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Romance in the ivory tower :the rights and liberty of conscience
Should the choice to engage in a faculty-student romance be protected or precluded? An argument that the right to choose a romantic partner is a fundamental right of conscience, protected by the U.S Constitution.Allen Ginsberg once declared that "the best teaching is done in bed," but most university administrators would presumably disagree. Many universities prohibit romantic relationships bet…
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- 0262266733
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- 1 online resource (172 pages)
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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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Algorithmic program debugging
Productively combines elements of programming languages, environments, logic, and inductive inference to produce effective debugging aids. Its use of the PROLOG language provides an efficient implementation of the debugging algorithms.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262256967
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 232 pages).
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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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The art of the metaobject protocol
The authors introduce this new approach to programming language design, describe its evolution and design principles, and present a formal specification of a metaobject protocol for CLOS. The CLOS metaobject protocol is an elegant, high-performance extension to the CommonLisp Object System. The authors, who developed the metaobject protocol and who were among the group that developed CLOS, intr…
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- 0585358125
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- 1 online resource (viii, 335 pages)
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Between philosophy and social science :selected early writings
These essays reveal another side of Horkheimer, focusing on his remarkable contributions to critical theory in the 1930s. Max Horkheimer is well known as the director of the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research and as a sometime collaborator with Theodor Adorno, especially on their classic Dialectic of Enlightenment. These essays reveal another side of Horkheimer, focusing on his remarkable …
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- 0262275694
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- 1 online resource (440 pages).
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The Kantian legacy in nineteenth-century science
"Historians of philosophy, science, and mathematics explore the influence of Kant's philosophy on the evolution of modern scientific thought."--Jacket.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262273268
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- 1 online resource (vi, 370 pages) :illustrations.
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Ivory bridges :connecting science and society
A study of two bridges between science and society: governmental science policy and scientists' voluntary public-interest associations. According to a widespread stereotype, scientists occupy an ivory tower, isolated from other parts of society. To some extent this is true, and the resulting freedom to pursue curiosity-driven research has made possible extraordinary scientific advances. The spi…
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- 0585442703
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- 1 online resource (227 pages)
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Islamic science and the making of the European Renaissance
"The Islamic scientific tradition has been described many times in accounts of Islamic civilization and in general histories of science, with most authors tracing its beginnings to the appropriation of ideas from other ancient civilizations - the Greeks in particular. In this thought-provoking and original book, George Saliba argues that, contrary to the generally accepted view, the foundations…
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- 9780262282888
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- 1 online resource (xi, 315 pages) :illustrations.
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Isaac Newton's natural philosophy
Newton studies have undergone radical changes in the last half-century as more of his work has been uncovered and more details of his life and intellectual context have come to light. This volume singles out two strands in recent Newton studies: the intellectual background to Newton's scientific thought and both specific and general aspects of his technical science. The essays make new claims c…
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- 9780262269490
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- 1 online resource (xx, 354 pages) :illustrations.
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