This book provides a comprehensive and readable account of the American system ofcontrolling the private use of land -- the public control of private development. It explains thegeneral, social, legal
Drawing on recent computer and cognitive science, Mitchell (architecture, Harvard) explores the languages of architectural form and graphic composition to illuminate the underlying concepts of design.
A series of lectures on the role of nonlinear processes in physics, mathematics,electrical engineering, physiology, and communication theory.From the preface:"For some time I havebeen interested in a
How has the Internet, a medium that thrives on control, been accepted as a medium of freedom? Why is freedom increasingly indistinguishable from paranoid control? In Control and Freedom, Wendy Hui Ky
This series is for people—adults and teenagers—who are interested in computer programming because it's fun. The three volumes use the Logo programming language as the vehicle for an exploration of com
In Great Ideas in Computer Science: A Gentle Introduction, Alan Biermann presents the "great ideas" of computer science that together comprise the heart of the field. He condenses a great d
An anthology collecting 18 essays from Design Issues volumes 3-10 surveying unique conceptual and methodological topics in design history. The discussions focus on the categories of graphic design,
"Ascertain the meaning before consulting this dictionary," warns the author of this collection of deliberately satirical misdefinitions. New computer cultures and their jargons have burgeoned since th
For anyone interested in the issues arising from computer malfunctions and, moreperniciously, from misuse, this new edition of Computer Ethics is right on the mark. Widelyacclaimed for its readability
Experiments in innovation, design, and democracy that search not for a killer app but for a collaboratively created sustainable future. Innovation and design need not be about the search for a kille
More than a simple expository history, A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History sketches the outlines of a renewed materialist philosophy of history in the tradition of Fernand Braudel, Gilles Deleuze,
The five chapters of this book collect and illustrate techniques that have beenapplied to the prediction of reliability and availability of the various specific segments of anelectric power system. Th
This series is for people—adults and teenagers—who are interested in computer programming because it's fun. The three volumes use the Logo programming language as the vehicle for an exploration of com
This series is for people—adults and teenagers—who are interested in computer programming because it's fun. The three volumes use the Logo programming language as the vehicle for an explo
In Computer-Integrated Surgery leading researchers and clinical practitioners describe the exciting new partnership that is being forged between surgeons and machines such as computers and robots, ena
A visionary book when it was first published in the late 1970s, The Network Nationhas become the defining document and standard reference for the field of computer mediatedcommunication (CMC). This re
A 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 intr
Between 1959 and 1989, Soviet scientists and officials made numerous attempts to network their nation -- to construct a nationwide computer network. None of these attempts succeeded, and the enterpris
This comprehensive textbook is unique in its design-focused approach toturbomachinery and gas turbines. It offers students and practicing engineers methods for configuringthese machines to perform wit
In The Second Self, Sherry Turkle looks at the computer not as a "tool," but as part of our social and psychological lives; she looks beyond how we use computer games and spreadsheets to ex
The next great change in computer science and information technology will come from mimicking the techniques by which biological organisms process information. To do this computer scientists must draw
The system presented in this book consists of two more-or-less independent parts. The first is the system's parallel network memory scheme; the second part of the knowledge-base system presented here
One goal of modern computer science is to engineer computer programs that can act as autonomous, rational agents; software that can independently make good decisions about what actions to perform on o
Maud Lavin approaches design from the broader field of visual culture criticism,asking challenging questions about about who really has a voice in the culture and what unseeninfluences affect the look
Essays on the design of financial systems for countries in transition to a market-based economy. This collection examines the design of financial systems for central and eastern European countries e
In recent years, object-oriented programming has emerged as the dominant computer programming style, and object-oriented languages such as C++ and Java enjoy wide use in academia and industry. This te
Embodied conversational agents are computer-generated cartoonlike characters thatdemonstrate many of the same properties as humans in face-to-face conversation, including theability to produce and res
Supercomputing research--the goal of which is to make computers that are ever fasterand more powerful--has been at the cutting edge of computer technology since the early 1960s. Untilrecently, researc
"This volume, likely to become a standard reference work, describes an extraordinary number of approaches to the representation of musical information for purposes of computer processing. It is a cons
PVM is a software package that enables the computer user to define a networked heterogeneous collection of serial, parallel, and vector computers to function as one large computer. Written by the tea
If you have access to a personal computer and want to explore the Internet, Everybody's Guide is the place to begin. Foreword by Mitchell Kapor. If you have access to a personal computer and want to
Semantics of Programming Languages exposes the basic motivations and philosophy underlying the applications of semantic techniques in computer science. It introduces the mathematical theory of program
In describing the technical experiences of one company from the beginning of the computer era, this book unfolds the challenges that IBM's research and development laboratories faced, the technologica
This book describes a theory of memory representation, organization, and processing for understanding complex narrative texts. The theory is implemented as a computer program called BORIS which reads
Tracing efforts to control unwanted sound—the noise of industry, city traffic, gramophones and radios, and aircraft—from the late nineteenth to the late twentieth century.Since the late nineteenth cen
Visual science is the model system for neuroscience, its findings relevant to allother areas. This essential reference to contemporary visual neuroscience covers the extraordinaryrange of the field to
Our cities are “smart” and getting smarter as information processing capability is embedded throughout more and more of our urban infrastructure. Few of us object to traffic light control
In the many studies of games and young people's use of them, little has been written about an overall "ecology" of gaming, game design and play—mapping the ways that all the various e
In Cold War-era East Germany, the German tradition of science-based technology mergedwith a socialist system that made technological progress central to its ideology. Technology becamean important par
