Computers and Internet Science Resources

Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this book applies Godel’s seminal contribution to modern mathematics to the study of the human mind and the development of artificial intelligence.Everything is a symbol, and symbols can combine to form patterns. Patterns are beautiful and revelatory of larger truths. These are the central ideas in the thinking of Kurt Gödel, M.C. Escher, and Johann Sebastian Bach, perhaps the three greatest minds of the past quarter-millennium. In a stunning work of humanism, Hofstadter ties together the work of mathematician Gödel, graphic artist Escher, and composer Bach. Read the rest of this entry »

Linux Shell Scripting Cookbook

Solve real-world shell scripting problems with over 110 simple but incredibly effective recipes

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Mobile Communications – Advanced Systems and Components: 1994 International Zurich Seminar on Digital Communications, Zurich, Switzerland, March 8-11, … (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

The Global System for Mobile Communication met with wide acceptance in 1993. Its technical conception has significant advantages over the first generation of cellular systems. Digital European Cordless Telecommunications will provide similar advantages. In Europe, the second generation of wireless communication is established and a Universal Mobile Telecommunications System is currently being conceived. All this leads to a natural subdivision of current research into four categories: new and improved usage of existing standards, signal processing algorithms that are simpler or closer to the optimum, forther development of existing systems, and work that will ultimately lead to new system proposals. This volume presents the proceedings of a seminar at which all these categories were covered.

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