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Performance and evaluation of Lisp systems
This final report of the Stanford Lisp Performance Study, conducted over a three year period by the author, describes implementation techniques, performance tradeoffs, benchmarking techniques, and performance results for all of the major Lisp dialects in use today. A popular highlevel programming language used predominantly in artificial intelligence, Lisp was the first language to concentrate …
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- 9780262256193
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 285 pages).
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The dependencies of objects
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- 9780262285094
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- 1 online resource (xii, 197 pages) :illustrations.
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Russian case morphology and the syntactic categories
In this work, David Pesetsky argues that the peculiarities of Russian nominal phrases provide significant clues concerning the syntactic side of morphological case. Pesetsky argues against the traditional view that case categories such as nominative or genitive have a special status in the grammar of human languages.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262314503
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- 1 online resource (xii, 173 pages) :illustrations.
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Investigations in universal grammar : a guide to experiments on the acquisiti…
This introductory guide to language acquisition research is presented within the framework of Universal Grammar, a theory of the human faculty for language. The authors focus on two experimental techniques for assessing children's linguistic competence: the Elicited Production task, a production task, and the Truth Value Judgment task, a comprehension task. Their methodologies are designed to o…
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- 1 online resource (ix, 342 pages).
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processing and acquisition of reference
This book brings together contributions by prominent researchers in the fields of language processing and language acquisition on topics of common interest: how people refer to objects in the world, how people comprehend such referential expressions, and how children acquire the ability to refer and to understand reference.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262295888
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- 1 online resource (vi, 443 pages) :illustrations.
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10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10
A single line of code offers a way to understand the cultural context of computing. This book takes a single line of code—the extremely concise BASIC program for the Commodore 64 inscribed in the title—and uses it as a lens through which to consider the phenomenon of creative computing and the way computer programs exist in culture. The authors of this collaboratively written book treat …
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- 9780262305501
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- 1 online resource (1 PDF (xi, 309 pages)) :illustrations
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Lifelong Kindergarten: Cultivating Creativity through Projects, Passion, Peer…
How lessons from kindergarten can help everyone develop the creative thinking skills needed to thrive in today's society. In kindergartens these days, children spend more time with math worksheets and phonics flashcards than building blocks and finger paint. Kindergarten is becoming more like the rest of school. In Lifelong Kindergarten , learning expert Mitchel Resnick argues for exactly the …
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- 9780262344340
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Regulating Code: Good Governance and Better Regulation in the Information Age
The case for a smarter “prosumer law” approach to Internet regulation that would better protect online innovation, public safety, and fundamental democratic rights. Internet use has become ubiquitous in the past two decades, but governments, legislators, and their regulatory agencies have struggled to keep up with the rapidly changing Internet technologies and uses. In this groundbreakin…
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Why only us language and evolution
"We are born crying, but those cries signal the first stirring of language. Within a year or so, infants master the sound system of their language; a few years after that, they are engaging in conversations. This remarkable, species-specific ability to acquire any human language--'the language faculty'--raises important biological questions about language, including how it has evolved. This boo…
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- 9780262333351
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- 1 online resource (215 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates) :illustrations (some color)
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Coding literacy how computer programming is changing writing
The message from educators, the tech community, and even politicians is clear: everyone should learn to code. To emphasize the universality and importance of computer programming, promoters of coding for everyone often invoke the concept of "literacy," drawing parallels between reading and writing code and reading and writing text. In this book, Annette Vee examines the coding-as-literacy analo…
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- 1 online resource (xi, 361 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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