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Proof, Language, and Interaction: Essays in Honour of Robin Milner (Foundations of Computing)

MIT Press, 2000

This volume is a Festschrift to honour the scientilfiifce and achievemento f Robin Milner. Robin’s contributions have been both profound and varied, ovneorw ,a o pfs eormioed , thirty years. They range througthhe semantic foundationso f programming languages, computerassisted theorem-proving, programming language design, andth e theory of...

IT Governance: How Top Performers Manage IT Decision Rights for Superior Results

Harvard Business School, 2004

Firms with superior IT governance have more than 25% higher profits than firms with poor governance given the same strategic objectives. These top performers have custom-designed IT governance for their strategies. Just as corporate governance aims to ensure quality decisions about all corporate assets, IT governance links IT decisions with company...

Brain-Computer Interfaces: An international assessment of research and development trends

Springer, 2008

Brain-computer interface (BCI) research deals with establishing communication pathways between the brain and external devices where such pathways do not otherwise exist. Throughout the world, such research is surprisingly extensive and expanding. BCI research is rapidly approaching a level of first-generation medical practice for use by individuals...

Radioactive Waste Disposal at Sea: Public Ideas, Transnational Policy Entrepreneurs, and Environmental Regimes

MIT Press, 2000

"This book makes a significant contribution by showing that, under certain circumstances, regimes can be created and changed by a combination of powerful but highly oversimplified ‘public ideas’ and transnational political entrepreneurs. The work is original and the scholarship is sound beyond any question."
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Developing Serious Games (Game Development Series)

Charles River, 2006

With the impressive growth the games industry has enjoyed for the past decade, game developers, educators, and marketing firms are excitedly envisioning serious games applications for computer game technologies. These applications- serious games- represent opportunities for game developers to apply their talents to areas outside of the...

Advances in Minimum Description Length: Theory and Applications (Neural Information Processing)

MIT Press, 2005

The process of inductive inference—to infer general laws and principles from particular instances—is the basis of statistical modeling, pattern recognition, and machine learning. The Minimum Descriptive Length (MDL) principle, a powerful method of inductive inference, holds that the best explanation, given a limited set of observed...

Eclipse Plug-ins (3rd Edition) (Eclipse Series)

Addison Wesley, 2008

Build commercial-grade extensions to Eclipse and WebSphere Studio Workbench

This is the first definitive, start-to-finish guide to building commercial-quality extensions for both Eclipse and IBM's WebSphere Studio Workbench. Leading Eclipse developers Eric Clayberg and Dan Rubel don't merely introduce the basics: they show how...

The First Computers--History and Architectures (History of Computing)

MIT Press, 2000

"A cohesive, well-defined discussion of the architecture of early computers."
— Mary Croarken, Business History

"A well-balanced and fascinating perspective on a wide range of early computing devices."
— Nathan Ensmenger, IEEE Spectrum...

Modern Biocatalysis: Stereoselective and Environmentally Friendly Reactions

John Wiley & Sons, 2009

This reference covers the wide and rapidly growing field of biocatalysis. It combines complementary expertise from such areas as microbiology, enzymology, molecular biology, structural biology and organic chemistry, this highlighting the interdisciplinary nature of the subject. With its special focus on progress and new developments towards...

Communications Policy and Information Technology: Promises, Problems, Prospects (Telecommunications Policy Research Conference)

MIT Press, 2002

New technologies, although developed with optimism, often fall short of their predicted potential and create new problems. Communications technologies are no different. Their utopian proponents claim that universal access to advanced communications technologies can help to feed the hungry, cure the sick, educate the illiterate, improve the global...

AppleScript: The Missing Manual

Pogue Press, 2005

From newspapers to NASA, Mac users around the world use AppleScript to automate their daily computing routines. Famed for its similarity to English and its ease of integration with other programs, AppleScript is the perfect programming language for time-squeezed Mac fans. As beginners quickly realize, however, AppleScript has one major shortcoming:...

Models and Cognition (Bradford Books)

MIT Press, 2006

"Every now and then, a book comes along that tries to put it all together. Waskan's book is eminently readable and well informed, and taught me a lot about stuff I thought I already knew. It is an accessible text and a thoroughly original contribution, all in one."
—Robert Cummins, Department of Philosophy...

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