This timely overview and synthesis of recent work in both artificial neural networks and neurobiology seeks to examine neurobiological data from a network perspective and to encourage neuroscientists to participate in constructing the next generation of neural networks. Individual chapters were commissioned from selected authors to bridge the...
Within the field of logic programming there have been numerous attempts to transform grammars into logic programs. This book describes a complementary approach that views logic programs as grammars and shows how this new presentation of the foundations of logic programming, based on the notion of proof trees, can enrich the field.
The decade of the 80's saw the dramatic expansion of high performance
computer graphics into domains previously able only to
irt with the technology. Among the most dramatic has been the incorporation of real-time
interactive manipulation and display for human gures. Though actively pur-
sued by several research groups, the...
I once knew this girl who thought she was God.She didn't give sight to the blind or raise the dead. She didn't even teach anything, not really,and she never told me anything I probably didn't already know. On the other hand,she didn'texpect to be worshipped, nor did she askfor money. Given her high opinion of herself, some...
In this revised and updated edition of The Rights of Public Employees, Robert M. O’Neil broadens the focus from government employees to all public employees, emphasizing the public-service nature of the occupations and professions of such individuals. Using a question-and-answer format, O’Neil covers such topics as...
Computers have changed the way physics is done, but those changes are only slowly making their way into the typical physics curriculum. This textbook is designed to help speed that transition.
Computational physics is now widely accepted as a third, equally valid complement to the traditional experimental and theoretical approaches to...
This book presents a systematic treatment of the formal theory of the relational model of data, which is the foundation of current database management systems. It can be used as a text for a graduate course in database theory, or as an additional reference for an undergraduate course on data management. It will also be useful to researchers...
make is one of UNIX's greatest contributions to software development, and this book is the clearest description of make ever written. Even the smallest software project typically involves a number of files that depend upon each other in various ways. If you modify one or more source files, you must relink the...
August Mobius was one of the 19th century's most influential mathematicians and astronomers. Written by six distinguished contributors, this book explores the work of Mobius and his brilliant German contemporaries. The work emphasizes those achievements which in many ways can be seen to reflect the exciting advances taking place at the time...
Throughout most of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, computational linguistics
enjoyed an excellent reputation. A sense of the promise of the work to society
was prevalent, and high expectations were justified by solid, steady progress in
research.
Nevertheless, by the close of the 1980s, many people openly expressed doubt
about...