A compelling account of the diplomatic and military actions that led to Kosovo's independence and their implications for future U.S. and UN interventions.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
An alternative history of software that places the liberal arts at the very center of software's evolution. In The Software Arts, Warren Sack offers an alternative history of computing that places the arts at the very center of software's evolution. Tracing the origins of software to eighteenth-century French encyclopedists' step-by-step descriptions of how things were made in the workshops of …
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An industry insider explains why there is so much bad software - and why academia doesn't teach programmers what industry wants them to know. Why is software so prone to bugs? So vulnerable to viruses? Why are software products so often delayed, or even canceled? Is software development really hard, or are software developers just not that good at it? In The Problem with Software , Adam Barr ex…
This title investigates an often overlooked factor in the development of today's interoperable world - the evolution of copyright law. The book examines the debates surrounding the use of copyright law to prevent competition and interoperability in the global software industry in the last 15 years.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"A Core Research Project of the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP)."Here, experts investigate how states and other actors can improve inter-institutional synergy. They examine the complexity of over-lapping environmental governance structures.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
Software agents are the latest advance in the trend toward smaller, modular pieces of code, where each module performs a well-defined, focused task or set of tasks. Programmed to interact with and provide services to other agents, including humans, software agents act autonomously with prescribed backgrounds, beliefs, and operations. Systems of agents can access and manipulate heterogeneously s…
"Foreword by Michael Toscano"--Cover."Military drones have recently been hailed as a revolutionary new technology that will forever change the conduct of war. And yet the United States and other countries have been deploying such unmanned military systems for more than a century. Written by a renowned authority in the field, this book documents the forgotten legacy of these pioneering efforts, …
The definitive presentation of Soar, one AI's most enduring architectures, offering comprehensive descriptions of fundamental aspects and new components.