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Internet and Network Economics: Third International Workshop, WINE 2007, San Diego, CA, USA, December 12-14, 2007, Proceedings (Paperback )

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Internet and Network Economics, WINE 2007, held in San Diego, CA, USA, in December 2007.

The 61 revised full papers presented together with 4 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions for inclusion in the book. The papers are organized in topical sections on equilibrium, information market, sponsored auction, network economics, mechanism design, social networks, advertisement pricing, computational general equilibrium, network games, and algorithmic issues.

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   Title: Internet and Network Economics: Third International Workshop, WINE 2007, San Diego, CA, USA, December 12-14, 2007, Proceedings
   Publisher: Springer
   Author: Xiaotie Deng, Fan Chung Graham
   Edition: Paperback
   Language: English
   ISBN: 3540771042
   EAN: 9783540771043
   No. of Pages: 598
   Publish Date: 2008-01-31
   Binding: Paperback

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Intercultural Collaboration: First International Workshop, IWIC 2007 Kyoto, Japan, January 25-26, 2007 Invited and Selected Papers (Paperback )

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Intercultural Collaboration: First International Workshop, IWIC 2007 Kyoto, Japan, January 25-26, 2007 Invited and Selected Papers
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This book presents 29 revised invited and selected lectures given by top-researchers at the First International Workshop on Intercultural Collaboration, IWIC 2007, held in Kyoto, Japan in January 2007.

Intercultural collaboration, from both technical and socio-cultural perspectives was the main theme of the workshop. This state-of-the-art survey increases mutual understanding in our multicultural world by featuring collaboration support (such as natural language processing, Web, and Internet technologies), social psychological analyses of intercultural interaction, and case studies from field workers.

The papers are categorized into topical areas on ontology for language resources and services, developing language resources and services, connecting language resources and services, tools for intercultural collaboration, emotions in intercultural collaboration, analysis of intercultural collaboration, and actual fields of intercultural collaboration.

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   Title: Intercultural Collaboration: First International Workshop, IWIC 2007 Kyoto, Japan, January 25-26, 2007 Invited and Selected Papers
   Publisher: Springer
   Author: Toru Ishida, Susan R Fussell,
   Edition: Paperback
   Language: English
   ISBN: 3540739998
   EAN: 9783540739999
   No. of Pages: 393
   Publish Date: 2007-10-31
   Binding: Paperback

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Fundamentals of Database Systems (Paperback)

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Clear explanations of theory and design, broad coverage of models and real systems, and an up-to-date introduction to modern database technologies result in a leading introduction to database systems. With fresh new problems and a new lab manual, students get more opportunities to practice the fundamentals of design and implementation. More real-world examples serve as engaging, practical illustrations of database concepts. The Fifth Edition maintains its coverage of the most popular database topics, including SQL, security, data mining, and contains a new chapter on web script programming for databases.

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   Title: Fundamentals of Database Systems
   Publisher: PEARSON
   Author: Shamkant B Navathe, Ramez Elmasri
   Edition: Paperback
   Edition Number: 5
   Language: English
   ISBN: 8131716252
   EAN: 9788131716250
   No. of Pages: 1,168

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History of the Internet: A Chronology, 1843 to the Present (Hardbound)

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History of the Internet: A Chronology, 1843 to the Present
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A substantive chronology of the different eras in Internet development, from the birth of the telephone and the first modem to the latest microchip refinement and the mouse.

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Christos J P Moschovitis has contributed to History of the Internet: A Chronology, 1843 to the Present as an author.
Moschovitis is founder and chairman of the Moschovitis

Hilary Poole has contributed to History of the Internet: A Chronology, 1843 to the Present as an author.
HILARY POOLE is a writer and editor specializing in the social sciences.

Tami Schuyler has contributed to History of the Internet: A Chronology, 1843 to the Present as an author.
Schuyler is a writer and editor specializing in high technology and life sciences.

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   Title: History of the Internet: A Chronology, 1843 to the Present
   Publisher: ABC-CLIO
   Author: Christos J P Moschovitis, Hilary Poole, Tami Schuyler
   Edition: Hardbound
   Language: English
   ISBN: 1576071189
   EAN: 9781576071182
   No. of Pages: 322
   Publish Date: 1999-05-31
   Binding: Hardbound

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The Information Revolution and Developing Countries (Paperback)

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The Information Revolution and Developing Countries
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In this book Ernest Wilson provides a clear, nuanced analysis of themajor transformations resulting from the global information revolution. He showsthat the information revolution is rooted in societal dynamics, political interests, and social structure. Using the innovative Strategic ReStructuring (SRS) model, heuncovers links between the big changes taking place around the world and the localinitiatives of individual information activists, especially in developing countries.Indeed, Wilson shows that many of the structural changes of the informationrevolution, such as shifts from public to private ownership or from monopoly tocompetition, are driven by activists struggling individually and collectively toovercome local apathy and entrenched opposition to reform.Wilson applies his SRSmodel to the politics of Internet expansion in Brazil, China, and Ghana toillustrate the real-world challenges facing policy-makers and practitioners.Examples of such challenges include starting Internet companies, reformingregulatory laws, and formulating NGO strategies for dealing with the digital divide.Wilson identifies the tremendous possibilities for innovation and advancement indeveloping countries while acknowledging the structural, institutional, and culturalconstraints that work against their realization.

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Ernest J Wilson Iii has contributed to The Information Revolution and Developing Countries as an author.
Ernest J. Wilson III is Dean of the Annenberg School for Communication and holds the Walter H. Annenberg Chair in Communication at the University of Southern California. He is also a senior fellow at the USC Center on Public Diplomacy and an adjunct fellow at the Pacific Council on International Policy.

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   Title: The Information Revolution and Developing Countries
   Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
   Author: Ernest J Wilson Iii
   Edition: Paperback
   Language: English
   ISBN: 0262731789
   EAN: 9780262731782
   No. of Pages: 456
   Publish Date: 2006-1-20
   Binding: Paperback

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From Newspeak to Cyberspeak: A History of Soviet Cybernetics (Paperback)

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From Newspeak to Cyberspeak: A History of Soviet Cybernetics
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In this book, Slava Gerovitch argues that Soviet cybernetics was not just an intellectual trend but a social movement for radical reform in science and society as a whole. Followers of cybernetics viewed computer simulation as a universal method of problem solving and the language of cybernetics as a language of objectivity and truth. With this new objectivity, they challenged the existing order of things in economics and politics as well as in science. The history of Soviet cybernetics followed a curious arc. In the 1950s it was labeled a reactionary pseudoscience and a weapon of imperialist ideology. With the arrival of Khrushchev’s political “thaw,” however, it was seen as an innocent victim of political oppression, and it evolved into a movement for radical reform of the Stalinist system of science. In the early 1960s it was hailed as “science in the service of communism,” but by the end of the decade it had turned into a shallow fashionable trend. Using extensive new archival materials, Gerovitch argues that these fluctuating attitudes reflected profound changes in scientific language and research methodology across disciplines, in power relations within the scientific community, and in the political role of scientists and engineers in Soviet society. His detailed analysis of scientific discourse shows how the Newspeak of the late Stalinist period and the Cyberspeak that challenged it eventually blended into “CyberNewspeak.”

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Slava Gerovitch has contributed to From Newspeak to Cyberspeak: A History of Soviet Cybernetics as an author.
Slava Gerovitch is a Dibner/Sloan Postdoctoral Researcher at the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology at MIT and a Research Associate at the Institute for the History of Natural Science and Technology of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

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   Title: From Newspeak to Cyberspeak: A History of Soviet Cybernetics
   Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
   Author: Slava Gerovitch
   Edition: Paperback
   Language: English
   ISBN: 0262572257
   EAN: 9780262572255
   No. of Pages: 383
   Publish Date: 2004-10-1
   Binding: Paperback

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Behind Deep Blue: Building the Computer That Defeated the World Chess Champion (Paperback)

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Behind Deep Blue: Building the Computer That Defeated the World Chess Champion
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“Feng-hsiung Hsu, who masterminded Kasparov’s match play defeat by a computer, tells his story. A nerdy book might be expected, delving into arcane topics (computer chip design, programming, chess), but instead we have something more like ‘Indiana Jones and the Holy Grail.’ No specialist knowledge is demanded. The author’s adventures with phantom queens, etc. are fascinating. His will-to-win matched that of the legendary Kasparov.”–Ken Whyld, Editor of the “Oxford Companion to Chess”

“I don’t play chess; never have. Most research, as Edison said, is 90% perspiration and 10% inspiration–not exciting to watch. Thus, I did not have high hopes for “Behind Deep Blue,” Wrong! It’s a page-turner! Even if you don’t follow the technical details of chip design or chess, Hsu has captured the very human dimension exquisitely! It’s a great story!”–William A. Wulf, President of the National Academy of Engineering, AT&T Professor of Computer Science, University of Virginia
On May 11, 1997, as millions worldwide watched a stunning victory unfold on television, a machine shocked the chess world by defeating the defending world champion, Garry Kasparov. Written by the man who started the adventure, “Behind Deep Blue” reveals the inside story of what happened behind the scenes at the two historic Deep Blue vs. Kasparov matches. This is also the story behind the quest to create the mother of all chess machines. The book unveils how a modest student project eventually produced a multimillion dollar supercomputer, from the development of the scientific ideas through technical setbacks, rivalry in the race to develop the ultimate chess machine, and wild controversies to the final triumph over the world’s greatest human player.

In nontechnical, conversational prose, Feng-hsiung Hsu, the system architect of Deep Blue, tells us how he and a small team of fellow researchers forged ahead at IBM with a project they’d begun as students at Carnegie Mellon in the mid-1980s: the search for one of the oldest holy grails in artificial intelligence–a machine that could beat any human chess player in a bona fide match. Back in 1949 science had conceived the foundations of modern chess computers but not until almost fifty years later–until Deep Blue–would the quest be realized.

Hsu refutes Kasparov’s controversial claim that only human intervention could have allowed Deep Blue to make its decisive, “uncomputerlike” moves. In riveting detail he describes the heightening tension in this war of brains and nerves, the “smoldering fire” in Kasparov’s eyes. “Behind Deep Blue” is not just another tale of man versus machine. This fascinating book tells us how man as geniuswas given an ultimate, unforgettable run for his mind, no, not by the genius of a computer, but of man as toolmaker.

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Feng Hsiung Hsu has contributed to Behind Deep Blue: Building the Computer That Defeated the World Chess Champion as an author.
Hsu is the founding father of the Deep Blue project. He began in 1985 as a student in the Computer Science Department of Carnegie Mellon University. From 1989 to 1997 he worked as the system architect and chip designer for the Deep Blue Chess machine at IBM’s T.J. Watson Research Center. He left IBM in 1999 and in now a research scientist at the Western Research Lab of Compaq Computer, Inc.

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   Title: Behind Deep Blue: Building the Computer That Defeated the World Chess Champion
   Publisher: Princeton University Press
   Author: Feng Hsiung Hsu, Feng Hsiung Hsu
   Edition: Paperback
   Language: English
   ISBN: 0691118183
   EAN: 9780691118185
   No. of Pages: 320
   Publish Date: 2012-7-1
   Binding: Paperback

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Electronic Brains: Stories from the Dawn of the Computer Age (Hardbound)

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Electronic Brains: Stories from the Dawn of the Computer Age
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This narrative chronicles the escapades of the world’s first “techies.” Some of the initial projects are well known while others are a bit more arcane, such as the Rand 409 which was constructed in a barn in Connecticut under the watchful eye of a stuffed moose.
We’ve come so far, so fast. Within a relatively short period of time, we’ve managed to put enormous computing power in offices and homes around the globe. But before there was an IBM computer, before there were laptops and personal PCs, there were small, independent teams of pioneers working on the development of the very first computer. Scattered around the globe and ranging in temperament and talent, they forged the future in basement labs, backyard workshops, and old horse barns. Tracing the period just after World War II when the first truly modern computers were developed, Electronic Brains chronicles the escapades of the world’s first “techies.” Some of the initial projects are quite famous and well known, such as “LEO,” the Lyons Electronic Office, which was developed by the catering company J. Lyons & Co. in London in the 1940s. Others are a bit more arcane, such as the ABC, which was built in a basement at lowa State College and was abandoned to obscurity at the beginning of WWII. And then–like the tale of the Rand 409 which was constructed in a barn in Connecticut under the watchful eye of a stuffed moose–there are the stories that are virtually unknown. All combine to create a fascinating history of a now-ubiquitous technology. Relying on extensive interviews from surviving members of the original teams of hardware jockeys, author Mike Hally recreates the atmosphere of the early days of computing. Rich with provocative and entertaining descriptions, we are introduced to the many eccentric, obsessive, and fiercely loyal men and women who laid the foundations for the computerized world in which we now live. As the acronyms fly fast and furious–Univac, Csirac, and Mesm, toname just a few–Electronic Brains provides a vivid sense of time, place, and science.

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Mike Hally has contributed to Electronic Brains: Stories from the Dawn of the Computer Age as an author.
Mike Hally trained as an electrical engineer and worked at British Aerospace for 17 years. He now works for BBC/Radio 4 as a freelance journalist and producer.

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   Title: Electronic Brains: Stories from the Dawn of the Computer Age
   Publisher: Joseph Henry Press
   Author: Mike Hally
   Edition: Hardbound
   Language: English
   ISBN: 0309096308
   EAN: 9780309096300
   No. of Pages: 275
   Publish Date: 2005-10-31
   Binding: Hardbound

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Affect and Artificial Intelligence (Paperback)

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Affect and Artificial Intelligence
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In 1950, Alan Turing, the British mathematician, cryptographer, and computer pioneer, looked to the future: now that the conceptual and technical parameters for electronic brains had been established, what kind of intelligence could be built? Should machine intelligence mimic the abstract thinking of a chess player or should it be more like the developing mind of a child? Should an intelligent agent only think, or should it also learn, feel, and grow?

“Affect and Artificial Intelligence” is the first in-depth analysis of affect and intersubjectivity in the computational sciences. Elizabeth Wilson makes use of archival and unpublished material from the early years of AI (1945-70) until the present to show that early researchers were more engaged with questions of emotion than many commentators have assumed. She documents how affectivity was managed in the canonical works of Walter Pitts in the 1940s and Turing in the 1950s, in projects from the 1960s that injected artificial agents into psychotherapeutic encounters, in chess-playing machines from the 1940s to the present, and in the Kismet (sociable robotics) project at MIT in the 1990s.

Elizabeth A. Wilson is a professor in the Department of Women’s Studies at Emory University. She is the author of “Neural Geographies: Feminism and the Microstructure of Cognition” and “Psychosomatic: Feminism and the Neurological Body.”

“Original and beautifully written.” -Lucy Suchman, Lancaster University

“An elegantly written, thoroughly engaging, and absolutely compelling history of the role of emotions and affect in thought about, and design of, ‘artificial intelligence.’” -Robert Mitchell, Duke University

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Elizabeth A Wilson has contributed to Affect and Artificial Intelligence as an author.
Elizabeth A. Wilson is a Research Fellow at the Research Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Sydney in Australia. She is the author of Neural Geographies: Feminism and the Microstructure of Cognition.

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   Title: Affect and Artificial Intelligence
   Publisher: University of Washington Press
   Author: Elizabeth A Wilson
   Edition: Paperback
   Language: English
   ISBN: 0295990473
   EAN: 9780295990477
   No. of Pages: 200
   Publish Date: 2010-8-1
   Binding: Paperback

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A History of Online Information Services, 1963-1976 (Hardcover)

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A History of Online Information Services, 1963-1976
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Winner of the 2004 Best Information Science Book of the Year Award presented by the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST) Every field of history has a basic need for a detailed chronology of what happened: who did what when. In the absence of such a resource, fanciful accounts flourish. This book provides a rich narrative of the early development of online information retrieval systems and services, from 1963 to 1976–a period important to anyone who uses a search engine, online catalog, or large database. Drawing on personal experience, extensive research, and interviews with many of the key participants, the book describes the individuals, projects, and institutions of the period. It also corrects many common errors and misconceptions and provides milestones for many of the significant developments in online systems and technology.

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Charles P Bourne has contributed to A History of Online Information Services, 1963-1976 as an author.
Charles P. Bourne, a pioneer in information retrieval services, was formerly Director of the Institute of Library Research at the University of California and Vice President of DIALOG Information Services.

Trudi Bellardo Hahn has contributed to A History of Online Information Services, 1963-1976 as an author.
Trudi Bellardo Hahn is Manager of Library User Education Services and Adjunct Professor at the College of Information Studies, University of Maryland.

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   Title: A History of Online Information Services, 1963-1976
   Publisher: Mit Press
   Author: Charles P Bourne, Bernhard D Scholkopf, Trudi Bellardo Hahn
   Edition: Hardcover
   Language: English
   ISBN: 0262025388
   EAN: 9780262025386
   No. of Pages: 509
   Publish Date: 2003-09-30
   Binding: Hardcover

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