Rapture for the Geeks
When AI Outsmarts IQ
Written by Richard Dooling
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 7, 2008
Price: $11.99
Will the Geeks inherit the earth?
If computers become twice as fast and twice as capable every two years, how long is it before they’re as intelligent as humans? More intelligent? And then in two more years, twice as intelligent? How long before you won’t be able to tell if you are...
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CodeNotes for J2EE
EJB, JDBC, JSP, and Servlets
Written by Gregory Brill
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: January 2, 2002
Price: $19.95
CodeNotes provides the most succinct, accurate, and speedy way for a developer to ramp up on a new technology or language. Unlike other programming books,
CodeNotes drills down to the core aspects of a technology, focusing on the key elements needed in order to understand it quickly and implement it immediately...
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Fatal Defect
Chasing Killer Computer Bugs
Written by Ivars Peterson
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: April 30, 1996
Price: $17.00
An airplane crashes, killing eighty-seven passengers. A cancer patient receives a fatal dose of radiation from a machine designed to be foolproof. The ATMs at a New York bank debit customers twice their actual withdrawals, resulting in a loss of millions of dollars. In every case, the culprit was a computer...
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Cyberethics
Social & Moral Issues in the Computer Age
Edited by Robert M. Baird
Format: Trade Paperback, 355 pages
On Sale: April 1, 2000
Price: $22.99
The amazing transformation of society brought about by the wide dispersion of computers has given rise to new moral dilemmas. With the rapid development of this technology, the impact of computers on privacy, personal identity, intellectual property, and the form and practice of democracy is becoming more apparent every day. Inevitably...
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CodeNotes for Web Services in Java and .NET
Edited by Gregory Brill
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: December 10, 2002
Price: $11.99
CodeNotes provides the most succinct, accurate, and speedy way for a developer to ramp up on a new technology or language. Unlike other programming books, CodeNotes drills down to the core aspects of a technology, focusing on the key elements needed in order to understand it quickly and implement it immediately...
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Dumb Money
Adventures of a Day Trader
Written by Gary Wolf and Joey Anuff
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: April 18, 2000
Price: $13.99
As you read this, five million Americans are day-trading. Not since gold was discovered in California have more people dropped out of their old lives and come running for the promise of a big score. For a time, Joey Anuff was among them. He has emerged-enriched, enlightened, and exhausted-to share his...
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Arguing A.I.
The Battle for Twenty-first-Century Science
Written by Sam Williams
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 5, 2002
Price: $13.99
Few scientific topics since the theory of biological evolution have inspired as much controversy as artificial intelligence has. Even now, fifty years after the term first made its appearance in academic journals, many philosophers and more than a few prominent scientists and software programmers dismiss the pursuit of thinking machines as...
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Machinery of the Mind
Written by George Johnson
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: November 16, 2011
Price: $11.99
Machinery of Mind is a full-scale, indispensable examination of the history, content, politics, and philosophy of Artificial Intelligence. In detail, consecutively but with a keen awareness of the interdisciplinary nature of the field, Johnson traces the history of the burgeoning science from its earliest practitioners to corporation-funded engineers and experts: Roger...
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