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Whiteshift: Populism, Immigration, and the Future of White Majorities

Harry N. Abrams, 2020

Whiteshift: the turbulent journey from a world of racially homogeneous white majorities to one of racially hybrid majorities

This is the century of whiteshift. As Western societies are becoming increasingly mixed-race, demographic change is transforming politics. Over half of American babies are...

Logic of Analog and Digital Machines

Nova Press, 2010

Computer Science is a very young discipline compared to most others. Alan Turing published the seminal paper of the field in 1936. Around the same time, the militaries in Germany, UK, and US commissioned the first digital electronic computer projects. One of these, the Colossus at Bletchley Park in the UK, was used to break the...

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...

Introduction to Hilbert Spaces with Applications

Academic Press, 2005

The Second Edition if this successful text offers a systematic exposition of the basic ideas and results of Hilbert space theory and functional analysis. It includes a simple introduction to the Lebesgue integral and a new chapter on wavelets. The book provides the reader with revised examples and updated diverse applications to differential and...

Digital Watermarking: Principles & Practice (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Multimedia Information and Systems)

Morgan Kaufmann, 2001

Digital watermarking is a key ingredient to copyright protection. It provides a solution to illegal copying of digital material and has many other useful applications such as broadcast monitoring and the recording of electronic transactions. Now, for the first time, there is a book that focuses exclusively on this exciting technology. Digital...

100 Greatest Science Discoveries of All Time

Libraries Unlimited, 2007

Throughout history, science has changed lives and dramatically altered the way in which the universe is perceived. Focusing on the 100 most significant scientific events of all time--from Archimedes' discovery of the two fundamental principles underlying physics and engineering (levers and buoyancy) in 260 B.C.E. to human anatomy, Jupiter's moons,...

Understand, Manage, and Prevent Algorithmic Bias: A Guide for Business Users and Data Scientists

Apress, 2019

Are algorithms friend or foe?

The human mind is evolutionarily designed to take shortcuts in order to survive. We jump to conclusions because our brains want to keep us safe. A majority of our biases work in our favor, such as when we feel a car speeding in our direction is dangerous and we instantly move, or when we...

Matplotlib 3.0 Cookbook: Over 150 recipes to create highly detailed interactive visualizations using Python

Packt Publishing, 2018

Build attractive, insightful, and powerful visualizations to gain quality insights from your data

Key Features

Master Matplotlib for data visualization

Customize basic plots to make and deploy figures in cloud environments

Explore recipes to design various...

Compiler Construction (International Computer Science Series)

Addison Wesley, 1996

This book has emerged from my lecture notes for an introductory course in compiler design at ETH
Zürich. Several times I have been asked to justify this course, since compiler design is considered a
somewhat esoteric subject, practised only in a few highly specialized software houses. Because
nowadays everything which does not...

Discrete Mathematics

Springer, 2003

Discrete mathematics is quickly becoming one of the most important areas of mathematical research, with applications to cryptography, linear programming, coding theory and the theory of computing. This book is aimed at undergraduate mathematics and computer science students interested in developing a feeling for what mathematics is all about,...

Thoughtful Data Science: A Programmer's Toolset for Data Analysis and Artificial Intelligence with Python, Jupyter Notebook, and PixieDust

Packt Publishing, 2018

Bridge the gap between developer and data scientist by creating a modern open-source, Python-based toolset that works with Jupyter Notebook, and PixieDust.

Key Features

Think deeply as a developer about your strategy and toolset in data science

Discover the best tools that...

Essentials of Research Design and Methodology (Essentials of Behavioral Science)

John Wiley & Sons, 2005

Master the essential skills for designing and conducting a successful research project

Essentials of Research Design and Methodology contains practical information on how to design and conduct scientific research in the behavioral and social sciences. This accessible guide covers basic to advanced concepts in a clear, concrete, and readable...

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