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From Images to Surfaces: A Computational Study of the Human Early Visual System
Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology).Includes indexes.The projection of light rays onto the retina of the eye forms a two-dimensional image, but through combining the stereoscopic aspect of vision with other optical clues by means of some remarkably effective image-processing procedures, the viewer is able to perceive three-dimensional representations of …
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- 9780262256278
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- 1 online resource (274 pages) :illustrations.
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The anxious mind :an investigation into the varieties and virtues of anxiety
An empirically informed, philosophical account of the nature of anxiety and its value for agency, virtue, and decision making.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262345491
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- 1 online resource (viii, 250 pages) :illustrations
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Philosophical provocations :55 short essays
Pithy, direct, and bold: essays that propose new ways to think about old problems, spanning a range of philosophical topics.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262340090
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- 1 online resource (viii, 317 pages)
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Brainstorms :philosophical essays on mind and psychology
When Brainstorms was published in 1978, the interdisciplinary field of cognitive science was just emerging. Daniel Dennett was a young scholar who wanted to get philosophers out of their armchairs -- and into conversations with psychologists, linguists, computer scientists. This collection of seventeen essays by Dennett offers a comprehensive theory of mind, encompassing traditional issues of c…
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- 40th Anniversary edition.
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- 9780262343725
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Frontiers in Health Policy Research, Volume 7
"National Bureau of Economic Research."These papers were presented at the seventh annual Frontiers in Health Policy Research meeting held in Washington, D.C., in the summer of 2003.This series from the NBER presents new research by leading economists on current health care policy issues. The papers in this seventh volume, originally presented at the annual Frontiers in Health Policy Research co…
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- 9780262271059
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Tap :unlocking the mobile economy
"Consumers create a data trail by tapping their phones; businesses can tap into this trail to harness the power of the more than three trillion dollar mobile economy. According to Anindya Ghose, a global authority on the mobile economy, this two-way exchange can benefit both customers and businesses. In Tap, Ghose welcomes us to the mobile economy of smartphones, smarter companies, and value-se…
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- 9780262340427
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- 1 online resource (ix, 230 pages) :illustrations
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Image objects :an archaeology of computer graphics
"Though an analysis of five objects that have shaped the history of computer graphics, this book explores what historical technologies shaped and limited the development of simulated images"--Edited version of the author's thesis (Ph.D.)--New York University, 2014, under the title: Image objects : an archaeology of 3D computer graphics, 1965-1979.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262361795
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Positive nihilism :my confrontation with Heidegger
A German writer's aphoristic, poetic, and difficult reflections on Heidegger's Being and Time.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262342773
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- 1 online resource (ix, 81 pages)
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Enlivenment :toward a poetics for the Anthropocene
A new understanding of the Anthropocene that is based on mutual transformation with nature rather than control over nature. We have been told that we are living in the Anthropocene, a geological era shaped by humans rather than by nature. In Enlivenment , German philosopher Andreas Weber presents an alternative understanding of our relationship with nature, arguing not that humans control natur…
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- 9780262352277
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- 1 online resource (208 pages).
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German philosophy :a dialogue
Two eminent French philosophers discuss German philosophy--including the legacy of Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Adorno, Fichte, Marx, and Heidegger--from a French perspective.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262348355
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