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Do the Right Thing: Studies in Limited Rationality
The authors argue that a new theoretical foundation for artificial intelligence can be constructed in which rationality is a property of "programs" within a finite architecture, and their behavior over time in the task environment, rather than a property of individual decisions.Like Mooki, the hero of Spike Lee's film "Do the Right Thing," artificially intelligent systems have a hard time knowi…
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- 9780262282772
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- 1 online resource (xx, 200 pages) :illustrations.
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Synthetic Biology and Morality: Artificial Life and the Bounds of Nature
Synthetic biology, which aims to design and build organisms that serve human needs, has potential applications that range from producing biofuels to programming human behaviour. The emergence of this new form of biotechnology, however, raises a variety of ethical questions - first and foremost, whether synthetic biology is intrinsically troubling in moral terms. Is it an egregious example of sc…
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No Medium
In No Medium, Craig Dworkin looks at works that are blank, erased, clear or silent, writing critically and substantively about works for which there would seem to be not only nothing to see but nothing to say. Examined closely, these ostensibly contentless works of art, literature and music point to a new understanding of media and the limits of the artistic object. Dworkin considers works pred…
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- 9780262312707
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- 1 online resource (219 pages)
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Analyzing Neural Time Series Data: Theory and Practice
"This book offers a comprehensive guide to the theory and practice of analyzing electrical brain signals. It explains the conceptual, mathematical, and implementational (via Matlab programming) aspects of time-, time-frequency- and synchronization-based analyses of magnetoencephalography (MEG), electroencephalography (EEG), and local field potential (LFP) recordings from humans and nonhuman ani…
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- 9780262319553
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 578 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) :illustrations.
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Screen Ecologies: Art, Media, and the Environment in the Asia-Pacific Region
Images of environmental disaster and degradation have become part of our everyday media diet. This visual culture focusing on environmental deterioration represents a wider recognition of the political, economic, and cultural forces that are responsible for our ongoing environmental crisis. And yet efforts to raise awareness about environmental issues through digital and visual media are riddle…
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- 9780262334013
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- 1 online resource (vii, 210 pages) :illustrations.
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Biopolitical Screens: Image, Power, and the Neoliberal Brain
"In Biopolitical Screens, Pasi V?aliaho charts and conceptualizes the imagery that composes our affective and conceptual reality under twenty-first-century capitalism. V?aliaho investigates the role screen media play in the networks that today harness human minds and bodies--the ways that images animated on console game platforms, virtual reality technologies, and computer screens capture human…
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The Systemic Image: A New Theory of Interactive Real-Time Simulations
In media art history as well as in science studies an intensified reception of cybernetic and system-theoretical concepts can be seen in the last few years. In this work, a conceptualization of the relationship between the systemic and the iconic in interactive real-time simulations is proposed.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262335546
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- 1 online resource (viii, 384 pages)
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Peripheral Vision: Bell Labs, the S-C 4020, and the Origins of Computer Art
How the S-C 4020—a mainframe peripheral intended to produce scientific visualizations—shaped a series of early computer art projects that emerged from Bell Labs. In 1959, the electronics manufacturer Stromberg-Carlson produced the S-C 4020, a device that allowed mainframe computers to present and preserve images. In the mainframe era, the output of text and image was quite literally periph…
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The Effects of Competition: Cartel Policy and the Evolution of Strategy and S…
"Using data from before and after the 1956 Act, this book compares the two groups of industries to determine the effect of price competition on concentration, firm and plant numbers, profitability, advertising intensity, and innovation. The book avoids two problems common to empirical studies of competition: how to measure the intensity of competition and how to unravel the links between compet…
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- 1 online resource (x, 542 pages) :illustrations
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From Animals to Animats 2: Proceedings of the Second International Conference…
"A Bradford book."More than sixty contributions in From Animals to Animats2 by researchers in ethology, ecology, cybernetics, artificial intelligence, robotics, and related fields investigate behaviors and the underlying mechanisms that allow animals and, potentially, robots to adapt and survive in uncertain environments. Jean-Arcady Meyer is Director of Research, CNRS, Paris. Herbert L. Roitbl…
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- 1 online resource (x, 523 pages) :illustrations.
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