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Computer Book: From the Abacus to Artificial Intelligence 250 Milestones in the History of Computer Science
ISBN: HB: 9781454926214, GMC Group, Sterling, November 2018
528 pp., 21.4x18.6 cm, illus.
This topical, illustrated addition to the 'Sterling Milestones' series takes readers on a chronological journey through the history and future of the cutting-edge field of computer science. Two expert authors, who work in computer research and innova...
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£25,00
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Custodians of the Internet Platforms, Content Moderation, and the Hidden Decisions That Shape Social Media
ISBN: HB: 9780300173130, Yale University Press, June 2018
296 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 14 black&white illus.
Most users want their Twitter feed, Facebook page, and YouTube comments to be free of harassment and porn. Whether faced with "fake news" or livestreamed violence, "content moderators" – who censor or promote user-posted content – have never been mor...
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Computer Game Worlds
ISBN: PB: 9783035800135, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, August 2017
350 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 180 halftones
Computer games have become ubiquitous in today's society. Many scholars have speculated on the reasons for their massive success. Yet we haven't considered the most basic questions: Why do computer games exist? What specific circumstances led to the...
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£37,50
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Cybersecurity Dilemma Hacking, Trust and Fear Between Nations
ISBN: PB: 9781849047135, Hurst Publishers, January 2017
296 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Why do nations break into one another's most important computer networks? There is an obvious answer: to steal valuable information or to attack. But this isn't the full story. This book draws on often-overlooked documents leak...
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£25,00
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Color Science and the Visual Arts A Guide for Conservations, Curators, and the Curious
ISBN: PB: 9781606064818, Getty Publications, July 2016
208 pp., 25x15 cm, 250 colour illus.
"A curator, a paintings conservator, a photographer, and a conservation scientist walk into a bar". What happens next? In lively and accessible prose, color science expert Roy S. Berns helps the reader understand complex color-technology concepts and...
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£45,00
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Cybernetics The Macy Conferences 1946-1953. The Complete Transactions
ISBN: PB: 9783037345986, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, March 2016
736 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 78 halftones
Between 1946 and 1953, the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation sponsored a series of conferences aiming to bring together a diverse, interdisciplinary community of scholars and researchers who would join forces to lay the groundwork for the new science of cy...
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£52,50
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Computer and the Brain
ISBN: PB: 9780300181111, Yale University Press, May 2012
160 pp., 19.6x12.7 cm
First published in 1958, John von Neumann's classic work "The Computer and the Brain" explored the analogies between computing machines and the living human brain. Von Neumann showed that the brain operates both digitally and analogically, but also h...
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£12,99
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Cyberscience 2.0 Research in the Age of Digital Social Networks
ISBN: PB: 9783593395180, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, May 2012
210 pp., 22x14 cm
At the start of the twenty-first century, the Internet was already perceived to have fundamentally changed the landscape for research. With its opportunities for digital networking, novel publication schemes, and new communication formats, the web wa...
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£40,00
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Companion to the Papers of Donald Knuth
ISBN: PB: 9781575866345, ISBN: HB: 9781575866352, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, February 2012
441 pp., 23x15 cm
Donald E. Knuth's seminal publications, such as "Selected Papers on Fun and Games" and "Selected Paper on the Design of Algorithms", have earned him a loyal following among scholars and computer scientists, and his award-winning textbooks have become...
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£56,00
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Cybernetic Brain Sketches of Another Future
ISBN: PB: 9780226667904, ISBN: HB: 9780226667898, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
536 pp., 23x15 cm, 60 halftones, 28 line illus.
Cybernetics is often thought of as a grim military or industrial science of control. But as Andrew Pickering reveals in this beguiling book, a much more lively and experimental strain of cybernetics can be traced from the 1940s to the present. "The...
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£28,00
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£61,00
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