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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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The Art of Prolog, second edition: Advanced Programming TechniquesThis new edition of The Art of Prolog contains a number of important changes. Most background sections at the end of each chapter have been updated to take account of important recent research results, the references have been greatly expanded, and more advanced exercises...
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The Art of the Metaobject ProtocolThe 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...
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Affective ComputingAccording to Rosalind Picard, if we want computers to be genuinely intelligent and to interact naturally with us, we must give computers the ability to recognize, understand, even to have and express emotions.The latest scientific findings indicate that emotions play an essential role in...
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You Are Here: A Field Guide for Navigating Polarized Speech, Conspiracy Theories, and Our Polluted Media LandscapeHow to understand a media environment in crisis, and how to make things better by approaching information ecologically. Our media environment is in crisis. Polarization is rampant. Polluted information floods social media. Even our best efforts to help clean up can backfire, sending toxins...
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How Smart Machines ThinkEverything you've always wanted to know about self-driving cars, Netflix recommendations, IBM's Watson, and video game-playing computer programs. The future is here: Self-driving cars are on the streets, an algorithm gives you movie and TV recommendations, IBM's Watson triumphed on Jeopardy over puny human...
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Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in ComputingThis "sobering tale of the real consequences of gender bias" explores how Britain lost its early dominance in computing by systematically discriminating against its most qualified workers: women (Harvard Magazine) In 1944, Britain led the world in electronic computing. By 1974, the British computer...
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Common Sense, the Turing Test, and the Quest for Real AIWhat artificial intelligence can tell us about the mind and intelligent behavior.What can artificial intelligence teach us about the mind? If AI's underlying concept is that thinking is a computational process, then how can computation illuminate thinking? It's a timely question. AI is all...
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Perceptrons, Reissue of the 1988 Expanded Edition with a new foreword by Léon BottouThe first systematic study of parallelism in computation by two pioneers in the field.Reissue of the 1988 Expanded Edition with a new foreword by L on BottouIn 1969, ten years after the discovery of the perceptron--which showed that a machine could be taught to...
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Critical Play: Radical Game DesignAn examination of subversive games like The Sims--games designed for political, aesthetic, and social critique. For many players, games are entertainment, diversion, relaxation, fantasy. But what if certain games were something more than this, providing not only outlets for entertainment but a means for...
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Perturbations, Optimization, and StatisticsA description of perturbation-based methods developed in machine learning to augment novel optimization methods with strong statistical guarantees.Author: Tamir HazanPublisher: MIT PressPublished: 12/23/2016Pages: 412Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 2.25lbsSize: 10.10h x 8.00w x 1.10dISBN: 9780262035644Audience: Young AdultAbout the AuthorTamir Hazan is Assistant Professor at Technion, Israel...
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Software Design Decoded: 66 Ways Experts ThinkAn engaging, illustrated collection of insights revealing the practices and principles that expert software designers use to create great software.What makes an expert software designer? It is more than experience or innate ability. Expert software designers have specific habits, learned practices, and observed principles...
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Rebel Genius: Warren S. McCulloch's Transdisciplinary Life in ScienceThe life and work of a scientist who spent his career crossing disciplinary boundaries--from experimental neurology to psychiatry to cybernetics to engineering.Warren S. McCulloch (1898-1969) adopted many identities in his scientific life--among them philosopher, poet, neurologist, neurophysiologist, neuropsychiatrist, collaborator, theorist, cybernetician, mentor, engineer. He...
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Accelerated C++: Practical Programming by ExampleWant to learn how to program in C++ immediately? Want to start writing better, more powerful C++ programs today? Accelerated C++'s uniquely modern approach will help you learn faster and more fluently than you ever believed possible. Based on the authors' intensive summer C++...
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The Age of Em: Work, Love, and Life When Robots Rule the EarthRobots may one day rule the world, but what is a robot-ruled Earth like? Many think the first truly smart robots will be brain emulations or ems. Scan a human brain, then run a model with the same connections on a fast computer, and...
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Cyber War Will Not Take Place"Cyber war is coming," announced a land-mark RAND report in 1993. In 2005, the U.S. Air Force boasted it would now fly, fight, and win in cyberspace, the "fifth domain" of warfare. This book takes stock, twenty years on: is cyber war really coming?...
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CCNP and CCIE Data Center Core Dccor 350-601 Official Cert GuideTrust the best-selling Official Cert Guide series from Cisco Press to help you learn, prepare, and practice for exam success. They are built with the objective of providing assessment, review, and practice to help ensure you are fully prepared for your certification exam. CCNP...
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Vcp-DCV for Vsphere 7.X (Exam 2v0-21.20) Official Cert GuideTrust the best-selling Cert Guide series from Pearson IT Certification to help you learn, prepare, and practice for exam success. They are built with the objective of providing assessment, review, and practice to help ensure you are fully prepared for your certification exam. VCP-DCV...
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Database ConceptsFor undergraduate database management students or business professionals Here's practical help for understanding, creating, and managing small databases--from two of the world's leading database authorities. Database Concepts gives undergraduate database management students and business professionals alike a firm understanding of the concepts behind the...
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Starting Out with Java: From Control Structures Through ObjectsFor courses in computer programming in Java. Provide a step-by-step introduction to programming in Java Starting Out with Java: From Control Structures through Objects provides a step-by-step introduction to programming in Java. Gaddis covers procedural programming-control structures and methods-before introducing object-oriented programming to ensure...
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Starting Out with C++ from Control Structures to ObjectsNOTE Before purchasing, check with your instructor to ensure you select the correct ISBN. Several versions of Pearson's MyLab & Mastering products exist for each title, and registrations are not transferable. To register for and use Pearson's MyLab & Mastering products, you may also...
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