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  • Inventing ELIZA

    How the First Chatbot Shaped the Future of AI

    Series series Software Studies
    How the original ELIZA chatbot transformed ideas about AI and society’s response to them.As we reach the 60th anniversary of ELIZA’s public debut, Inventing ELIZA offers the first comprehensive critical analysis of Joseph Weizenbaum’s groundbreaking chatbot system through the lens of critical code studies. Drawing on extensive archival research at MIT, Stanford, and UCLA, this book presents the ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Computational Thinking

    Series series The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
    This pocket-sized introduction to computational thinking and problem-solving traces its genealogy centuries before the digital computer.A few decades into the digital era, scientists discovered that thinking in terms of computation made possible an entirely new way of organizing scientific investigation. Eventually, every field had a computational branch: computational physics, computational ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Introduction to Algorithms, fourth edition

    A comprehensive update of the leading algorithms text, with new material on matchings in bipartite graphs, online algorithms, machine learning, and other topics.Some books on algorithms are rigorous but incomplete; others cover masses of material but lack rigor. Introduction to Algorithms uniquely combines rigor and comprehensiveness. It covers a broad range of algorithms in depth, yet makes their ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • Little Blue Dot

    How GPS Shaped the Modern World

    The unexplored history of GPS, a military technology turned daily necessity that impacts all aspects of our lives.Gone are the days when we pulled off to the side of the road, twisted a map this way and that, and squinted in exasperation before saying, “We're lost.” Now, a network of satellites that circles the earth points us in the right direction. The Global Positioning System is embedded not ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Kobo Touch: Ultimate Tips & Tricks Guide For Kobo reader Owners

    by L H ...
    Kobo - Kobo Books - Kobo eReader - Kobo Best Sellers - Kobo User Guide - Kobo Store - TechnologyDo you own a Kobo eReader?Are you looking for new ways to utilize your Kobo?Do you want to learn how to get unlimited eBooks for your Kobo?If so the Kobo Touch: Ultimate Tips & Tricks Guide for Kobo eReader Owners is designed to help you make the most of your device.This Kobo guide gives step-by-step ... Read more

    $8.13 USD

  • How AI Thinks

    How we built it, how it can help us, and how we can control it

    by Nigel Toon ...
    THE #2 TIMES BESTSELLER'Artificial intelligence is going to have a massive impact on everyone’s lives... an accessible and sensible read that helps demystify AI' Deborah Meaden, entrepreneur and star of Dragon's Den'Nigel Toon is a visionary leader in the field of artificial intelligence... a must-read' Marc Tremblay, Distinguished Engineer, MicrosoftThose who understand how AI thinks will ... ... Read more

    $6.79 USD

  • The Chinese Computer

    A Global History of the Information Age

    The fascinating, untold story of how the Chinese language overcame unparalleled challenges and revolutionized the world of computing.A standard QWERTY keyboard has a few dozen keys. How can Chinese—a language with tens of thousands of characters and no alphabet—be input on such a device? In The Chinese Computer, Thomas S. Mullaney sets out to resolve this paradox, and in doing so, discovers that ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The Myth of Artificial Intelligence

    Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do

    **“Exposes the vast gap between the actual science underlying AI and the dramatic claims being made for it.” —John Horgan“If you want to know about AI, read this book…It shows how a supposedly futuristic reverence for Artificial Intelligence retards progress when it denigrates our most irreplaceable resource for any future progress: our own human intelligence.” —Peter Thiel**Ever since Alan Turing ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Java: A Beginner's Guide, Seventh Edition

    Up-to-Date, Essential Java Programming Skills—Made Easy!Supplement for key JDK 10 new features available from book's Downloads & Resources page at OraclePressBooks.com.Fully updated for Java Platform, Standard Edition 9 (Java SE 9), Java: A Beginner’s Guide, Seventh Edition, gets you started programming in Java right away. Bestselling programming author Herb Schildt begins with the basics, such as ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Quel che non è salvato è perso

    L'internet che abbiamo avuto

    Internet è nata tra urla di modem, siti sghembi e animazioni orrende, ed è diventata un’infrastruttura invisibile che decide cosa vediamo, con chi parliamo, quanto dobbiamo arrabbiarci.Questo libro racconta, tra reportage e memoir, la genesi di quella trasformazione: una Rete artigianale, lenta e piena di errori, ma anche libera, dove si imparava a sbagliare in pubblico prima che ogni clic fosse ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Computing for Seniors QuickSteps

    Step-by-Step, Full-Color Graphics!Take advantage of your computer's features and tools right away--the QuickSteps way. Color photos and screenshots with clear instructions make it easy to accomplish everything you want to do. Follow along and quickly learn how to navigate the Windows operating system; get online; use core programs such as Word, Excel, and Quicken; and secure your computer. Fun ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Servicing Itsm

    A Handbook of Service Descriptions for It Service Managers and a Means for Building Them

    What services does the IT organization really deliver? Rather than discuss the theory around what a service catalog or service portfolio is, this book gives you the actual IT service descriptions for running, operating, and managing an entire IT infrastructure. Its all herecomplete service descriptions, catalog and portfolio templates, service implementation plans, service governance processes, ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Geheimakte Computer

    Everything they don’t teach you about tech

    Ein Computerbuch zum Schmökern!Der Informatikunterricht ist dir zu trocken? Du bist auf der Suche nach den wirklich spannenden Themen? Halt! Psssst! Dann wirf doch einen Blick in die »Geheimakte Computer«. Sie ist dein Einstieg in die große weite IT-Welt. Hier erfährst du alles, was dich rund um den Computer wirklich interessiert: Bastelprojekte, Computerspiele, Programmierung und nützliches ... Read more

    $22.39 USD

  • CISSP Boxed Set, Second Edition

    by Shon Harris ...
    Series series All-in-One
    Save 12% on This CISSP Boxed Set—Plus Bonus DVD!This money-saving CISSP boxed set from the #1 name in IT security certification and training includes:CISSP All-in-One Exam Guide, Sixth EditionUp-to-date coverage of all 10 CISSP exam domainsElectronic content—1400+ practice exam questions, video training module, and a downloadable Adobe Digital Editions eBookCISSP Practice Exams, ... ... Read more

    $68.09 USD

  • Hacking Exposed Malware & Rootkits: Security Secrets and Solutions, Second Edition

    Series series Hacking Exposed
    Arm yourself for the escalating war against malware and rootkits Thwart debilitating cyber-attacks and dramatically improve your organization’s security posture using the proven defense strategies in this thoroughly updated guide. Hacking Exposed™ Malware and Rootkits: Security Secrets & Solutions, Second Edition fully explains the hacker’s latest methods alongside ready-to-deploy countermeasures ... Read more

    $49.69 USD

  • Quando in Italia si facevano i computer

    Grazie alla lungimiranza di Adriano Olivetti negli anni 1950 e 1960 l’Italia sviluppò una propria industria dei grandi computer elettronici, ottenendo eccellenti risultati con la gamma “Elea”, avanzata e competitiva con i concorrenti americani. La scomparsa prematura dei creatori dell’impresa e l’insipienza del mondo imprenditoriale e finanziario italiano pose fine a quella straordinaria ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • What the Dormouse Said

    How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry

    by John Markoff ...
    “This makes entertaining reading. Many accounts of the birth of personal computing have been written, but this is the first close look at the drug habits of the earliest pioneers.” —New York TimesMost histories of the personal computer industry focus on technology or business. John Markoff’s landmark book is about the culture and consciousness behind the first PCs—the culture being counter– and ... Read more

    $9.59 USD

  • AI & I

    An Intellectual History of Artificial Intelligence

    One of AI’s earliest and most respected pioneers offers a concise, illuminating history of artificial intelligence—and champions a deep learning approach for future developments.AI & I is an intellectual history of the field of artificial intelligence from the perspective of one of its first practitioners, Eugene Charniak. Charniak entered the field in 1967, roughly 12 years after AI’s founding, ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Yosemite Edition

    by David Pogue ...
    What makes Windows refugees decide to get a Mac? Enthusiastic friends? The Apple Stores? Great-looking laptops? A "halo effect" from the popularity of iPhones and iPads? The absence of viruses and spyware? The freedom to run Windows on a Mac? In any case, there’s never been a better time to switch to OS X—and there’s never been a better, more authoritative book to help you do it.The important ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

  • Recoding Gender

    Women's Changing Participation in Computing

    by Janet Abbate ...
    Series series History of Computing
    The untold history of women and computing: how pioneering women succeeded in a field shaped by gender biases.Today, women earn a relatively low percentage of computer science degrees and hold proportionately few technical computing jobs. Meanwhile, the stereotype of the male “computer geek” seems to be everywhere in popular culture. Few people know that women were a significant presence in the ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Computer Boys Take Over

    Computers, Programmers, and the Politics of Technical Expertise

    Series series History of Computing
    The contentious history of the computer programmers who developed the software that made the computer revolution possible.This is a book about the computer revolution of the mid-twentieth century and the people who made it possible. Unlike most histories of computing, it is not a book about machines, inventors, or entrepreneurs. Instead, it tells the story of the vast but largely anonymous legions ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Microsoft® Excel® 2013 QuickSteps

    Series series QuickSteps
    Full-color, step-by-step guide to the new release of the world’s most popular spreadsheet applicationGet up and running with Excel 2013 right away--the QuickSteps way. Full-color screenshots on every page with clear instructions make it easy to use the latest release of Microsoft's powerful spreadsheet application. Follow along and quickly learn how to create workbooks, enter and edit data, use ... Read more

    $16.89 USD

  • How to Do Everything

    iPhone 5

    by Jason R. Rich ...
    Series series How to Do Everything
    Maximize the power of your iPhone 5Master the versatile features of your iPhone 5 and stay organized, connected, informed, and entertained. How to Do Everything: iPhone 5 covers iOS 6 and the new capabilities added to the core functions and apps, such as Contacts, Calendar, Reminders, Notes, Safari, Mail, Camera, Maps, FaceTime, and iTunes. You’ll also learn how to use iCloud, Notification Center, ... Read more

    $24.49 USD

  • NOOK HD: The Missing Manual

    You can do many things with NOOK HD right out of the box, but if you really want to get the most from your HD or HD+ tablet, start with this book. With clear instructions, full-color illustrations, and savvy advice from technology expert Preston Gralla, you’ll learn how to use email and the Web, watch movies and shows, play games, listen to music, and enjoy your personal ebook library.The ... Read more

    $13.09 USD