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Designing an internet
Why the Internet was designed to be the way it is, and how it could be different, now and in the future. How do you design an internet The architecture of the current Internet is the product of basic design decisions made early in its history. What would an internet look like if it were designed, today, from the ground up In this book, MIT computer scientist David Clark explains how the Interne…
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- 1 online resource (432 pages).
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Collaborative society
How networked technology enables the emergence of a new collaborative society. Humans are hard-wired for collaboration, and new technologies of communication act as a super-amplifier of our natural collaborative mindset. This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series examines the emergence of a new kind of social collaboration enabled by networked technologies. This new collaborative s…
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- 9780262356442
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- 1 online resource (256 pages).
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Coping with illness digitally
An examination of ""digital coping"" involving the use of communication technologies, particularly social media, in responding to illness.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262347648
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- 1 online resource (230 pages)
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Weaving the dark web :legitimacy on freenet, Tor, and I2P
An exploration of the Dark Web--websites accessible only with special routing software--that examines the history of three anonymizing networks, Freenet, Tor, and I2P.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262347587
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- 1 online resource (xi, 276 pages).
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Laboratory lifestyles :the construction of scientific fictions
"The past decade has seen an extraordinary laboratory-building boom. This new crop of laboratories features spectacular architecture and resort-like amenities. The buildings sprawl luxuriously on verdant campuses or sit sleekly in expensive urban neighborhoods. Designed to attract venture capital, generous philanthropy, and star scientists, these laboratories are meant to create the ideal condi…
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- 9780262349741
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- 1 online resource (xxiv, 274 pages) :illustrations (some color)
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The paradoxes of network neutralities
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- 9780262355070
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- 1 online resource (528 pages).
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Eat, cook, grow :mixing human-computer interactions with human-food interacti…
"Our contemporary concerns about food range from food security to agricultural sustainability to getting dinner on the table for family and friends. This book investigates food issues as they intersect with participatory Internet culture--blogs, wikis, online photo- and video-sharing platforms, and social networks--in efforts to bring about a healthy, socially inclusive, and sustainable food fu…
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- 9780262026857
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- 1 online resource (x, 303 pages) :illustrations
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Internet architecture and innovation
Today--following housing bubbles, bank collapses, and high unemployment--the Internet remains the most reliable mechanism for fostering innovation and creating new wealth. The Internet's remarkable growth has been fueled by innovation. In this pathbreaking book, Barbara van Schewick argues that this explosion of innovation is not an accident, but a consequence of the Internet's architecture--a …
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- 9780262265867
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- 1 online resource (xii, 574 pages) :illustrations
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The virtual community :homesteading on the electronic frontier
Howard Rheingold tours the "virtual community" of online networking. Howard Rheingold has been called the First Citizen of the Internet. In this book he tours the "virtual community" of online networking. He describes a community that is as real and as much a mixed bag as any physical community -- one where people talk, argue, seek information, organize politically, fall in love, and dupe other…
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- Revised edition.
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- 026229141X
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- 1 online resource (480 pages).
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Advances in neural information processing systems 19 :proceedings of the 2006…
The annual Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) conference is the flagship meeting on neural computation and machine learning. This volume contains the papers presented at the December 2006 meeting, held in Vancouver.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 1 online resource (xxiv, 1643 pages) :illustrations.
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