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Anchor, 1993. 294 pages, illustrated. "A masterful work of science writing, this book weaves together a biography of the brilliant and tragic von Neumann, a history of pivotal phases of the cold war and an investigation of game theory's far-reaching influence on public policy today. Most important book is the incisive story of a revolutionary idea that has been hailed as a landmark of twentieth-century thought." FINE SOFTCOVER.. Soft Cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., Anchor, 1993, 5, New York: Barrons, 2002. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. Approx 9 x 9 x 1 inches; 1.6 pounds. Includes more than 200 full-color photos and illustrations.Can we build a robot with humanlike intelligence? What technology is needed to produce the perfect blueprint for the ideal "living" robot? What part will robots play in the future of humanity? Are we risking robot domination of the world? This highly readable volume tells the past, present, and future stories of robots and Artificial Intelligence, more commonly known as AI. Discussed here are the dreams of the pioneers Alan Turing and John von Neumann, who envisioned making computers intelligent when they were first invented. The author also describes in detail the current state of computer and robot technology, and points out the challenges inherent in teaching a machine to "think" and make decisions. Other topics include the life cycle of a present-day robot, raw materials and energy sources required for robot construction, and experimental progress in the field of self-designing robots. This absorbing volume is science fact—not science fiction. "This fascinating book integrates science and technology while posing questions about societal issues that will affect our future...An excellent blend of biology, psychology, physics, and engineering helps the reader understand the dynamic relationship between basic and applied science...This small book is packed with information. The details are explicit, and it's full of fascinating stories and facts. The dramatic pictures and detailed diagrams provide excellent support." — Penny McLeod-Smith,"This volume is a wonderful multifaceted book about the quest to build intelligent machines that are able to survive on their own. As the chapters unfold, the exciting world of robotic science and its place in modern society comes to life...There is something for everyone in this well-written and beautifully arranged book. It provides an excellent overview of robotic science, while the approximately 200 clearly captioned illustrations tell a story all on their own." —Science Books & Films, June 2003Ruth Aylett is Professor of Intelligent Virtual Environments with the Center for Virtual Environments in the U.K. She developed expertise in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) while she worked in the micro-computing laboratory at Sheffield University in England. She later assumed a post in the Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute at Edingurgh University, Scotland. She currently teaches courses on AI and maintains close links with the National Advanced Robotics Research Center, run by UK Robotics. Book is fine. Dust jacket is near fine with minor edge wear, bumping along the edges. Jacket is not price clipped., Barrons, 2002, 4.5, Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. First Edition. c.1970. Hardcover. Cloth. 8vo. 289pp. Fine. From the collection of Raymond J. Seeger (who authored a book on Galileo) with his signature on the flyleaf. Seeger (1906-1992) was a well known physicist, historian of science, and author. He studied under Edward Teller and collaborated with Albert Einstein, John von Neumann, George Gamow and others at the Naval Ordinance Laboratory during WWII, working on the physics of detonation, shock waves, fluid dynamics, and missile guidance.He went on to a distinguished career at NSF and American University and authored several books on the history and philosophy of science., University of Michigan Press, 1970, 5, New Jersey: World Scientific, (2015). Octavo, softbound (slick blue & orange wrappers), xiii + 221 pp. Fine. From lower cover: In this engaging scientific memoir, Kenneth Ford recounts the time time when, in his mid-twnties, he was a member of the team that designed and built the first hydrogen bomb. He worked with -- and relaxed with -- scientific giants of that time such as Edward Teller, Enrico Fermi, Stan Ulam, John von Neumann, and John Wheeler, and here offers illuminating insights into the personalities, the strengths, and the quirks of these men. Well known for his ability to explain physics to nonspecialists, Ford also brings to life the physics of fission and fusion and provides a brief history of nuclear science from the discovery of radioactivity in 1896 to the ten-megaton explosion of Mike that obliterated a Pacific Island in 1952. Ford worked at both Los Alamos and Princetons Project Matterhorn, and brings out Matterhorns major, but previously unheralded contribution to the development of the H bomb., World Scientific, (2015)., 2015, 0, London: Simon & Schuster, 2014. 1st U.K. ed.. Hardback thick octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), black & white text-photos, pages faintly toned as usual, minimal edgewear. 543 pp. Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, here is the definitive story of the people who created the computer and the internet. In his exciting saga, Isaacson begins with Ada Lovelace, Lord Byron's daughter, who pioneered computer programming in the 1840s. He then explores the personalities that created our current digital revolution, such as Vannevar Bush, Alan Turing, John von Neumann, J.C.R. Licklider, Doug Engelbart (human-computer interaction, mouse), Robert Noyce (Intel), Bill Gates (Microsoft), Steve Wozniak (Apple), Steve Jobs (Apple), Tim Berners-Lee (web browser) and Larry Page (Google). The story of how their minds worked, and what made them so creative. A narrative of how their ability to collaborate and master the art of teamwork made them even more creative. What talents allowed certain inventors to turn their disruptive ideas into realities? Why did some succeed and others fail? ., Simon & Schuster, 2014, 0, Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1957. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First Edition. c.1957. Hardcover. Brown cloth. 8vo. 460pp. Very Good. Light general shelfwear, rubbing at corners and spine-ends, offsetting to front and rear pastedowns, mild age toning. From the collection of Raymond J. Seeger with his signature on the flyleaf. Seeger (1906-1992) was a well known physicist, historian of science, and author. He studied under Edward Teller and collaborated with Albert Einstein, John von Neumann, George Gamow and others at the Naval Ordinance Laboratory during WWII, working on the physics of detonation, shock waves, fluid dynamics, and missile guidance.He went on to a distinguished career at NSF and American University and authored several books on the history and philosophy of science., The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1957, 3, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1950. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First Edition. c.1950. Hardcover. Red cloth. 8vo. 201pp. Very Good. Light general shelfwear, sunning to spine, age toning to endpapers. From the collection of Raymond J. Seeger with his signature on the flyleaf. Seeger (1906-1992) was a well known physicist, historian of science, and author. He studied under Edward Teller and collaborated with Albert Einstein, John von Neumann, George Gamow and others at the Naval Ordinance Laboratory during WWII, working on the physics of detonation, shock waves, fluid dynamics, and missile guidance.He went on to a distinguished career at NSF and American University and authored several books on the history and philosophy of science., Harvard University Press, 1950, 3, New York: Pantheon Books, 2010. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 10" X 7". x, 405pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper wraps. Bump to spine. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: The first full-scale biography of the man widely regarded as the greatest scientist of the century after Einstein." "Born in Budapest in 1903, John von Neumann grew up in one of the most extraordinary of scientific communities. From his arrival in America in the mid-1930s - with bases in Boston, Princeton, Washington, and Los Alamos - von Neumann pioneered and participated in the major scientific and political dramas of the next three decades, leaving his mark on more fields of scientific endeavor than any other scientist. Von Neumann's work in areas such as game theory, mathematics, physics, and meteorology formed the building blocks for the most important discoveries of the century: the modern computer, game theory, the atom bomb, radar, and artificial intelligence, to name just a few." "From the laboratory to the highest levels of government, this definitive biography gives us a behind-the-scenes look at the politics and personalities involved in these world-changing discoveries. Written more than thirty years after von Neumann's untimely death at age fifty-six, it was prepared with the cooperation of his family, and includes information gained from interviewing countless sources across Europe and America. Norman Macrae paints a highly readable, humanizing portrait of a man whose legacy still influences and shapes modern science and knowledge.(Publisher)., Pantheon Books, 2010, 3, London: The Sheldon Press, 1923. Fourth Issue, Revised. Hardcover. Very Good. Fourth Issue, Revised. c.1923. Hardcover. green cloth. 8vo. 299pp. Very Good. Rubbing at corners and spine-ends, light soiling to boards, moderate tanning to contents. From the collection of Raymond J. Seeger with his signature on the flyleaf. Seeger (1906-1992) was a well known physicist, historian of science, and author. He studied under Edward Teller and collaborated with Albert Einstein, John von Neumann, George Gamow and others at the Naval Ordinance Laboratory during WWII, working on the physics of detonation, shock waves, fluid dynamics, and missile guidance.He went on to a distinguished career at NSF and American University and authored several books on the history and philosophy of science., The Sheldon Press, 1923, 3, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1927. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First Edition. c.1927. Hardcover. 8vo. 258pp. Color frontis. 41 plates, Very Good. Rubbing at corners and spine-ends, mild soiling, offsetting to endpapers, mild age toning / foxing to contents. From the collection of Raymond J. Seeger with his signature on the flyleaf. Seeger (1906-1992) was a well known physicist, historian of science, and author. He studied under Edward Teller and collaborated with Albert Einstein, John von Neumann, George Gamow and others at the Naval Ordinance Laboratory during WWII, working on the physics of detonation, shock waves, fluid dynamics, and missile guidance.He went on to a distinguished career at NSF and American University and authored several books on the history and philosophy of science., Harper & Brothers, 1927, 3, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1903. Second printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Second Printing. c.1903. Hardcover. Red cloth, gilt titles. 8vo. 44pp. Very Good. Sunning to spine, light soiling to boards, light foxing to endpapers. From the collection of Raymond J. Seeger with his signature on the flyleaf. Seeger (1906-1992) was a well known physicist, historian of science, and author. He studied under Edward Teller and collaborated with Albert Einstein, John von Neumann, George Gamow and others at the Naval Ordinance Laboratory during WWII, working on the physics of detonation, shock waves, fluid dynamics, and missile guidance.He went on to a distinguished career at NSF and American University and authored several books on the history and philosophy of science., Cambridge University Press, 1903, 3, New York: American Mathematical Society, 1949. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First Edition. c.1949. Hardcover. Red cloth, gilt titles. Large 8vo. 219pp. Very Good. Light general shelfwear, light soiling to cloth, light discoloring to front boards, rubbing to corners and spine-ends, mild age toning to contents. From the collection of Raymond J. Seeger with his signature on the flyleaf. Seeger (1906-1992) was a well known physicist, historian of science, and author. He studied under Edward Teller and collaborated with Albert Einstein, John von Neumann, George Gamow and others at the Naval Ordinance Laboratory during WWII, working on the physics of detonation, shock waves, fluid dynamics, and missile guidance.He went on to a distinguished career at NSF and American University and authored several books on the history and philosophy of science. Seeger is a contributor to this book., American Mathematical Society, 1949, 3, Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. First Edition. c.1975. Hardcover. Black cloth, gilt titles. 8vo. 225pp. Near Fine. Very mild general shelfwear, Copernicus postage stamp affixed to front endpaper. From the collection of Raymond J. Seeger with his signature on the flyleaf. Seeger (1906-1992) was a well known physicist, historian of science, and author. He studied under Edward Teller and collaborated with Albert Einstein, John von Neumann, George Gamow and others at the Naval Ordinance Laboratory during WWII, working on the physics of detonation, shock waves, fluid dynamics, and missile guidance.He went on to a distinguished career at NSF and American University and authored several books on the history and philosophy of science., Pergamon Press, 1975, 4, Providence: American Mathematical Society, 1990. Paperback. Good +. Paperback. 10" X 7". vii, 334pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: The ideas of John von Neumann have had a profound influence on modern mathematics and science. One of the great thinkers of our century, von Neumann initiated major branches of mathematics--from operator algebras to game theory to scientific computing--and had a fundamental impact on such areas as self-adjoint operators, ergodic theory and the foundations of quantum mechanics, and numerical analysis and the design of the modern computer. This volume contains the proceedings of an AMS Symposium in Pure Mathematics, held at Hofstra University, in May 1988. The symposium brought together some of the foremost researchers in the wide range of areas in which von Neumann worked. These articles illustrate the sweep of von Neumann's ideas and thinking and document their influence on contemporary mathematics. In addition, some of those who knew von Neumann when he was alive have presented here personal reminiscences about him. This book is directed to those interested in operator theory, game theory, ergodic theory, and scientific computing, as well as to historians of mathematics and others having an interest in the contemporary history of the mathematical sciences. This book will give readers an appreciation for the workings of the mind of one of the mathematical giants of our time.(Publisher)., American Mathematical Society, 1990, 2.5, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1938. Third edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Third Edition. c.1938. Hardcover. Cloth spine. 8vo. 308pp. Very Good. Rubbing at corners and spine-ends, light soiling to boards, light age toning to contents. From the collection of Raymond J. Seeger with his signature on the flyleaf. Seeger (1906-1992) was a well known physicist, historian of science, and author. He studied under Edward Teller and collaborated with Albert Einstein, John von Neumann, George Gamow and others at the Naval Ordinance Laboratory during WWII, working on the physics of detonation, shock waves, fluid dynamics, and missile guidance.He went on to a distinguished career at NSF and American University and authored several books on the history and philosophy of science., University of Chicago Press, 1938, 3, New. If science has the equivalent of a Bloomsbury group, it is the five men born at the turn of the 20th century in the same neighborhood in Budapest: Theodore von Karman, Leo Szilard, Eugene Wigner, John von Neumann, and Edward Teller. Through immigration from Hungary to Germany to the United States, they remained friends and continued to work together and influence each other throughout their lives. As a result, their work was integral to some of the most important scientific and political developments of the 20th century. They were an extraordinary group of talents: Wigner won a Nobel Prize in theoretical physics without ever having taken a formal college-level physics course, Szilard was the first to see that a chain reaction based on neutrons was possible but left physics to try to restrict nuclear arms, von Neumann could solve problems in his head for which most people needed computers, von Karman became the first director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab, and Teller was the father of the hydrogen bomb, whose name is now synonymous with the controversial &quot;Star Wars&quot; defense initiative of the 1980s. Each was fiercely opinionated and politically active, reactionaries against the fascism and anti-Semitism with which they had grown up. Istvan Hargittai, as a young Hungarian physicist, was able to get to know these great men in their later years, and the depth of information and human interest in this book is the result of his personal relationships with the subjects, their families and their contemporaries., 6, White Sands Missile Range: United States Army, White Sands Missile Range, Public Affairs Office, 2000. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Booklet. Very good. Format is approximately 7 inches by 8.5 inches. Unpaginated (16 pages plus covers). Illustrations. Reading List. Illustrated front and back covers. Inside the back cover is a drawing of the patch which was issued to military personnel who participated in the Manhattan Project. This provides an overview of the Trinity Site and the first atomic test event. Major headings are: Radiation at Trinity Site; Typical radiation exposures for Americans; Trinity Site National Historic Landmark, with subsections on The Manhattan Project, The Theory, Building a test site, Jumbo, Bomb Assembly, The test, After the explosion, It's the Schmidt house, and Afterwards. There is also a brief section on the White Sands Missile Range. Laid in is a single sheet approximately 8.5 inches by 11 inches printed on one side presenting the Entry Rules, of which there are thirteen numbered items (numbers 10 to 13 are not technically a rules but guidance and direction). The sheet has been folded in half to fit inside the booklet. Trinity was the code name of the first detonation of a nuclear weapon. It was conducted by the United States Army at 5:29 a.m. on July 16, 1945, as part of the Manhattan Project. The test was conducted in the Jornada del Muerto desert about 35 miles southeast of Socorro, New Mexico, on what was then the USAAF Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range, now part of White Sands Missile Range. The only structures originally in the vicinity were the McDonald Ranch House and its ancillary buildings, which scientists used as a laboratory for testing bomb components. A base camp was constructed, and there were 425 people present on the weekend of the test. The code name "Trinity" was assigned by J. Robert Oppenheimer, the director of the Los Alamos Laboratory, inspired by the poetry of John Donne. The test was of an implosion-design plutonium device, informally nicknamed "The Gadget", of the same design as the Fat Man bomb later detonated over Nagasaki, Japan, on August 9, 1945. The complexity of the design required a major effort from the Los Alamos Laboratory, and concerns about whether it would work led to a decision to conduct the first nuclear test. The test was planned and directed by Kenneth Bainbridge. Fears of a fizzle did lead to the construction of a steel containment vessel called Jumbo that could contain the plutonium, allowing it to be recovered, although ultimately this was not used in the test. A rehearsal was held on May 7, 1945, in which 108 short tons (96 long tons; 98 t) of high explosive spiked with radioactive isotopes were detonated. The Gadget's detonation released the explosive energy of about 25 kilotons of TNT (100 TJ). Observers included Vannevar Bush, James Chadwick, James Conant, Thomas Farrell, Enrico Fermi, Richard Feynman, Leslie Groves, Robert Oppenheimer, Geoffrey Taylor, Richard Tolman, Edward Teller, and John von Neumann. The test site was declared a National Historic Landmark district in 1965, and listed on the National Register of Historic Places the following year., United States Army, White Sands Missile Range, Public Affairs Office, 2000, 3, Oxford University Press, 2000 8vo (24 cm), VI, 356 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. "the author offers us insightful portraits of twelve of our century's most distinguished physicists, all of whom he has known personally. We meet, among others, the famously taciturn Paul Dirac; Max Born, who coined the term 'quantum mechanics'; Wolfgang Pauli, famed for his exclusion principle and known as the conscience of twentieth-century physics; Mitchell Feigenbaum, inventor of chaos theory; and John von Neumann, one of the most influential mathematicians of the century. Other scientists profiled include Res Jost, Isidor Rabi, Viktor Weisskopf, and Eugene Wigner. In addition, because their work is so relevant to the others discussed, Pais has included chapters on Einstein and Bohr, in each case giving the essence of the man's character and scientific achievement." (from the publisher's description), Oxford University Press, 2000, 5, Hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. No DJ. Text in German.Previous owner name inked on front free page. Previous owner was Raphael M. Robinson, (1911-1995), an American mathematician. Robinson became a full prof. at Univ. Calif., Berkeley in '49. Robinson worked on mathematical logic, set theory, geometry, number theory, and combinatorics. In '37 Robinson set out a simpler and more conventional version of John Von Neumann's '23 axiomatic set theory. Soon after Alfred Tarski joined Berkeley's mathematics dept. in 1942, Robinson began to do major work on the foundations of mathematics, building on Tarski's concept of ""essential undecidability,"" by proving a number of mathematical theories undecidable. In 1950 Robinson proved that an essentially undecidable theory need not have an infinite number of axioms by coming up with a counterexample: Robinson arithmetic Q. Q is finitely axiomatizable because it lacks Peano arithmetic's axiom schema of induction; nevertheless Q, like Peano arithmetic, , is incomplete and undecidable., 3, New York: Thompson, 2001. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 9" X 6". xxii, 328pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Strathern brings the reader along in a lively, breezy and elegant manner, through Adam Smith and Hume; the French Optimists and British Pessimists: Saint-Simon and Owen; Marx and Hegel; Pareto; Veblen; Schumpeter, Keynes, John Nash and finally fullcircle back to von Neumann. Strathern uncovers the genuine progression of the development of mathematics and economic theory, from double-entry booking keeping to the discovery of standard deviation and the various applications of probability theory. These brilliant economists and mathematicians often were aware of each other, had met each other or read each other's work thereby influencing and building upon one another's conclusions. Strathern manages his broad swath of historical information and condenses it into a very usable, readable and informative format.(Publisher)., Thompson, 2001, 3, National Science Foundation, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. INSCRIBED BY JAMES MERTON ENGLAND TO RAYMOND J. SEEGER, WHO IS MENTION FREQUENTLY IN THE TEXT. First Edition. c.1982. Hardcover. Blue cloth, gilt spine titles. 8vo. 443pp. Near Fine. Mild general shelfwear, occasional pen marks by previous owner. From the collection of Raymond J. Seeger with his signature on the flyleaf. Seeger (1906-1992) was a well known physicist, historian of science, and author. He studied under Edward Teller and collaborated with Albert Einstein, John von Neumann, George Gamow and others at the Naval Ordinance Laboratory during WWII, working on the physics of detonation, shock waves, fluid dynamics, and missile guidance.He went on to a distinguished career at NSF and American University and authored several books on the history and philosophy of science., National Science Foundation, 1982, 4, Vereinigung wissenschaftlicher V, 1921. Hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. Pages edges browning. Lightly read. Previous owner name on front free page. Previous owner was Raphael Mitchel Robinson (1911-1995) was an American mathematician. Robinson became a full professor at UC Berkeley in 1949 and retired in 1973. Robinson worked on mathematical logic, set theory, geometry, number theory, and combinatorics. Robinson (1937) set out a simpler and more conventional version of John Von Neumann's 1923 axiomatic set theory. Soon after Alfred Tarski joined Berkeley's mathematics department in 1942, Robinson began to do major work on the foundations of mathematics, building on Tarski's concept of ""essential undecidability,"" by proving a number of mathematical theories undecidable. Robinson (1950) proved that an essentially undecidable theory need not have an infinite number of axioms by coming up with a counterexample: Robinson arithmetic Q. Q is finitely axiomatizable because it lacks Peano arithmetic's axiom schema of induction; nevertheless Q, like Peano arithmetic, Vereinigung wissenschaftlicher V, 1921, 3, New York: Plenum Press, 1992. very good, very good. 335, illus., bibliography, index, 1/2" scratch on first three pages. Eugene Wigner was a Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist and mathematician. He made significant contributions to the Manhattan Project and to quantum physics, and worked closely with Albert Einstein, Leo Szilard, John von Neumann, and Edward Teller., Plenum Press, 1992, 3, University of California: Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, 1965. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Wraps. good. This document measures approximately 8.5" by 10.3/4". 46 pages plus covers. It contains 70 black and white photographs of the Trinity test and Los Alamos personnel. This issue of The ATOM, which commemorates the twenty anniversary of the Trinity test of July 16, 1945, is told in two parts: Part I, the story of the Trinity test, and Part II, the story of how the bomb was built. Trinity was the code name of the first detonation of a nuclear device. It was conducted by the United States Army at 5:29 a.m. on July 16, 1945, as part of the Manhattan Project. The test was conducted in the Jornada del Muerto desert about 35 miles (56 km) southeast of Socorro, New Mexico, on what was then the USAAF Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range, now part of White Sands Missile Range. The only structures originally in the vicinity were the McDonald Ranch House and its ancillary buildings, which scientists used as a laboratory for testing bomb components. A base camp was constructed, and there were 425 people present on the weekend of the test. The code name "Trinity" was assigned by J. Robert Oppenheimer, the director of the Los Alamos Laboratory, inspired by the poetry of John Donne. The test was of an implosion-design plutonium device, informally nicknamed "The Gadget", of the same design as the Fat Man bomb later detonated over Nagasaki, Japan, on August 9, 1945. The complexity of the design required a major effort from the Los Alamos Laboratory, and concerns about whether it would work led to a decision to conduct the first nuclear test. The test was planned and directed by Kenneth Bainbridge. Fears of a fizzle led to the construction of a steel containment vessel called Jumbo that could contain the plutonium, allowing it to be recovered, but Jumbo was not used. A rehearsal was held on May 7, 1945, in which 108 short tons (96 long tons; 98 t) of high explosive spiked with radioactive isotopes were detonated. The Gadget's detonation released the explosive energy of about 22 kilotons of TNT (92 TJ). Observers included Vannevar Bush, James Chadwick, James Conant, Thomas Farrell, Enrico Fermi, Richard Feynman, Leslie Groves, Robert Oppenheimer, Geoffrey Taylor, Richard Tolman and John von Neumann. The test site was declared a National Historic Landmark district in 1965, and listed on the National Register of Historic Places the following year., Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, 1965, 2.5, ISBN: 9781107077232Cambridge University Press, 29 December 2014Hardcover, 476 pagesWritten by leading authorities in database and Web technologies, this book is essential reading for students and practitioners alike. The popularity of the Web and Internet commerce provides many extremely large datasets from which information can be gleaned by data mining. This book focuses on practical algorithms that have been used to solve key problems in data mining and can be applied successfully to even the largest datasets. It begins with a discussion of the map-reduce framework, an important tool for parallelizing algorithms automatically. The authors explain the tricks of locality-sensitive hashing and stream processing algorithms for mining data that arrives too fast for exhaustive processing. Other chapters cover the PageRank idea and related tricks for organizing the Web, the problems of finding frequent itemsets and clustering. This second edition includes new and extended coverage on social networks, machine learning and dimensionality reduction.Editorial ReviewsBook Description Now in its second edition, this book focuses on practical algorithms for mining data from even the largest datasets.About the Author Jure Leskovec is Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University. His research focuses on mining large social and information networks. Problems he investigates are motivated by large scale data, the Web and on-line media. This research has won several awards including a Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship, the Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, Okawa Foundation Fellowship, and numerous best paper awards. His research has also been featured in popular press outlets such as the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, MIT Technology Review, NBC, BBC, CBC and Wired. Leskovec has also authored the Stanford Network Analysis Platform (SNAP, http://snap.stanford.edu), a general purpose network analysis and graph mining library that easily scales to massive networks with hundreds of millions of nodes and billions of edges. You can follow him on Twitter at @jure.Anand Rajaraman is a serial entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and academic based in Silicon Valley. He is a Founding Partner of two early-stage venture capital firms, Milliways Labs and Cambrian Ventures. His investments include Facebook (one of the earliest angel investors in 2005), Aster Data Systems (acquired by Teradata), Efficient Frontier (acquired by Adobe), Neoteris (acquired by Juniper), Transformic (acquired by Google), and several others. Anand was, until recently, Senior Vice President at Walmart Global eCommerce and co-head of @WalmartLabs, where he worked at the intersection of social, mobile, and commerce. He came to Walmart when Walmart acquired Kosmix, the startup he co-founded, in 2011. Kosmix pioneered semantic search technology and semantic analysis of social media. In 1996, Anand co-founded Junglee, an e-commerce pioneer. As Chief Technology Officer, he played a key role in developing Junglee's award-winning Virtual Database technology. In 1998, acquired Junglee, and Anand helped launch the transformation of from a retailer into a retail platform, enabling third-party retailers to sell on 's website. Anand is also a co-inventor of Amazon Mechanical Turk, which pioneered the concepts of crowdsourcing and hybrid Human-Machine computation. As an academic, Anand's research has focused at the intersection of database systems, the World-Wide Web, and social media. His research publications have won several awards at prestigious academic conferences, including two retrospective 10-year Best Paper awards at ACM SIGMOD and VLDB. In 2012, Fast Company magazine named Anand to its list of '100 Most Creative People in Business'. In 2013, he was named a Distinguished Alumnus by his alma mater, IIT Madras. You can follow Anand on Twitter at @anand_raj.Jeffrey David Ullman is the Stanford W. Ascherman Professor of Computer Science (Emeritus) and he is currently the CEO of Gradiance. His research interests include database theory, data mining, and education using the information infrastructure. He is one of the founders of the field of database theory, and was the doctoral advisor of an entire generation of students who later became leading database theorists in their own right. He was the Ph.D. advisor of Sergey Brin, one of the co-founders of Google, and served on Google's technical advisory board. Ullman was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1989, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2012, and he has held Guggenheim and Einstein Fellowships. Recent awards include the Knuth Prize (2000), and the Sigmod E. F. Codd Innovations award (2006). Ullman is also the co-recipient (with John Hopcroft) of the 2010 IEEE John von Neumann Medal, for 'laying the foundations for the fields of automata and language theory and many seminal contributions to theoretical computer science'., 0<

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Trans-Atlantic Pubns, 1986-12. Paperback. Good., Trans-Atlantic Pubns, 1986-12, 2.5, UK,12mo wraps,paperback Original,1st end.[Paperback Original denotes the first format and its first a… Mehr…

Trans-Atlantic Pubns, 1986-12. Paperback. Good., Trans-Atlantic Pubns, 1986-12, 2.5, UK,12mo wraps,paperback Original,1st end.[Paperback Original denotes the first format and its first appearance in print of the book/title in the country of its origin,and sometimes,even worldwide.Paperbacks usually follow on from the HB edn,but can be published at the same time as the HB edn,but p/back Originals are published prior to any other format.] FINE.No owner inscrptn.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,glossy laminated,colour pictorial artwork by Alistair Pearson**,illustrated cover; with negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present - NO reading creases to spine/backstrip - unread,other than my own collation.Covers with inevitable age-acquired,but very minimal and superficial scoring/indents.Top+fore-edges lightly aged/toned but clean without foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips.An original novel featuring the 4th Doctor,Sarah Jane and Harry. 'We're dicing with death on the information superhighway to hell.' A rebellion on another planet.A kidnapping in central London.The head of MI5 assassinated.A hostage seige suddenly and violently ended by the SAS.A computer CD slipped into the Doctor's pocket by a dead man. . . It's 1998,and the global information superhighway is about to come on line.OffNet controls everything digital from cars to sliding doors,from interactive television to military command and control systems. The Doctor and Sarah must join forces with an old friend in a race against time: to prevent the breakdown of technological society and foil an unconventional alien takeover bid. This adventure takes place between the television stories THE SEEDS OF DOOM and THE MASQUE OF MANDRAGORA. 'The Missing Adventures' series was introduced by Virgin Publishing in July,1994 as the demand for the books showed that new,original novels featuring past Doctors would be as popular as the 'New Adventures' series featuring the 7th Doctor.Thirty-three original novels were produced and this title is the 11th of that series and is now is out of print and hard to find, particularly as an unread example. Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **, LONDON.VIRGIN,15th June,1995., 5, ISBN: 9781107077232Cambridge University Press, 29 December 2014Hardcover, 476 pagesWritten by leading authorities in database and Web technologies, this book is essential reading for students and practitioners alike. The popularity of the Web and Internet commerce provides many extremely large datasets from which information can be gleaned by data mining. This book focuses on practical algorithms that have been used to solve key problems in data mining and can be applied successfully to even the largest datasets. It begins with a discussion of the map-reduce framework, an important tool for parallelizing algorithms automatically. The authors explain the tricks of locality-sensitive hashing and stream processing algorithms for mining data that arrives too fast for exhaustive processing. Other chapters cover the PageRank idea and related tricks for organizing the Web, the problems of finding frequent itemsets and clustering. This second edition includes new and extended coverage on social networks, machine learning and dimensionality reduction.Editorial ReviewsBook Description Now in its second edition, this book focuses on practical algorithms for mining data from even the largest datasets.About the Author Jure Leskovec is Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University. His research focuses on mining large social and information networks. Problems he investigates are motivated by large scale data, the Web and on-line media. This research has won several awards including a Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship, the Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, Okawa Foundation Fellowship, and numerous best paper awards. His research has also been featured in popular press outlets such as the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, MIT Technology Review, NBC, BBC, CBC and Wired. Leskovec has also authored the Stanford Network Analysis Platform (SNAP, http://snap.stanford.edu), a general purpose network analysis and graph mining library that easily scales to massive networks with hundreds of millions of nodes and billions of edges. You can follow him on Twitter at @jure.Anand Rajaraman is a serial entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and academic based in Silicon Valley. He is a Founding Partner of two early-stage venture capital firms, Milliways Labs and Cambrian Ventures. His investments include Facebook (one of the earliest angel investors in 2005), Aster Data Systems (acquired by Teradata), Efficient Frontier (acquired by Adobe), Neoteris (acquired by Juniper), Transformic (acquired by Google), and several others. Anand was, until recently, Senior Vice President at Walmart Global eCommerce and co-head of @WalmartLabs, where he worked at the intersection of social, mobile, and commerce. He came to Walmart when Walmart acquired Kosmix, the startup he co-founded, in 2011. Kosmix pioneered semantic search technology and semantic analysis of social media. In 1996, Anand co-founded Junglee, an e-commerce pioneer. As Chief Technology Officer, he played a key role in developing Junglee's award-winning Virtual Database technology. In 1998, acquired Junglee, and Anand helped launch the transformation of from a retailer into a retail platform, enabling third-party retailers to sell on 's website. Anand is also a co-inventor of Amazon Mechanical Turk, which pioneered the concepts of crowdsourcing and hybrid Human-Machine computation. As an academic, Anand's research has focused at the intersection of database systems, the World-Wide Web, and social media. His research publications have won several awards at prestigious academic conferences, including two retrospective 10-year Best Paper awards at ACM SIGMOD and VLDB. In 2012, Fast Company magazine named Anand to its list of '100 Most Creative People in Business'. In 2013, he was named a Distinguished Alumnus by his alma mater, IIT Madras. You can follow Anand on Twitter at @anand_raj.Jeffrey David Ullman is the Stanford W. Ascherman Professor of Computer Science (Emeritus) and he is currently the CEO of Gradiance. His research interests include database theory, data mining, and education using the information infrastructure. He is one of the founders of the field of database theory, and was the doctoral advisor of an entire generation of students who later became leading database theorists in their own right. He was the Ph.D. advisor of Sergey Brin, one of the co-founders of Google, and served on Google's technical advisory board. Ullman was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1989, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2012, and he has held Guggenheim and Einstein Fellowships. Recent awards include the Knuth Prize (2000), and the Sigmod E. F. Codd Innovations award (2006). Ullman is also the co-recipient (with John Hopcroft) of the 2010 IEEE John von Neumann Medal, for 'laying the foundations for the fields of automata and language theory and many seminal contributions to theoretical computer science'., 0<