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A robot ping-pong player :experiment in real-time intelligent control
This tour de force in experimental robotics paves the way toward understanding dynamic environments in vision and robotics. It describes the first robot able to play, and even beat, human ping-pong players.Constructing a machine to play ping-pong was proposed years ago as a particularly difficult problem requiring fast, accurate sensing and actuation, and the intelligence to play the game. The …
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Computers and Design in Context
The contributors to this book address both the pragmatic approach of direct collaboration between designers and users (known as participatory design) and the more conceptual approach that incorporates complementary perspectives to help designers come up with better solutions. The volume brings together different computer-related research disciplines, including computer-supported cooperative wor…
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 418 pages) :illustrations
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System Modeling in Cellular Biology: From Concepts to Nuts and Bolts
A Bradford book."This is an introduction and overview of system modelling in biology that is accessible to researchers from different fields including biology, computer science, mathematics, statistics physics, and biochemistry.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 448 pages) :illustrations
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Systems, Experts, and Computers: The Systems Approach in Management and Engin…
This study charts the origins and spread of the systems movement. It describes the major players - including RAND, MITRE, Ramo-Wooldrige (later TRW), and the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis - and examines applications in a wide variety of military, government, civil, and engineering settings. The book is international in scope, describing the spread of systems thinking in Fr…
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- 1 online resource (vi, 513 pages) :illustrations.
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Understanding Intelligence
Researchers now agree that intelligence always manifests itself in behavior - thus it is behavior that we must understand. An exciting new field has grown around the study of behavior-based intelligence, also known as embodied cognitive science, "new AI," and "behavior-based AI."" "Rolf Pfeifer and Christian Scheier provide a systematic introduction to this new way of thinking about intelligenc…
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- 1 online resource (xx, 697 pages) :illustrations
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Computational Models of Discourse
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- 1 online resource (xxiii, 403 pages) :illustrations.
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Texture: Human Expression in the Age of Communications Overload
Our workdays are so filled with emails, instant messaging, and RSS feeds that we complain that there's not enough time to get our actual work done. At home, we are besieged by telephone calls on landlines and cell phones, the beeps that signal text messages, and work emails on our BlackBerrys. It's too much, we cry (or type) as we update our Facebook pages, compose a blog post, or check to see …
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Work meets life :exploring the integrative study of work in living systems
The work performed by living systems ranges from photosynthesis to prodigious feats of computation and organization. This multidisciplinary volume explores the relationships between work and the study of work across many different levels of organization.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 1 online resource (xv, 249 pages) :illustrations
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Activity-centered design :an ecological approach to designing smart tools and…
The shift in the practice of human-computer interaction (HCI) Design from user-centered to context-based design marks a significant change in focus. With context-based design, designers start not with a preconceived idea of what users should do, but with an understanding of what users actually do. Context-based design focuses on the situation in which the technology will be used -- the activiti…
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