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Advances in Artificial General Intelligence: Concepts, Architectures and Algorithms (Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications)

IOS Press, 2007

The topic of this book - the creation of software programs displaying broad, deep, human-style general intelligence - is a grand and ambitious one. And yet it is far from a frivolous one: what the papers in this publication illustrate is that it is a fit and proper subject for serious science and engineering exploration. No one has yet created a...

Seven Languages in Seven Weeks: A Pragmatic Guide to Learning Programming Languages

Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2010

Ruby, Io, Prolog, Scala, Erlang, Clojure, Haskell. With Seven Languages in Seven Weeks, by Bruce A. Tate, you'll go beyond the syntax-and beyond the 20-minute tutorial you'll find someplace online. This book has an audacious goal: to present a meaningful exploration of seven languages within a single book. Rather than...

Handbook on Decision Support Systems 1: Basic Themes (International Handbooks on Information Systems)

Springer, 2008

Decision support systems comprise a core subject area of the information systems (IS) discipline, being one of several major expansions that have occurred in the IS field. The decision support system (DSS) area, as a subject of research and practice, continues to grow along ever-widening horizons – often blending with other...

High Performance Cloud Auditing and Applications

Springer, 2013

This book mainly focuses on cloud security and high performance computing for cloud auditing. The book discusses emerging challenges and techniques developed for high performance semantic cloud auditing, and presents the state of the art in cloud auditing, computing and security techniques with focus on technical aspects and feasibility of...

Captain Bligh's Portable Nightmare: From the Bounty to Safety?4,162 Miles across the Pacific in a Rowing Boat

Skyhorse Publishing, 2019

At dawn on April 28, 1789, Captain William Bligh and eighteen men from HMS Bounty were herded onto a twenty-three-foot launch and abandoned in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Thus began their extraordinary journey to Java. Covering 4,162 miles, the small boat was battered by continuous storms, and the men on board suffered crippling...

Mastering Visual C++ 6

Sybex, 1998

At 1400 pages, Mastering Visual C++ 6 is the one-stop reference for programmers (beginners through experts) who want to learn Microsoft's powerful 32-bit Visual C++ development environment. The book's tutorial "framework" provides a complete introduction to Microsoft's Win 32 programming architecture that lets you quickly create...

Parsing the Turing Test: Philosophical and Methodological Issues in the Quest for the Thinking Computer

Springer, 2008

Parsing the Turing Test is a landmark exploration of both the philosophical and methodological issues surrounding the search for true artificial intelligence. Will computers and robots ever think and communicate the way humans do? When a computer crosses the threshold into self-consciousness, will it immediately jump into the Internet and create a...

Dictionary of Oil, Gas, and Petrochemical Processing

CRC Press, 2013

In industry, miscommunication can cause frustration, create downtime, and even trigger equipment failure. By providing a common ground for more effective discourse, the Dictionary of Oil, Gas, and Petrochemical Processing can help eliminate costly miscommunication.

An essential resource for oil, gas, and petrochemical...

Boosting-Based Face Detection and Adaptation (Synthesis Lectures on Computer Vision)

Morgan and Claypool Publishers, 2010

With the rapid increase of computational powers and availability of modern sensing, analysis and rendering equipment and technologies, computers are becoming more and more intelligent. Many research projects and commercial products have demonstrated the capability for a computer to interact with human in a natural way by looking at...

No-Drama Project Management: Avoiding Predictable Problems for Project Success

Apress, 2011

No-Drama Project Management: Avoiding Predictable Problems for Project Success is a book for project managers who want or need to be more effective. Having a project crash and burn is never a great situation, author Bart Gerardi explains, but it’s not a career buster—unless the failure appears on the...

Introduction to Design of Experiments with JMP Examples, Third Edition (SAS Press)

SAS Institute, 2007

"For anyone wanting to learn about design of experiments, this book has it all. This book combines easy-to-read concepts and methods of design of experiments (DOE) with everyday examples and pictures. Anyone with even a cursory understanding of DOE can pick up this book and gain a very high-level understanding of DOE. The bottom line: This is...

Solr 1.4 Enterprise Search Server

Packt Publishing, 2009

If you are a developer building a high-traffic web site, you need to have a terrific search engine. Sites like Netflix.com and Zappos.com employ Solr, an open source enterprise search server, which uses and extends the Lucene search library. This is the first book in the market on Solr and it will show you how to optimize your web site for high...

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