This book introduces students with little or no prior programming experience to the art of computational problem solving using Python and various Python libraries, including PyLab. It provides student
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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
"Conceptual art, for me, means work in which the idea is paramount and thematerial form is secondary, lightweight, ephemeral, cheap, unpretentious and/or'dematerialized.'"--Lucy R. Lippard, Six YearsI
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Design structure matrix (DSM) is a straightforward and flexible modeling techniquethat can be used for designing, developing, and managing complex systems. DSM offers networkmodeling tools that repres
In development for thirty years, Soar is a general cognitive architecture thatintegrates knowledge-intensive reasoning, reactive execution, hierarchical reasoning, planning, andlearning from experienc
The Nintendo Wii, introduced in 2006, helped usher in a moment of retro-reinventionin video game play. This hugely popular console system, codenamed Revolution during development,signaled a turn away
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
Over the past decade, carbon trading has emerged as the industrialized world'sprimary policy response to global climate change despite considerable controversy. With carbonmarkets worth $144 billion i
Over the past decade, carbon trading has emerged as the industrialized world's primary policy response to global climate change despite considerable controversy. With carbon markets worth #144 billion
Japan's economic bubble burst in the early 1990's, and the country entered its famous "lost decade" ua period of stagnation and economic disruption that persisted until 2003. The current declines in g
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
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The narrative of development economics is now infused with discussions of institutions. Economists debate whether institutions-or other factors altogether (geography, culture, or religion)-are central
In Discovering Complexity, William Bechtel and Robert Richardson examine two heuristics that guided the development of mechanistic models in the life sciences decomposition and localization Drawing on
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
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 the early 1990s, trade and labor economists, noting the fall in wages for low-skilled workers relative to high-skilled workers, began to debate the impact of trade on wages. This debate—whic
The evolution of cognitive neuroscience has been spurred by the development of increasingly sophisticated investigative techniques to study human cognition. In Methods in Mind, experts examine the wi
This highly original book -- the first in a series analyzing historical population behavior in Europe and Asia -- pioneers a new approach to the comparative analysis of societies in the past. Using te
This text provides an introduction to the modern theory of economic dynamics, with emphasis on mathematical and computational techniques for modeling dynamic systems. Written to be both rigorous and
How will the world work in the post-oil, post-coal future? Writers and artists think beyond the weekly fluctuations in the price of gasoline to imagine the transition to a carbon-free future and the r
The authors' model is the first large-scale computer simulation of the effects of changes in U.S. import quotas. Using applied general equilibrium methods to analyze recent debates about the conduct o
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In An American Lens, Jay Bochner looks at a series of milestones in the development of the American avant-garde that capture a pivotal period in artistic consciousness. He focuses on the multiple rol
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An exploration of the use of information and communication technologies by biologists working in systematics (taxonomy) and the dynamics of change and continuity with past practices in the development
This is the first history of twentieth-century America's architecture that puts architecture and its institutions into a dialogue with the "underground" - featuring the experiments, practices, and pol
For much of the twentieth century, philosophy and science went their separate ways.In moral philosophy, fear of the so-called naturalistic fallacy kept moral philosophers fromincorporating development
For much of the twentieth century, philosophy and science went their separate ways.In moral philosophy, fear of the so-called naturalistic fallacy kept moral philosophers fromincorporating development
Stelarc is the most celebrated artist in the world working within technology and thevisual arts. He is both an artist and a phenomenon, using his body as medium and exhibition space.Working in the int
Advanced statistical modeling and knowledge representation techniques for a newlyemerging area of machine learning and probabilistic reasoning; includes introductory material,tutorials for different p
This volume offers researchers and engineers practical solutions for learning from large-scale datasets, with detailed descriptions of algorithms and experiments carried out on realistically large dat
In America today we see rampant development, unsustainable resource exploitation, andcommodification ruin both natural and built landscapes, disconnecting us from our surroundings andthreatening our f
In America today we see rampant development, unsustainable resource exploitation, andcommodification ruin both natural and built landscapes, disconnecting us from our surroundings andthreatening our f
