When natural gas drilling moves into an urban or a suburban neighborhood, a two-hundred-foot-high drill appears on the other side of a back yard fence and …
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The Censor’s Hand: The Misregulation of Human-Subject Research (Basic Bioethics)
Medical and social progress depend on research with human subjects. When that research is done in institutions getting federal money, it is regulated (often minutely) by …
Intellectual Property Strategy (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series)
Most managers leave intellectual property issues to the legal department, unaware that an organization’s intellectual property can help accomplish a range of management goals, from accessing …
In Between Facts and Norms, Jürgen Habermas works out the legal and political implications of his Theory of Communicative Action (1981), bringing to fruition the project …
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. …
Machine Learning: A Probabilistic Perspective (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning series)
Today’s Web-enabled deluge of electronic data calls for automated methods of data analysis. Machine learning provides these, developing methods that can automatically detect patterns in data …
As pop culture, games are as important as film or television — but game design has yet to develop a theoretical framework or critical vocabulary. In …
Processing: A Programming Handbook for Visual Designers and Artists
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, …
The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles
In the early days of computer science, the interactions of hardware, software, compilers, and operating system were simple enough to allow students to see an overall …
Most tasks require a person or an automated system to reason — to reach conclusions based on available information. The framework of probabilistic graphical models, presented …