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Texture: Human Expression in the Age of Communications Overload
Our workdays are so filled with emails, instant messaging, and RSS feeds that we complain that there's not enough time to get our actual work done. At home, we are besieged by telephone calls on landlines and cell phones, the beeps that signal text messages, and work emails on our BlackBerrys. It's too much, we cry (or type) as we update our Facebook pages, compose a blog post, or check to see …
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The Computer Contradictionary (Second Edition)
Originaly published: The devil's DP dictionary. New York : McGraw-Hill, 1981."New computer cultures and their jargons have burgeoned since this book's progenitor, The Devil's DP Dictionary, was published in 1981. This updated version of Stan Kelly-Bootle's romp through the data processing "laxicon" is a response to the "Unix pandemic" that has swept academia and government, to the endlessly hyp…
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- 2nd ed.
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- 9780262276955
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 239 pages) :illustrations
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Unintended consequences :the impact of factor endowments, culture, and politi…
A somewhat expanded version of the Oklin Memorial Lectures ... delivered at the Stockholm School of economics in the autumn of 1995"--Preface.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262277877
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- 1 online resource (x, 287 pages) :illustrations.
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Unit operations : an approach to videogame criticism
In Unit Operations, Ian Bogost argues that similar principles underlie both literary theory and computation, proposing a literary-technical theory that can be used to analyze particular videogames. Moreover, this approach can be applied beyond videogames: Bogost suggests that any medium--from videogames to poetry, literature, cinema, or art--can be read as a configurative system of discrete, in…
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- 9780262268929
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- 1 online resource (xv, 243 pages)
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The unknown city :contesting architecture and social space : a Strangely Fami…
Essays on architecture as narrative and urban space as experience and the new geographies they create.The Unknown City takes its place in the emerging architectural literature that looks beyond design process and buildings to discover new ways of looking at the urban experience. A multistranded contemplation of the notion of "knowing a place," it is about both the existence and the possibilitie…
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- 1 online resource (xxvii, 533 pages) :illustrations
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The real world of college :what higher education is and what it can be
"The authors present the results of a large-scale study of American colleges, and offer recommendations for rethinking and restructuring the delivery of liberal arts education"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262368536
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- 1 online resource.
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Things we could design :for more than human-centered worlds
"A posthumanist exploration of what design could become"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262366843
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Unsupervised learning :foundations of neural computation
A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262288033
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 398 pages) :illustrations.
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Using hard problems to create pseudorandom generators
"Noam Nisan is Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He received his doctoral degree from the University of California, Berkeley.""Randomization is an important tool in the design of algorithms, and the ability of randomization to provide enhanced power is a major research topic in complexity theory. Noam Nisan continues the investigation into the pow…
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- 9780262256728
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- 1 online resource (vi, 43 pages).
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