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Price: $22.00
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Sale: $11.00
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Manufacturer: Harmony
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Richard Dooling
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Publisher: Harmony
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Dewey Decimal Number: 303.48
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Publication Date: 2008-09-30
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Reading Level: 272
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Description: 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 texting a person or an especially ingenious chatterbot program designed to simulate intelligent human conversation?
According to Richard Dooling in Rapture for the Geeks—maybe not that long. It took humans millions of years to develop opposable thumbs (which we now use to build computers), but computers go from megabytes to gigabytes in five years; from the invention of the PC to the Internet in less than fifteen. At the accelerating rate of technological development, AI should surpass IQ in the next seven to thirty-seven years (depending on who you ask). We are sluggish biological sorcerers, but we’ve managed to create whiz-bang machines that are evolving much faster than we are.
In this fascinating, entertaining, and illuminating book, Dooling looks at what some of the greatest minds have to say about our role in a future in which technology rapidly leaves us in the dust. As Dooling writes, comparing human evolution to technological evolution is “worse than apples and oranges: It’s appliances versus orangutans.” Is the era of Singularity, when machines outthink humans, almost upon us? Will we be enslaved by our supercomputer overlords, as many a sci-fi writer has wondered? Or will humans live lives of leisure with computers doing all the heavy lifting?
With antic wit, fearless prescience, and common sense, Dooling provocatively examines nothing less than what it means to be human in what he playfully calls the age of b.s. (before Singularity)—and what life will be like when we are no longer alone with Mother Nature at Darwin’s card table. Are computers thinking and feeling if they can mimic human speech and emotions? Does processing capability equal consciousness? What happens to our quaint beliefs about God when we’re all worshipping technology? What if the human compulsion to create ever more capable machines ultimately leads to our own extinction? Will human ingenuity and faith ultimately prevail over our technological obsessions? Dooling hopes so, and his cautionary glimpses into the future are the best medicine to restore our humanity.
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Price: $35.00
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Sale: $16.00
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Manufacturer: Wiley
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Charles J. Murray
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Publisher: Wiley
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Dewey Decimal Number: 338.76100411092
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Publication Date: 1997-01
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Reading Level: 232
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Description: The story of supercomputing is only partially about technology. More than anything, it's about the gifted, brilliant, and often eccentric individuals who knew how to use that technology in new ways to do amazing things. Perhaps the most amazing of the bunch was Seymour Cray, the bureaucracy-intolerant genius with the barnstorming mind whose name has become synonymous with supercomputers. Charles Murray gives us an insightful and often thrilling and sometimes amusing look into how Cray and his genius companions took computers to new heights and humbled companies like Control Data and IBM.
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Price: $78.00
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Sale: $2.98
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Manufacturer: Prentice Hall PTR
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Rajkumar Buyya
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Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 004.3
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Publication Date: 1999-05-31
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Reading Level: 881
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Description: High Performance Cluster Computing contains academic articles concerning supercomputing collected from researchers around the world. Though targeted primarily at graduate students and researchers in computer science, the general reader may find great value in its overview of the current state of high-performance computing. Computer science experts address many aspects of high performance computing, beginning with the state-of-the-art concepts and basic terminology related to cluster computing. Their investigations provide immediate solutions to engineering problems like optimized node arrangements for low-cost workstations yoked together to solve problems in parallel. One article describes such a cluster created for the Department of Energy that uses 9,000 Pentium CPUs to model nuclear detonations. Various contributors also consider the requirements necessary for improving parallel programs in terms of speed and logic, including reductions in network latencies and enhanced file and I/O access. One contributor even suggests that Network RAM--unused RAM in systems on the same network--may someday challenge the hard disk for fast--and permanent--data storage. In all, High Performance Cluster Computing works as an up-to-date, central repository of current thinking on interconnecting computers and processors to improve speed and performance. It provides a valuable roadmap of the state of the art in computer science research as well as some potential benefits for forward-looking corporate computing professionals. --Richard Dragan
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Price: $111.50
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Sale: $44.93
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Manufacturer: Wiley-IEEE Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: R. Michael Hord
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Publisher: Wiley-IEEE Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 004.35
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Publication Date: 1998-08-03
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Reading Level: 370
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Description: UNDERSTANDING PARALLEL SUPERCOMPUTING is an exhaustive, applications-oriented survey of the world's largest and fastest computers. Beginning with the evolution of parallel supercomputing technology in recent history, author R. Michael Hord goes on to illustrate architectural concepts and implementations at the very center of today's cutting-edge technology. Topics featured include: technology benefits and drawbacks, software tools and programming languages, major programming concepts, sample parallel programs, algorithmic methods, both SIMD and MIMD architectures. This carefully written text will be of interest to engineers, scientists, and program managers involved in geologic exploration, aircraft design, image processing, weather modeling, operations, research, chemical synthesis, and medical applications. It will also be of practical use to computer specialists.
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Price: $42.95
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Sale: $5.25
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Manufacturer: The MIT Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Publisher: The MIT Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 791.4372
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Publication Date: 1996-11-08
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Reading Level: 384
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Description: If you loved "2001: A Space Odyssey," you'll be delighted by this book that asks "How realistic was HAL?" Contributions by various scientists include essays on supercomputer design with regard to speech synthesis, common sense reasoning, emotions, lip reading and even playing chess. As the authors explore what is science fantasy and what is technological fact, they also look at how HAL influenced technological development in the past 30 years. The final chapter, called "When HAL Kills, Who's to Blame?" deals with the ethical aspects of building intelligent machines.
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Price: $78.95
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Sale: $1,589.30
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Manufacturer: Jones & Bartlett Publishers
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Richard L. Bowers::James R. Wilson
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Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers
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Edition: 1st
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Dewey Decimal Number: 523.01
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Publication Date: 1991-05-22
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Reading Level: 705
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Price: $79.00
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Sale: $79.00
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Manufacturer: World Scientific Pub Co Inc
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Binding: Hardcover
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Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc
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Publication Date: 1992-03
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Reading Level: 300
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Manufacturer: Springer
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Italy) International Conference and Exhibition on High-Performance Computing and Networking (1995 : Milan
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Publisher: Springer
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Dewey Decimal Number: 004.3
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Publication Date: 1995-07
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Reading Level: 957
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Description: This volume contains some 130 revised research papers together with a few invited papers and 16 poster presentations. All theoretical aspects of High-Performance Computing and Networking (HPCN), regarding hardware as well as software, are addressed with an emphasis on parallel processing. The applications-oriented papers are devoted to a broad spectrum of problems from computational sciences and engineering, including physics, material sciences, climate and environmental applications, CAD, numerical algorithms in engineering and aerodynamic design.
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Price: $25.00
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Sale: $25.00
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Manufacturer: World Scientific Publishing Company
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
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Dewey Decimal Number: 621.367
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Publication Date: 1998-06
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Reading Level: 134
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Description: Collected contributions of papers presented at the International Workshop on Parallel Image Analysis, organized on December 7th & 8th, 1995 at the Laboratoire de Informatique du Parallelisme of the Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, France, the 4th edition of a series dedicated to models, algorithms, & architectures for parallel image processing.
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Manufacturer: Time Life Education
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Binding: Hardcover
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Publisher: Time Life Education
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Dewey Decimal Number: 004.35
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Publication Date: 1990-02
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