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How control over information creation, processing, flows, and use has become the most effective form of power: theoretical foundations and empirical examples of information policy in the U.S., an innovator informational state.

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In this book, the author presents a new vision of learning through design and production, and describes computer programming as a source of a learning and design power.

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Entertaining, concise, and relentlessly probing, City of Bits is a comprehensive introduction to a new type of city, an increasingly important system of virtual spaces interconnected by the information superhighway.

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The number of travelers along the information superhighway is increasing at a rate of 10 percent a month. How will this communications revolution affect our culture and society Pierre Levy shows how

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The odyssey of a group of refugees from a closed-down online game and an exploration of emergent fan cultures in virtual worlds.

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Computational Morphology is the first book to present an integrated set of techniques for the rigorous description of morphological phenomena in English and similar languages.

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Computers and information technology have created numerous options for their users. This volume provides a philosophical examination of ethical issues related to computers as information processing machines, and raises the questions of intellectual property, censorship and privacy.

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As computers have infiltrated virtually every facet of our lives, so has computer science influenced nearly every academic subject in science, engineering, medicine, social science, the arts and humanities.

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Writing for managers of planning, planners, and programmers, the author enables readers to gain an overall understanding of the potential role of simulation in planning, to apply simulation to their own particular needs, and to translate planning concepts into computer instructions.

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The management of production and service processes can be supported by microcomputer simulation models if the techniques are presented in an understandable manner. This book proves this and shows how to do it, for the benefit of both operations managers, and others with management responsibilities.

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This is the only detailed and perfectly understandable look at how 2- and 3-dimensional spreadsheets can perform the tasks and data analysis needed by all types of library administrators.

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This is a study of the way computers are used in communication. It consists of essays on topics such as distance learning on the Web, computer use and social responsibility, and guiding technical communication programmes through rapid change.

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This book looks at the scientific reality behind the computers that appear in Star Trek, from the holodeck and virtual reality to Data and artificial intelligence.

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As computers become more prevalent throughout society, the issue of computer-human interaction has become paramount to computer scientists and professionals furthering the computerization of organizations.

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"An excellent survey of the Internet's major fault lines."-Wall Street Journal

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Control Flow Semantics presents a unified, formal treatment of the semantics of a wide spectrum of control flow notions as found in sequential, concurrent, logic, object-oriented, and functional programming languages.

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Video games aren't just for kids anymore. This book will describe the "why" and "how" to start or expand a video gaming program in the library, including some specific examples of how to target adult and female gamer patrons.

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Using a typical Microsoft Windows environment with cut and paste templates and examples, you will learn to understand some of the benefits and limitations of using commercially available software tools.

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Hence, the power of the computer can be an important means to assist managers in doing what they do better when employing a creative computer software approach.

Initially, the text looks at a number of areas that are impacted by creativity, with special emphasis on creative computer software.

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"Explores whether, for whom, and under what circumstances the free, networked, public sharing of ICT resources contributes to positive social change"--