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The last decade saw the arrival of a new player in the creation/evolution debate—the intelligent design creationism (IDC) movement, whose strategy is to act as "the wedge" to overturn
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The Concise American HeritageR Spanish Dictionary, Second Edition has been newly revised to include the most current computer, telecommunications, and Internet vocabulary in both English and Spanish.
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This amazingly comprehensive volume has been updated to include the latest computer and internet terminology, plus changes recently adopted by Spanish language academies. Arranged in an easy-to-use fo
Josef Muller-Brockman's impassioned and sudden appearance on the stage of constructive graphic design in the early 50s, at the age of almost 40, gives pause.
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A few years ago, geeks, academics, and soda-fueled computer jocks populated the Internet. Today, everyone – from CEOs to seventh-grade students to weekend technology fiends ̵
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Artificial neural networks are nonlinear mapping systems whose structure is looselybased on principles observed in the nervous systems of humans and animals. The basic idea is thatmassive systems of s
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
Traces the making of the 1998 computer-animated motion picture, A Bug's Life, exhibiting the work of film's animators, art directors, and computer wizards, who also made Toy Story. 40,000 first printi
