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The Computer Contradictionary (Second Edition)
Originaly published: The devil's DP dictionary. New York : McGraw-Hill, 1981."New computer cultures and their jargons have burgeoned since this book's progenitor, The Devil's DP Dictionary, was published in 1981. This updated version of Stan Kelly-Bootle's romp through the data processing "laxicon" is a response to the "Unix pandemic" that has swept academia and government, to the endlessly hyp…
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- 9780262276955
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 239 pages) :illustrations
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Computer Methods in the Analysis of Large-Scale Social Systems (Second Edition)
Contributions to this edition of Computer Methods have been extensively revised and contain much new material--updating the proceedings of a conference held in 1964 at the Joint Center for Urban Studies of MIT and Harvard University. In this conference social scientists experienced in computer use compared notes on the problems and benefits encountered in their studies with beginners in compute…
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- 9780262255721
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- 1 online resource (iv, 207, 7 pages)illustrations
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The Computer Revolution in Canada: Building National Technological Competence
Includes index.The forces that shaped Canada's digital innovations in the postwar period.After World War II, other major industrialized nations responded to the technological and industrial hegemony of the United States by developing their own design and manufacturing competence in digital electronic technology. In this book John Vardalas describes the quest for such competence in Canada, explo…
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- 9780262285469
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- 1 online resource (vi, 409 pages) :illustrations.
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Computers and Commerce: A Study of Technology and Management at Eckert-Mauchl…
The history of a crucial decade in the early development of digital technology, focusing on both technical and business issues at two key firms.Between 1946 and 1957 computing went from a preliminary, developmental stage to more widespread use accompanied by the beginnings of the digital computer industry. During this crucial decade, spurred by rapid technological advances, the computer enterpr…
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- 9780262280723
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- 1 online resource (x, 347 pages) :illustrations.
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Autonomous bidding agents :strategies and lessons from the trading agent comp…
Overview and analysis of algorithmic advances developed within an integrated bidding agent architecture that emerged from recent research in a growing domain of AI.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262285957
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- 1 online resource (xi, 238 pages) :illustrations.
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Worn out :how retailers surveil and exploit workers in the digital age and ho…
"Worn Out connects scholarship on digital capitalism and surveillance to the specific setting of retail work in fast fashion"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262372770
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Virtual Art: From Illusion to Immersion
An overview of the art historical antecedents to virtual reality and the impact of virtual reality on contemporary conceptions of art.Although many people view virtual reality as a totally new phenomenon, it has its foundations in an unrecognized history of immersive images. Indeed, the search for illusionary visual space can be traced back to antiquity. In this book, Oliver Grau shows how virt…
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- 9780262274265
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 416 pages) :illustrations.
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Constraint-Based Grammar Formalisms: Parsing and Type Inference for Natural a…
Constraint-Based Grammar Formalisms provides the first rigorous mathematical and computational basis for this important area. Constraint-based theories of grammar and grammar formalisms are becoming an increasingly widespread area of research in computational linguistics. Constraint-Based Grammar Formalisms provides the first rigorous mathematical and computational basis for this important area…
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- 9780262283519
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- 1 online resource (xi, 183 pages) :illustrations
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Actors :a model of concurrent computation in distributed systems
The transition from sequential to parallel computation is an area of critical concern in today's computer technology, particularly in architecture, programming languages, systems, and artificial intelligence. This book addresses central issues in concurrency, and by producing both a syntactic definition and a denotational model of Hewitt's actor paradigm--a model of computation specifically aim…
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- 9780262255554
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- 1 online resource (ix, 144 pages) :illustrations.
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