Ramifications of the convergence of sports and digital technology, from athlete and spectator experience to the role of media innovation at the Olympics.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
Collected papers based on talks presented at two Neural Information Processing Systems workshops.State-of-the-art algorithms and theory in a novel domain of machine learning, prediction when the output has structure.Machine learning develops intelligent computer systems that are able to generalize from previously seen examples. A new domain of machine learning, in which the prediction must sati…
Vol. 2: by Rudolf P.G. de Rijk and Armand De Coene.The first modern pedagogically oriented reference to the grammar of standard Basque (Euskara Batua), in two volumes: Part 1 presents detailed grammar lessons, Part 2 glosses and supplementary materials.A pre-Indo-European language with no known relatives, the Basque language survives in the Basque region of Spain and France, with about half a m…
This volume offers a view of the cultural, interpersonal and family consequences of mobile communication across the globe. The contributors analyse the effects of moble communications on all aspects of life, from the relationship between literacy and the textual features of phones, to the use of ringtones as a form of social exchange.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
This analysis of the relationship between science and totalitarian rule in one of the most technically advanced countries in the East bloc examines professional autonomy under dictatorship and the place of technology in Communist ideology. In Cold War-era East Germany, the German tradition of science-based technology merged with a socialist system that made technological progress central to its…
A primer on understanding the influence of specific genetic variants on cognition, affective regulation, personality, and central nervous system disorders.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
The history of the growth and professionalization of American meteorology and its transformation into a physics- and mathematics-based scientific discipline.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
The story of molecular biologist Elizabeth Blackburn and her groundbreaking research on telomeres and what it reveals about the resourceful optimism that characterizes the best scientific thinking.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"A Bradford book."This reader collects in one easy, accessible place, classic writings on emergence from contemporary philosophy and science. This title includes contributions from the likes of John Searle, Stephen Weinberg, Thomas Schelling, Stephen Wolfram and Jenny Fodor.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
The evolution of the concept of subjectivity in the works of Jacques Lacan.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.