The aim of his work is to produce a technique that can be used to resolve real-life, real-time conflict situations and to investigate political and social interactions between decision makers.Since th
Proceedings from the annual Robotics: Science and Systems conference, presentingstate-of-the-art research on the algorithmic and mathematical foundations of robotics, roboticsapplications, and robotic
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
A fascinating account, written in real time, of the unfolding of a scientific discovery: the first detection of gravitational waves.Scientists have been trying to confirm the existence of gravitationa
What does 'contemporary' actually mean? This is among the fundamental questions aboutthe nature and politics of time that philosophers, artists and more recently curators haveinvestigated over the pas
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
Political acts are encoded in medial forms--punch holes on a card, images on a livestream, tweets about events unfolding in real time--that have force, shaping people as subjects andforming the contou
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
"In the pages that follow, we trace the emergence of a place that looks like a real democracy, and a real country, but is in fact a construct, like reality but not real. It is Virtual America." The ne
Time is generally thought to be one of the more mysterious ingredients of the universe. In this intriguing book, Paul Horwich makes precise and explicit the interrelationships between time and a large
This monograph is an attempt to develop further and refine methods based on input -output descriptions for analyzing feedback systems. Contrary to previous work in this area, the treatment heavily emp
An introductory engineering textbook by an award-winning MIT professor that covers the history of dynamics and the dynamical analyses of mechanical, electrical, and electromechanical systems. This i
In this book, Vaclav Smil argues that power density is a key determinant of the nature and dynamics of energy systems. Any understanding of complex energy systems must re
Many countries have experienced major economic changes since the mid-1980s as a result of the deregulation and liberalization of national financial systems-two key aspects of globalization-with some e
Experts investigate communicative flexibility (in both form and usage of signals) as the foundation of the evolution of complex communication systems, including human language. The evolutionary root
Leading economists analyze topical issues in pension policy, including structural reform of pay-as-you-go systems, the political sustainability of pension reforms, and the need for private, funded sys
In Media Ecologies, Matthew Fuller asks what happens when media systems interact. Complex objects such as media systems—understood here as processes, or elements in a composition as much as &qu
The Theory of Incomplete Markets provides a unified framework for analyzing the real,financial, and monetary sectors of an economy. It describes an innovative theory that takes intoaccount the fact th
This book focuses on recent developments in representational and processing aspects of complex data-intensive applications. Until recently, information systems have been designed around different bu
Phantom risks are risks whose very existence is unproven and perhaps unprovable, yetthey raise real problems at the interface of science and the law. Phantom Risk surveys a dozenscientific issues that
Dissects aspects of the Principles and Parameters theory, arguing for a radically minimalist, nonderivational approach to syntax in which both the central conceptual systems and the lexicon have direc
The studies show how military strategy, planned forces, and the age of systems in the current inventory affect the domestic demand for new production; how the recent drop in domestic demand affects ar
This book brings together the most important contributions to its development to date, focusing in particular on how advances in type systems and semantic models can contribute to new language designs
How do scientific principles work in the real world? Discovery, Innovation, and Risk presents brief descriptions of selected scientific principles in the context of interesting technological examples
Human skill and judgment are needed now more than ever to effectively run today's complex computerized production systems. In this thought-provoking study of work, worker, and machine in the postindus
Norbert Wiener's celebrated autobiography, available for the first time in one volume. Norbert Wiener -- A Life in Cybernetics combines for the first time the two volumes of Norbert Wiener's celebrate
By the time Umberto Eco published his best-selling novel The Name of the Rose, he was one of Italy's most celebrated intellectuals, a distinguished academic and the author of influential works on semi
During their decade-long collaboration (1985-1995), Kate Ericson and Mel Zieglerproduced some of the most influential conceptual art projects of the time. Among their witty andstimulating installation
Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915) was the first efficiency expert, the original time-and-motion man - the father of scientific management, the inventor of a system that became known, inevitably eno
One of the major works of an important modem philosopher, Matter and Memory investigates the autonomous yet interconnected planes formed by matter and perception on the one hand and memory and time o
When city planners and designers are given the ideal assignment -- to build a newcity in the wilderness, unencumbered by an existing urban matrix -- and, at the same time, the siteis located in the mi
In this widely anticipated book, two leading contemporary art historians offer a subtle and profound reconsideration of the problem of time in the Renaissance. Alexander Nagel and Christopher Wood ex
This is the first cultural history of the world's most common sexual practice: masturbation. At a time when almost any victimless practice has its public advocates and almost every sexual act is fron
In this personal memoir, electrical engineer David Lundstrom recalls the heyday ofearly computing - the rise of Control Data out of the Univac division of Sperry Rand, such milestonecomputer systems a
In these two essays, two of the most important French thinkers of our time reflect oneach other's work. In so doing, novelist/essayist Maurice Blanchot and philosopher Michel Foucaultdevelop a new per
Post Pop Art brings together critical essays about American British, and Continental Pop Art written by some of the leading theorists of our time. From Guy Debord's proto-Pop Situationist manifesto of
Volume 9 in the Babbage Reprint Series makes the Moore School Lectures (1946) available for the first time. Delivered by such notable engineers and scientists as J.P. Eckert, J. Mauchly, H. Goldstine,
Pierre Clastres (1934-1979) was one of the most respected political anthropologists of our time. Chronicle of the Guayaki Indians is an account of his first fieldwork in the early 1960s—an enco
In October 1968, a problem which the British people thought vanished foreverre-emerged. For the first time in nearly half a century, Irish questions began to make headlines inthe British press, and a
