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Probabilistic Graphical Models: Principles and Techniques (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning series)

MIT Press, 2009

Most tasks require a person or an automated system to reason--to reach conclusions based on available information. The framework of probabilistic graphical models, presented in this book, provides a general approach for this task. The approach is model-based, allowing interpretable models to be constructed and then manipulated by reasoning...

Interfaces on Trial 2.0 (The Information Society Series)

MIT Press, 2011

We live in an interoperable world. Computer hardware and software products from different manufacturers can exchange data within local networks and around the world using the Internet. The competition enabled by this compatibility between devices has led to fast-paced innovation and prices low enough to allow ordinary users to command...

The Architecture of Cognition: Rethinking Fodor and Pylyshyn's Systematicity Challenge (MIT Press)

MIT Press, 2014

In 1988, Jerry Fodor and Zenon Pylyshyn challenged connectionist theorists to explain the systematicity of cognition. In a highly influential critical analysis of connectionism, they argued that connectionist explanations, at best, can only inform us about details of the neural substrate; explanations at the cognitive level must be classical...

MySQL Clustering

MySQL Press, 2006

Clustering is the final component of MySQL that makes it truly enterprise-level and able to compete fully with proprietary databases such as Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server. The increased number of high-demand, high-productivity corporations and institutions choosing MySQL, including MIT, the Department of Homeland Security,...

Turing (A Novel about Computation)

MIT Press, 2003

Our hero is Turing, an interactive tutoring program and namesake (or virtual emanation?) of Alan Turing, World War II code breaker and father of computer science. In this unusual novel, Turing's idiosyncratic version of intellectual history from a computational point of view unfolds in tandem with the story of a love affair involving Ethel, a...

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...

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...

Knowledge, Possibility, and Consciousness (Jean Nicod Lectures)

MIT Press, 2001

Physicalism is the idea that if everything that goes on in the universe is physical, our consciousness and feelings must also be physical. Ever since Descartes formulated the mind-body problem, a long line of philosophers has found the physicalist view to be preposterous. According to John Perry, the history of the mind-body problem is, in part,...

Visio 2003 Bible

John Wiley & Sons, 2004

If Visio 2003 can do it, you can do it, too...

Whether you’re designing a network, a business model, or an office building, Visio 2003 helps you transform your vision into something tangible. This comprehensive reference teaches you to use this powerful combination of simple concepts and straightforward tools. You’ll discover new...

The Responsible Business: Reimagining Sustainability and Success

Jossey-Bass, 2011

"When most people think of corporate responsibility, they are focusing on a business's effect on and relationship to stakeholders. A Responsible Business sees stakeholders as full partners and meaningful instruments for the evolution of healthier communities and more successful businesses."
—from the...

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...

Cocos2d for iPhone 0.99 Beginner's Guide

Packt Publishing, 2011

Cocos2d for iPhone is a framework for building 2D games, applications, presentations, demos, and more. It was originally made for Python and then ported to IPhone by Ricardo Quesada as an open source project with the MIT license.

This book will teach you the fundamentals of how to write games with this framework. As this book is...

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