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Me++ :the cyborg self and the networked city
"With Me++ the author of City of Bits and e-topia completes an informal trilogy examining the ramifications of information technology in everyday life. William Mitchell describes the transformation of wireless technology in the hundred years since Marconi: the scaling up of networks and the scaling down of the apparatus for transmission and reception. He examines the effects of wireless linkage…
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- 9780262280020
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- 1 online resource (259 pages)
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Made-up minds :a constructivist approach to artificial intelligence
Outgrowth of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology."Made-Up Minds addresses fundamental questions of learning and concept invention by means of an innovative computer program that is based on the cognitive-developmental theory of psychologist Jean Piaget. Drescher uses Piaget's theory as a source of inspiration for the design of an artificial cognitive system calle…
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- 0585349851
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- 1 online resource (x, 220 pages) :illustrations.
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Low-density parity-check codes
"MIT Press.""This is a complete presentation of all important theoretical and experimental work done on low-density codes. Low-density coding is one of the three techniques thus far developed for efficient communication over noisy channels with an arbitrarily low probability of error. A principal result of information theory is that if properly coded information is transmitted over a noisy chan…
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Mobile communication and society :a global perspective : a project of the Ann…
"Wireless networks are the fastest growing communications technology in history. Are mobile phones expressions of identity, fashionable gadgets, tools for life - or all of the above? Mobile Communication and Society looks at how the possibility of multimodal communication from anywhere to anywhere at any time affects everyday life at home, at work, and at school, and raises broader concerns abo…
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- 9780262255882
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- 1 online resource (xii, 331 pages) :illustrations.
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The minimum description length principle
A comprehensive introduction and reference guide to the minimum description length (MDL) Principle that is accessible to researchers dealing with inductive reference in diverse areas including statistics, pattern classification, machine learning, data min.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262256292
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- 1 online resource (xxxii, 703 pages) :illustrations.
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Minimalism beyond the Nurnberg funnel
"STC, Society for Technical Communication."Minimalism is an action- and task-oriented approach to instruction and documentation that emphasizes the importance of realistic activities and experiences for effective learning and information seeking. Since 1990, when the approach was defined in John Carroll's the Nurnberg Funnel, much work has been done to apply, refine, and broaden the minimalist …
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- 0585309612
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- 1 online resource (xii, 416 pages) :illustrations
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Microcognition :philosophy, cognitive science, and parallel distributed proce…
"A Bradford book."Parallel distributed processing is transforming the field of cognitive science. Microcognition provides a clear, readable guide to this emerging paradigm from a cognitive philosopher's point of view. It explains and explores the biological basis of PDP, its psychological importance, and its philosophical relevance.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0585002967
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 226 pages).
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Qualitative methods for reasoning under uncertainty
In this book Simon Parsons describes qualitative methods for reasoning under uncertainty, "uncertainty" being a catch-all term for various types of imperfect information. The advantage of qualitative methods is that they do not require precise numerical information. Instead, they work with abstractions such as interval values and information about how values change. The author does not invent c…
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- 9780262256773
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 506 pages) :illustrations.
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Productivity, inequality, and the digital economy :a transatlantic perspective
Revised contributions and discussions from a two-day international conference on "Information and Communications Technologies, Employment, and Earnings," organized by the editors, held in Nice in June 1998, and sponsored by the Conseil de l'Emploi, des Revenus et de la Coh?esion Sociale (CERC), and by the 10th CREST-NBER Franco-American economic seminar.Essays on the computer and the economy, p…
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- 1 online resource (x, 305 pages) :illustrations
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Roots of social sensibility and neural function
"A Bradford book."We are social animals, with evolved mechanisms to discern the beliefs and desires of others. This social reason is linked to the concept of intentionality, the ability to attribute beliefs and desires to others. In this book Jay Schulkin explores social reason from philosophical, psychological, and cognitive neuroscientific perspectives. He argues for a pragmatist approach, in…
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 206 pages) :illustrations
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