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Discover essential computer books and computer science books at our online bookstore, with top titles for software developers. Find must-read and best-selling books to enhance your knowledge and skills in the field.
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Turtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams: Explorations in Massively Parallel MicroworldsHow does a bird flock keep its movements so graceful and synchronized? Most people assume that the bird in front leads and the others follow. In fact, bird flocks don't have leaders: they are organized without an organizer, coordinated without a coordinator. And a...
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Wired for SpeechHow interactive voice-based technology can tap into the automatic and powerful responses all speech--whether from human or machine--evokes.Interfaces that talk and listen are populating computers, cars, call centers, and even home appliances and toys, but voice interfaces invariably frustrate rather than help. In Wired...
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Conceptual Spaces: The Geometry of ThoughtWithin cognitive science, two approaches currently dominate the problem of modeling representations. The symbolic approach views cognition as computation involving symbolic manipulation. Connectionism, a special case of associationism, models associations using artificial neuron networks. Peter G rdenfors offers his theory of conceptual representations as...
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The Computational Beauty of Nature: Computer Explorations of Fractals, Chaos, Complex Systems, and AdaptationGary William Flake develops in depth the simple idea that recurrent rules can produce rich and complicated behaviors.In this book Gary William Flake develops in depth the simple idea that recurrent rules can produce rich and complicated behaviors. Distinguishing agents (e.g., molecules, cells, animals,...
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Norbert Wiener-A Life in Cybernetics: Ex-Prodigy: My Childhood and Youth and I Am a Mathematician: The Later Life of a ProdigyNorbert Wiener's celebrated autobiography, available for the first time in one volume.Norbert Wiener--A Life in Cybernetics combines for the first time the two volumes of Norbert Wiener's celebrated autobiography. Published at the height of public enthusiasm for cybernetics--when it was taken up by scientists,...
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How to Design Programs, Second Edition: An Introduction to Programming and ComputingA completely revised edition, offering new design recipes for interactive programs and support for images as plain values, testing, event-driven programming, and even distributed programming.This introduction to programming places computer science at the core of a liberal arts education. Unlike other introductory books, it...
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Information Retrieval: Implementing and Evaluating Search EnginesAn introduction to information retrieval, the foundation for modern search engines, that emphasizes implementation and experimentation.Information retrieval is the foundation for modern search engines. This textbook offers an introduction to the core topics underlying modern search technologies, including algorithms, data structures, indexing, retrieval, and...
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Cambrian Intelligence: The Early History of the New AIUntil the mid-1980s, AI researchers assumed that an intelligent system doing high-level reasoning was necessary for the coupling of perception and action. In this traditional model, cognition mediates between perception and plans of action. Realizing that this core AI, as it was known, was...
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IBM's 360 and Early 370 SystemsIBM's 360 and Early 370 Systems describes the creation of this remarkable system and the developments it spawned, including its successor, System/370.No new product offering has had greater impact on the computer industry than the IBM System/360. IBM's 360 and Early 370 Systems describes...
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Communities of Play: Emergent Cultures in Multiplayer Games and Virtual WorldsThe odyssey of a group of "refugees" from a closed-down online game and an exploration of emergent fan cultures in virtual worlds. Play communities existed long before massively multiplayer online games; they have ranged from bridge clubs to sports leagues, from tabletop role-playing games...
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Inventing the InternetJanet Abbate recounts the key players and technologies that allowed the Internet to develop; but her main focus is always on the social and cultural factors that influenced the Internet's design and use.Since the late 1960s the Internet has grown from a single experimental...
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Turtle GeometryTurtle Geometry presents an innovative program of mathematical discovery that demonstrates how the effective use of personal computers can profoundly change the nature of a student's contact with mathematics. Using this book and a few simple computer programs, students can explore the properties of...
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Rules of Play: Game Design FundamentalsAn impassioned look at games and game design that offers the most ambitious framework for understanding them to date.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...
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Introduction to Natural Language ProcessingA survey of computational methods for understanding, generating, and manipulating human language, which offers a synthesis of classical representations and algorithms with contemporary machine learning techniques.This textbook provides a technical perspective on natural language processing--methods for building computer software that understands, generates, and manipulates...
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Elements of Causal Inference: Foundations and Learning AlgorithmsA concise and self-contained introduction to causal inference, increasingly important in data science and machine learning.The mathematization of causality is a relatively recent development, and has become increasingly important in data science and machine learning. This book offers a self-contained and concise introduction to...
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You'll See This Message When It Is Too Late: The Legal and Economic Aftermath of Cybersecurity BreachesWhat we can learn from the aftermath of cybersecurity breaches and how we can do a better job protecting online data.Cybersecurity incidents make the news with startling regularity. Each breach--the theft of 145.5 million Americans' information from Equifax, for example, or the Russian government's...
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Critical Theory and Interaction DesignClassic texts by thinkers from Althusser to Zizek alongside essays by leaders in interaction design and HCI show the relevance of critical theory to interaction design.Why should interaction designers read critical theory? Critical theory is proving unexpectedly relevant to media and technology studies. The...
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Ideas for the Animated Short: Finding and Building StoriesEditor's note: there has been an issue with the book's companion site. Focal Press is fixing the issue. In the meanwhile, please visit http: //www.routledge.com/cw/sullivan-978024081872/ for all the material promised in the book. From demo reel creation to festival shorts, students and professionals alike...
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Elemental Magic, Volume I: The Art of Special Effects AnimationCreate amazing animated effects such as fiery blazes, rippling water, and magical transformations. Animation guru Joseph Gilland breaks down the world of special effects animation with clear step-by-step diagrams and explanations on how to create the amazing and compelling images you see on the...
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The Visual Effects Arsenal: Vfx Solutions for the Independent Filmmaker [With DVD ROM]Build your VFX arsenal with quick-access, step-by-step instruction on how to create today's hottest digital VFX shots. This essential toolkit provides techniques for creating effects seen in movies such as 300, Spiderman 3, Predator and others, with lessons on how-to: * splatter blood or...
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