(Hardback, 14th Revised edition)

Researchers have come to rely on this thesaurus to locate precise terms from the controlled vocabulary used to index the ERIC database.

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Students explore the idea that thinking is a form of computation by learning to write simple computer programs for tasks that require thought.

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2016 marks the 60-year anniversary of the phrase Artificial Intelligence and in this fascinating book, Luke Dormehl charts the weird and wonderful journey of one of mankinds greatest projects, the creation of Thinking Machines.

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Explains how advances in computer technology will augment communication in person-to-person, organizational, and educational settings. It describes the convergence of "virtual reality" and group decision support, and how these will serve educational and organizational effectiveness.

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Narrative strategies for vast fictional worlds across a variety of media, from World of Warcraft to The Wire.

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It'll be online.

Andy Greenberg, technology writer for Forbes magazine, has interviewed all the major players in this new era of activism including Julian Assange - and blows the cover of a key activist, previously only presumed to exist, named The Architect who accomplished for at least two leak sites exactly what his name implies.

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How to think about the shaping and composing of information technology from a design perspective: the aesthetics and ethics of interaction design.

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"Explores the worldbuilding design aesthetic of Todd Howard, the creative visionary behind The Elder Scrolls and Fallout game series"--

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Lively and accessible in style, this book is written for both an academic readership and the wider audience of gamers and those interested in popular culture.

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This book tells the story of the patriarchs, pioneers, and infonauts of the computer, focusing in particular on such pioneers as J. C. R. Licklider, Doug Engelbart, Bob Taylor, and Alan Kay. It introduces a collection of eccentrics, mavericks, geniuses, and visionaries.

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Artificial life embodies a recent and important conceptual step in modem science: asserting that the core of intelligence and cognitive abilities is the same as the capacity for living.

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A sociocultural study of workers' ad hoc genre innovations and their significance for information design.

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This volume analyzes the way the Internet will affect market structure and pricing models in several major industries: personal computers, semiconductors, wireless telephones, food, textiles and apparel, and hearing instruments, among others.

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Takes a look at how these familiar and pervasive productions of computerization - voice mail, e-mail, bar codes, desktops, laptops, networks, and the Web - have become embedded in all our lives, forcing us to narrow the scope of our choices, our modes of control, and our experiences with the real world.

(Paperback, revised and expanded edition)

How to create an Internet of Trusted Data in which insights from data can be extracted without collecting, holding, or revealing the underlying data.

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This text examines the concept of decentralization and its effects in everday culture. It considers the reasons behind resistance to decentralization, and describes computational methods - such as modelling and simulation - and activities that can help develop new perspectives on decentralization.

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Computers and technology have reached a level of invisibility in our lives that is equal to indoor plumbing and electricity. We don't think about the mechanics of how they work, but when any of those systems breaks it is a MASSIVE disruption in our lives. All of us understand ...

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Computers and technology have reached a level of invisibility in our lives that is equal to indoor plumbing and electricity. We don't think about the mechanics of how they work, but when any of those systems breaks it is a MASSIVE disruption in our lives. All of us understand ...

(Hardback)

The complex world of online piracy and peer-to-peer file sharing is skillfully condensed into an easy-to-understand guide that provides insight into the criminal justice approach to illegal file sharing, while offering guidance to parents and students who have concerns about potential legal action in response to file-sharing activities.

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The first work to propose a comprehensive musicological framework to study sound-based music, a rapidly developing body of work that includes electroacoustic art music, turntable composition, and acoustic and digital sound installations.

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Reissue of work published in London by Pinter Publishers, and distributed in the United States and Canada by St. Martin's Press in 1993. Part of the series Communication in artificial intelligence.

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A guide to advanced features of MPI, reflecting the latest version of the MPI standard, that takes an example-driven, tutorial approach.