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Making things talk / by Igoe, Tom,author.;
The workbenches of hobbyists, hackers, and makers have become overrun with microcontrollers , computers-on-a-chip that power homebrewed video games, robots, toys, and more. In Making Things Talk , Tom Igoe, one of the creators of Arduino, shows how to make these gadgets talk. Whether you need to connect some sensors to the Internet or create a device that can interact wirelessly with other creations, this book shows you what you need. Although they are powerful, the projects in this book are inexpensive to build: the Arduino microcontroller board itself ranges from around $25 to $40. The networking hardware covered here includes Ethernet, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and can be had for $25 to $50. Fully updated for the latest Arduino hardware and software, this book lets you combine microcontrollers, sensors, and networking hardware to make things... and make them talk to each other!
Subjects: Programmable controllers.; Robots.; Computational linguistics.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The secret life of pronouns : what our words say about us / by Pennebaker, James W.(CARDINAL)526003;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Discovering the secret life of the most forgettable words -- Ignoring the content, celebrating the style -- The words of sex, age, and power -- Personality: finding the person within -- Emotion detection -- Lying words -- The language of status, power, and leadership -- The language of love -- Seeing groups, companies, and communities through their words -- Word sleuthing -- Appendix: a handy guide for spotting and interpreting function words in the wild.Draws on groundbreaking research in computational linguistics to explain what language choices reveal about feelings, self-concept, and social intelligence, in a lighthearted treatise that also explores the language personalities of famous individuals.
Subjects: English language; English language;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 6
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Magic Words [sound recording] / by Berger, Jonahauthor.(CARDINAL)401704; Nobbs, Keith;
Read by Keith Nobbs.Jonah Berger gives you an inside look at the new science of language and how you can use it to motivate, engage, and persuade. Technological advances in machine learning, computational linguistics, and natural language processing, combined with the digitization of everything from cover letters to conversations, have yielded unprecedented insights. Learn how salespeople convince clients, lawyers persuade juries, and storytellers captivate audiences; how teachers get kids to help and service representatives increase customer satisfaction; how startup founders secure funding, musicians make hits, and psychologists identified a Shakespearean manuscript without ever reading a play. This book is designed for anyone who wants to increase their impact. It provides a powerful toolkit and actionable techniques that can lead to extraordinary results. Whether you're trying to persuade a client, motivate a team, or get a whole organization to see things differently, this book will show you how to harness the power of magic words.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Non-Fiction.; Business & Economics.; Psychology.; Self Help.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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How'd you score that gig? : a guide to the coolest jobs--and how to get them / by Levit, Alexandra,1976-(CARDINAL)468818;
Includes bibliographical references (page 329338).
Subjects: Job hunting.; Occupations.; Vocational guidance.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Science and technology in art today / by Benthall, Jonathan,author.(CARDINAL)829074;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 170-173) and index.Art and technology -- Media studies and photography -- The computer, or information processing technology -- Laser holography and interference patterning -- Kinetic art in transformation -- Art and ecology -- The implications of linguistics -- Science and art as modes of enquiry -- Seek.
Subjects: Art, Modern; Art and science.; Art and technology.;
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The riddles of the sphinx : inheriting the feminist history of the crossword puzzle / by Shechtman, Anna,author.(CARDINAL)886255;
"I pronouns thee" -- The riddles of the sphinx. I: Black-and-white thinking -- II: Ruth Hale and the crossword craze -- III: Margaret Farrar and the domestication of the crossword -- The sexual politics of wordplay. IV: Do crossword puzzles: advice to a young psychoanalyst -- V: Julia Penelope, cunning linguist -- Politicizing a pastime. VI: When computers replaced women -- VII: The paradoxes of Ruth von Phul."Combining the soul-baring confessional of Brain on Fire and the addictive storytelling of The Queen's Gambit, a renowned puzzle creator's compulsively readable memoir and history of the crossword puzzle as an unexpected site of women's work and feminist protest. The indisputable 'queen of crosswords,' Anna Shechtman published her first New York Times puzzle at age nineteen, and later, spearheaded the The New Yorker's popular crossword section. Working with a medium often criticized as exclusionary, elitist, and out-of-touch, Anna is one of very few women in the field of puzzle making, where she strives to make the everyday diversion more diverse. In this fascinating work--part memoir, part cultural analysis--she excavates the hidden history of the crossword and the overlooked women who have been central to its creation and evolution, from the 'Crossword Craze' of the 1920s to the role of digital technology today. As she tells the story of her own experience in the CrossWorld, she analyzes the roles assigned to women in American culture, the boxes they've been allowed to fill, and the ways that they've used puzzles to negotiate the constraints and play of desire under patriarchy. The result is an unforgettable and engrossing work of art, a loving and revealing homage to one of our most treasured, entertaining, and ultimately political pastimes."--
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Shechtman, Anna.; Crossword puzzle makers; Women; Crossword puzzles; Women.; Womyn.;
Available copies: 14 / Total copies: 16
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The tunnel / by Vallgren, Carl-Johan,1964-author.(CARDINAL)636927; Willson-Broyles, Rachel,translator.(CARDINAL)347125;
"Once a promising military intelligence officer, Danny Katz now uses his considerable gifts as a linguist and computer hacker in his work as a private investigator. He was once a high-functioning heroin addict, but his habit finally tripped him up and now he is self-employed, his relationship with his ex-wife and two daughters deeply troubled. In short, Katz is used to his fair share of suffering. But when his former drug dealer, Ramón, disappears along with Ramón's girlfriend, Jenny, the line between his current and former lives begins to blur. Many questions trail in the wake of the couple's disappearance: How did a small-time dealer like Ramón suddenly find himself in possession of a gigantic shipment of drugs? And was Jenny really who she claimed to be? Katz's investigation leads him to the darkest corners of Stockholm's black market, including its lucrative porn industry, and before long he finds his old addiction threatening to reassert its grip on his life. As the unorthodox investigation unfolds, one thing becomes clear--someone is willing to do whatever it takes to keep Katz from discovering the brutal truth. Will Katz be able to master his personal demons and find Ramón before Stockholm's netherworld once again claims him as its own?"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Detective and mystery fiction.; Drug dealers; Private investigators;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Information science / by Balice, Mary Lee,editor.(CARDINAL)622642;
Includes bibliographical references and index.This interdisciplinary resource on information management covers storing and transferring information, and how information is organized, accessed, interpreted, distributed, and used. It includes the subjects of computer science, library science, artificial intelligence, engineering, linguistics, psychology, mathematics of programming, and the theory of problem solving. Readers learn about documentation, cataloging and classification, and archives and record management. Information research and publishing, as well as digital technologies and libraries, are explored. With the explosion in data processing technology and its use by individuals, companies, and academic institutions, the need for organizing and managing information and systems today has never been more vital. Detailed Table of Contents, For Further Information Section, Glossary, Index, Sidebars, Web Sites, Full-color photographs.789YGrades 7 to 12.Z
Subjects: Information resources management.; Information science libraries.; Information science.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Principles of programming & coding / by Franceschetti, Donald R.,1947-editor.(CARDINAL)651222;
Includes bibliographical references and index3D printing -- Algorithms -- American Standard Code for Information -- Interchange (ASCII) -- Android OS -- Application -- Autonomic computing -- Avatars and simulation -- Binary hexadecimal representations -- Boolean operators -- Branching logic -- Characters and strings -- Cloud computing -- Coding and encryption -- Color coding -- Combinatorics -- Comment programming -- Comparison operators -- Computer animation -- Computer memory -- Computer modeling -- Computer security -- Computer-aided design (CAD) -- Computer-aided design and computer-aided manufacturing software (CAD/CAM) -- Computer-assisted instruction (CAI) -- Conditional operators -- Constraint programming -- Control systems -- Cowboy coding -- CPU design -- Crowdfunding -- Crowdsourcing -- Cryptography -- Data mining -- Data warehouse -- Database design -- Database structuring conventions -- Debugging -- Device drivers -- Diffusion of innovations -- Digital divide -- Digital forensics -- Digital libraries -- Digital native -- Digital photography -- Digital signal processors (DSP) -- Digital watermarking -- Disk operating system (DOS) -- Drone warfare -- Drones -- E-banking -- E-learning -- Electronic circuits -- Electronic communication software -- Encryption -- Error handling -- Event-driven marketing (EDM) -- Expectancy theory -- Experimenter's bias -- Extreme programming -- Firewalls -- Firmware -- Functional electrical stimulation (FES) -- Game programming -- Gamification -- Graphical user interface (GUI) -- Graphics formats -- Guard clause -- HTTP cookie -- Imagined communities -- Incremental development -- Informational technology (IT) -- Information visualization -- Internet Protocol (IP) -- Inversion of control (Hollywood Principle) -- iOS -- Iterative constructs -- Java programming language -- JavaScript -- Knowledge worker -- Levels of processing theory -- Logic synthesis -- Logistics -- Machine learning -- Malware -- Massive open online course (MOOC) -- Meta-analysis -- Metacomputing -- Metadata -- Microprocessors -- Mixed methods research (MMR) -- Mobile apps -- Mobile technology -- Motherboards -- Multiprocessing operating systems (OS) -- Multi-user operating system (OS) -- Naming conventions -- Net neutrality -- Network security -- Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) -- Neuromarketing -- Neuromorphic chips -- Objectivity -- Object-oriented design (OOD) -- Object-oriented programming (OOP) -- Privacy rights -- Programming languages -- Prototyping -- Quantum computing -- Random access memory (RAM) -- Rapid application development (RAD) -- Rational choice theory -- Search engine optimization (SEO) -- Semantic memory -- Semantics -- Signal processing -- Source code comments -- Spiral development -- Standard deviation -- Standpoint theory -- Statistical inference -- String-oriented symbolic languages (SNOBOL) -- Structural equation modeling (SEM) -- Technology in education -- Test doubles -- Theory of multiple intelligences -- Theory X and Theory Y -- Transformation priority premise (TPP) -- Tree structures -- Turing test -- Uncertainty reduction theory (URT) -- Unicode -- UNIX -- Variables and values -- Waterfall development -- Web design -- Web graphic design -- Working memory -- Worse-is-better -- Time Line of Inventions and Advancements in Programming and CodingThis new volume makes sense of the jumble of techno-jargon and programming acronyms for high school and undergraduate students. More than 125 entries explain the fundamental concepts, popular languages, systems, and protocols that go into computer programming.
Subjects: Computer programming.; Coding theory.;
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Incarnations : a history of India in fifty lives / by Khilnani, Sunil,1960-author.(CARDINAL)376210;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-426) and index.The Buddha : waking India up -- Mahavira : soldier of non-violence -- Panini : catching the ocean in a cow's hoofprint -- Kautilya : the ring of power -- Ashoka : power as persuasion -- Charaka : on not violating good judgment -- Aryabhata : the boat of intellect -- Adi Shankara : a god without qualities -- Rajaraja Chola : cosmos, temple, and territory -- Basava : a voice in the air -- Amir Khusrau : the parrot of India -- Kabir : "Hey, you!" -- Guru Nanak : the discipline of deeds -- Krishnadevaraya : "kingship is strange" -- Mirabai : I go the other way -- Akbar : the world and the bridge -- Malik Ambar : the dark-fated one -- Dara Shikoh : the meeting-place of the two oceans -- Shivaji : dreaming big -- Nainsukh : owner transfixed by goose -- William Jones : enlightenment Mughal -- Rammohun Roy : "humanity in general" -- Lakshmi Bai, Rani of Jhansi : bad-ass queen -- Jyotirao Phule : the open well -- Deen Daya : courtier with a camera -- Birsa Munda : "have you been to Chalkad?" -- Jamsetji Tata : making India -- Vivekananda : bring all together -- Annie Besant : an Indian tom-tom -- Chidambaram Pillai : Swadeshi steam -- Srinivasa Ramanujan : the elbow of genius -- Tagore : unlocking cages -- Visvesvaraya : extracting moonbeams from cucumbers -- Periyar : sniper of sacred cows -- Iqbal : death for falcons -- Amrita Sher-Gil : this is me -- Subhas Chandra Bose : a touch of the abnormal -- Gandhi : "in the palm of our hands" -- Jinnah : the chess player -- Manto : the unsentimentalist -- Ambedkar : building palaces on dung heaps -- Raj Kapoor : the politics of love -- Sheikh Abdullah : chains of gold -- V.K. Krishna Menon : somber porcupine -- Subbulakshmi : opening rosebuds -- Indira Gandhi : the center of everything -- Satyajit Ray : India without elephants -- Charan Singh : a common cause -- M.F. Husain : "Hindustan is free" -- Dhirubhai Ambani : fins"An entertaining and provocative account of India's past, written by one of the country's leading thinkers. For all of India's myths, its sea of stories and moral epics, Indian history remains a curiously unpeopled place. In Incarnations, Sunil Khilnani fills that space, recapturing the human dimension of how the world's largest democracy came to be. His trenchant portraits of emperors, warriors, philosophers, film stars, and corporate titans-- some famous, some unjustly forgotten-- bring feeling, wry humor, and uncommon insight to dilemmas that extend from ancient times to our own. As he journeys across the country and through its past, Khilnani uncovers more than just history. In rocket launches and ayurvedic call centers, in slum temples and Bollywood studios, in California communes and grimy ports, he examines the continued, and often surprising, relevance of the men and women who have made India--and the world--what it is. We encounter the Buddha, 'the first human personality'; the ancient Sanskrit linguist who inspires computer programmers today; the wit and guile of India's Machiavelli; and the medieval poets who mocked rituals and caste. In the twentieth century, Khilnani sets Gandhi and other political icons of the independence era next to actresses, photographers, and entrepreneurs. Incarnations is an ideal introduction to India--and a provocative and sophisticated reinterpretation of its history"--
Subjects: Biographies.;
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