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Accessing and Browsing Information and Communication

MIT Press, 2001

This book contends that accessing and browsing information and communication are multidimensional and consequential aspects of the information user’s entire experience and of general human behavior. Problems in information creation, processing, transmittal, and use often arise from an incomplete conceptualization of the "information...

Critical Play: Radical Game Design

MIT Press, 2009

For many players, games are entertainment, diversion, relaxation, fantasy. But what if certain games were something more than this, providing not only outlets for entertainment but a means for creative expression, instruments for conceptual thinking, or tools for social change? In Critical Play, artist and game designer Mary Flanagan...

Windows 2003 Shell Scripting

Addison Wesley, 2004

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Nicht nur für Administratoren von Windows Server 2003 - auch für Windows XP Poweruser dürfte das unterhaltsame und zugleich informativ verfasste Buch ein wertvoller Ratgeber in Sachen Scripting und Automatisierung sein. [...]Das Buch...

Bio-Inspired Artificial Intelligence: Theories, Methods, and Technologies (Intelligent Robotics and Autonomous Agents)

MIT Press, 2008

New approaches to artificial intelligence spring from the idea that intelligence emerges as much from cells, bodies, and societies as it does from evolution, development, and learning. Traditionally, artificial intelligence has been concerned with reproducing the abilities of human brains; newer approaches take inspiration from a wider range of...

Art Matters: A Critical Commentary on Heideggers The Origin of the Work of Art (Contributions To Phenomenology)

Springer, 2009

In recent years there has been a great deal of talk about a possible death of art. As the title of Heidegger’s “The Origin of the Work of Art” suggests, the essay challenges such talk, just as it in turn is challenged by such talk, talk that is supported by the current state of the art-world. It was Hegel, who most profoundly...

Wired for Innovation: How Information Technology is Reshaping the Economy

MIT Press, 2009

A wave of business innovation is driving the productivity resurgence in the U.S. economy. In Wired for Innovation, Erik Brynjolfsson and Adam Saunders describe how information technology directly or indirectly created this productivity explosion, reversing decades of slow growth. They argue that the companies with the highest level of...

A Century of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, 1882-1982

Apress, 1985

The book's text and many photographs introduce readers to the renowned teachers and researchers who are still well known in engineering circles.

Electrical engineering is a protean profession. Today the field embraces many disciplines that seem far removed from its roots in the telegraph, telephone, electric...

On the Brink of Paradox: Highlights from the Intersection of Philosophy and Mathematics (The MIT Press)

MIT Press, 2019

An introduction to awe-inspiring ideas at the brink of paradox: infinities of different sizes, time travel, probability and measure theory, and computability theory.

This award-winning book introduces the reader to awe-inspiring issues at the intersection of philosophy and mathematics. It explores ideas at the...

Eclipse : Building Commercial-Quality Plug-ins (2nd Edition)

Addison Wesley, 2006

Eclipse has established itself as a dominant force in the application-development space. Key to the success of Eclipse is the ability of developers to extend its functionality using plug-ins.

This new edition of Eclipse: Building Commercial-Quality Plug-ins is the definitive, start-to-finish guide to building commercial-quality Eclipse...

The Computer Contradictionary: 2nd Edition

MIT Press, 1995

"Ascertain the meaning before consulting this dictionary," warns the author of this collection of deliberately satirical misdefinitions.

New computer cultures and their jargons have burgeoned since this book's progenitor, The Devil's DP Dictionary, was published in 1981. This updated version of Stan...

Sams Teach Yourself XML in 21 Days, Third Edition

Sams Publishing, 2003

Sams Teach Yourself XML in 21 Days, written by expert author Steve Holzner, offers hundreds of real-world examples demonstrating the uses of XML and the newest tools developers need to make the most of it. In Week One, he starts from basic syntax, and discusses XML document structure, document types, and the...

Perl Power!: A JumpStart Guide to Programming with Perl 5

Addison Wesley, 1998

After the two successful years that this book has been available in German-speaking countries, the publishers decided to translate it into English and allow me the opportunity to address not only my German countrymen but savvy Perl programmers throughout the world!

This book has come a long way since it was first published: it was...

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