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Computational models of referring :a study in cognitive science
"To communicate, speakers need to make it clear what they are talking about. The act of referring, which anchors words to things, is a fundamental aspect of language. In this book, Kees van Deemter shows that computational models of reference offer attractive tools for capturing the complexity of referring. Indeed, the models van Deemter presents cover many issues beyond the basic idea of refer…
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- 9780262335324
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- 1 online resource (x, 339 pages)
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Intellectual Property Strategy
How a flexible and creative approach to intellectual property can help an organization accomplish goals ranging from building market share to expanding an industry. Most managers leave intellectual property issues to the legal department, unaware that an organization's intellectual property can help accomplish a range of management goals, from accessing new markets to improving existing prod…
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- 9780262302890
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- 346.048 PAL i
Data-parallel programming on MIMD computers
Data-Parallel Programming demonstrates that architecture-independent parallel programming is possible by describing in detail how programs written in a high-level SIMD programming language may be compiled and efficiently executed-on both shared-memory multiprocessors and distributed-memory multicomputers.MIMD computers are notoriously difficult to program. Data-Parallel Programming demonstrates…
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- 9780262288484
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 231 pages) :illustrations.
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Intentions in communication
"A Bradford book."Intentions in Communication brings together major theorists from artificial intelligence and computer science, linguistics, philosophy, and psychology whose work develops the foundations for an account of the role of intentions in a comprehensive theory of communication. It demonstrates, for the first time, the emerging cooperation among disciplines concerned with the fundamen…
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- 0585363692
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- 1 online resource (x, 508 pages) : illustrations.
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- 005 INT
The big book of concepts
"A Bradford book."Concepts embody our knowledge of the kinds of things there are in the world. Tying our past experiences to our present interactions with the environment, they enable us to recognize and understand new objects and events. Concepts are also relevant to understanding domains such as social situations, personality types, and even artistic styles. Yet like other phenomenologically …
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- 9780262280358
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- 1 online resource (555 pages) :illustrations.
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Unmaking the Bomb: A Fissile Material Approach to Nuclear Disarmament and Non…
The global stockpile, continued production and use of plutonium and highly enriched uranium facilitates proliferation, increases the risk of nuclear terrorism and is an obstacle to achieving irreversible nuclear disarmament. The book explains how these materials are used, describes the histories of fissile material production for weapons, provides an overview of the current global stockpile of …
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- 9780262319188
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- 1 online resource (x, 277 pages) :illustrations, map
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The Internet upheaval : raising questions, seeking answers in communications …
"At the beginning of 2000, the U.S. economy was enjoying the longest period of sustained growth and economic prosperity in its history. According to The Internet Upheaval, part of the explanation for this phenomenon is a consequence of how information technologies, in particular the Internet, are upending fundamental economic and social structures.These research studies explore some of the tele…
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- 0262285606
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- 1 online resource (xxix, 426 pages) : illustrations
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- 001 INT
Body language :representation in action
"A Bradford book."An argument that activity provides a useful template for thinking about representation and that deeds are themselves representational: our representing of the world consists, in part, in certain sorts of deeds that we perform in the world.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262282741
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- 1 online resource (241 pages)
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Performance and evaluation of Lisp systems
This final report of the Stanford Lisp Performance Study, conducted over a three year period by the author, describes implementation techniques, performance tradeoffs, benchmarking techniques, and performance results for all of the major Lisp dialects in use today. A popular highlevel programming language used predominantly in artificial intelligence, Lisp was the first language to concentrate …
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- 9780262256193
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 285 pages).
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Desire: its role in practical reason and the explanation of action
"A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262283243
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- 1 online resource (xi, 223 pages)
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