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The artificial and the natural :an evolving polarity
Notions of nature and art as they have been defined and redefined in Western culture, from the Hippocratic writers and Aristotle of Ancient Greece to nineteenth-century chemistry and twenty-first century biomimetics.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262268172
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- 1 online resource (vi, 331 pages) :illustrations.
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The equilibrium manifold :postmodern developments in the theory of general ec…
Yves Balasko, a leading scholar in the field, presents post-1970 developments in the theory of general equilibrium, unified by the concept of equilibrium manifold.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262026543
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 226 pages) :illustrations.
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Tax policy and the economy.
Recent academic research findings on topics relating to taxation and social insurance policy, including the implicit tax imposed by Medicaid on private long-term care insurance benefits, an alternative system of unemployment insurance, and federal energy tax policy.This NBER series presents current academic research findings in the areas of taxation and government spending. The papers included …
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- 9780262281867
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 184 pages) :illustrations.
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Toward brain-computer interfacing
"A Bradford book."This volume presents a timely overview of the latest BCI research, with contributions from many of the important research groups in the field.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262256045
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- 1 online resource (xii, 507 pages) :illustrations.
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Tactical biopolitics :art, activism, and technoscience
'Tactical Biopolitics' suggests that the political challenges at the intersection of life, science and art are best addressed through a combination of artistic intervention, critical theorising and reflective practices. The multidisciplinary contributions focus on the political significance of recent advances in biological science.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262271127
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- 1 online resource (xxii, 511 pages) :illustrations.
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The Internet and American business
When we think of the Internet, we generally think of Amazon, Google, Hotmail, Napster, MySpace, and other sites for buying products, searching for information, downloading entertainment, chatting with friends, or posting photographs. In the academic literature about the Internet, however, these uses are rarely covered. The Internet and American Businessfills this gap, picking up where most scho…
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- 9780262255677
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- 1 online resource (viii, 596 pages) :illustrations.
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Large-scale kernel machines
Pervasive and networked computers have dramatically reduced the cost of collecting and distributing large datasets. In this context, machine learning algorithms that scale poorly could simply become irrelevant. We need learning algorithms that scale linearly with the volume of the data while maintaining enough statistical efficiency to outperform algorithms that simply process a random subset o…
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- 0262255790
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- 1 online resource (xii, 396 pages) :illustrations.
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The Chomsky effect :a radical works beyond the ivory tower
Noam Chomsky as political gadfly, groundbreaking scholar, and intellectual guru: key issues in Chomsky's career and the sometimes contentious reception to his ideas.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262267861
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 381 pages) :illustrations
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The allure of machinic life :cybernetics, artificial life, and the new AI
"A Bradford Book."This account of the creation of new forms of life and intelligence in the sciences of cybernetics, artificial life and artificial intelligence analyses both their similarities and their differences in actualising life. The author draws on the work of scientists as well as work in contemporary philosophy and cultural theory.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262276351
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 461 pages) :illustrations
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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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