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Who Needs Emotions?: The Brain Meets the Robot (Series in Affective Science)

Oxford University Press, 2005

The idea that some day robots may have emotions has captured the imagination of many and has been dramatized by robots and androids in such famous movies as 2001 Space Odyssey's HAL or Star Trek's Data. By contrast, the editors of this book have assembled a panel of experts in neuroscience and artificial intelligence who have dared to...

The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Physics (Oxford Handbooks)

Oxford University Press, 2013

This Oxford Handbook provides an overview of many of the topics that currently engage philosophers of physics. It surveys new issues and the problems that have become a focus of attention in recent years. It also provides up-to-date discussions of the still very important problems that dominated the field in the past.

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Passionate Engines: What Emotions Reveal about the Mind and Artificial Intelligence

Oxford University Press, 2004

In this unique contribution to philosophical debate, Craig DeLancey shows that our best understanding of emotion provides essential insight on key issues in philosophy of mind and artificial intelligence. DeLancey offers us a bold new approach to the study of the mind based on the latest scientific research, and provides an accessible overview of...

The Music of the Big Bang: The Cosmic Microwave Background and the New Cosmology (Astronomers' Universe)

Springer, 2008

The cosmic microwave background radiation is the afterglow of the big bang: a tenuous signal, more than 13 billion years old, which carries the answers to many of the questions about the nature of our Universe. It was serendipitously discovered in 1964, and thoroughly investigated in the last four decades by a large number of experiments. Two...

Theory of Neural Information Processing Systems

Oxford University Press, 2005

Theory of Neural Information Processing Systems provides an explicit, coherent, and up-to-date account of the modern theory of neural information processing systems. It has been carefully developed for graduate students from any quantitative discipline, including mathematics, computer science, physics, engineering or biology, and has been...

Modern Fortran Explained (Numerical Mathematics and Scientific Computation)

Oxford University Press, 2011

Fortran remains one of the principal languages used in the fields of scientific, numerical, and engineering programming, and a series of revisions to the standard defining successive versions of the language has progressively enhanced its power and kept it competitive with several generations of rivals.

Beginning...

Social Practices of Rule-Making in World Politics

Oxford University Press, 2019

Rule-based global order remains a central object of study in International Relations. Constructivists have identified a number of mechanisms by which actors accomplish both the continuous reproduction and transformation of the rules, institutions, and regimes that constitute their worlds. However, it is less clear how these mechanisms...

English for Specific Purposes (Resource Books for Teachers)

Oxford University Press, 2007

This book offers over 80 generic classroom activities for teaching vocational English to any profession.

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Eurydice and the Birth of Macedonian Power (Women in Antiquity)

Oxford University Press, 2019

Eurydice (c.410-340s BCE) played a significant part in the public life of ancient Macedonia, the first royal Macedonian woman known to have done so, though hardly the last. She was the wife of Amyntas III, the mother of Philip II (and two other short-lived kings of Macedonia), and grandmother of Alexander the Great. Her career marks a...

Gamma: Exploring Euler's Constant

Princeton Press, 2003

Among the myriad of constants that appear in mathematics, p, e, and i are the most familiar. Following closely behind is g, or gamma, a constant that arises in many mathematical areas yet maintains a profound sense of mystery.

In a tantalizing blend of history and mathematics, Julian Havil takes the reader on a journey through...

A Social History of Byzantium

John Wiley & Sons, 2008

Western civilization owes an incalculable cultural and historical debt to the Byzantine Empire. Before falling to the Ottoman Turks in the mid-fifteenth century, the empire flourished for more than a thousand years, bridging the ancient and modern worlds. Byzantium profoundly influenced the pattern of cultural and political development in the lands...

The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One

Oxford University Press, 2009

David Kilcullen is one of the world's most influential experts on counterinsurgency and modern warfare. A Senior Counterinsurgency Advisor to General David Petraeus in Iraq, his vision of war dramatically influenced America's decision to rethink its military strategy in Iraq and implement "the surge."

Now, in The Accidental...

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