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| | Simulation and Its Discontents (Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life)Over the past twenty years, the technologies of simulation and visualization have changed our ways of looking at the world. In Simulation and Its Discontents, Sherry Turkle examines the now dominant medium of our working lives and finds that simulation has become its own sensibility. We hear it in Turkle's description of architecture... | | Berkshire Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction (2 Volume Set)In hardly more than half a century, computers have become integral parts of everyday life, at home, work, and play. Today, computers affect almost every aspect of modern life, in areas as diverse as car design, filmmaking, disability services, and sex education.Human-computer interaction (HCI) is a vital new field that examines the ways in which... |
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Logics in Artificial Intelligence: 13th European Conference, JELIA 2012, Toulouse, France, September 26-28, 2012, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Logics in Artificial Intelligence, held in Toulouse, France, in September 2012. The book includes 3 invited talks, 36 regular papers, and 5 system descriptions, selected from 107 submissions. The papers cover various aspects of theory and methods of logic for... | | Advances in Virus Research, Volume 70 (Vol. 70)
Published since 1953, Advances in Virus Research covers a diverse range of in-depth reviews providing a valuable overview of the current field of virology.
In 2004, the Institute for Scientific Information released figures showing that the series has an Impact Factor of 2.576, with a half-life of 7.1 years, placing it 11th in... | | Perspectives on Free and Open Source SoftwareBriefly stated, the terms “free software” and “open source software” refer
to software products distributed under terms that allow users to:
Use the software
Modify the software
Redistribute the software
in any manner they see fit, without requiring that they pay the author(s)... |
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Python for Finance
If your interest is finance and trading, then using Python to build a financial calculator makes absolute sense. As does this book which is a hands-on guide covering everything from option theory to time series.
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Estimate market risk, form various portfolios, and estimate their variance-covariance...
| | Out of the Dark Night: Essays on Decolonization
Achille Mbembe is one of the world’s most profound critics of colonialism and its consequences, a major figure in the emergence of a new wave of French critical theory. His writings examine the complexities of decolonization for African subjectivities and the possibilities emerging in its wake. In Out of the Dark Night, he ... | | Touch of Class: Learning to Program Well with Objects and ContractsFrom object technology pioneer and ETH Zurich professor Bertrand Meyer, winner of the Jolt award and the ACM Software System Award, a revolutionary textbook that makes learning programming fun and rewarding. Meyer builds his presentation on a rich object-oriented software system supporting graphics and multimedia, which students can use to produce... |
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