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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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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.

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A guide to the most recent, advanced features of the widely used OpenMP parallel programming model, with coverage of major features in OpenMP 4.5.

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A theoretical and practical guide to integrating human values into the conception and design of digital games.

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Provides developers with comprehensive, but easy-to-follow advice for facilitating the creation of compelling storylines in popular and narratively successful video games. This book aims to instill an understanding and appreciation of the basic storytelling principles that are essential for producing truly memorable video games.

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"Interrogates the nature and meaning of the 'violence' encountered and experienced by game players"--

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"Interrogates the nature and meaning of the 'violence' encountered and experienced by game players"--

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Virtual reality - one of the most advanced and exciting technologies to emerge in recent decades - offers businesspeople a new way to grasp information and use it quickly and effectively. This book offers a detailed analysis of how it works, why it is valuable and where it is going.

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This text explores VLSI fault modelling and testing techniques and covers such topics as: physical fault modelling and simulation for VSLI MOS circuits; designing CMOS gates to test open faults; testing bridging faults in VLSI; and testable design synthesis models.

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"The authors develop a framework for introducing coding in the science classroom, in which coding is a form of embodied activity, expression, and language"--

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Responding to the needs of market researchers, business analysts, CI professionals, and other decision makers who understand online technology, Vibert provides a series of problem-driven, analytical frameworks to help them make better senseand useof the vast amounts of information now available and easily accessed on the Internet.

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For this edition of his now classic book, Dreyfus has added a lengthy new introduction outlining these changes and assessing the paradigms of connectionism and neural networks that have transformed the field.

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Offers an introduction to the world of women and men who did the hard computational labor of science. This book tells us about the surveyors of the French Revolution, describes the calculating machines of Charles Babbage, and guides readers through the Great Depression to marvel at the giant computing room of the Works Progress Administration.

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This newest book by Pulitzer Prize winner Kaplan is a sparkling combination of biography, social history, architectural appreciation, and pure pleasure, as he looks at the Astor familys dynasty and its contributions to the city of New York.

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"Founders, contributors, scholars, teachers, and students reflect on Wikipedia's first 20 years"--

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How interactive voice-based technology can tap into the automatic and powerful responses all speechwhether from human or machineevokes.

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An examination of how the availability of low-end information and communication technology has provided a basis for the emergence of a working-class network society in China.

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As the use of computerized information continues to proliferate, so does the need for a writing method suited to this new medium. In Writing for the Computer Screen, Hillary Goodall and Susan Smith Reilly call attention to new forms of information display unique to computers.