Galaxy Zoo
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Galaxy Zoo
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Author : Cindy Sprigg
language : en
Publisher: Publishamerica Incorporated
Release Date : 2008-09-01
Galaxy Zoo written by Cindy Sprigg and has been published by Publishamerica Incorporated this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09-01 with Fiction categories.
Jeff Williams, slave and clone of a slave, is employed on a starship caring for captured creatures destined for an alien menagerie. Yet the cloning process allows him to retain memory all the way back to when he was human. Into this unchanging life of drudgery, which is all he has known for centuries, comes a wind of change. He finds himself building a friendship with one of his captors, and as change accelerates, he becomes increasingly confused as his past begins to intrude more and more into his life. Torn between loyalty to a friend and his desire for freedom, his story builds to a climax as he comes to doubt all he once held as true. The revelations that follow sweep him along, resulting in experiences that are beyond his imagining, including that legendary state, freedom.
Governing Knowledge Commons
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Author : Brett M. Frischmann
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2014-08-05
Governing Knowledge Commons written by Brett M. Frischmann and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-05 with Law categories.
"Knowledge commons" describes the institutionalized community governance of the sharing and, in some cases, creation, of information, science, knowledge, data, and other types of intellectual and cultural resources. It is the subject of enormous recent interest and enthusiasm with respect to policymaking about innovation, creative production, and intellectual property. Taking that enthusiasm as its starting point, Governing Knowledge Commons argues that policymaking should be based on evidence and a deeper understanding of what makes commons institutions work. It offers a systematic way to study knowledge commons, borrowing and building on Elinor Ostrom's Nobel Prize-winning research on natural resource commons. It proposes a framework for studying knowledge commons that is adapted to the unique attributes of knowledge and information, describing the framework in detail and explaining how to put it into context both with respect to commons research and with respect to innovation and information policy. Eleven detailed case studies apply and discuss the framework exploring knowledge commons across a wide variety of scientific and cultural domains.
User Generated Law
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Author : Thomas Riis
language : en
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Release Date : 2016-07-27
User Generated Law written by Thomas Riis and has been published by Edward Elgar Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-27 with LAW categories.
Engaging and innovative, User Generated Law offers a new perspective on the study of intellectual property law. Shifting research away from the study of statutory law, contributions from leading scholars explore why and how self-regulation of intellectual property rights in a knowledge society emerges and develops. Analysing examples of self-regulation in the intellectual property law based industries, this book evaluates to what extent user generated law is an accurate model for explaining and understanding this process.
Fundamentals Of Machine Learning For Predictive Data Analytics Second Edition
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Author : John D. Kelleher
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2020-10-20
Fundamentals Of Machine Learning For Predictive Data Analytics Second Edition written by John D. Kelleher and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-20 with Computers categories.
The second edition of a comprehensive introduction to machine learning approaches used in predictive data analytics, covering both theory and practice. Machine learning is often used to build predictive models by extracting patterns from large datasets. These models are used in predictive data analytics applications including price prediction, risk assessment, predicting customer behavior, and document classification. This introductory textbook offers a detailed and focused treatment of the most important machine learning approaches used in predictive data analytics, covering both theoretical concepts and practical applications. Technical and mathematical material is augmented with explanatory worked examples, and case studies illustrate the application of these models in the broader business context. This second edition covers recent developments in machine learning, especially in a new chapter on deep learning, and two new chapters that go beyond predictive analytics to cover unsupervised learning and reinforcement learning.
Advances In Machine Learning And Data Mining For Astronomy
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Author : Michael J. Way
language : en
Publisher: CRC Press
Release Date : 2012-03-29
Advances In Machine Learning And Data Mining For Astronomy written by Michael J. Way and has been published by CRC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-29 with Computers categories.
Advances in Machine Learning and Data Mining for Astronomy documents numerous successful collaborations among computer scientists, statisticians, and astronomers who illustrate the application of state-of-the-art machine learning and data mining techniques in astronomy. Due to the massive amount and complexity of data in most scientific disciplines, the material discussed in this text transcends traditional boundaries between various areas in the sciences and computer science. The book’s introductory part provides context to issues in the astronomical sciences that are also important to health, social, and physical sciences, particularly probabilistic and statistical aspects of classification and cluster analysis. The next part describes a number of astrophysics case studies that leverage a range of machine learning and data mining technologies. In the last part, developers of algorithms and practitioners of machine learning and data mining show how these tools and techniques are used in astronomical applications. With contributions from leading astronomers and computer scientists, this book is a practical guide to many of the most important developments in machine learning, data mining, and statistics. It explores how these advances can solve current and future problems in astronomy and looks at how they could lead to the creation of entirely new algorithms within the data mining community.
Social Design Cookbook
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Author : Attila Bujdosó
language : en
Publisher: Attila Bujdosó
Release Date : 2019-07-11
Social Design Cookbook written by Attila Bujdosó and has been published by Attila Bujdosó this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-11 with Design categories.
Why do people turn their homes into a restaurant for a day? Why do people volunteer for scientific or community projects without getting paid? How can one get people actively involved in social projects? Social Design Cookbook uncovers what it takes to organise successful and sustainable social initiatives. It features comprehensive case studies of a broad, international selection of social cooperative formats that have been successful in their local communities and have also been successfully replicated in other locations and contexts. By looking at an array of such practices, the authors have developed the Social Design Canvas, which can be used to analyse and design new forms of social collaboration and cooperation. Case studies: PECHAKUCHA NIGHT, RESTAURANT DAY, COMPLAINTS CHOIR, CRITICAL MASS, NATIONAL NOVEL WRITING MONTH, GALAXY ZOO, FORTEPAN, SUBJECTIVE ATLAS, FAB LAB, THE PORT HACKATHON, MUSEOMIX, THE LONG NIGHT OF MUSEUMS, USE-IT, DEMOCRACYOS, JÁRÓKELŐŐ,REESOUND, WIKIDATA, OPENSTREETMAP Download Social Design Canvas templates at socialdesigncookbook.com. This cookbook lives up to its name! You rarely find a book so accessible and hands-on, yet so beautifully designed. If you conduct projects that involve people you have to read this. — Jakob Schneider, co-author and designer of This is Service Design Thinking/Doing This book is loaded with tips, tricks and best practices. Start implementing them so you can experience how much power communities hold to induce great changes. — Péter Halácsy, co-founder at Prezi.com and CEO at Budapest School
Galaxies
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Author : Or Graur
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2024-08-06
Galaxies written by Or Graur and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-08-06 with Science categories.
An eminently readable overview of the history and physics of galaxies. In Galaxies, Or Graur offers a brief and fascinating overview of the history, physics, and astrophysical uses of galaxies. Starting with the history of the last two thousand years of galaxy studies, Graur discusses the types of galaxies we observe and the physics that drive them; the myths and physical structure of the Milky Way; how galaxies were used to discover and study the mysterious phenomena of dark matter and dark energy; and how scientists think galaxies formed shortly after the Big Bang and evolved to their present forms. Tracing galaxy studies back thousands of years ago to their beginnings, Graur describes their origin in Ptolemy’s book Almagest, which was written in the first century CE. Almagest catalogued hundreds of stars and a few hazy cloud-like objects, one of which was the Andromeda galaxy. The reader will also encounter in this book well-known figures such as William Herschel, who, along with his sister Caroline (the first professional female astronomer), discovered hundreds of galaxies and lay the foundations for modern galaxy studies, as well as lesser-known astronomers, including tenth-century Persian astronomer Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi, twentieth-century American astronomer Vesto Melvin Slipher, and others. Galaxies concludes by showing readers how they can get involved in galaxy studies themselves and do their part to fight the light pollution that today obscures the Milky Way and all but the brightest of stars. Providing a brief but broad overview of galaxies for the nonspecialist, Galaxies shows just how modern science is done and what the future holds for this specific field of astronomy.
Online Collective Action
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Author : Nitin Agarwal
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2014-08-01
Online Collective Action written by Nitin Agarwal and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-01 with Computers categories.
This work addresses the gap in the current collective action literature exposed by the new Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) landscape by bringing together qualitative and quantitative studies from computational and social sciences. The book offers a rigorous and systematic investigation of both methodological and theoretical underpinnings and, thus, collectively promotes a symbiotic and synergistic advancement of the multiple interconnected disciplines in studying online collective actions. More specifically, the book is intended to illuminate several fundamental and powerful yet theoretically undeveloped and largely unexplored aspects of collective action in the participatory media (e.g., social media). Through in-depth exploration of relevant concepts, theories, methodologies, applications, and case studies, the reader will gain an advanced understanding of collective action with the advent of the new generation of ICTs enabled by social media and the Internet. The developed theories will be valuable and comprehensive references for those interested in examining the role of ICTs not only in collective action but also in decision and policy making, understanding the dynamics of interaction, collaboration, cooperation, communication, as well as information flow and propagation, and social network research for years to come. Further, the book also serves as an extensive repository of data sets and tools that can be used by researchers leading to a deeper and more fundamental understanding of the dynamics of the crowd in online collective actions.
Astronomy And Big Data
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Author : Kieran Jay Edwards
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2014-04-12
Astronomy And Big Data written by Kieran Jay Edwards and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-12 with Technology & Engineering categories.
With the onset of massive cosmological data collection through media such as the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), galaxy classification has been accomplished for the most part with the help of citizen science communities like Galaxy Zoo. Seeking the wisdom of the crowd for such Big Data processing has proved extremely beneficial. However, an analysis of one of the Galaxy Zoo morphological classification data sets has shown that a significant majority of all classified galaxies are labelled as “Uncertain”. This book reports on how to use data mining, more specifically clustering, to identify galaxies that the public has shown some degree of uncertainty for as to whether they belong to one morphology type or another. The book shows the importance of transitions between different data mining techniques in an insightful workflow. It demonstrates that Clustering enables to identify discriminating features in the analysed data sets, adopting a novel feature selection algorithms called Incremental Feature Selection (IFS). The book shows the use of state-of-the-art classification techniques, Random Forests and Support Vector Machines to validate the acquired results. It is concluded that a vast majority of these galaxies are, in fact, of spiral morphology with a small subset potentially consisting of stars, elliptical galaxies or galaxies of other morphological variants.
Cosmic Pinwheels Spiral Galaxies And The Universe
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Author : Ronald J Buta
language : en
Publisher: World Scientific
Release Date : 2020-10-29
Cosmic Pinwheels Spiral Galaxies And The Universe written by Ronald J Buta and has been published by World Scientific this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-29 with Science categories.
'It is strongly biased towards the author's speciality of galaxy morphology, and particularly to bars and rings. To be fair, these are often given fairly short shrift in other textbooks, so this is a useful source of detail on such topics from an expert. In addition, references to original technical papers are given throughout which makes the book a handy introduction to the literature (which students may well find useful).'The Observatory MagazineThe main goal of the book is to introduce the reader to the world of spiral galaxies, how spirals were discovered, what they represent from a physical point of view, and what people have learned about the universe and the nature of galaxies in general from the study of spirals. Topics include early discoveries of nebulae, the island universe concept, the structure of spirals as seen both visually with telescopes and in images obtained with different filters, the role of spirals in the discovery of interstellar dust and dark matter, the different kinds of spiral galaxies and the importance of bars and rings, how different non-spiral galaxy types such as elliptical galaxies and S0 galaxies connect to spirals, and how spirals have contributed to our understanding of star formation and evolution, galaxy formation and evolution, the cosmological distance scale, and the universal expansion. The Milky Way as a spiral galaxy is also discussed.The book is profusely illustrated and not only a discourse on the spirals, but is also a personal reminiscence based on the author's studies of spiral galaxies over the past 45 years.