A book with CD-ROM package that covers the most valuable and frequently used programs, utilities, and documentation currently available for OS/2. All of the shareware and freeware utilities explained in the text are included on the CD-ROM. The book explains how to install and utilize the software. Includes OS/2 2.0 and Warp 3.0. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Os/2 And Warp Productivity Tool Kit

Computers & Technology

JOHNSTON, JOHN

Operating Systems

McGraw=Hill

In The Allure of Machinic Life, John Johnston examines new forms of nascent life that emerge through technical interactions within human-constructed environments -- "machinic life" -- in the sciences of cybernetics, artificial life, and artificial intelligence. With the development of such research initiatives as the evolution of digital organisms, computer immune systems, artificial protocells, evolutionary robotics, and swarm systems, Johnston argues, machinic life has achieved a complexity and autonomy worthy of study in its own right. Drawing on the publications of scientists as well as a range of work in contemporary philosophy and cultural theory, but always with the primary focus on the "objects at hand" -- the machines, programs, and processes that constitute machinic life -- Johnston shows how they come about, how they operate, and how they are already changing. This understanding is a necessary first step, he further argues, that must precede speculation about the meaning and cultural implications of these new forms of life. 
Developing the concept of the "computational assemblage" (a machine and its associated discourse) as a framework to identify both resemblances and differences in form and function, Johnston offers a conceptual history of each of the three sciences. He considers the new theory of machines proposed by cybernetics from several perspectives, including Lacanian psychoanalysis and "machinic philosophy." He examines the history of the new science of artificial life and its relation to theories of evolution, emergence, and complex adaptive systems (as illustrated by a series of experiments carried out on various software platforms). He describes the history of artificial intelligence as a series of unfolding conceptual conflicts -- decodings and recodings -- leading to a "new AI" that is strongly influenced by artificial life. Finally, in examining the role played by neuroscience in several contemporary research initiatives, he shows how further success in the building of intelligent machines will most likely result from progress in our understanding of how the human brain actually works.

The Allure of Machinic Life: Cybernetics, Artificial Life, and the New Ai (Bradford Books)

Computer Science

Bradford Books

An account of the creation of new forms of life and intelligence in cybernetics, artificial life, and artificial intelligence that analyzes both the similarities and the differences among these sciences in actualizing life.

The Allure of Machinic Life: Cybernetics, Artificial Life, and the New AI (Bradford Books)

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A History of the Towns of Bristol and Bremen in the State of Maine, Including the Pemaquid Settlement

History

Franklin Classics

A Manual of Chemistry on the Basis of Dr. Turner's Elements of Chemistry: Containing in a Condensed Form All the Most Important Facts and Principles ... in Colleges and Other Seminaries of Learning

Americas

HardPress Publishing

Primary Natural Philosophy

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Wentworth Press

BiblioBazaar

5,000 Years of Chinese Jade is a concise visual survey of art-historically important jade spanning the Neolithic period to the 19th century, offering a stunning visual journey through themes and time periods important in the history of jade in China. The book is arranged chronologically in five main periods: Neolithic, Shang to Zhou dynasty, Han to Song dynasty, Yuan and Ming dynasties, and the Qing dynasty. Primary subjects and themes include ritual objects, weapons, scholars' objects, adornments and jewelry, and vessels, providing an important new resource for the study of Chinese jade.

5,000 Years of Chinese Jade: Featuring Selections from the National Museum of History, Taiwan, and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Arts & Photography

Pik, Chan Lai

History & Criticism

San Antonio Museum of Art

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