Neural networks usually work adequately on small problems but can run into trouble when they are scaled up to problems involving large amounts of input data. Circuit Complexity and Neural Networks add
Since the 1960s, researchers have made great strides in elucidating the laws of image formation, processing, and understanding by animals, humans, and machines. This book describes the state of knowl
Some methods of processing data recorded from the nervous system as developed at MIT, with a chapter on random processes. From the Preface:"The methods that one employs in processing data, are, of cou
Global Networks takes up the host of issues raised by the new networking technology that now links individuals, groups, and organizations in different countries and on different continents. The twenty
Experts address "the development puzzle"-unprecedented growth coupled with unequal distribution of that growth across different countries-and focus on the importance of institutional arrangements and
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
A revisionist look at Buckminster Fuller's early career, making the case that Fuller's most successful invention was that of his own image. Buckminster Fuller's fame reached its peak in the 1960s an
Neoliberal rationality -- ubiquitous today in statecraft and the workplace, in jurisprudence, education, and culture -- remakes everything and everyone in the image of homo oeconomicus. What happens
The proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, in the hands of both states and terrorist networks, is considered by many to be the greatest threat to global security today. Contemporary Nuclear De
Most writing on cyberculture is dominated by two almost mutually exclusive visions: the heroic image of the male outlaw hacker and the utopian myth of a gender-free cyberworld. Reload offers an altern
Internet telephony is the integration and convergence of voice and data networks, services, and applications. The rapidly developing technology can convert analog voice input to digital data, send it
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
Cyberspace not only exemplifies but spearheads the greater political economy of which it has become such a critical part. The networks that comprise cyberspace were originally created at the behest of
"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
Cyril Smith's study of the structure of metals and alloys and the properties that result from their processing remains, after more than two decades, a foundational work on the history of metallography
Perceptrons-the first systematic study of parallelism in computation-has remained a classical work on threshold automata networks for nearly two decades. It marked a historical turn in artificial inte
Contrary to the popular image of change and turnover, most Americans spend the majority of their working lives employed in a single firm. The original essays in this book discuss the origins and impor
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
A multidisciplinary examination of alternative framings of environmental problems, with using examples from forest, water, energy, and urban sectors. Does being an environmentalist mean caring about
Looks at ten central questions concerning humankind's relationship to technology, including "Does technology shape us, or do we shape it?" and "Are we using modern technology to create cultural unifor
The Structure of Typed Programming Languages describes the fundamental syntactic andsemantic features of modern programming languages, carefully spelling out their impacts on languagedesign. Using cla
Types of A'-Dependencies develops the theories of Bonding and Government of the"principles and parameters" approach to syntax pioneered by Noam Chomsky. Using data from Romancelanguages, Cinque argues
Investigations in Algebra departs from a preoccupation with calculus as the ultimate goal of and the universal introduction to advanced mathematics by using Logo to explore combinatorics, number theor
This reassessment of J. M. Keynes's The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money results from the author's experience in using Keynes's book as the core of her macroeconomics courses for under
The issues of mental causation, consciousness, and free will have vexed philosophers since Plato. In this book, Peter Tse examines these unresolved issues from a neuroscientific perspective. In contra
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
Ten Thousand Things explores the many forms of life, or, inancient Chinese parlance "the ten thousand things" that life is and is becoming, incontemporary Beijing and beyond. Coauthored by an American
Winner of the History of Science Society's Pfizer Prize"This book is about settingthe limits of the natural and the limits of the known, wonders and wonder, from the High Middle Agesthrough the Enligh
Recent progress in VLSI provides massive parallelism but general purpose parallel computers remain elusive due to limited communications performance. This book proposes a new high level approach to pr
American agriculture has doubled its use of pesticides since the publication ofRachel Carson's Silent Spring in 1962. Agriculture is the nation's leading cause of non-point-sourcewater pollution--runo
This is a book about the public display of death in contemporary culture. It consistsof a series of essays on specific cases in which death is displayed in museums and in photography.The essays focus
The common rhetoric about technology falls into two extreme categories: uncriticalacceptance or blanket rejection. Claiming a middle ground, Bonnie Nardi and Vicki O'Day call forresponsible, informed
The Message Passing Interface (MPI) specification is widely used for solvingsignificant scientific and engineering problems on parallel computers. There exist more than a dozenimplementations on compu
Foreword by Bjarne Stroustrup Software is generally acknowledged to be the single greatest obstacle preventing mainstream adoption of massively-parallel computing. While sequential applications are ro
Theoretical computer science provides the foundations for understanding and exploiting the concepts and mechanisms in computing and information processing. This handbook will provide professionals and
"Numerical Techniques in Finance" is an innovative book that shows how to create, and how to solve problems in a wide variety of complex financial models. All the models are set up using Lotus 1-2-3;
