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"Raw data" is an oxymoron
We live in the era of Big Data, with storage and transmission capacity measured not just in terabytes but in petabytes (where peta- denotes a quadrillion, or a thousand trillion). Data collection is constant and even insidious, with every click and every "like" stored somewhere for something. This book reminds us that data is anything but "raw," that we shouldn't think of data as a natural reso…
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- 0262312328
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- 1 online resource (vi, 182 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates) :illustrations (some color).
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The outsourcer :the story of India's IT revolution
Originally published as: The long revolution.A history of how India became a major player in the global technology industry, mapping technological, economic, and political transformations.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 026232833X
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 274 pages) :illustrations.
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Internet success :a study of open-source software commons
Drawing on literature from many disciplines and using a theoretical framework developed for the study of environmental commons, Schweik and English examine stages of open-source software (OSS) development, presenting multivariate statistical models of success and abandonment.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262301206
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- 1 online resource (xii, 351 pages) :illustrations
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Code/space :software and everyday life
An analysis of the ways that software creates new spatialities in everyday life, from supermarket checkout lines to airline flight paths.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 1283148056
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- 1 online resource (xi, 290 pages) :illustrations, map.
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The art of agent-oriented modeling
A new approach for conceptualizing and modeling multi-agent systems that consist of people, devices, and software agents.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262259217
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- 1 online resource (xix, 367 pages) :illustrations.
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The Soar cognitive architecture
"A Bradford Book."The definitive presentation of Soar, one AI's most enduring architectures, offering comprehensive descriptions of fundamental aspects and new components.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262301145
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- 1 online resource (xv, 374 pages) :illustrations
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Midbrain mutiny :the picoeconomics and neuroeconomics of disordered gambling …
"A Bradford book."An analysis of how economic theories can be used to understand disordered and pathological gambling that calls on empirical evidence about behavior and the brain and argues that addictive gambling is the basic form of all addiction.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262282642
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- 1 online resource (x, 301 pages) :illustrations
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Software studies :a lexicon
This collection of short expository, critical and speculative texts offers a field guide to the cultural, political, social and aesthetic impact of software. Experts from a range of disciplines each take a key topic in software and the understanding of software, such as algorithms and logical structures.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262273343
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- 1 online resource (xii, 334 pages) :illustrations.
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Social modeling for requirements engineering
Much of the difficulty in creating information technology systems that truly meet people's needs lies in the problem of pinning down system requirements. This book offers a new approach to the requirements challenge, based on modeling and analyzing the relationships among stakeholders. Although the importance of the system-environment relationship has long been recognized in the requirements en…
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- 0262289830
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- 1 online resource (vi, 736 pages) :illustrations.
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The comingled code :open source and economic development
In this book, Josh Lerner and Mark Schankerman, drawing on a new, large-scale database, show that open source and proprietary software interact in sometimes unexpected ways, and discuss the policy implications of these findings.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262289573
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- 1 online resource (xii, 238 pages) :illustrations
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