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Nearest-neighbor methods in learning and vision :theory and practice
" ... held in Whistler, British Columbia ... annual conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) in December 2003"--Preface.Regression and classification methods based on similarity of the input to stored examples have not been widely used in applications involving very large sets of high-dimensional data. Recent advances in computational geometry and machine learning, however, ma…
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- 9780262256957
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- 1 online resource (vi, 252 pages) :illustrations.
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Borders as infrastructure :the technopolitics of border control
"Examines the European border-and the various actors and institutions involved behind the maintenance of a border--as an infrastructure, with particular attention to the refugee crisis of 2014-2016"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 026236638X
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The network nation :human communication via computer
A visionary book when it was first published in the late 1970s, The Network Nation has become the defining document and standard reference for the field of computer mediated communication (CMC). This revised edition adds a substantial new chapter on "superconnectivity" (invented and defined in the unabridged edition of the Online Dictionary of the English Language, 2067) that reviews the develo…
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- 0262291150
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- 1 online resource (xxxi, 557 pages)
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Ways of hearing
A writer-musician examines how the switch from analog to digital audio is changing our perceptions of time, space, love, money, and power. Our voices carry farther than ever before, thanks to digital media. But how are they being heard In this book, Damon Krukowski examines how the switch from analog to digital audio is changing our perceptions of time, space, love, money, and power. In Ways of…
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- 9780262352154
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- 1 online resource (136 pages) :illustrations
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Creating good jobs :an industry-based strategy
Experts discuss improving job quality in low-wage industries including retail, residential construction, hospitals and long-term healthcare, restaurants, manufacturing, and long-haul trucking. Americans work harder and longer than our counterparts in other industrialized nations. Yet prosperity remains elusive to many. Workers in such low-wage industries as retail, restaurants, and home constru…
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- 9780262357364
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- 1 online resource (336 pages).
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Reflexive governance for global public goods
Governance challenges and solutions for the provision of global public goods in such areas as the environment, food security, and development.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262301213
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 366 pages) :illustrations.
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Insatiable Curiosity: Innovation in a Fragile Future
An influential scholar in science studies argues that innovation tames the insatiable and limitless curiosity driving science, and that society's acute ambivalence about this is an inevitable legacy of modernity.Curiosity is the main driving force behind scientific activity. Scientific curiosity, insatiable in its explorations, does not know what it will find, or where it will lead. Science nee…
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- 1 online resource (179 pages).
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On the Camera Arts and Consecutive Matters: The Writings of Hollis Frampton
The collected writings of artist and filmmaker Hollis Frampton, including all the essays from the long-unavailable Circles of Confusion along with rare additional material.
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- 1 online resource (xx, 331 pages) : illustrations (some color).
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Linkages of sustainability
In this book, experts discuss the multiple components of sustainability, the constraints imposed by their linkages, and the necessity of taking a comprehensive view.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262258845
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 532 pages) :illustrations (some color), maps (some color).
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Living through the end of nature :the future of American environmentalism
"Environmentalists have always worked to protect the wildness of nature but now must find a new direction. We have so tamed, colonized, and contaminated the natural world that safeguarding it from humans is no longer an option. Humanity's imprint is now every where and all efforts to "preserve" nature require extensive human intervention. At the same time, we are repeatedly told that there is n…
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- 1 online resource (xii, 252 pages) :illustrations
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