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Beowulf cluster computing with Linux
Beowulf clusters, which exploit mass-market PC hardware and software in conjunction with cost-effective commercial network technology, are becoming the platform for many scientific, engineering, and commercial applications. With growing popularity has come growing complexity. Addressing that complexity, Beowulf Cluster Computing with Linux and Beowulf Cluster Computing with Windows provide syst…
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- 9780262286770
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- 1 online resource (xxxiii, 496 pages) :illustrations.
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Automatic algorithm recognition and replacement :a new approach to program op…
"Parallel computation will become the norm in the coming decades. Unfortunately, advances in parallel hardware have far outpaced parallel applications of software. There are currently two approaches to applying parallelism to applications. One is to write completely new applications in new languages. But abandoning applications that work is unacceptable to most nonacademic users of high-perform…
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- 058533336X
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- 1 online resource (viii, 219 pages)
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The art of the metaobject protocol
The authors introduce this new approach to programming language design, describe its evolution and design principles, and present a formal specification of a metaobject protocol for CLOS. The CLOS metaobject protocol is an elegant, high-performance extension to the CommonLisp Object System. The authors, who developed the metaobject protocol and who were among the group that developed CLOS, intr…
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- 0585358125
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- 1 online resource (viii, 335 pages)
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The Computer age :a twenty-year view
Gathered from twenty leading authorities in computer science, the chapters of The Computer Age range across a broad spectrum of topics -- from technological trends and needs to social questions, such as the changing economics of information, ownership principles, regulation, the range of potential computer uses, from science and business to the home.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262256002
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 491 pages) :illustrations.
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Computer science Logo style.
This series is for people--adults and teenagers--who are interested in computer programming because it's fun. The three volumes use the Logo programming language as the vehicle for an exploration of computer science from the perspective of symbolic computation and artificial intelligence. Logo is a dialect of Lisp, a language used in the most advanced research projects in computer science, espe…
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- 9780262286817
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Computer science Logo style
This series is for people--adults and teenagers--who are interested in computer programming because it's fun. The three volumes use the Logo programming language as the vehicle for an exploration of computer science from the perspective of symbolic computation and artificial intelligence. Logo is a dialect of Lisp, a language used in the most advanced research projects in computer science, espe…
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- 2nd ed.
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- 9780262286817
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- 1 online resource (3 volumes) :illustrations
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Computer science Logo style.
This series is for people--adults and teenagers--who are interested in computer programming because it's fun. The three volumes use the Logo programming language as the vehicle for an exploration of computer science from the perspective of symbolic computation and artificial intelligence. Logo is a dialect of Lisp, a language used in the most advanced research projects in computer science, espe…
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- 2nd ed.
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- 9780262286817
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E-topia :"urban life, Jim--but not as we know it"
"The global digital network is not just a delivery system for email, Web pages, and digital television. It is a whole new form of urban infrastructure - one that will change the forms of our cities as dramatically as railroads, highways, electric power supply, and telephone networks did in the past. In this book, William J. Mitchell examines this new infrastructure and its implications for our …
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- 0585108978
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- 1 online resource (184 pages)
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Learning mathematics and Logo
These original essays summarize a decade of fruitful research and curriculum development using the LISP-derived language Logo. They discuss a range of issues in the areas of curriculum, learning, and mathematics, illustrating the ways in which Logo continues to provide a rich learning environment, one that allows pupil autonomy within challenging mathematical settings.Essays in the first sectio…
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- 9780262290883
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- 1 online resource (xxi, 483 pages) :illustrations.
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Learning in embedded systems
"A Bradford book."It is the first detailed exploration of the problem of learning action strategies in the context of designing embedded systems that adapt their behavior to a complex, changing environment; such systems include mobile robots, factory process controllers, and long-term software databases.Learning to perform complex action strategies is an important problem in the fields of artif…
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- 0262288508
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- 1 online resource (xi, 176 pages) :illustrations
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