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  • Turing's Children

    How His Ideas Have Shaped The Modern World

    by Devdatt Dubhashi, Alessandro Panconesi, Gerardo Schneider ...
    Series series ACM Books
    This book explores the profound legacy of Alan Turing, and how his five great ideas have been developed by the winners of the Turing Prize to shape the digital world we live in today. These five groundbreaking concepts—universal computability and insolvability, cryptography, electronic digital computers and software, artificial intelligence (AI), and computational biology—serve as the pillars of ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Concentration of Measure for the Analysis of Randomized Algorithms

    by Alessandro Panconesi, Devdatt P. Dubhashi ...
    Randomized algorithms have become a central part of the algorithms curriculum, based on their increasingly widespread use in modern applications. This book presents a coherent and unified treatment of probabilistic techniques for obtaining high probability estimates on the performance of randomized algorithms. It covers the basic toolkit from the Chernoff–Hoeffding bounds to more sophisticated ... Read more

    $48.39 USD

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  • The Singularity Is Near

    When Humans Transcend Biology

    by Ray Kurzweil ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Celebrated futurist Ray Kurzweil presents an “elaborate, smart, and persuasive” (The Boston Globe) view of the future course of human development.“Artfully envisions a breathtakingly better world.”—Los Angeles Times“Startling in scope and bravado.”—Janet Maslin, The New York Times“An important book.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer... ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • The Master Algorithm

    How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World

    by Pedro Domingos ...
    **Recommended by Bill GatesA thought-provoking and wide-ranging exploration of machine learning and the race to build computer intelligences as flexible as our own**In the world's top research labs and universities, the race is on to invent the ultimate learning algorithm: one capable of discovering any knowledge from data, and doing anything we want, before we even ask. In The Master Algorithm, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Age of Spiritual Machines

    When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence

    by Ray Kurzweil ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Bold futurist Ray Kurzweil, author of The Singularity Is Near, offers a framework for envisioning the future of machine intelligence—“a book for anyone who wonders where human technology is going next” (The New York Times Book Review).“Kurzweil offers a thought-provoking analysis of human and artificial intelligence and a unique look at a future in which the capabilities of ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Simulated Multiverse: An MIT Computer Scientist Explores Parallel Universes, The Simulation Hypothesis, Quantum Computing and the Mandela Effect

    Simulation Hypothesis

    by Rizwan Virk ...
    Series series Simulation Hypothesis
    Do multiple versions of ourselves exist in parallel universes living out their lives in different timelines? In this follow up to his bestseller, The Simulation Hypothesis, MIT Computer Scientist and Silicon Valley Game Pioneer Rizwan Virk explores these topics from a new lens: that of simulation theory.If we are living in a simulated universe, composed of information that is rendered around us, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Linked

    How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means for Business, Science, and Everyday Life

    by Albert-László Barabási ...
    The best-selling guide to network science, the revolutionary field that reveals the deep links between all forms of human social lifeA cocktail party. A terrorist cell. Ancient bacteria. An international conglomerate. All are networks, and all are a part of a surprising scientific revolution. In Linked, Albert-László Barabási, the nation's foremost expert in the new science of networks, takes us ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Group Theory in the Bedroom, and Other Mathematical Diversions

    by Brian Hayes ...
    "A refreshing collection of superb mathematical essays . . . from choosing up sides to choosing names, the topics are intriguingly nonstandard . . . First-rate." —John Allen Paulos, author of InnumeracyA science and technology journalist and essayist whose work has appeared in multiple anthologies, Brian Hayes now presents a selection of his most memorable pieces—including the National Magazine ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Overcomplicated

    Technology at the Limits of Comprehension

    by Samuel Arbesman ...
    Why did the New York Stock Exchange suspend trading without warning on July 8, 2015? Why did certain Toyota vehicles accelerate uncontrollably against the will of their drivers? Why does the programming inside our airplanes occasionally surprise its creators?After a thorough analysis by the top experts, the answers still elude us.You don’t understand the software running your car or your iPhone. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • The Story of Computing

    by Sir John Dermot Turing ...
    Series series The Story of
    Today computers shape every aspect of our lives. In our pockets, we carry mobile phones with computing power that was unimaginable just 50 years ago. Many industries are embracing the promises - and the risks - of artificial intelligence. The world is changing faster than ever, and computing is at the heart of technological development.Dermot Turing explores the history of this rapidly evolving ... Read more

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  • The Golden Ticket

    P, NP, and the Search for the Impossible

    by Lance Fortnow ...
    The P-NP problem is the most important open problem in computer science, if not all of mathematics. The Golden Ticket provides a nontechnical introduction to P-NP, its rich history, and its algorithmic implications for everything we do with computers and beyond. In this informative and entertaining book, Lance Fortnow traces how the problem arose during the Cold War on both sides of the Iron ... Read more

    $15.09 USD

  • Natural Computing

    DNA, Quantum Bits, and the Future of Smart Machines

    by Dennis E. Shasha, Cathy Lazere ...
    Reports from the cutting edge, where physics and biology are changing the fundamental assumptions of computing.Computers built from DNA, bacteria, or foam. Robots that fix themselves on Mars. Bridges that report when they are aging. This is the bizarre and fascinating world of Natural Computing. Computer scientist and Scientific American’s “Puzzling Adventures” columnist Dennis Shasha here teams ... Read more

    $12.39 USD