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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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Value sensitive design :shaping technology with moral imagination
Using our moral and technical imaginations to create responsible innovations: theory, method, and applications for value sensitive design. Implantable medical devices and human dignity. Private and secure access to information. Engineering projects that transform the Earth. Multigenerational information systems for international justice. How should designers, engineers, architects, policy maker…
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- 9780262351690
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- 1 online resource (248 pages) :illustrations
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Racing the beam :the Atari video computer system
The Atari Video Computer System dominated the home video game market so completely that "Atari" became the generic term for a video game console. The Atari VCS was affordable and offered the flexibility of changeable cartridges. Nearly a thousand of these were created, the most significant of which established new techniques, mechanics, and even entire genres. This book offers a detailed and ac…
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- 9780262254939
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- 1 online resource (xii, 180 pages) :illustrations.
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The configuration space method for kinematic design of mechanisms
A novel algorithmic approach to mechanism design based on a geometric representation of kinematic function called configuration space partitions."This book presents the configuration space method for computer-aided design of mechanisms with changing part contacts. Configuration space is a complete and compact geometric representation of part motions and part interactions that supports the core …
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- 9780262265874
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 195 pages) :illustrations
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Access denied :the practice and policy of global Internet filtering
Many countries around the world block or filter Internet content, denying access to information that they deem too sensitive for ordinary citizens--most often about politics, but sometimes relating to sexuality, culture, or religion. Access Denied documents and analyzes Internet filtering practices in more than three dozen countries, offering the first rigorously conducted study of an accelerat…
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- 9780262255998
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- 1 online resource (xv, 449 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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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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- 026229141X
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- 1 online resource (480 pages).
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The art of agent-oriented modeling
A new approach for conceptualizing and modeling multi-agent systems that consist of people, devices, and software agents.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262259217
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- 1 online resource (xix, 367 pages) :illustrations.
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Software studies :a lexicon
This collection of short expository, critical and speculative texts offers a field guide to the cultural, political, social and aesthetic impact of software. Experts from a range of disciplines each take a key topic in software and the understanding of software, such as algorithms and logical structures.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262273343
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- 1 online resource (xii, 334 pages) :illustrations.
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Predicting structured data
Collected papers based on talks presented at two Neural Information Processing Systems workshops.State-of-the-art algorithms and theory in a novel domain of machine learning, prediction when the output has structure.Machine learning develops intelligent computer systems that are able to generalize from previously seen examples. A new domain of machine learning, in which the prediction must sati…
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- 9780262255691
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- 1 online resource (viii, 348 pages) :illustrations.
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HCI remixed :essays on works that have influenced the HCI community
Over almost three decades, the field of human-computer interaction (HCI) has produced a rich and varied literature. Although the focus of attention today is naturally on new work, older contributions that played a role in shaping the trajectory and character of the field have much to tell us. The contributors to HCI Remixed were asked to reflect on a single work at least ten years old that infl…
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- 9780262256070
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- 1 online resource (xv, 337 pages) :illustrations
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