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American foundations :an investigative history
In American Foundations , Mark Dowie argues that organized philanthropy is on the verge of an evolutionary shift that will transform America's nearly 50,000 foundations from covert arbiters of knowledge and culture to overt mediators of public policy and aggressive creators of new orthodoxy. He questions the wisdom of placing so much power at the disposal of nondemocratic institutions. As Ameri…
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- 0585379971
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- 1 online resource (xl, 320 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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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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Advances in the evolutionary synthesis of intelligent agents
"A Bradford book.""This book explores a central issue in artificial intelligence, cognitive science, and artificial life: how to design information structures and processes that create and adapt intelligent agents through evolution and learning." "The book is organized around four topics: the power of evolution to determine effective solutions to complex tasks, mechanisms to make evolutionary d…
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- 0585387168
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- 1 online resource (xxiv, 480 pages) :illustrations
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The analysis of feedback systems
"Parts of this monograph appeared in the author's doctoral dissertation entitled 'Nonlinear harmonic analysis' ... 1968."This monograph is an attempt to develop further and refine methods based on input -output descriptions for analyzing feedback systems. Contrary to previous work in this area, the treatment heavily emphasizes and exploits the causality of the operators involved. This brings th…
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- 0262257203
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- 1 online resource (xv, 188 pages) :illustrations.
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The analogical mind :perspectives from cognitive science
Analogy has been the focus of extensive research in cognitive science over the past two decades. Through analogy, novel situations and problems can be understood in terms of familiar ones. Indeed, a case can be made for analogical processing as the very core of cognition. This is the first book to span the full range of disciplines concerned with analogy. Its contributors represent cognitive, d…
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- 0262072068
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Adaptive dynamics :the theoretical analysis of behavior
In this book J.E.R. Staddon proposes an explanation of behavior that lies between cognitive psychology, which seeks to explain it in terms of mentalistic constructs, and cognitive neuroscience, which tries to explain it in terms of the brain. Staddon suggests a new way to understand the laws and causes of learning, based on the invention, comparison, testing, and modification or rejection of pa…
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- 9780262284189
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 423 pages) :illustrations
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Algebraic semantics of imperative programs
Algebraic Semantics of Imperative Programs presents a self-contained and novel "executable" introduction to formal reasoning about imperative programs. The authors' primary goal is to improve programming ability by improving intuition about what programs mean and how they run. The semantics of imperative programs is specified in a formal, implemented notation, the language OBJ; this makes the s…
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- 0262288451
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- 1 online resource (vii, 228 pages) :illustrations.
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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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- 1 online resource (xiii, 287 pages)
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The age of electronic messages
What are the frontiers of today's communications technology? The Age of Electronic Messages explains the scientific principles on which this technology is based and explores its capabilities and limitations, its risks and benefits. In straightforward language accompanied by numerous illustrations, Truxal describes the communications technology that has become such an integral part of today's wo…
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- 0262257092
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 487 pages) :illustrations.
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