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System Modeling in Cellular Biology: From Concepts to Nuts and Bolts

MIT Press, 2006

Biology is the study of self-replicating chemical processes. Biology is the study of
systems accurately transmitting a genetic blueprint. Biology is the study of complex
adaptive reproducing systems.

What is systems biology if all definitions of biology implicitly or explicitly refer to
the study of a whole object, whether...

Group Cognition: Computer Support for Building Collaborative Knowledge (Acting with Technology)

MIT Press, 2006

The promise of globally networked computers to usher in a new age of universal
learning and sharing of human knowledge remains a distant dream; the software and
social practices needed have yet to be conceived, designed, and adopted. To support
online collaboration, our technology and culture have to be reconfigured to meet a...

2D Object Detection and Recognition: Models, Algorithms, and Networks

MIT Press, 2002

This book is about detecting and recognizing 2D objects in gray-level images. Howare
models constructed? Howare they trained? What are the computational approaches to
efficient implementation on a computer? And finally, how can some of these computations
be implemented in the framework of parallel and biologically plausible neural...

Ruling the Root: Internet Governance and the Taming of Cyberspace

MIT Press, 2004

In Ruling the Root, Milton Mueller uses the theoretical framework of institutional economics to analyze the global policy and governance problems created by the assignment of Internet domain names and addresses. “The root” is the top of the domain name hierarchy and the Internet address space. It is the only point of...

Reasoning About Knowledge

MIT Press, 2003

This book provides a general discussion of approaches to reasoning about knowledge and its applications to distributed systems, artificial intelligence, and game theory, as well as reasoning about the knowledge of agents who reason about the world.

Reasoning about knowledge—particularly the knowledge of agents who reason about the...

Invention of Hysteria: Charcot and the Photographic Iconography of the Salpetriere

MIT Press, 2003

In this classic of French cultural studies, Georges Didi-Huberman traces the intimate and reciprocal relationship between the disciplines of psychiatry and photography in the late nineteenth century. Focusing on the immense photographic output of the Salpetriere hospital, the notorious Parisian asylum for insane and incurable women, Didi-Huberman...

The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit -- Twentieth Anniversary Edition

MIT Press, 2005

In The Second Self, Sherry Turkle looks at the computer not as a "tool," but as part of our social and psychological lives; she looks beyond how we use computer games and spreadsheets to explore how the computer affects our awareness of ourselves, of one another, and of our relationship with the world. "Technology," she...

Perspectives on Free and Open Source Software

MIT Press, 2005

Briefly stated, the terms “free software” and “open source software” refer
to software products distributed under terms that allow users to:

Use the software
Modify the software
Redistribute the software

in any manner they see fit, without requiring that they pay the author(s)...

Circuit Design with VHDL

MIT Press, 2004

This textbook teaches VHDL using system examples combined with programmable logic and supported by laboratory exercises. While other textbooks concentrate only on language features, Circuit Design with VHDL offers a fully integrated presentation of VHDL and design concepts by including a large number of complete design examples,...

Document Engineering: Analyzing and Designing Documents for Business Informatics and Web Services

MIT Press, 2005

Much of the business transacted on the Web today takes place through information exchanges made possible by using documents as interfaces. For example, what seems to be a simple purchase from an online bookstore actually involves at least three different business collaborations -- between the customer and the online catalog to select a book;...

The MIT Encyclopedia of Communication Disorders

MIT Press, 2003

A massive reference work on the scale of MITECS (The MIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive Sciences), The MIT Encyclopedia of Communication Disorders will become the standard reference in this field for both research and clinical use. It offers almost 200 detailed entries, covering the entire range of communication and speech disorders in...

Toward Replacement Parts for the Brain: Implantable Biomimetic Electronics as Neural Prostheses

MIT Press, 2005

This book has its origins in a meeting entitled ‘‘Toward Replacement Parts for the Brain: Intracranial Implantation of Hardware Models of Neural Circuitry,’’ that took place in Washington, D.C., in August 1999. The meeting was sponsored by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), the University of Southern California...

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