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Snipers, Shills, and Sharks: eBay and Human Behaviour

by Ken Steiglitz Princeton University Press
Pub Date:
03/2007
ISBN:
9780691127132
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Hbk 298 pages

Every day on eBay, millions of people buy and sell a vast array of goods, from rare collectibles and antiques to used cars and...

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Inner History of Devices

by Sherry Turkle The MIT Press
Pub Date:
10/2008
ISBN:
9780262201766
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Hb+ 224 pages

For more than two decades, in such landmark studies as The Second Self and Life on the Screen, Sherry Turkle has challenged our...

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Structure and Dynamics of Networks

by Mark Newman, Albert-Laszlo Barabasi and Duncan Watts Princeton University Press
Pub Date:
04/2006
ISBN:
9780691113579
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Pb+ 624 pages

From the Internet to networks of friendship, disease transmission, and even terrorism, the concept--and the reality--of networks...

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Intellectual Foundation of Information Organization

by Elaine Svenonius The MIT Press
Pub Date:
03/2009
ISBN:
9780262512619
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Pbk 280 pages

Instant electronic access to digital information is the single most distinguishing attribute of the information age. The elaborate...

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Techonology as Experience

by John McCarthy and Peter Wright The MIT Press
Pub Date:
10/2007
ISBN:
9780262633550
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Pb+ 224 pages

In Technology as Experience, John McCarthy and Peter Wright argue that any account of what is often called the user experience...

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Scientific Collaboration on the Internet

by Gary M Olson, Ann Zimmerman and Nathan Bos The MIT Press
Pub Date:
11/2008
ISBN:
9780262151207
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Hbk 424 pages

Modern science is increasingly collaborative, as signaled by rising numbers of coauthored papers, papers with international coauthors,...

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Toward Brain-Computer Interfacing

by Guido Dornhege, Jose del R Millan, Thilo Hinterberger, Dennis J Mcfarland and Klaus-Robert Muller The MIT Press
Pub Date:
09/2007
ISBN:
9780262042444
Format:
Hbk 520 pages

Interest in developing an effective communication interface connecting the human brain and a computer has grown rapidly over the...

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Computational Economics (ISE)

by David A Kendrick, P Ruben Mercado and Hans M Amman Princeton University Press
Pub Date:
12/2005
ISBN:
9780691125497
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Hbk 448 pages

The ability to conceptualize an economic problem verbally, to formulate it as a mathematical model, and then represent the mathematics...

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Health IT and Patient Safety: Building Safer Systems for Better Care

by Committee on Patient Safety and Health Information Technology; Institute of Medicine National Academies Press
Pub Date:
12/2012
ISBN:
9780309221122
Format:
Pbk 211 pages

IOM's 1999 landmark study To Err is Human estimated that between 44,000 and 98,000 lives are lost every year due to medical errors....

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Engaging Privacy and Information Technology in a Digital Age

by James Waldo, herbert S Lin and Lynette I Millett National Academies Press
Pub Date:
07/2007
ISBN:
9780309103923
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Hbk 452 pages

The spread of the Internet and the seemingly boundaryless options for collecting, saving, sharing, and comparing information trigger...

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Journey to Data Quality

by Yang Lee, Leo Pipino and James Funk The MIT Press
Pub Date:
10/2006
ISBN:
9780262122870
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Hb+ 240 pages

All organizations today confront data quality problems, both systemic and structural. Neither ad hoc approaches nor fixes at the...

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Combinatorial Auctions

by Peter Cramton, Yoav Shoham, Richard Steinberg and Vernon L Smith The MIT Press
Pub Date:
07/2010
ISBN:
9780262514132
Format:
Pb+ 672 pages

The study of combinatorial auctions—auctions in which bidders can bid on combinations of items or "packages"—draws on the disciplines...

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Internet-mediated Participation Beyond the Nation State

by Bart Cammaerts Manchester University Press
Pub Date:
07/2010
ISBN:
9780719076480
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Hbk 288 pages

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Combinatorial Auctions

by Peter Cramton, Yoav Shoham and Richard Steinberg The MIT Press
Pub Date:
01/2006
ISBN:
9780262033428
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The study of combinatorial auctions -- auctions in which bidders can bid on combinations of items or 'packages' -- draws on the...

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Computing Research for Sustainability

by Lynette I Millett and Deborah L Estrin National Academies Press
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07/2012
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9780309257589
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Pbk 155 pages

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