Parallel and Distributed Computing and Networks

The term involution is most commonly used in connection with Nabokov's work, but Ksiezopolska (English literature, American Studies Center, U. of Warsaw, Poland) became fascinated with the networks or

In this innovative, wide-ranging synthesis of anthropology and biogeography, Alexander Harcourt tells how and why our species came to be distributed around the world. He explains our current understan

This book reviews the shift in the historiography of computing from inventors and innovations to a user-perspective, and examines how the relevant sources can be created, collected, preserved, and dis

第一季蘋果公司專利監控重要專利議題發現，包括：iCloud、Cloud Computing、3D Image Sensing Device、3D GUI、GUI、Siri、Voice Control、Smart Cover、Multi-touch、Multi-touch skin、Smart Cover、Find my friends and find my iPhone、Airplane mod

A central component of justice is how the economic goods are distributed in a society. Philosophers contribute to distributive justice debates by providing arguments for principles to guide and evalua

The fast diffusion of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in China has brought forth new forms of connection among the Chinese and has changed their social lives. Virtual networks have b

This is a major new approach to the military revolution and the relationship between warfare and the power of the state in early modern Europe. Whereas previous accounts have emphasised the growth of state-run armies during this period, David Parrott argues instead that the delegation of military responsibility to sophisticated and extensive networks of private enterprise reached unprecedented levels. This included not only the hiring of troops but their equipping, the supply of food and munitions, and the financing of their operations. The book reveals the extraordinary prevalence and capability of private networks of commanders, suppliers, merchants and financiers who managed the conduct of war on land and at sea, challenging the traditional assumption that reliance on mercenaries and the private sector results in corrupt and inefficient military force. In so doing, the book provides essential historical context to contemporary debates about the role of the private sector in warfare.

Created in 2007 by the Musee du Quai Branly and dedicated exclusively to non-western contemporary photography, the Photoquai Biennale presents the work of photographers from all the major geographical

Since the late 1970s, Allan McCollum (born 1944) has addressed the anthropology of art: its distribution, acquisition, display and interpretation. From his first "Surrogate Paintings" (1978-82) to his

Norwegian-born painter Kjell Torriset (born 1950) combines fragmented figuration--primarily of nudes--with abstract signs, geometric shapes and words, dispersing them across a groundless backdrop to e

"The Nahmad Collection" showcases over two generations' worth of collecting by the iconic Nahmad family of Monaco. Over 100 works are featured in this catalogue and its accompanying exhibition at Kuns

A bricoleur of cosmologies, cities and signs, a hypnosis subject, a collaborator and a collector of art and ethnographic objects, Matt Mullican has embodied and redefined the wilder horizons of concep

Decades before he and his late wife Jeanne-Claude were draping the Reichstag in cloth, Christo (born 1935) was creating much more modestly-sized packages in his Paris studio. These early objects, deve

The recent paintings of Cordula Gudemann (born 1955) portray a world in which the abuses and violations of Abu Ghraib and the obscenities of war take place as entertainment, in venues such as circus r

For more than half a century, the German artist Barbara Schmidt Heins has drawn upon the energies of media-fragmented language and a style of abstraction informed by the urgencies of city living. Her

Matthais Meyer's paintings of cityscapes and landscapes combine and collide Monet's lusciously dissolved figuration with Gerhard Richter's harrowed, striated abstraction. (Meyer was a student of Richt

Andrew Gilbert's cartoon-ish history paintings dramatize British colonialism in India and Africa, through depictions of clashes in the Hindu Kush, the Zulu wars and in Amritsar. This smartly designed

Laura Owens (born 1970) is one of the most vital artists to emerge from the 1990s Los Angeles art scene, and a refreshingly uplifting presence in the world of contemporary painting. Her deceptively ro

The mobile phone, coupled with social networking sites like Facebook, has radically transformed point-and-shoot photography. German artist Nicolaus Schmidt (born 1953) zeros in on this paradigm shift

Amid the worldwide networks of finance and trade, a new international urban society is also emerging: a cosmopolis. "Metropolis" 5 looks at the structures of "cosmopolis" communities, exploring how ar

"Display Today" charts the 25-year history of Museumstechnik Berlin, a firm specializing in exhibition design through collaborative partnerships between architects, artists and technicians. The firm's

The Cologne-based firm ASTOC combines expertise in both urban design and architecture. This book provides the first comprehensive overview of its projects, such as HafenCity in Hamburg--Europe's large

Kedron Barrett's paintings celebrate the tangibility of surfaces and space, and above all, the endless nuances of light itself. The motif of the house provides the means by which he explores these the

This volume pairs two Swiss artists with a profound debt to Pop art: first-generation Pop painter/sculptor Peter Stampfli (born 1937) and the younger sculptor Davide Cascio (born 1976). Both draw on a

Karin Sander's "Patina Paintings "are created at--and by--the site of their exhibition. Sander transports blank canvases to the exhibition venue and leaves them outside, unprotected, to accumulate the

Nathalie Grenzhaeuser's most recent photographic series document the world's most sparsely populated regions: the Australian outback and Spitzbergen in the Arctic. But Grenzhaeuser does not only docum

Situated at the interaction of art, architecture, music, mathematics, cosmology and science, Matthew Ritchie's "The Morning Line" is a 33-foot high sound pavilion, constructed in aluminum and conceive

Because geospatial resources are distributed so widely across the Internet, they are difficult to find. Here specialists offer help on methodologies and technologies for finding such resources, and on

Ann Hamilton's "Stylus" installation at The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts in St. Louis was conceived as both sanctuary and laboratory--an attempt to link "the building's interior state of reflectio

What prompts architects, at any given moment in history and in any given culture, to return to the architectural past for inspiration? "Dash 06: Living in a New Past" investigates, in essays by Nelson

Over the past 30 years, the German designer Mathias Hoffmann has designed furniture, lamps and household accessories for companies such as Rolf Benz, de Sede, Tonon, Brown Jordan and Lloyd Flanders. "

Lotte Reiniger (1899-1981) is a much loved figure in the early history of animated film. At an early age Reiniger discovered the Chinese art of silhouette puppetry, and made her first silhouettes for

Using classical sculptural techniques, Peter Senoner (born 1969) has factured a small population of alien beings realized in various materials, whose heads and/or feet are swollen as though with some

The motifs of Bodo Korsig's woodcuts and reliefs resemble blown-up microscopic creatures or organic entities that appear at once both decorative and menacing. Korsig has often made artist's books with

"Big Picture" presents 12 film and video installations that relate the film screen or monitor to the space around it. The participating artists are Dominique Gonzalez Foerster, Rodney Graham, Kimsooja

In Axel Teichmann's colorful but ominous narrative tableaux, humanity is depicted as beset by machines such as rockets or complex winch systems, struggling for control over them as both nature and tec

Dense, meticulous cross-hatching covers the surfaces of Moussa Kone's detailed ink drawings, which depict surreal, allegorical scenes of human folly and bizarre plights. Images of megalomania, herd be

"Among Heroes" looks at the use of quotation and reference in the work of contemporary artists such as Claudia Angelmaier, Hanna Brandes, Jan Dorre, Elmgreen & Dragset, Sabine Gross, Carina Linge,

"Tswi" accompanies Klaus Lomnitzer's recent exhibitions at Kunstverein Munsterland, Coesfeld, and Kunstverein Ludwighshafen. Its primary focus is the titular sequence, an epic 42-panel painting on PVC

Gereon Krebber (born 1973) utilizes such materials as plastic film, burnt wood, construction foam, gelatin, Post-it notes and even preserved pig's trotters to create astonishing, large-scale, site-spe