Customer Review: This book is a very helpful guide. It tells you everything that you need to make a good robot, from building a sturdy structure to programming it. With this book, you will be able to explore the full potential of your robot kit. Beside basic instructions, the book also has 6 projects to give you a... more info
Customer Review: Ultimately, Hawkins conveys that the ideas which make up his brain theory are not completely set in stone; instead, he feels they are a conceptual start in understanding how the brain can perform some of the tasks that seem very complex and tasks that seem mundane. He describes this as a top-down... more info
Customer Review: After reading "Pattern Recognition using Neural Networks" written by the same author, I was expecting a book of the same league: strong emphasis on the conceptual foundations, and a distillation of the great ideas of a field that is enjoying a great deal of research. However, I was greatly... more info
Customer Review: Petzold makes a great effort towards explaining Turing's famous proof. Turing's scheme of variable naming was extremely difficult for me to follow and so many formula's, particularly towards the end of the book where they become increasingly complex, were beyond me even with Petzold's clear and... more info
Customer Review: It is a very clear and easy reading 'machine learning' book to read, but its not a 'data mining' book. Everyone in the industry agrees that over 80% of your time and effort is in the data preparation, yet this book has virtually no mention of data transformations or data preparation. It is a... more info
Customer Review: I purchased this book after reading the LabView 8 Student Edition book. Although the "LabView For Everyone" book covers much of the same material, I found the later to have more details and better explanations than the student version. I believe the "LabView for Everyone" is an essential volume for... more info
Customer Review: Ray Kurzweil has written a great book, but the title is very misleading. Mr. Kurzweil, as far as I can tell, is very much a humanistic/mechanistic person, not believing much in the spiritual as defined by traditional orthodox religion. Nevertheless, this book on the rise of artificial intelligence... more info