Boosting: Foundations and Algorithms

A remarkably rich theory has evolved around boosting, with connections to a range of topics including statistics, game theory, convex optimization, and information geometry. Boosting algorithms have also enjoyed practical success in such fields as biology, vision, and speech processing. At various times in its history, boosting has been perceived as mysterious, controversial, even paradoxical. …

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Evolution, the Extended Synthesis

Outgrowth of a meeting of the "Altenberg 16" at the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research in Altenberg, Austria, in July 2008. Cf. pref.In this volume, 16 leading evolutionary biologists and philosophers of science survey the conceptual changes that have emerged since Huxley's landmark publication, not only in such traditional domains of evolutionary biology as quantitati…

Chaos and Organization in Health Care

Two leading physicians' prescription for solving our health care problems: organizing the fragmented system that delivers care.One of the most daunting challenges facing the new U.S. administration is health care reform. The size of the system, the number of stakeholders, and ever-rising costs make the problem seem almost intractable. But in Chaos and Organization in Health Care, two leading ph…

Instruction and Technology: Designs for Everyday Learning

This title is a rigorous multidisciplinary analysis of the influence of emerging technologies on instruction and learning that lays the groundwork for future inquiry.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Nature of Love, Volume 3 : The Modern World

Originally published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1994-1987.Print version cataloged as a monographic set by Library of Congress.This third volume of the author's trilogy 'The Nature of Love' examines the pervasive dialectic between optimistic idealism and pessimistic realism in modern thinking about the nature of love. The author offers detailed studies of Freud, Proust, Shaw, D.H. L…

The Nature of Love, Volume 2: Courtly and Romantic

Originally published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1994-1987.Print version cataloged as a monographic set by Library of Congress.This second volume of the author's trilogy 'The Nature of Love' studies the ideas and ideals of medieval courtly love and nineteenth-century Romantic love, as well as the transition between these two perspectives. The author analyzes the transition from cour…

The Nature of Love, Volume 1: Plato to Luther

Originally published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1994-1987.Print version cataloged as a monographic set by Library of Congress.This first volume of the author's trilogy 'The Nature of Love' begins by studying love as appraisal and bestowal as well as imagination and idealization, and then examines the contrasting views of Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, Ovid, Lucretius, Saint Augustine,…

The Crucible of Consciousness: An Integrated Theory of Mind and Brain

"A Bradford book"--Page 4 of cover.Originally published: Melbourne ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999. With new foreword.This text is an interdisciplinary examination of the evolutionary breakthroughs that rendered the brain accessible to itself.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Design Things

Thomas Binder, Giorgio De Michelis, Pelle Ehn, Giulio Jacucci, Per Linde, and Ina Wagner."A new perspective on design thinking and design practice: beyond products and projects, toward participatory design things.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.