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Graphical models for machine learning and digital communication
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- 0585024413
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 195 pages) : illustrations
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- Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning series
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Good Reception: Teens, Teachers, and Mobile Media in a Los Angeles High School
A year in the life of a ninth-grade English class shows how participatory culture and mobile devices can transform learning in schools.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262343480
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- 1 online resource (xii, 230 pages).
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Ultrawideband Phased Array Antenna Technology for Sensing and Communications …
Ultrawideband phased array antennas are an enabling technology for many ground-based and airborne communications and radar systems. This book surveys electromagnetic theory and phased array antenna theory and provides examples of ultrawideband phased array antenna technology. It describes some of the research on ultrawideband phased arrays undertaken by the authors and their colleagues at MIT L…
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- 9780262328906
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 260 pages) :illustrations.
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Boundary Objects and Beyond: Working with Leigh Star
Susan Leigh Star (1954--2010) was one of the most influential science studies scholars of the last several decades. In her work, Star highlighted the messy practices of discovering science, asking hard questions about the marginalizing as well as the liberating powers of science and technology. In the landmark work Sorting Things Out, Star and Geoffrey Bowker revealed the social and ethical his…
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- 9780262331012
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- 1 online resource (1 PDF (ix, 548 pages)).
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The First 100 Feet: Options for Internet and Broadband Access
"The growth of the Internet has been propelled in significant part by user investment in infrastructure: computers, internal wiring, and the connection to the Internet provider. This "bottom-up" investment minimizes the investment burden facing providers. New technologies such as wireless and data transmission over power lines, as well as deregulation of telecommunications and electric utilitie…
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- 9780262287128
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- 1 online resource (viii, 209 pages) :illustrations.
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Improvisational design : continuous, responsive digital communication
Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--MIT, 1985.A theoretical framework for the design of digital communication.Traditional visual design expresses information in fixed forms, such as print or film, so the message can be stored or distributed. With interactive media and continuously updated information, communication entails a new, more dynamic set of design problems. In this bo…
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- 9780262276030
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- 1 online resource (xi, 155 pages) : illustrations
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- 005 ISH i
Knowledge unbound: Selected writings on open access, 2002-2011
Selection of writings, mostly from the author's SPARC open access newsletter.Peter Suber has been a leading advocate for open access since 2001 and has worked full time on issues of open access since 2003. As a professor of philosophy during the early days of the internet, he realized its power and potential as a medium for scholarship. As he writes now, "it was like an asteroid crash, fundamen…
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- 9780262329552
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 436 pages)
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The death algorithm and other digital dilemmas
In 'The Death Algorithm and Other Digital Dilemmas', Roberto Simanowski wonders if we are on the brink of a society that views social, political, and ethical challenges as technological problems that can be fixed with the right algorithm, the best data, or the fastest computer. For example, the "death algorithm " is programmed into a driverless car to decide, in an emergency, whether to plow in…
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- 9780262350662
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- 1 online resource (xxxi, 174 pages).
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Taken for grantedness :the embedding of mobile communication into society
"Why do we feel insulted or exasperated when our friends and family don't answer their mobile phones? If the Internet has allowed us to broaden our social world into a virtual friend-net, the mobile phone is an instrument of a more intimate social sphere. The mobile phone provides a taken-for-granted link to the people to whom we are closest; when we are without it, social and domestic disarray…
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- 9780262305266
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 241 pages) :illustrations
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Learning to communicate in science and engineering : Case Studies from MIT
To many science and engineering students, the task of writing may seem irrelevant to their future professional careers. At MIT, however, students discover that writing about their technical work is important not only in solving real-world problems but also in developing their professional identities. MIT puts into practice the belief that "engineers who don't write well end up working for engin…
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