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(p/b) waves
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A guide to ocean waves traces their evolution from wind-wave generation to coastal effects. Sitting on the beach on a sunny summer day, we enjoy the steady advance and retreat of the waves....
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(p/b) spaceflight // a concise history
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A concise history of spaceflight, from military rocketry through Sputnik, Apollo, robots in space, space culture, and human spaceflight today. Spaceflight is one of the greatest human achie...
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(h/b) drawing physics // 2600 years of discovery from thales to higgs
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Humans have been trying to understand the physical universe since antiquity. Aristotle had one vision (the realm of the celestial spheres is perfect), and Einstein another (all motion is re...
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(h/b) the scientific attitude // defending science from denial, fraud, and pseudoscience
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An argument that what makes science distinctive is its emphasis on evidence and scientists' willingness to change theories on the basis of new evidence. Attacks on science have become commo...
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(h/b) the deep learning revolution
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How deep learning - from Google Translate to driverless cars to personal cognitive assistants - is changing our lives and transforming every sector of the economy. The deep learning revolut...
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(p/b) introduction to algorithms
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Some books on algorithms are rigorous but incomplete; others cover masses of material but lack rigor. Introduction to Algorithms uniquely combines rigor and comprehensiveness. The book cove...
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(h/b) introduction to algorithms
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Some books on algorithms are rigorous but incomplete; others cover masses of material but lack rigor. Introduction to Algorithms uniquely combines rigor and comprehensiveness. It covers a b...
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(h/b) hci remixed: reflections on works that have influenced
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(h/b) portraits in silicon
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e-topia (p/b) // urban life, jim - but not as we know it
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the virtual community (p/b) // homesteading on the electronic frontier
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(h/b) inventing the medium // principles of interaction design as a cultural practice
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Digital artifacts from iPads to databases pervade our lives, and the design decisions that shape them affect how we think, act, communicate, and understand the world. But the pace of change...
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(p/b) twisty little passages // an approach to interactive fiction
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Interactive fiction -- the best-known form of which is the text game or text adventure -- has not received as much critical attention as have such other forms of electronic literature as hy...
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(p/b) computing // a concise history
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The history of computing could be told as the story of hardware and software, or the story of the Internet, or the story of "smart" hand-held devices, with subplots involving IBM, Microsoft...
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(h/b) rules of play // game design fundamentals
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As pop culture, games are as important as film or television-but game design has yet to develop a theoretical framework or critical vocabulary. In Rules of Play Katie Salen and Eric Zimmerm...
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(p/b) cybernetics // or the control and communication in the animal and the machine
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One of the most influential books of the twentieth century, Cybernetics has been acclaimed one of the "seminal books... comparable in ultimate importance to... Galileo or Malthus or Roussea...
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(h/b) third person // authoring and exploring vast narratives
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The ever-expanding capacities of computing offer new narrative possibilities for virtual worlds. Yet vast narrativesfeaturing an ongoing and intricately developed storyline, many characters...
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(p/b) mobile communication and society // a global perspective
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Good | Σημερινοί Έλληνες Συγγραφείς (2000 - Σήμερα) | ΣΥΛΛΟΓΙΚΟ | MIT PRESS | ΕΝΤΥΠΗ ΕΚΔΟΣΗ (Τύπος Βιβλίου)Τύπος Βιβλίου
Wireless networks are the fastest growing communications technology in history. Are mobile phones expressions of identity, fashionable gadgets, tools for lifeor all of the above? Mobile Com...
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(p/b) persuasive games // the expressive power of videogames
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Videogames are both an expressive medium and a persuasive medium; they represent how real and imagined systems work, and they invite players to interact with those systems and form judgment...
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(h/b) handbook of computer game studies
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New media students, teachers, and professionals have long needed a comprehensive scholarly treatment of digital games that deals with the history, design, reception, and aesthetics of games...
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(p/b) the laws of simplicity
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Ten laws of simplicity for business, technology, and design that teach us how to need less but get more. Finally, we are learning that simplicity equals sanity. We're rebelling against tech...
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(p/b) types and programming languages
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A comprehensive introduction to type systems and programming languages. A type system is a syntactic method for automatically checking the absence of certain erroneous behaviors by classify...
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(h/b) deep learning
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Deep learning is a form of machine learning that enables computers to learn from experience and understand the world in terms of a hierarchy of concepts. Because the computer gathers knowle...
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(p/b) the technological singularity
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The idea of technological singularity, and what it would mean if ordinary human intelligence were enhanced or overtaken by artificial intelligence. The idea that human history is approachin...
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(p/b) computational thinking
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An introduction to computational thinking that traces a genealogy beginning centuries before the digital computer. A few decades into the digital era, scientists discovered that thinking in...
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(p/b) information and modern corporation
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A guide to information as the transformative tool of modern business. While we have been preoccupied with the latest i-gadget from Apple and with Google's ongoing expansion, we may have mis...
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(p/b) gps
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A concise history of GPS, from its military origins to its commercial applications and ubiquity in everyday life. GPS is ubiquitous in everyday life. GPS mapping is standard equipment in ma...
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(p/b) open access
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A concise introduction to the basics of open access, describing what it is (and isn't) and showing that it is easy, fast, inexpensive, legal, and beneficial. The Internet lets us share perf...
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(p/b) matadata
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Everything we need to know about metadata, the usually invisible infrastructure for information with which we interact every day. When "metadata" became breaking news, appearing in stories ...
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(p/b) data science
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A concise introduction to the emerging field of data science, explaining its evolution, relation to machine learning, current uses, data infrastructure issues, and ethical challenges. The g...
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(h/b) artificial unintelligence // how computers misunderstand the world
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A guide to understanding the inner workings and outer limits of technology and why we should never assume that computers always get it right. In Artificial Unintelligence, Meredith Broussar...
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(p/b) machine translation
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A concise, nontechnical overview of the development of machine translation, including the different approaches, evaluation issues, and major players in the industry. The dream of a universa...
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(h/b) the new analog // listening and reconnecting in a digital world
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A meditation on what was lost - and on what is worth preserving - in the movement away from analog music and culture. Although digital media have created new possibilities for music making ...
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(p/b) robots
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An accessible and engaging account of robots, covering the current state of the field, the fantasies of popular culture, and implications for life and work. Robots are entering the mainstre...
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(p/b) machine learning // the new ai
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A concise overview of machine learning - computer programs that learn from data - which underlies applications that include recommendation systems, face recognition, and driverless cars. To...
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(h/b) a gentle introduction to effective computing in quantitative research // what every research assistant should know
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This book offers a practical guide to the computational methods at the heart of most modern quantitative research. It will be essential reading for research assistants needing hands-on expe...
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(h/b) eniac in action // making and remaking the modern computer
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Conceived in 1943, completed in 1945, and decommissioned in 1955, ENIAC (the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) was the first general-purpose programmable electronic computer. Bu...
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(p/b) cloud computing
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Most of the information available on cloud computing is either highly technical, with details that are irrelevant to non-technologists, or pure marketing hype, in which the cloud is simply ...
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(h/b) voice // vocal aesthetics in digital arts and media
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Voice has returned to both theoretical and artistic agendas. In the digital era, techniques and technologies of voice have provoked insistent questioning of the distinction between the huma...
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(p/b) thinking about android epistemology
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Good | Σημερινοί Έλληνες Συγγραφείς (2000 - Σήμερα) | ΣΥΛΛΟΓΙΚΟ | MIT PRESS | ΕΝΤΥΠΗ ΕΚΔΟΣΗ (Τύπος Βιβλίου)Τύπος Βιβλίου
For millennia, "from Aristotle to almost yesterday", the great problems of philosophy have all been about people: questions of epistemology and philosophy of mind have concerned human capac...
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(p/b) evolution // the modern synthesis: the definitive edition
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This classic work by Julian Huxley, first published in 1942, captured and synthesized all that was then known about evolutionary biology and gave a name to the Modern Synthesis, the concept...
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(h/b) rationalizing medical work
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Περιεχόμενα (H/B) RATIONALIZING MEDICAL WORK Δείτε περισσότερα +
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(p/b) biomedical platforms - realgning the normal
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(p/b) synesthesia
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An accessible, concise primer on the neurological trait of synesthesia - vividly felt sensory couplings - by a founder of the field. One in twenty-three people carry the genes for the synes...
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(p/b) neuroplasticity
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The real story of how our brains and nervous systems change throughout our lifetimes - with or without "brain training." Fifty years ago, neuroscientists thought that a mature brain was fix...
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(p/b) the design of high-efficiency turbomachinery and gas turbines
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The second edition of a comprehensive textbook that introduces turbomachinery and gas turbines through design methods and examples. This comprehensive textbook is unique in its design-focus...
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(p/b) 3d printing
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An accessible introduction to 3D printing that outlines the additive manufacturing process, industrial and household markets, and emerging uses. The use of 3D printing-digitally controlled ...
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(p/b) understanding beliefs
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What beliefs are, what they do for us, how we come to hold them, and how to evaluate them. Our beliefs constitute a large part of our knowledge of the world. We have beliefs about objects, ...
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(p/b) haptics
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An accessible, nontechnical overview of active touch sensing, from sensory receptors in the skin to tactile surfaces on flat screen displays. Haptics, or haptic sensing, refers to the abili...
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(p/b) ships and science // the birth of naval architecture in the scientific revolution, 1600-1800
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"Naval architecture was born in the mountains of Peru, in the mind of a French astronomer named Pierre Bouguer who never built a ship in his life." So writes Larrie Ferreiro at the beginnin...
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(h/b) a first course in turbulence
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The subject of turbulence, the most forbidding in fluid dynamics, has usually proved treacherous to the beginner, caught in the whirls and eddies of its nonlinearities and statistical impon...
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(h/b) new romantic cyborgs // romanticism, information technology, and the end of the machine
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Romanticism and technology are widely assumed to be opposed to each other. Romanticism - understood as a reaction against rationalism and objectivity - is perhaps the last thing users and d...
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(p/b) the human advantage // how our brains became remarkable
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Humans are awesome. Our brains are gigantic, seven times larger than they should be for the size of our bodies. The human brain uses 25% of all the energy the body requires each day. And it...
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what is thought?
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Περιεχόμενα WHAT IS THOUGHT? ( 0262025485 ) Δείτε περισσότερα +
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(p/b) insights of genius - imagery & creativity in science & art
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Περιεχόμενα (P/B) INSIGHTS OF GENIUS - IMAGERY κ CREATIVITY IN SCIENCE κ Δείτε περισσότερα +
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(p/b) envisioning science // the design and craft of the science
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(h/b) how the body shapes the way we think // a new view of intelligence
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How could the body influence our thinking when it seems obvious that the brain controls the body? In How the Body Shapes the Way We Think, Rolf Pfeifer and Josh Bongard demonstrate that tho...
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(h/b) stereophonica // sound and space in science, technology, and the arts
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Episodes in the transformation of our understanding of sound and space, from binaural listening in the nineteenth century to contemporary sound art. The relationship between sound and space...
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(h/b) quantum strangeness // wrestling with bell's theorem and the ultimate nature of reality
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A physicist's efforts to understand the enigma that is quantum mechanics. Quantum mechanics is one of the glories of our age. The theory lies at the heart of modern society. Quantum mechani...
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(p/b) beyond the self // converastions between buddhism and neuroscience
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Converging and diverging views on the mind, the self, consciousness, the unconscious, free will, perception, meditation, and other topics. Buddhism shares with science the task of examining...
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(h/b) science, action and fundamental theology
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Περιεχόμενα (H/B) SCIENCE ACTION AND FUNDAMENTAL THEOLOGY Δείτε περισσότερα +
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