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1	The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable more books like this by Nassim N Taleb add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $9.15! new only from $12.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google more books like this by Nicholas Carr add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $4.54! new only from $10.12! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Introducing Communication Theory: Analysis and Application more books like this by Dr. Richard L West add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $19.75! \| first editions
4	The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity more books like this by Alan Cooper add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.17! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Elements of Information Theory more books like this by Thomas M Cover, Joy A Thomas add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $14.90! new only from $27.00! \| SVS
6	Mathematical Theory of Communication more books like this by Claude E Shannon, Warren Weaver add to wishlist Scientific knowledge grows at a phenomenal pace-but few books have had as lasting an impact or played as important a role in our modern world as "The Mathematical Theory of Communication", published originally as a paper on communication theory in the "Bell System Technical Journal" more than fifty years ago. Republished in book form shortly ... see all copies from $9.00! new only from $24.00! \| first editions
7	Artificial intelligence structures and strategies for complex problem solving more books like this by Luger add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.44! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Knowledge and the flow of information more books like this by Fred I Dretske add to wishlist This book presents an attempt to develop a theory of knowledge and a philosophy of mind using ideas derived from the mathematical theory of communication developed by Claude Shannon. Information is seen as an objective commodity defined by the dependency relations between distinct events. Knowledge is then analyzed as information caused belief. ... see all copies from $16.95! new only from $27.00! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Mathematical Foundations of Information Theory more books like this by Alexander I Khinchin, Aleksandr Iakovlevich Khinchin add to wishlist Comprehensive, rigorous introduction to work of Shannon, McMillan, Feinstein and Khinchin. Translated by R. A. Silverman and M. D. Friedman. see all copies from $2.20! new only from $5.00! \| SVS
10	The Refrigerator and the Universe: Understanding the Laws of Energy more books like this by Martin Goldstein, D.V.M., Inge F Goldstein add to wishlist This text provides an explanation of the laws of thermodynamics for science buffs and neophytes alike. It begins with a presentation of the historical development of thermodynamics, then goes on to show how the laws follow from the atomic theory of matter. Examples of their applicability to such diverse phenomena as the radiation of light from hot ... see all copies from $4.36! new only from $26.10! \| first editions \| SVS
11	Three Scientists and Their Gods: Looking for Meaning in an Age of Information more books like this by Robert Wright add to wishlist Wright provides an invigorating encounter with three controversial scientistsand their unorthodox perceptions of our world. see all copies from $6.00! SVS
12 view cover	Uncertain Inference more books like this by Henry Ely Kyburg, Jr Kyburg, Choh Man Teng add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $6.66! new only from $6.73! \| first editions
13 view cover	Picturing the Uncertain World: How to Understand, Communicate, and Control Uncertainty Through Graphical Display more books like this by Howard Wainer add to wishlist In his entertaining and informative book "Graphic Discovery", Howard Wainer unlocked the power of graphical display to make complex problems clear. Now he's back with Picturing the Uncertain World, a book that explores how graphs can serve as maps to guide us when the information we have is ambiguous or incomplete. Using a visually diverse ... see all copies from $21.77! new only from $21.77! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	The Slow Pace of Fast Change: Bringing Innovations to Market in a Connected World more books like this by Bhaskar Chakravorti add to wishlist Innovation's encounter with the market results in a game of both high risk and high stakes. Often its outcome defies common sense: superior new products flop, unlikely ideas become runaway hits, and - despite rapid technological advances and intense interconnectedness - change happens at a snail's pace. What really happens during this encounter? ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.23! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Information Flow: The Logic of Distributed Systems more books like this by Jon Barwise, Jerry Seligman add to wishlist Information is a central topic in computer science, cognitive science and philosophy. In spite of its importance in the 'information age', there is no consensus on what information is, what makes it possible, and what it means for one medium to carry information about another. Drawing on ideas from mathematics, computer science and philosophy, ... see all copies from $30.11! new only from $44.22! \| SVS
16 view cover	Information Theory, Inference and Learning Algorithms more books like this by David MacKay add to wishlist Information theory and inference, taught together in this exciting textbook, lie at the heart of many important areas of modern technology - communication, signal processing, data mining, machine learning, pattern recognition, computational neuroscience, bioinformatics and cryptography. The book introduces theory in tandem with applications. ... see all copies from $40.97! new only from $55.98! \| SVS
17	Conceptual structures information processing in mind and machine more books like this by Sowa add to wishlist see all copies from $4.94! signed copies \| first editions
18 view cover	The Analytics of Uncertainty and Information more books like this by Dr. Jack Hirsh, Jack Hirshleifer, John G Riley add to wishlist Economists have always recognised that human endeavours are constrained by our limited and uncertain knowledge, but only recently has an accepted theory of uncertainty and information evolved. This theory has turned out to have surprisingly practical applications: for example in analysing stock market returns, in evaluating accident prevention ... see all copies from $34.00! new only from $46.95! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Reasoning and Unification Over Conceptual Graphs more books like this by Dan Corbett add to wishlist "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 ... see all copies from $9.92! new only from $18.79! \| SVS
20 view cover	The Limits of Mathematics: A Course on Information Theory and the Limits of Formal Reasoning more books like this by Gregory J Chaitin add to wishlist This book is the final version of a course on algorithmic information theory and the epistemology of mathematics and physics. It discusses Einstein and Goedel's views on the nature of mathematics in the light of information theory, and sustains the thesis that mathematics is quasi-empirical. There is a foreword by Cris Calude of the University of ... see all copies from $13.08! new only from $33.00! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Statistical Theory of Communication more books like this by Yuk Wing Lee add to wishlist This clear and rigorous introduction offers a systematic account that covers all of the theory's basic elements. The author, a former professor of electrical engineering at MIT, was co-inventor of the synthesis of electric networks in the time domain and the frequency domain by means of orthonormal functions. 252 figures. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $40.68! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	An Introduction to Kolmogorov Complexity and Its Applications more books like this by Ming Li, Paul Vitanyi add to wishlist 'The book is outstanding and admirable in many respects ...is necessary reading for all kinds of readers from undergraduate students to top authorities in the field' - "Journal of Symbolic Logic". Written by two experts in the field, this is the only comprehensive and unified treatment of the central ideas and applications of Kolmogorov complexity ... see all copies from $59.04! new only from $59.04! \| SVS
23 view cover	Information-Spectrum Methods in Information Theory more books like this by Te Sun Han, H Koga (Translator) add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $75.76! new only from $75.76! \| first editions \| SVS
24	Coding and Information Theory more books like this by R W Hamming add to wishlist Focusing on both theory and practical applications, this volume combines in a natural way the two major aspects of information representation--representation for storage (coding theory) and representation for transmission (information theory). see all copies from $6.79!
25 view cover	Measurement Uncertainty: An Approach Via the Mathematical Theory of Evidence more books like this by Simona Salicone add to wishlist The expression of uncertainty in measurement is a challenging aspect for researchers and engineers working in instrumentation and measurement because it involves physical, mathematical and philosophical issues. This problem is intensified by the limitations of the probabilistic approach used by the current standard (GUM). This text is the first to ... see all copies from $49.91! new only from $49.91! \| first editions \| SVS

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