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The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
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Nassim N Taleb
Taleb delivers a groundbreaking look at the role played by the unexpected in life and history, and a fascinating examination of why we know less than we think we do--and what to do about it.
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The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google
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In this eye-opening look at the new computer revolution and its consequences, Nicholas Carr explains why computing is changing and what this means for all of us. A hundred years ago, companies stopped producing their own power and plugged into the newly built electric grid. The cheap power pumped out by electricity providers not only changed how ...
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Introducing Communication Theory: Analysis and Application
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Dr. Richard L West
This text introduces the field of communication to students who may have little or no background in communication theory. Its three overriding goals are to help students understand the pervasiveness of theory in their lives, to demystify the theoretical process, and to help students become more systematic and critical in their thinking about ...
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The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity
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Alan Cooper
A computer programming pioneer criticizes the software industry for relying too much on the skills of its technicians, rather than on leadership and intuitive interface design. After outlining why technology is still prohibitively difficult to use and manage, he tells how to bridge both the technological and communication gaps among computer users ...
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Systems Analysis & Design Methods
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Jeffrey L Whitten
Today's students want to practice the application of concepts. As with the previous editions of this book, the authors write to balance the coverage of concepts, tools, techniques, and their applications, and to provide the most examples of system analysis and design deliverables available in any book. The textbook also serves the reader as a ...
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Elements of Information Theory
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Thomas M Cover, Joy A Thomas
The latest edition of this classic is updated with new problem sets and material. The second edition of this fundamental textbook maintains the book's tradition of clear, thought-provoking instruction. Readers are provided once again with an instructive mix of mathematics, physics, statistics, and information theory. All the essential topics in ...
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Artificial intelligence structures and strategies for complex problem solving
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Luger
Artificial intelligence (AI) began as the quest to create machines that could think for themselves and (perhaps) out-think humans: the holy grail of computing! Over the years, while still exploring the mechanisms that enable thought, AI has evolved into a more pragmatic discipline. AI uses different strategies to solve the complex practical ...
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Uncertain Inference
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Henry Ely Kyburg, Jr Kyburg, Choh Man Teng
Coping with uncertainty is a necessary part of ordinary life and is crucial to an understanding of how the mind works. For example, it is a vital element in developing artificial intelligence that will not be undermined by its own rigidities. There have been many approaches to the problem of uncertain inference, ranging from probability to ...
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Three Scientists and Their Gods: Looking for Meaning in an Age of Information
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Robert Wright
Wright provides an invigorating encounter with three controversial scientistsand their unorthodox perceptions of our world.
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Soft Systems Methodology in Action
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Peter Checkland (Preface by)
Soft Systems Methodology in Action "Whether by design, accident or merely synchronicity, Checkland appears to have developed a habit of writing seminal publications near the start of each decade which establish the basis and framework for systems methodology research for that decade." Hamish Rennie, Journal of the Operational Research Society, ...
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Reasoning and Unification Over Conceptual Graphs
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Dan Corbett
"Reasoning and Unification over Conceptual Graphs" is an exploration of automated reasoning and resolution in the expanding field of Conceptual Structures. Designed not only for computing scientists researching Conceptual Graphs, but also for anyone interested in exploring the design of knowledge bases, the book explores what are proving to be the ...
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Erp
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Carol A Ptak, Eli Schragenheim (Editor)
Intensifying competition forces companies to closely integrate with their customers and suppliers. Cooperation creates a more flexible supply chain. Yet, lead-times become shorter and demand for increased variety continues to grow. This dilemma requires a means to implement the desired integration. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is that tool. ...
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Extrapolation, interpolation, and smoothing of stationary time series, with engineering applications
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Norbert Wiener
An attempt to unite the theory and practice of time series in statistics and communication engineering/
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Information-Spectrum Methods in Information Theory
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Te Sun Han, H Koga (Translator)
This book opens a novel dimension in the 50 year history of mathematical theory of "information" since the birth of Shannon theory. First of all, it introduces, in place of the traditional notion of entropy and mutual information, the completely new and highly unconventional approach of "information-spectrum" as a basic but powerful tool for ...
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Silicon Dreams: Information, Man, and Machine
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Applied Coding & Information Theory for Engineers
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Richard B Wells
For Junior or Senior Level introductory courses in Applied Coding and Information Theory. Intended for use in an undergraduate course, this book provides a practical introduction to the theory and practice of coding and information theory for applications in the field of electronic communications. It is written at an introductory level and assumes ...
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Readings in Information Visualization: Using Vision to Think
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Stuart Card, Mackinlay Card, Jock Mackinlay
This groundbreaking book defines the emerging field of information visualization and offers the first-ever collection of the classic papers of the discipline, with introductions and analytical discussions of each topic and paper. The authors' intention is to present papers that focus on the use of visualization to discover relationships, using ...
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Media, Politics and the Network Society
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Robert Hassan
The rise of the network society - the suffusion of much of the economy, culture and society with digital interconnectivity - is a development of immense significance. In this innovative book, Robert Hassan unpacks the dynamics of this new information order and shows how they have affected both the way media and politics are 'played', and how these ...
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Theories of Information Behavior
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Karen E Fisher (Editor), Sandra Erdelez (Editor), Lynne McKechnie (Editor)
This unique book presents authoritative overviews of more than 70 conceptual frameworks for understanding how people seek, manage, share, and use information in different contexts. A practical and readable reference to both well-established and newly proposed theories of information behavior, the book includes contributions from 85 scholars from ...
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The Death of Distance
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Frances Cairncross
This text covers current and future changes in the telecommunications industry, and also aims to provide a broader, more hypothetical view of the implications of such developments.
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Transformation of Knowledge, Information and Data: Theory and Applications
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Patrick Van Bommel (Editor), Patrick Van Bommel (Editor)
Transformations provide a means to construct new IT solutions. Van Bommel (University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands) presents practical transformation techniques for all kinds of knowledge structures and provides several experimental prototype transformation tools. Coverage encompasses fundamentals of transformation, transformation approaches, and a
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Logic and Information
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Keith J Devlin
Intelligence can be characterised both as the ability to absorb and process information and as the ability to reason. Humans and other animals have both of these abilities to a greater or lesser degree, but the search for artificial intelligence has been hampered by our inability to create a theory that covers both of these characteristics. In ...
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Analysis and Probability
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Palle E T Jorgensen
This book, combining analysis and tools from mathematical probability, focuses on a systematic and novel presentation of recent trends in pure and applied mathematics: the emergence of three fields, wavelets, signals and fractals. The unity of basis constructions and their expansions is emphasized as the starting point for the development of bases ...
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Information Anxiety 2
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Richard Saul Wurman, Karen Whitehouse (Editor), David Sume
A follow up to the first edition, Information Anxiety 2 teaches critical lessons for functioning in today's Information Age. In this new book, Wurman examines how the Internet, desktop computing, and advances in digital technology have not simply enhanced access to information, but in fact have changed the way we live and work. In examining the ...
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Collected Works of A.M. Turingmechanical Inteligence
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Alan Mathison Turing, D C Ince (Editor), Arjen Sevenster (Editor)
The collected works of Turing, including a substantial amount of unpublished material, will comprise four volumes: Mechanical Intelligence, Pure Mathematics, Morphogenesis and Mathematical Logic. Alan Mathison Turing (1912-1954) was a brilliant man who made major contributions in several areas of science. Today his name is mentioned frequently in ...
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