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Solving Fermi's Paradox (Cambridge Astrobiology)

Cambridge University Press, 2019

The search for extra-terrestrial intelligence (SETI) has for sixty years attempted to solve Fermi's paradox: if intelligent life is relatively common in the universe, where is everybody? Examining SETI through this lens, this volume summarises current thinking on the prevalence of intelligent life in the universe, and discusses sixty-six...

Climates, Landscapes, and Civilizations

American Geophysical Union, 2013

Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 198.

Climates, Landscapes, and Civilizations brings together a collection of studies on the history of complex interrelationships between humans and their environment by integrating Earth science with archeology and...

Issues and Trends in Technology and Human Interaction (Advances in Technology and Human Interaction)

IGI Global, 2006

purposes of humans. It often has unintended and unexpected effects on humans and can be used for purposes other than originally planned. While technology cannot exist without humans, one can equally well argue that humans cannot exist without technology. This relationship touches on many fundamental questions of anthropology, ontology, and...

Design for Emergence: Collaborative Social Play with Online and Location-Based Media, Volume 153 Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications

IOS Press, 2007

This thesis is an attempt to address the spontaneous, often unpredictable uses of technology that can foster feelings of social participation. A key idea is that social processes and dynamics advance technological design. Consider the most recent applications that are primarily focused on social interaction: social software (Allen, 2004),...

Artificial Intelligence in Education (Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications)

IOS Press, 2005

The 12th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED-2005) is being held July 18–22, 2005, in Amsterdam, the beautiful Dutch city near the sea. AIED-2005 is the latest in an on-going series of biennial conferences in AIED dating back to the mid-1980’s when the field emerged from a synthesis of artificial...

Spss for Beginners

1stBooks Library, 1999

This book is the only user-oriented book on SPSS:

• It uses a series of pictures and simple instructions to teach each procedure. Users can conduct procedures by following the graphically illustrated examples. The book is designed for the novice - even those who are inexperienced with SPSS, statistics, or computers. Though its...

Encyclopedia of World Cultures

Macmillan Technical, 2002

This volume, with one hundred new articles, supplements the award-winning 10-volume Encyclopedia of World Cultures, which was also organized and prepared by the Human Relations Area Files (HRAF) at Yale University, and published by G. K. Hall/Macmillan Library Reference between 1991 and 1996. The volume includes three kinds of entries. One kind is...

Artificial General Intelligence (Cognitive Technologies)

Springer, 2007

This is the first book on current research on artificial general intelligence (AGI), work explicitly focused on engineering general intelligence – autonomous, self-reflective, self-improving, commonsensical intelligence. Each author explains a specific aspect of AGI in detail in each chapter, while also investigating the common themes in...

Human-Centered Software Engineering - Integrating Usability in the Software Development Lifecycle

Springer, 2005

The fields of HCI and Software Engineering have evolved almost independently of each other until the last decade, when it became apparent that an integrated and combined perspective would benefit the development of interactive software applications. The chapters in this book are written by prominent researchers who bring to light the major...

Sams Teach Yourself Red Hat Linux Fedora in 24 Hours

Sams Publishing, 2003

An easy-to-understand, step-by-step guide and starter kit to help beginners install, configure, and use the latest version of Linux. Updated to cover the latest major release of Red Hat Linux, expected fall, 2003. Red Hat Linux is the most popular choice among Linux users in the U.S., with about 85% of the U.S. Linux market. Assumes no prior...

Bioarchaeologists Speak Out (Bioarchaeology and Social Theory)

Springer, 2018

Bioarchaeologists who study human remains in ancient, historic and contemporary settings are securely anchored within anthropology as anthropologists, yet they have not taken on the pundits the way other subdisciplines within anthropology have. Popular science authors frequently and selectively use bioarchaeological data on...

An Anthropology of Marxism

The University of North Carolina Press, 2019

An Anthropology of Marxism offers Cedric Robinson's analysis of the history of communalism that has been claimed by Marx and Marxists. Suggesting that the socialist ideal was embedded both in Western and non-Western civilizations and cultures long before the opening of the modern era and did not begin with or depend on the...

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