
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- 1 online resource (vii, 304 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates) :illustrations.
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Made-up minds :a constructivist approach to artificial intelligence
Outgrowth of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology."Made-Up Minds addresses fundamental questions of learning and concept invention by means of an innovative computer program that is based on the cognitive-developmental theory of psychologist Jean Piaget. Drescher uses Piaget's theory as a source of inspiration for the design of an artificial cognitive system calle…
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- 0585349851
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- 1 online resource (x, 220 pages) :illustrations.
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Market institutions in Sub-Saharan Africa :theory and evidence
An analysis of recent data on the economic behavior of market institutions in sub-Saharan Africa, with implications for future research and current policy.In Market Institutions in Sub-Saharan Africa, Marcel Fafchamps synthesizes the results of recent surveys of indigenous market institutions in twelve countries, including Benin, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, and Zimbabwe, and presents find…
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- 9780262272452
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- 1 online resource (xx, 521 pages) :illustrations.
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Machine musicianship
"Musicians begin formal training by acquiring a body of musical concepts commonly known as musicianship. These concepts underlie the musical skills of listening, performance, and composition. Like humans, computer music programs can benefit from a systematic foundation of musical knowledge. This book explores the technology of implementing musical processes such as segmentation, pattern process…
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- 9780262256896
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- 1 online resource (x, 399 pages) :illustrations
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Looking into pictures :an interdisciplinary approach to pictorial space
"A Bradford book."AnnotationOCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262275163
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 417 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates) :illustrations (some color).
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Logo for the Macintosh :an introduction through Object Logo
"Harold Abelson is Professor of Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He directed the first implementation of Logo for the Apple II, which made Logo widely available on personal computers beginning in 1981. Amanda Abelson, a high-school student, runs a nationwide Internet based multiuser simulation game.""Logo for the Macintosh teaches the art of programming to first ti…
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- 0262255545
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- 1 online resource (xi, 186 pages) :illustrations
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