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Evolvable Hardware From Practice to Application
This book covers the basic theory, practical details and advanced research of the implementation of evolutionary methods on physical substrates. Most of the examples are from electronic engineering applications, including transistor-level design and system-level implementation. The authors present an overview of the successes achieved, and the book will act as a point of reference for both acad…
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- 978-3-662-44616-4
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- 109 b/w illustrations, 78 illustrations in colour
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The bodily self :selected essays on self-consciousness
"These essays explore how the rich and sophisticated forms of self-consciousness with which we are most familiar -- as philosophers, psychologists, and as ordinary, reflective individuals -- depend on a complex underpinning that has been largely invisible to students of the self and self-consciousness. Jos?e Luis Berm?udez, extending the insights of his groundbreaking 1998 book, The Paradox of …
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- 9780262344661
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- 1 online resource (viii, 303 pages) :illustrations
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Strategic Negotiation in Multiagent Environments
A Bradford book.""As computers advance from isolated workstations to linked elements in complex communities of systems and people, cooperation and coordination via intelligent agents become increasingly important. Examples of such communities include the Internet, electronic commerce, health institutions, electricity networks, and digital libraries. Sarit Kraus is concerned here with the cooper…
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- 9780262277594
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 266 pages) :illustrations.
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The Unreliable Nation: Hostile Nature and Technological Failure in the Cold War
An examination of how technological failures defined nature and national identity in Cold War Canada.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262341318
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- 1 online resource (xi, 287 pages).
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Body Am I: The New Science of Self-Consciousness
"Costandi explains the neuroscience behind how we view our selves and our bodies, drawing from neurological studies on our sense of agency and free will, the neural correlates of mental representations, mirror neurons, and how the brain perceives timing and sensory consequences. He explores case studies of amputees with phantom limb syndrome, people with Body Integrity Identity Disorder (who ha…
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- 9780262368711
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- 1 online resource
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Open minded :searching for truth about the unconscious mind
"An argument against dual process theories and unconscious thought to explain the human mind and behavior" --OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262375375
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- 1 online resource
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Weapons in space :technology, politics, and the rise and fall of the Strategi…
"This is the first historical work that situates the Strategic Defense Initiative within a new phase in the militarization of space, uncovering a largely secret history of the role of military space technologies in late-Cold War U.S. defense strategy and foreign relations"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262377386
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- 1 online resource
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Balkan cyberia :Cold War computing, Bulgarian modernization, and the informat…
"Original take on the history of socialist Bulgaria, examined through the prism of computers to make broader claims about political, economic, intelligence, social, and cultural life in Bulgaria, and by extension, the Soviet bloc and state socialism in general"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262373265
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- 1 online resource.
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More than a glitch :confronting race, gender, and ability bias in tech
"Broussard argues that the structural inequalities reproduced in algorithmic systems are no glitch. They are part of the system design. This book shows how everyday technologies embody racist, sexist, and ableist ideas; how they produce discriminatory and harmful outcomes; and how this can be challenged and changed"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262373050
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- 1 online resource
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Media ruins :Cambodian postwar infrastructural reconstruction and the geopoli…
"Looks at the role of media in post-conflict reconstruction and reconciliation, with Cambodia as the central case study"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262374095
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