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Internet Success: A Study of Open-Source Software Commons

MIT Press, 2012

The use of open-source software (OSS)--readable software source code that can be copied, modified, and distributed freely--has expanded dramatically in recent years. The number of OSS projects hosted on SourceForge.net (the largest hosting Web site for OSS), for example, grew from just over 100,000 in 2006 to more than 250,000 at the...

Information Arts: Intersections of Art, Science, and Technology

MIT Press, 2001

A new breed of contemporary artist engages science and technology--not just to adopt the vocabulary and gizmos, but to explore and comment on the content, agendas, and possibilities. Indeed, proposes Stephen Wilson, the role of the artist is not only to interpret and to spread scientific knowledge, but to be an active partner in determining the...

Visual Basic 2008 Programmer's Reference (Programmer to Programmer)

Wrox Press, 2008

Visual Basic 2008

Providing programmers and developers of all skill levels with a comprehensive tutorial and reference to Visual Basic (VB) 2008, Microsoft MVP Rod Stephenspresents a broad, solid understanding of essential topics on the latest version of VB. He explains the forms, controls, and other objects that VB...

Ajax For Dummies (Computer/Tech)

For Dummies, 2006

Create Web applications that act like desktop ones

Brush up on JavaScript,® use free Ajax frameworks, and make your sites rock

What if shoppers at your online store could fill their carts without waiting for multiple page refreshes? What if searches produced instant results on the same page? With this book you won't have to...

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...

How to Design Programs: An Introduction to Programming and Computing

MIT Press, 2001

This introduction to programming places computer science in the core of a liberal arts education. Unlike other introductory books, it focuses on the program design process. This approach fosters a variety of skills--critical reading, analytical thinking, creative synthesis, and attention to detail - that are important for everyone, not just future...

Digital Games and Learning

Continuum International, 2011

Several years ago, I attended a conference in Shanghai that brought together leading American and Chinese thinkers about games and learning. The event’s organizers asked us to share what we saw as best practices from our respective countries. The Chinese game designers proudly displayed games that included historically...

Information Retrieval: Implementing and Evaluating Search Engines

MIT Press, 2010

An academic dynasty has come together to write an excellent textbook on information retrieval. Stefan Buttcher, Charles Clarke, and Gordon Cormack make up three generations of stellar information retrieval researchers with over fifty years of combined experience. Buttcher was Clarke's doctoral student, and Clarke was Cormack's...

Distributed Work

MIT Press, 2002

Technological advances and changes in the global economy are motivating and enabling an increasing geographic distribution of work. Today, the geographic distance between an average pair of workers is increasing in industries ranging from banking, to wine production, to clothing design. According to Bureau of Labor surveys of workers, more people...

New Directions in Statistical Signal Processing: From Systems to Brains (Neural Information Processing)

MIT Press, 2006

Signal processing and neural computation have separately and significantly influenced many disciplines, but the cross-fertilization of the two fields has begun only recently. Research now shows that each has much to teach the other, as we see highly sophisticated kinds of signal processing and elaborate hierachical levels of neural computation...

Acting in an Uncertain World: An Essay on Technical Democracy (Inside Technology)

MIT Press, 2009

Controversies over such issues as nuclear waste, genetically modified organisms, asbestos, tobacco, gene therapy, avian flu, and cell phone towers arise almost daily as rapid scientific and technological advances create uncertainty and bring about unforeseen concerns. The authors of Acting in an Uncertain World argue that political...

Logic and Information Flow (Foundations of Computing)

MIT Press, 1994

The thirteen chapters written expressly for this book by logicians, theoretical computer scientists, philosophers, and semanticists address, from the perspective of mathematical logic, the problems of understanding and studying the flow of information through any information-processing system.The logic of information flow has applications in...

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