The Elements of Computing Systems (2/e)

Noam Nisan

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A new and extensively revised edition of a popular textbook used in universities, coding boot camps, hacker clubs, and online courses. The best way to understand how computers work is to

The Constitution of Algorithms

Florian Jaton

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A laboratory study that investigates how algorithms come into existence. Algorithms--often associated with the terms big data, machine learning, or artificial intelligence--underlie

Data Feminism

Catherine D'Ignazio

评分 8.6分

A new way of thinking about data science and data ethics that is informed by the ideas of intersectional feminism. Today, data science is a form of power. It has been used to expose injus

Algorithms for Optimization

Mykel J. Kochenderfer

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This book offers a comprehensive introduction to optimization with a focus on practical algorithms. The book approaches optimization from an engineering perspective, where the objective is to

Weaving the Dark Web: Legitimacy on Freenet, Tor, and I2P

Robert W. Gehl

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An exploration of the Dark Web-websites accessible only with special routing software-that examines the history of three anonymizing networks, Freenet, Tor, and I2P. The term "Dark Web" conjures up

The Chinese Typewriter

Thomas S. Mullaney

评分 8.9分

Chinese writing is character based, the one major world script that is neither alphabetic nor syllabic. Through the years, the Chinese written language encountered presumed alphabetic universalism

Deep Learning

Ian Goodfellow

评分 9.2分

"Written by three experts in the field, Deep Learning is the only comprehensive book on the subject." -- Elon Musk, co-chair of OpenAI; co-founder and CEO of Tesla and SpaceX Deep le

How Not to Network a Nation

Benjamin Peters

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Between 1959 and 1989, Soviet scientists and officials made numerous attempts to network their nation—to construct a nationwide computer network. None of these attempts succeeded, and the ente

The Little Prover

Daniel P. Friedman

评分 8.8分

[FROM www.amazon.com]: The Little Prover introduces inductive proofs as a way to determine facts about computer programs. It is written in an approachable, engaging style of question-and-

Frame Innovation

Kees Dorst

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How to Write a Thesis

Umberto Eco

评分 8.7分

安伯托·艾柯（Umberto Eco，1932-2016），男，是一位享誉世界的哲学家、符号学家、历史学家、文学批评家和小说家。《剑桥意大利文学史》将安伯托·艾柯（Umberto Eco,1932-）誉为20世纪后半期最耀眼的意大利作家，并盛赞他那“贯穿于职业生涯的‘调停者’和‘综合者’意识”。艾柯的世界辽阔而多重，除了随笔、杂文和小说，还有大量论文、论著和编著，研究者将其粗略分为

Processing

Casey Reas

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The visual arts are rapidly changing as media moves into the web, mobile devices, and architecture. When designers and artists learn the basics of writing software, they develop a new form of

Distributed Algorithms

Wan Fokkink

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This book offers students and researchers a guide to distributed algorithms that emphasizes examples and exercises rather than the intricacies of mathematical models. It avoids mathematical ar

Introduction to Computation and Programming Using Python

John V. Guttag

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This book introduces students with little or no prior programming experience to the art of computational problem solving using Python and various Python libraries, including PyLab. It provides

Algorithms Unlocked

Thomas H. Cormen

评分 8.8分

Have you ever wondered how your GPS can find the fastest way to your destination, selecting one route from seemingly countless possibilities in mere seconds? How your credit card account numbe

A Topology of Everyday Constellations

Georges Teyssot

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Today, spaces no longer represent a bourgeois haven; nor are they the sites of a classical harmony between work and leisure, private and public, the local and the global. The house is not mere

Programmed Visions

Wendy Hui Kyong Chun

评分 9.4分

New media thrives on cycles of obsolescence and renewal: from celebrations of cyber-everything to Y2K, from the dot-com bust to the next big things -- mobile mobs, Web 3.0, cloud computing. In

The Alphabet and the Algorithm

Mario Carpo

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Digital technologies have changed architecture--the way it is taught, practiced, managed, and regulated. But if the digital has created a "paradigm shift" for architecture, which paradigm is s

Trade and Poverty

Jeffrey G. Williamson

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Today's wide economic gap between the postindustrial countries of the West and the poorer countries of the third world is not new. Fifty years ago, the world economic order--two hundred years in th

Living with Complexity

Donald A. Norman

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If only today’s technology were simpler! It’s the universal lament, but it’s wrong. We don't want simplicity. Simple tools are not up to the task. The world is complex; our tools need to match

Essentials of Programming Languages, 3rd Edition

Daniel P. Friedman

评分 9.2分

This textbook offers a deep understanding of the essential concepts of programming languages. The approach is analytic and hands-on. The text uses interpreters, written in Scheme, to express t

Siteless

François Blanciak

评分 7.6分

Some may call it the first manifesto of the twenty-first century, for it lays down a new way to think about architecture. Others may think of it as the last architectural treatise, for it provides

A Semantic Web Primer

Grigoris Antoniou

评分 8.2分

The development of the Semantic Web, with machine-readable content, has the potential to revolutionize the World Wide Web and its uses. A Semantic Web Primer provides an introduction and guide to t

Financial Modeling

Benninga, Simon

评分 9.7分

Too often, finance courses stop short of making a connection between textbook finance and the problems of real-world business. Financial Modeling bridges this gap between theory and practice by pr

Processing

Casey Reas

评分 9.0分

An introduction to the ideas of computer programming within the context of the visual arts that also serves as a reference and text for Processing, an open-source programming language designed

101 Things I Learned in Architecture School

Matthew Frederick

评分 8.7分

This is a book that students of architecture will want to keep in the studio and in their backpacks. It is also a book they may want to keep out of view of their professors, for it expresses i

Evocative Objects

Turkle, Sherry 编

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For Sherry Turkle, "We think with the objects we love; we love the objects we think with." In Evocative Objects, Turkle collects writings by scientists, humanists, artists, and designers that trace

Dynamical Systems in Neuroscience

Eugene M. Izhikevich

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This book explains the relationship of electrophysiology, nonlinear dynamics, and the computational properties of neurons, with each concept presented in terms of both neuroscience and mathematics

Intermediate Public Economics

Jean Hindriks

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Public economics studies how government taxing and spending activities affect the economy--economic efficiency and the distribution of income and wealth. This comprehensive text in public economics

Software Engineering for Internet Applications

Eve Andersson

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After completing this self-contained course on server-based Internet applications software, students who start with only the knowledge of how to write and debug a computer program will have le