Computer Science category: 2288 books
Digital Soul
Intelligent Machines and Human Values
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2004
Should the day come when intelligent machines not only make computations but also think and experience emotions as humans do, how will we distinguish the human” from the machine”? This introduction to artificial intelligence and to its potentially profound social, moral, and ethical implications...
CyberForensics
Understanding Information Security Investigations
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2010
Cyberforensics is a fairly new word in the technology our industry, but one that n- ertheless has immediately recognizable meaning. Although the word forensics may have its origins in formal debates using evidence, it is now most closely associated with investigation into evidence of crime. As the...
by Sharon Yull
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2009
BTEC National for IT Practitioners: Business Units has been written specifically to cover the business pathway of the BTEC National specifications.
This book caters for one of the most popular pathways in the BTEC National specifications, bringing together all the key specialist units for students...
Advances in Computers
Social Net Working and the Web
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2009
This is volume 76 of the Advances in Computers. Since 1960, annual volumes are produced containing chapters by some of the leading experts in the field of computers today. For almost 50 years these volumes present ideas and developments that are radically changing our society.
One of the most...
Operational Research
IO 2013 - XVI Congress of APDIO, Bragança, Portugal, June 3-5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
This volume presents selected contributions by top researchers in the field of operations research, originating from the XVI Congress of APDIO. It provides interesting findings and applications of operations research methods and techniques in a wide variety of problems. The contributions address complex...
Internet Policy and Economics
Challenges and Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2009
For over a decade, William Lehr, Lorenzo Pupillo, and their colleagues in academia, industry, and policy have been on the electronic frontier, exploring the implications of the technologies that are revolutionizing communication and culture. In 2002, Cyber Policy and Economics in an Internet Age featured...
by Dawn E. Holmes
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Since long before computers were even thought of, data has been collected and organized by diverse cultures across the world. Once access to the Internet became a reality for large swathes of the world's population, the amount of data generated each day became huge, and continues to grow exponentially....
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Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2014
The use of dynamic models in the development of information systems is regarded by many researchers as a promising issue in design support. Modelling the dynamics of information systems is likely to improve the quality and the performance of the design products. Dynamic modelling as a new approach...
Data Integration in the Life Sciences
12th International Conference, DILS 2017, Luxembourg, Luxembourg, November 14-15, 2017, Proceedings
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Data Integration in the Life Sciences, DILS 2017, held in Luxembourg, in November 2017. The 5 full papers and 5 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 16 submissions. They cover...
by Michel Eduardo Beleza Yamagishi
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
This seminal, multidisciplinary book shows how mathematics can be used to study the first principles of DNA. Most importantly, it enriches the so-called “Chargaff’s grammar of biology” by providing the conceptual theoretical framework necessary to generalize Chargaff’s rules. Starting with...
by Cameron Coward
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
3D printing is a nothing short of revolutionary. There may be no other technology that enables the at-home inventor or artist to design, create, and "print" their own parts, artwork, or whatever else can be imagined. Idiot's Guides: 3D Printing takes the true beginner through all of the...
Excel Scientific and Engineering Cookbook
Adding Excel to Your Analysis Arsenal
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2006
Given the improved analytical capabilities of Excel, scientists and engineers everywhere are using it--instead of FORTRAN--to solve problems. And why not? Excel is installed on millions of computers, features a rich set of built-in analyses tools, and includes an integrated Visual Basic for Applications...
The Formation of Gaming Culture
UK Gaming Magazines, 1981-1995
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
This book analyses gaming magazines published in Britain in the 1980s to provide the first serious history of the bedroom coding culture that produced some of the most important video games ever played.
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Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2017
This book focuses on the modeling, processing and visualization of anisotropy, irrespective of the context in which it emerges, using state-of-the-art mathematical tools. As such, it differs substantially from conventional reference works, which are centered on a particular application. It covers...