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New media poetics :contexts, technotexts, and theories
The first collection of writings on poetry that is composed, disseminated, and read on computers; essays and artist statements explore visually arresting, aurally charged, and dynamic works that are created by a synergy of human beings and intelligent mac.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Niche Envy: Marketing Discrimination in the Digital Age
The price we pay for the new strategies in database marketing that closely track desirable customers, offering them benefits in return for personal information. We have all been to Web sites that welcome us by name, offering us discounts, deals, or special access to content. For the most part, it feels good to be wanted—to be valued as a customer. But if we thought about it, we might reali…
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Noam Chomsky: A Life of Dissent
This biography describes the intellectual and political milieus that helped shape Noam Chomsky, a pivotal figure in contemporary linguistics, politics, cognitive psychology, and philosophy. It also presents an engaging political history of the last several decades, including such events as the Spanish Civil War, the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the march on the Pentag…
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Noise in electron devices
A symposium on noise, stressing mathematical theory and basic physical phenomena, and covering such topics as cathode noise phenomena, signal amplification in microwave tubes, solid-state noise, and methods of designing low-noise tubes.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262310864
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Collective Electrodynamics: Quantum Foundations of Electromagnetism
In this book Carver Mead offers a radically new approach to the standard problems of electromagnetic theory. Motivated by the belief that the goal of scientific research should be the simplification and unification of knowledge, he describes a new way of doing electrodynamics—collective electrodynamics—that does not rely on Maxwell's equations, but rather uses the quantum nature of matter a…
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Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Voice, Sound, and Aurality in the Arts
An examination of the role of sound in twentieth-century arts. This interdisciplinary history and theory of sound in the arts reads the twentieth century by listening to it—to the emphatic and exceptional sounds of modernism and those on the cusp of postmodernism, recorded sound, noise, silence, the fluid sounds of immersion and dripping, and the meat voices of viruses, screams, and bestia…
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Nonmonotonic reasoning
Nonmonotonic reasoning provides formal methods that enable intelligent systems to operate adequately when faced with incomplete or changing information. In particular, it provides rigorous mechanisms for taking back conclusions that, in the presence of new information, turn out to be wrong and for deriving new, alternative conclusions instead. Nonmonotonic reasoning methods provide rigor simila…
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- 1 online resource (xii, 285 pages) :illustrations.
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The Color of Credit: Mortgage Discrimination, Research Methodology, and Fair-…
An analysis of current findings on mortgage-lending discrimination and suggestions for new procedures to improve its detection.In 2000, homeownership in the United States stood at an all-time high of 67.4 percent, but the homeownership rate was more than 50 percent higher for non-Hispanic whites than for blacks or Hispanics. Homeownership is the most common method for wealth accumulation and is…
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Norms of nature :naturalism and the nature of functions
Originally published: 2001.The components of living systems strike us as functional-as for the sake of certain ends--and as endowed with specific norms of performance. The mammalian eye, for example, has the function of perceiving and processing light, and possession of this property tempts us to claim that token eyes are supposed to perceive and process light. That is, we tend to evaluate the …
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- 1st MIT Press pbk. ed.
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- 9780262271257
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 234 pages) :illustrations.
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Committee Decisions on Monetary Policy: Evidence from Historical Records of t…
An examination of how the policy preferences of individual members of the Federal Open Market Committee are translated into monetary policy decisions.In many countries, monetary policy decisions are made by committees. In the United States, these decisions are made by the Federal Reserve's Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), which consists of the seven members of the Board of Governors and th…
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