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Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society
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Norbert Weiner, Norbert Wiener
Only a few books stand as landmarks in social and scientific upheaval. Norbert Wiener's classic is one in that small company. Founder of the science of cyberneticsthe study of the relationship between computers and the human nervous systemWiener was widely misunderstood as one who advocated the automation of human life. As this book reveals, ...
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Cybernetics or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine
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Norbert Wiener
This Is A Study Of Human Control Functions And Mechanico-Electrical Systems Designed To Replace Them.
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Genesis Machines: The New Science of Biocomputing
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Martyn Amos
The next generation of computers are coming - and they're like nothing we've seen before. Scientists are turning away from silicon chips and instead are using real, wet, squishy, perhaps even living biology to build machines that could change the world forever. Cells, gels and DNA strands are the 'wetware' of the twenty-first century. Imagine ...
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The human use of human beings : cybernetics and society
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Norbert Wiener
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Computer and the Brain
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John Von Neumann
This work represents the views of a mathematician on the analogies between computing machines and the living human brain.
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Pedal Power in Work, Leisure, and Transportation
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James C. McCullagh (Editor), David Gordon Wilson
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War of the Worlds: Cyberspace and the High-Tech Assault on Reality
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Mark Slouka
Mark Z. Slouka argues that the perception of reality in America has been radically altered by the emergence of new technologies. The notion of reality as an empirical shared state of existence has been particularly challenged by a revolution in the "virtual" technologies spawned by the computer industry. What is "real" in a society infiltrated by ...
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II Cybernetic Frontiers
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Stewart Brand
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The Cyborg Handbook
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Heidi J Figueroa-Sarriera, Chris H Gray (Editor), Steven Mentor
Are you a cyborg? Is your neighbour? The Cyborg - short for cybernetic organism - is an entity that is part human and part machine. Today's technology is transforming and maybe even transcending the human. People who have implanted pacemakers or attached prostheses are certainly cyborgs. Cyborgs are everywhere, multiplying. And many people, ...
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Cyberspace: first steps
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Benedikt
Cyberspace has been defined as "an infinite artificial world where humans navigate in information-based space" and as "the ultimate computer-human interface". These original contributions take up the philosophical basis for cyberspace in ancient thought, the relevance of the body in virtual realities, basic communications principles for cyberspace ...
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Fourier Series in Control Theory
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Vilmos Komornik, Paola Loreti
This book uses techniques of Fourier series and functional analysis to deal with certain problems in differential equations. The Fourier series and functional analysis are merely tools; the authors' real interest lies in the differential equations that they study. It has been known since 1967 that a wide variety of sets {ewikt of complex ...
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Stability and Control of Dynamical Systems with Applications
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Derong Liu (Editor), Panos J Antsaklis (Editor), Anthony N Michel
The twenty-one invited chapters in this book are an outgrowth of a workshop to honor Anthony N. Michel on the occasion of his retirement. The workshop provided a venue for researchers, colleagues, friends, and students to pay tribute to Michel's significant contributions to the systems and control community; at the same time, the workshop also ...
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Cybernetics and Applied Systems
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C V Negoita
In light of the enormous interest in building intelligent systems, this volume blends theory, applications, and methodology of cybernetics taking it out of the realm of the abstract and explaining how cybernetics can contribute to an improved understanding of intelligence.
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Control and Modeling of Complex Systems: Cybernetics in the 21st Century, Festschrift in Honor of Hidenori Kimura
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Nicolas H Darvas, Koichi Hashimoto (Editor), Yasuaki Oishi (Editor)
This festschrift volume pays tribute to Hidenori Kimura and his outstanding achievements in control theory, signal processing, and modeling. The 20 invited contributions presented here are an outgrowth of a symposium held in November 2001 in Tokyo, Japan, celebrating Kimura's 60th birthday. Reflecting his recent research interests, the symposium ...
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Guide to Biometrics
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Ruud Bolle, Jonathan Connell, Sharathchandra Pankanti
This complete, technical guide details the principles, methods, technologies, and core ideas used in biometric authentication systems. It explains the definition and measurement of performance and examines the factors involved in choosing between different biometrics. It also delves into practical applications and covers a number of topics ...
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Neuro-Fuzzy Pattern Recognition: Methods in Soft Computing
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Sankar K Pal
Pattern recognition is of great importance in many aspects of computer technologies, especially human-computer interactions. Voice recognition software, intelligent agents, and machine vision systems are all examples of technologies utilising pattern recognition. Written by an internationally known neural network expert, this book applies fuzzy ...
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Foundations of Deterministic and Stochastic Control
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Jon H Davis
Control theory has applications to a number of areas in engineering and communication theory. This introductory text on the subject is fairly self-contained and aimed primarily at advanced mathematics and engineering students in various disciplines. The topics covered include realization problems, linear-quadratic optimal control, stability theory ...
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From Newspeak to Cyberspeak: A History of Soviet Cybernetics
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Slava Gerovitch
In this text Slava Gerovitch argues that Soviet cybernetics was not just an intellectual trend but a social movement for radical reform in science and society as a whole. Followers of cybernetics viewed computer simulation as a universal method of problem solving and the language of cybernetics as a language of objectivity and truth. With this new ...
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Brains, Machines, and Mathematics
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Michael A Arbib
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Road Hogs (for Tmnt)
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Erick Wujcik, Alex Marciniszyn (Editor)
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Kalman Filtering: Theory and Practice Using MATLAB
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Mohinder S Grewal, Angus P Andrews
"...an authentic magnum opus worth much more than its weight in gold!" IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, from a review of the First Edition "The best book I've seen on the subject of Kalman filtering ...Reading other books on Kalman filters and not this one could make you a very dangerous Kalman filter engineer." Amazon.com, from a review of ...
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White Heat Cold Logic: British Computer Art 1960-1980
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Paul Brown (Editor), Charlie Gere (Editor), Nicholas Lambert (Editor)
Technological optimism, even utopianism, was widespread at midcentury; in Britain, Harold Wilson in 1963 promised a new nation "forged from the white heat of the technological revolution." In this heady atmosphere, pioneering artists transformed the cold logic of computing into a new medium for their art, and played a central role in connecting ...
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Set-Valued Analysis and Differential Inclusions: A Collection of Papers Resulting from a Workshop Held in Pamporovo, Bulgaria, September, 1990
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Alexander B Kurzhanski (Editor), Vladimir M Veliov (Editor)
The papers in this volume represent a selection of updated talks which were presented in an SDS sponsored International Workshop in Panporovo, Bulgaria, in September 1990. The aim of the text is to bring the reader up to date on research in set-valued analysis and differential inclusions.
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The Omni Book of Computers and Robots
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Owen Davies (Editor)
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Virtual Spaces: Sex and the Cyber Citizen
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Cleo Odzer
Sex on the Internet has ignited a firestorm of debate, from Newsweek's "CyberSex" cover story to the Communications Decency Act signed by President Clinton. Clearly, something is happening in cyberspace -- a new frontier where personal anonymity and global access provide unlimited opportunities for sexual exploration. But who are these "pioneers?" ...
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