Each of us has an ever-growing collection of personal digital data: documents, photographs, PowerPoint presentations, videos, music, emails and texts sent and received. T
Internet trolls live to upset as many people as possible, using all the technical and psychological tools at their disposal. They gleefully whip the media into a frenzy o
We may imagine the digital cloud as placeless, mute, ethereal, and unmediated. Yet the reality of the cloud is embodied in thousands of massive data centers, any one of w
Government subsidies to energy are widespread and represent a heavy burden on public budgets in many countries. Both producers and consumers may be subsidized; the most c
John D. C. Little of MIT's Sloan School of Management is famous for his contributions to operations research and marketing science. He formulated a fundamental theorem in queuing theory known as Littl
Dolphin researchers have collected an impressive amount of data over the last twenty years, thanks to advances in technology for monitoring, recording, and analyzing dolphin behavior as well as increa
California's Silicon Valley is home to the greatest concentration of designers in the world: corporate design offices at flagship technology companies and volunteers at nonprofit NGOs; global design c
The biosphere -- the Earth's thin layer of life -- dates from nearly four billion years ago, when the first simple organisms appeared. Many species have exerted enormous influence on the biosphere's c
Since the 1960s, artworks that involve the participation of the spectator have received extensive scholarly attention. Yet interactive artworks using digital media still present a challenge for academ
We may imagine the digital cloud as placeless, mute, ethereal, and unmediated. Yet the reality of the cloud is embodied in thousands of massive data centers, any one of which can use as much electrici
In this book, Erik Swyngedouw explores how water becomes part of the tumultuous processes of modernization and development. Using the experience of Spain as a lens to view the interplay of modernity a
The risks of climate change are potentially immense. The benefits of taking action are also clear: we can see that economic development, reduced emissions, and creative adaptation go hand in hand. A c
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In Voice and v, Julie Anne Legate investigates the syntacticstructure of voice, using Acehnese as the empirical starting point. A central claim is that voice isencoded in a functional projection, Voic
In Voice and v, Julie Anne Legate investigates the syntacticstructure of voice, using Acehnese as the empirical starting point. A central claim is that voice isencoded in a functional projection, Voic
Soft Circuits introduces students to the world of wearabletechnology. Using Modkit, an accessible DIY electronics toolkit, students learn to create e-textilecuffs, "electrici-tee" shirts, and solar-po
Complex communicating computer systems -- computers connected by data networks and inconstant communication with their environments -- do not always behave as expected. This bookintroduces behavioral
Feature films, television shows, homemade videos, tweets, blogs, and breaking news:digital media offer an always-accessible, apparently inexhaustible supply of entertainment andinformation. Although c
The goal of machine learning is to program computers to use example data or pastexperience to solve a given problem. Many successful applications of machine learning exist already,including systems th
Since the 1960s, artworks that involve the participation of the spectator havereceived extensive scholarly attention. Yet interactive artworks using digital media still present achallenge for academic
"This fascinating and accessible text describes Townsend's field research efforts in Thailand that span over 15 years, making it perhaps the longest running, high-frequency panel data set in a develop
The vast majority of all email sent every day is spam, a variety of idiosyncraticallyspelled requests to provide account information, invitations to spend money on dubious products, andpleas to send c
Global warming skeptics often fall back on the argument that the scientific case forglobal warming is all model predictions, nothing but simulation; they warn us that we need to waitfor real data, "so
In Indefinite Objects, Luis Lopez presents a novel approach to thesyntax-semantics interface using indefinite noun phrases as a database. Traditional approaches mapstructural configurations to semanti
Evaluating the effectiveness of international regimes presents challenges that areboth general and specific. What are the best methodologies for assessment within a governance areaand do they enable c
Evaluating the effectiveness of international regimes presents challenges that areboth general and specific. What are the best methodologies for assessment within a governance areaand do they enable c
The development of the Semantic Web, with machine-readable content, has the potentialto revolutionize the World Wide Web and its uses. A Semantic Web Primer providesan introduction and guide to this c
Characteristics of Games offers a new way to understand games: byfocusing on certain traits--including number of players, rules, degrees of luck and skill needed,and reward/effort ratio--and using the
The introduction of high-throughput methods has transformed biology into a data-richscience. Knowledge about biological entities and processes has traditionally been acquired bythousands of scientists
The word "architect" is a noun, but Doug Patt uses it as a verb--coining a term andmaking a point about using parts of speech and parts of buildings in new ways. Changing the functionof a word, or a r
Today on almost every desk in every office sits a computer. Eighty years ago,desktops were equipped with a nonelectronic data processing machine: a card file. In Paper Machines,Markus Krajewski traces
This volume demonstrates the power of the Markov random field (MRF) in vision,treating the MRF both as a tool for modeling image data and, utilizing recently developedalgorithms, as a means of making
Using the tools of information technology to understand the molecular machinery ofthe cell offers both challenges and opportunities to computational scientists. Over the past decade,novel algorithms h
This comprehensive introduction to modeling business-information systems focuses on business processes. It describes and demonstrates the formal modeling of processes in terms of Petri nets, using a
The “objective” world is one of facts, data, and actuality. The world of the “nonobject” is about perception, experience and possibility. In this highly original and visually extravagant book, Lukic i
In Arguments as Relations, John Bowers proposes a radically new approach to argument structure that has the potential to unify data from a wide range of different language types in terms of a simple a
During the George W. Bush administration, politics and ideology routinely trumped scientific knowledge in making environmental policy. Data were falsified, reports were edited selectively, and scient
In Arguments as Relations, John Bowers proposes a radically new approach to argument structure that has the potential to unify data from a wide range of different language types in terms of a simple
During the George W. Bush administration, politics and ideology routinely trumped scientific knowledge in making environmental policy. Data were falsified, reports were edited selectively, and scienti
The Internet's remarkable growth has been fueled by innovation. New applications continually enable new ways of using the Internet, and new physical networking technologies increase the range of netw
