In From Computer to Brain: Foundations of Computational Neuroscience,
William Lytton provides a gentle but rigorous introduction to the art
of modeling neurons and neural systems. It is an accessible entry to the
methods and approaches used to model the brain at many di erent levels,
ranging from synapses and dendrites to neurons and...
MATLAB® is a very popular language for technical computing used by
students, engineers, and scientists in universities, research institutes, and industries
all over the world. The software is popular because it is powerful and easy to
use. For university freshmen in it can be thought of as the next tool to use after the
graphic...
Just so you’re clear: it was not my idea to give a talk to Microsoft Research. I had learned embarrassingly little about computer science in my 18 years of life, and the last thing I wanted to do is to have that exposed in front of a bunch of genius PhDs in MSR. But my manager thought it’d be a great...
After over fifteen years of research and trial and error,
micromap designs have evolved to the point where they
are slowly finding their way into mainstream statistical
visualizations. Now seems to be a good time to pull
all of the work together into a book in order to introduce
micromaps to a wide range of people interested in...
The purpose of this book is to provide a practical approach to managing security in
FPGA designs for researchers and practitioners in the electronic design automation
(EDA) and FPGA communities, including corporations, industrial and government
research labs, and academics. This book combines theoretical underpinnings with
a practical...
The specifications in this book are the result of a number of case studies performed by
researchers from the Programming Research Group at the University of Amsterdam.
The primary goal was to study the use of the techniques developed by the
Programming Research Group for the specification of real-life protocols. From the
pool of...
Information networking has emerged as a multidisciplinary diversified area of research over
the past few decades. From traditional wired telephony to cellular voice telephony and from
wired access to wireless access to the Internet, information networks have profoundly
impacted our lifestyle. At the time of writing, over 3 billion...
Michael Gelfond has been an extraordinary mentor, teacher, and colleague for
many people in the knowledge representation and reasoning (KR&R), logic programming
(LP), and answer set programming (ASP) communities.
Michael’s current and former students often like to tell stories about their
experience with Michael as...
The availability of geographic and geo-spatial information and services, especially
on the openWeb, has become abundant in the last several yearswith the proliferation
of online maps, geo-coding services, geospatial Web services and geospatially enabled
applications. Concurrently, the need for geo-spatial reasoning has significantly...
The data collected by organizations is growing in volume and complexity. As such, businesses are
abandoning traditional methods and relying more heavily on enterprise information systems to aid in
the analysis and utilization of time-sensitive data and organizational knowledge. Enterprise information
systems have gained in popularity...
The constant and speedy progress made by humankind in the industrial revolution,
and more recently in the information technology era can be directly attributed to
sharing of knowledge between various disciplines, reuse of the knowledge as science
and technology advanced, and inclusion of this knowledge in the curriculum.
The phrases...
The telegraph, telephone, radio, and especially the computer
have put everyone on the globe within earshot— at the price of our
privacy. It may feel like we're performing an intimate act when,
sequestered in our rooms and cubicles, we casually use our cell
phones and computers to transmit our thoughts, confidences,...
