Parallel and Distributed Computing and Networks

As a young professor at MIT in the 1920s, Vannevar Bush (1890-1974) did seminal work on analog computing and was a cofounder of Raytheon, whose initial success was based on long-lasting radio tubes. B

Artificial neural networks are nonlinear mapping systems whose structure is loosely based on principles observed in the nervous systems of humans and animals. The basic idea is that massive systems of

Much research focuses on the question of how information is processed in nervous systems, from the level of individual ionic channels to large-scale neuronal networks, and from "simple" animals such a

Windows may rule the world of popular computing on PCs around the globe, but DOS still has a place in the hearts and minds of computer users who vaguely remember what a C prompt looks like. Even if D

Whether you're a longtime WordPerfect user or you're new to this venerable, feature-packed word processing program, Corel WordPerfect 8 For Windows For Dummies has what you need. Authors and computing

A comprehensive resource book providing professionals and students with a broad survey of structural information delineating the parallel development of crystallography and modern chemistry. Provides

Volume 1: "Symbolic Computing" Volume 2: "Advanced Techniques" Volume 3: "Beyond Programming" This series is for people--adults and teenagers--who are interested in computer programming because it's f

"Understanding the nature of good and bad jobs is essential to understanding unemployment. For too long, theories of dual labor markets and theories of unemployment have proceeded in parallel. This wa

Looks at how group homes and social networks are helping people living with AIDS in Chicago, Illinois.

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Develops continuous-time and discrete-time concepts in parallel ? highlighting the similarities and differences. E.g.: Ch. 1 on basic signals and system properties, Ch. 2 on linear time-invariant sy

Continuing the trend-watching of Technology 2001, which discussed the technologies that could well define the computing and communications environment that lies ahead, The Future of Software assemble

A valuable text and research tool for scientists and engineers who use or work with theory and computation associated with practical problems relating to Markov chains and queuing networks, economic a

These contributions converge on an intersection of three historically distinct areas of learning research: computational learning theory, neural networks, and symbolic machine learning. Bridging theor

Features parallel German and English texts of eight short stories that range in style from the classical method of Ernst Penzoldt to the montage technique of Alexander Kluge

This book emphasizes programming strategies for small market, local stations rather than the major networks. The authors have included discussions of both radio and television in each chapter. Electon

Himmelheber's fine study of the Yupik people of S.E. Alaska was published in German in 1938, and in English in 1987 by the Museum Reitberg Znrich. Distributed by the U. of Alaska Press. Annotation cop

This book, by a leading thinker with 30 years experience in the field, is the first devoted to fibrous composites in biology. It tackles a major unsolved problem in developmental biology - how does chemistry create architecture outside cells? Fibrous composites occur in all skeletal systems including plant cell walls, insect cuticles, moth eggshells, bone and cornea. They function like man-made fibreglass, with fibres set in a matrix. The fibrous molecules are long, extracellular and water-insoluble and to be effective they must be orientated strategically. The underlying hypothesis of this book is that the fibres are orientated by self-assembly just outside the cells during a mobile liquid crystalline phase prior to stabilization. The commonest orientations of the fibres are plywood laminates (orthogonal and helicoidal), and as parallel fibres. These may be imitated in vitro by liquid crystalline chemicals. The book takes an interdisciplinary approach and will be relevant to biologist

In 1773, Samuel Johnson and James Boswell travelled around the coast of Scotland, and both wrote accounts of the 83-day journey. Here, for the first time, are the two accounts in parallel texts on fac

An essential guide to the new political moment indicated by the new networks created in Barack Obama's revolutionary election campaign.

Concurrent Constraint Programming introduces a new and rich class of programming languages based on the notion of computing with partial information, or constraints, that synthesize and extend work on

Concurrent Constraint Programming introduces a new and rich class of programming languages based on the notion of computing with partial information, or constraints, that synthesize and extend work on

Features parallel Spanish and English texts of nine short stories by writers from Mexico, Cuba, South America, and Spain

An easy reading format of the New Testament; introductions to each book, notes to the reader, single-column text, boldfaced subheading, cross-reference to parallel passages, verse numbers in the margi

Two parallel texts, on facing pages, run through this unique volume. The left-hand text is Zwicky's exploration of the definition of a work as "philosophy," and a discussion of the notion of lyric. Th

In Rain of Gold, Victor Villasenor weaves the parallel stories of two families and two countries…bringing us the timeless romance between the volatile bootlegger who would become his father and the be

A detailed study of neural networks offers an informative look at the operation and uses of these systems, discussing their role in the development of artificial intelligence, as well as their applica

How do groups of neurons interact to enable the organism to see, decide, and move appropriately? What are the principles whereby networks of neurons represent and compute? These are the central questi

A source on the rapidly changing field of optical computing. Readers are taken through the relevant concepts of classical and Fourier optics, digital logic and digital image processing. In addition to

Explores measures being taken by large telecommunications, banking, and brokerage firms to minimize the risk to their telecommunications and computer networks from natural disaster, sabotage, and huma

Since the publication of the first edition of Fundamentals of Digital Switching in 1983, there has been substantial improvement in digital switching technology and in digital networks. Packet switchin

Computers and Thought provides a unified, self-contained introduction to artificial intelligence for readers with little or no computing background.

Embodiments of Mind, first published more than two decades ago, teems with intriguing concepts about the mind/brain that are highly relevant to current developments in neuroscience and neural networks

Presents a large number of recent research results previously unavailable in book form. Initially deals with the wee-known computation models, and goes on to special types of circuits, parallel comput