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Beyond Habitat
Habitat was one of the most intriguing buildings in the world when it opened as the housing exhibit of Expo 67 in Montreal. Seven million visited it; heads of state lived in it; models flew half way around the world to pose in front of it; children played hide-and-seek all over it; and critics heralded it as the breakthrough of twentieth century architecture.As intriguing as the bilding is the …
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- 1 online resource (244 pages)illustrations, portraits
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Between philosophy and social science :selected early writings
These essays reveal another side of Horkheimer, focusing on his remarkable contributions to critical theory in the 1930s. Max Horkheimer is well known as the director of the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research and as a sometime collaborator with Theodor Adorno, especially on their classic Dialectic of Enlightenment. These essays reveal another side of Horkheimer, focusing on his remarkable …
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- 0262275694
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- 1 online resource (440 pages).
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Beowulf cluster computing with Linux
Beowulf clusters, which exploit mass-market PC hardware and software in conjunction with cost-effective commercial network technology, are becoming the platform for many scientific, engineering, and commercial applications. With growing popularity has come growing complexity. Addressing that complexity, Beowulf Cluster Computing with Linux and Beowulf Cluster Computing with Windows provide syst…
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- 9780262286770
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- 1 online resource (xxxiii, 496 pages) :illustrations.
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Bandwagon effects in high-technology industries
Economists use the term "bandwagon effect" to describe the benefit a consumer enjoys as a result of others' using the same product or service. The history of videocassettes offers a striking example of the power of bandwagon effects. Originally there were two technical standards for videocassettes in the United States: Beta and VHS. Beta was widely regarded to have better picture quality, but V…
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- 9780262256889
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 256 pages) :illustrations
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Automatic algorithm recognition and replacement :a new approach to program op…
"Parallel computation will become the norm in the coming decades. Unfortunately, advances in parallel hardware have far outpaced parallel applications of software. There are currently two approaches to applying parallelism to applications. One is to write completely new applications in new languages. But abandoning applications that work is unacceptable to most nonacademic users of high-perform…
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- 058533336X
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- 1 online resource (viii, 219 pages)
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Attention and performance XVI :information integration in perception and comm…
"A Bradford book."Based on papers presented at the Sixteenth International Symposium on Attention and Performance held at Kyoto Research Park, Kyoto, Japan, July 11-15, 1994.The contributions to this volume, the sixteenth in the prestigious Attention and Performance series, revisit the issue of modularity, the idea that many functions are independently realized in specialized, autonomous module…
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- 9780262315760
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- 1 online resource ([xix unnumbered, 680 pages)illustrations.
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Artificial life :an overview
"A Bradford book."Artificial life, a field that seeks to increase the role of synthesis in the study of biological phenomena, has great potential, both for unlocking the secrets of life and for raising a host of disturbing issues -- scientific and technical as well as philosophical and ethical. This book brings together a series of overview articles that appeared in the first three issues of th…
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- 0585036152
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- 1 online resource (xi, 340 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates) :illustrations (some color).
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The art of the metaobject protocol
The authors introduce this new approach to programming language design, describe its evolution and design principles, and present a formal specification of a metaobject protocol for CLOS. The CLOS metaobject protocol is an elegant, high-performance extension to the CommonLisp Object System. The authors, who developed the metaobject protocol and who were among the group that developed CLOS, intr…
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- 0585358125
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- 1 online resource (viii, 335 pages)
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Art and innovation :the Xerox PARC artist-in-residence program
"The idea behind Xerox's interdisciplinary Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) is simple: if you put creative people in a hothouse setting, innovation will naturally emerge. PARC Artist-in-Residence Program (PAIR) brings artists who use new media to PARC and pairs them with researchers who often use the same media, though in different contexts. This is radically different from most corporate suppo…
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- 0585331766
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 293 pages, 6 pages of plates) :illustrations (some color).
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Architecture, ceremonial, and power :the Topkapi Palace in the fifteenth and …
Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Harvard University, 1986.Glru Necipoglu brings together largely unpublished sources, both written and visual, along with information derived from the architectural remains to uncover the processes through which the meaning of the palace was once produced, before it came to represent a stereotyped microcosm of oriental despotism imbued with the exotic …
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- 0262368056
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- 1 online resource (vi, 336 pages) :illustrations, maps
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