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A secret history of the garage as a space of creativity, from its invention by Frank Lloyd Wright to its use by start-ups and garage bands. Frank Lloyd Wright invented the garage when he moved the automobile out of the stable into a room of its own. Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak (allegedly) started Apple Computer in a garage. Suburban men turned garages into man caves to escape from family life.…
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- 1 online resource (224 pages).
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Qualitative representations :how people reason and learn about the continuous…
An argument that qualitative representations -- symbolic representations that carve continuous phenomena into meaningful units -- are central to human cognition. In this book, Kenneth Forbus proposes that qualitative representations hold the key to one of the deepest mysteries of cognitive science: how we reason and learn about the continuous phenomena surrounding us. Forbus argues that qualita…
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- 9780262349802
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 424 pages)
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Access controlled :the shaping of power, rights, and rule in cyberspace
Report from the OpenNet Initiative.Internet filtering, censorship of Web content, and online surveillance are increasing in scale, scope, and sophistication around the world, in democratic countries as well as in authoritarian states. The first generation of Internet controls consisted largely of building firewalls at key Internet gateways; China's famous "Great Firewall of China" is one of the…
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- 9780262266031
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 617 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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Contagious architecture :computation, aesthetics, and space
In Contagious Architecture, Luciana Parisi offers a philosophical inquiry into the status of the algorithm in architectural and interaction design. Her thesis is that algorithmic computation is not simply an abstract mathematical tool but constitutes a mode of thought in its own right, in that its operation extends into forms of abstraction that lie beyond direct human cognition and control. Th…
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- 9780262312615
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- 1 online resource (xx, 370 pages) :illustrations.
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The configuration space method for kinematic design of mechanisms
A novel algorithmic approach to mechanism design based on a geometric representation of kinematic function called configuration space partitions."This book presents the configuration space method for computer-aided design of mechanisms with changing part contacts. Configuration space is a complete and compact geometric representation of part motions and part interactions that supports the core …
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- 9780262265874
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 195 pages) :illustrations
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Digital Apollo :human and machine in spaceflight
How human pilots and automated systems worked together to achieve the ultimate in flight--the lunar landings of NASA's Apollo program.As Apollo 11's Lunar Module descended toward the moon under automatic control, a program alarm in the guidance computer's software nearly caused a mission abort. Neil Armstrong responded by switching off the automatic mode and taking direct control. He stopped mo…
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- 9780262266673
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 359 pages) :illustrations
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Borders in cyberspace :information policy and the global information infrastr…
Borders in Cyberspace investigates issues arising from national differences in law, public policy, and social and cultural values in light of the emerging global information infrastructure. The contributions include detailed analyses of some of the most visible issues, including intellectual property, security, privacy, and censorship.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 1 online resource (xi, 374 pages) :illustrations.
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Beyond our control? :confronting the limits of our legal system in the age of…
This book provides a framework for thinking about the law and cyberspace, examining the extent to which the Internet is currently under control and the extent to which it can or should be controlled. It focuses in part on the proliferation of MP3 file sharing, a practice made possible by the development of a file format that enables users to store large audio files with near-CD sound quality on…
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- 9780262255738
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 452 pages)
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Language and space
Papers presented at a conference of the same name which was held Mar. 16-19, 1994, Tucson, Ariz."A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262268806
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- 1 online resource (x, 597 pages) :illustrations.
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Me++ :the cyborg self and the networked city
"With Me++ the author of City of Bits and e-topia completes an informal trilogy examining the ramifications of information technology in everyday life. William Mitchell describes the transformation of wireless technology in the hundred years since Marconi: the scaling up of networks and the scaling down of the apparatus for transmission and reception. He examines the effects of wireless linkage…
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