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Cognitive Search: Evolution, Algorithms, and the Brain
Over a century ago, William James proposed that people search through memory much as they rummage through a house looking for lost keys. Like other animal species search space, we scour our environments for territory, food, mates, and other goals, including information. We search for items in visual scenes, for historical facts and shopping deals on internet sites, for new friends to add to our…
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- 9780262306003
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- 1 online resource (xi, 403 pages) :illustrations.
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Scripting Reading Motions: The Codex and the Computer as Self-Reflexive Machines
An exploration of what experimental literature in both print and programmable media tells us about the act of reading.In Scripting Reading Motions, Manuel Portela explores the expressive use of book forms and programmable media in experimental works of both print and electronic literature and finds a self-conscious play with the dynamics of reading and writing. Portela examines a series of prin…
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- 9781461943303
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- 1 online resource (ix, 410 pages) :illustrations
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Between Humanities and the Digital
"Like most academic discourses, the Digital Humanities are a conversation in flux. Some would argue that the Digital Humanities are already a well-established field, pointing to the 20-year history of Humanities Computing. Others (me) see a new breed of academic with skills in both technology and the traditional humanities (the Platform Studies and Software Studies series), while others might i…
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- 9780262328364
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- 1 online resource (xii, 574 pages) :illustrations
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Enterprise Integration Modeling: Proceedings of the First International Confe…
The goal of enterprise integration is the development of computer-based tools that facilitate coordination of work and information flow across organizational boundaries. These proceedings, the first on EI modeling technologies, provide a synthesis of the technical issues involved; describe the various approaches and where they overlap, complement, or conflict with each other; and identify probl…
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- 9780262291361
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- 1 online resource (xii, 563 pages) :illustrations.
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Spatial computing
An accessible guide to the ideas and technologies underlying such applications as GPS, Google Maps, Pok?emon Go , ride-sharing, driverless cars, and drone surveillance. Billions of people around the globe use various applications of spatial computing daily--by using a ride-sharing app, GPS, the e911 system, social media check-ins, even Pok?emon Go . Scientists and researchers use spatial comput…
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- 9780262356800
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- 1 online resource (256 pages).
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Cultural Analytics
A book at the intersection of data science and media studies, presenting concepts and methods for computational analysis of cultural data.How can we see a billion images? What analytical methods can we bring to bear on the astonishing scale of digital culture--the terabytes of photographs shared on social media every day, the hundreds of millions of songs created by twenty million musicians on …
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- 9780262037105
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- 1 online resource (248 pages) :illustrations, figures, tables
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From Gutenberg to the Global Information Infrastructure: Access to Informatio…
"Will the emerging global information infrastructure (GII) create a revolution in communications equivalent to that wrought by Gutenberg, or will the result be simply the evolutionary adaptation of existing behavior and institutions to new media? Will the GII improve access to information for all? Will it replace libraries and publishers? How can computers and information systems be made easier…
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- 9780262255776
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 324 pages).
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The state of economics, the state of the world
Leading economists address the ongoing challenges to economics in theory and practice in a time of political and economic crises.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262353472
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- 1 online resource (536 pages).
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The Gordian Knot :political gridlock on the information highway
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- 9780262280556
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 324 pages) : illustrations
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Boundary Objects and Beyond: Working with Leigh Star
Susan Leigh Star (1954--2010) was one of the most influential science studies scholars of the last several decades. In her work, Star highlighted the messy practices of discovering science, asking hard questions about the marginalizing as well as the liberating powers of science and technology. In the landmark work Sorting Things Out, Star and Geoffrey Bowker revealed the social and ethical his…
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- 9780262331012
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- 1 online resource (1 PDF (ix, 548 pages)).
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