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It may seem a strange match--AI and crop irrigation or AI and the Serengeti lions but researchers in Artifical Intelligence envision expert systems as a new technology for capturing the knowledge and reasoning process of experts in agriculture, wildlife management, and many other fields.

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Offers an examination of the development of computing machinery, from the seventeenth century through the early 1950s.

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During the 1980s and into this decade, U.S. businesses poured billions of dollars into computers and other information technology. Yet the productivity performance of the U.

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The question of our time: can we reclaim our lives in an age that feels busier and more distracting by the day

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Looking past today's headlines, political scientist and cultural observer Darrell West argues that society needs to rethink the concept of jobs, reconfigure the social contract, move toward a system of lifetime learning, and develop a new kind of politics that can deal with economic dislocations.

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The chapters in this book have evolved from talks originally presented at The First International Workshop on Human and Machine Cognition. Although the workshop took place in1989, the papers that appear here are more recent, completed some time after the workshop.

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The chapters in this book have evolved from talks originally presented at The First International Workshop on Human and Machine Cognition. Although the workshop took place in1989, the papers that appear here are more recent, completed some time after the workshop.

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Each of the chapters in this volume devotes considerable attention to defining and elaborating the notion of the frame problem-one of the hard problems of artificial intelligence.

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This book will be of particular interest to the specialist in systems theory, philosophy, linguistics, and the social sciences.

Irving Silverman applies his general systems model to 22 system types and presents rationales for these analyses.

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Presents the findings on one of the most intensely investigated subjects in computational mathematics - the travelling salesman problem. This book describes the method and computer code used to solve a range of large-scale problems, and demonstrates the interplay of applied mathematics with increasingly powerful computing platforms.

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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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Drawn from the pages of "Scientific American" this volume contains updated and condensed information on the subject of artificial intelligence, made accessible to a general popular science audience.

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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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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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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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