Customer Review: Interesting how Ms. Hayles does not mention the transhuman or transhumanism, Max More and his seminal essay "Becoming Posthuman" written several years before Ms. Hayles book was published. Anyone using the book in their course work might want to think about this.
Customer Review: How does the development of "artificial" intelligence fit into biological evolution? George Dyson suggests that the fit is seamless. This profound investigation of the history of thinking machines and evolutionary theory is brilliant and engaging. It offers a far more palatable look at the... more info
Customer Review: I have to agree with all of johnnied7 criticisms. This book is pitched at a level too advanced for an introduction. It also reads and is structured like a research paper. Not recommended.
Customer Review: I see others have praised this book richly and a couple others poorly. One reviewer said one needed to be a mathematician and a physicist to understand the book. It would certainly help, but Penrose describes enough about the function of the math concepts he invokes so that I can follow him (and... more info
Customer Review: For an introduction to the subject, this book is unequivocal in my experience with the literature. Great read that has propelled me forward into combining a bayesian network with a physical model to approach a very complex sediment transport problem.
Customer Review: For those fascinated with Neural Network Theory, this book is a comprehensive compendium of some of the best papers published in the subject. So far it is one of the best volumes in Neural Networks that I have seen, and a well thought paper compilation.
Customer Review: AL is popular science writing of the first order: informative, clear, fascinating, and entertaining. My only disappointment is that it was published in 1992, and thus does not touch on developments in the field since then. I'd love to know how these have panned out, and whether scientists remain... more info
Customer Review: Siciliano and Khatib have assembled a massive and comprehensive tome on robotics, circa 2008. Sections of the book can be read by a diverse audience of undergraduate and graduate students, researchers and even the general public. Spanning any field associated with the subject. There is... more info