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Machine Learning for Managers

Machine Learning for Managers

Machine learning can help managers make better predictions automate complex tasks and improve business operations. Managers who are familiar with machine learning are better placed to navigate the increasingly digital world we live in. There is a view that machine learning is a highly technical subject that can only be understood by specialists. However many of the ideas that underpin machine learning are straightforward and accessible to anyone with a bit of curiosity. This book is for managers who want to understand what machine learning is about but who lack a technical background in computer science statistics or math. The book describes in plain language what machine learning is and how it works. In addition it explains how to manage machine learning projects within an organization. This book should appeal to anyone that wants to learn more about using machine learning to drive value in real-world organizations. | Machine Learning for Managers

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Machine Learning in Translation

Machine Learning in Translation

Machine Learning in Translation introduces machine learning (ML) theories and technologies that are most relevant to translation processes approaching the topic from a human perspective and emphasizing that ML and ML-driven technologies are tools for humans. Providing an exploration of the common ground between human and machine learning and of the nature of translation that leverages this new dimension this book helps linguists translators and localizers better find their added value in a ML-driven translation environment. Part One explores how humans and machines approach the problem of translation in their own particular ways in terms of word embeddings chunking of larger meaning units and prediction in translation based upon the broader context. Part Two introduces key tasks including machine translation translation quality assessment and quality estimation and other Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks in translation. Part Three focuses on the role of data in both human and machine learning processes. It proposes that a translator’s unique value lies in the capability to create manage and leverage language data in different ML tasks in the translation process. It outlines new knowledge and skills that need to be incorporated into traditional translation education in the machine learning era. The book concludes with a discussion of human-centered machine learning in translation stressing the need to empower translators with ML knowledge through communication with ML users developers and programmers and with opportunities for continuous learning. This accessible guide is designed for current and future users of ML technologies in localization workflows including students on courses in translation and localization language technology and related areas. It supports the professional development of translation practitioners so that they can fully utilize ML technologies and design their own human-centered ML-driven translation workflows and NLP tasks.

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Machine Learning and Music Generation

Machine Learning and Music Generation

Computational approaches to music composition and style imitation have engaged musicians music scholars and computer scientists since the early days of computing. Music generation research has generally employed one of two strategies: knowledge-based methods that model style through explicitly formalized rules and data mining methods that apply machine learning to induce statistical models of musical style. The five chapters in this book illustrate the range of tasks and design choices in current music generation research applying machine learning techniques and highlighting recurring research issues such as training data music representation candidate generation and evaluation. The contributions focus on different aspects of modeling and generating music including melody chord sequences ornamentation and dynamics. Models are induced from audio data or symbolic data. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Mathematics and Music. | Machine Learning and Music Generation

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A First Course in Machine Learning

A First Course in Machine Learning

A First Course in Machine Learning by Simon Rogers and Mark Girolami is the best introductory book for ML currently available. It combines rigor and precision with accessibility starts from a detailed explanation of the basic foundations of Bayesian analysis in the simplest of settings and goes all the way to the frontiers of the subject such as infinite mixture models GPs and MCMC. —Devdatt Dubhashi Professor Department of Computer Science and Engineering Chalmers University Sweden This textbook manages to be easier to read than other comparable books in the subject while retaining all the rigorous treatment needed. The new chapters put it at the forefront of the field by covering topics that have become mainstream in machine learning over the last decade. —Daniel Barbara George Mason University Fairfax Virginia USA The new edition of A First Course in Machine Learning by Rogers and Girolami is an excellent introduction to the use of statistical methods in machine learning. The book introduces concepts such as mathematical modeling inference and prediction providing ‘just in time’ the essential background on linear algebra calculus and probability theory that the reader needs to understand these concepts. —Daniel Ortiz-Arroyo Associate Professor Aalborg University Esbjerg Denmark I was impressed by how closely the material aligns with the needs of an introductory course on machine learning which is its greatest strength…Overall this is a pragmatic and helpful book which is well-aligned to the needs of an introductory course and one that I will be looking at for my own students in coming months. —David Clifton University of Oxford UK The first edition of this book was already an excellent introductory text on machine learning for an advanced undergraduate or taught masters level course or indeed for anybody who wants to learn about an interesting and important field of computer science. The additional chapters of advanced material on Gaussian process MCMC and mixture modeling provide an ideal basis for practical projects without disturbing the very clear and readable exposition of the basics contained in the first part of the book. —Gavin Cawley Senior Lecturer School of Computing Sciences University of East Anglia UK This book could be used for junior/senior undergraduate students or first-year graduate students as well as individuals who want to explore the field of machine learning…The book introduces not only the concepts but the underlying ideas on algorithm implementation from a critical thinking perspective. —Guangzhi Qu Oakland University Rochester Michigan USA

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Machine Learning Architecture in the age of Artificial Intelligence

Machine Learning Architecture in the age of Artificial Intelligence

‘The advent of machine learning-based AI systems demands that our industry does not just share toys but builds a new sandbox in which to play with them. ’ - Phil Bernstein The profession is changing. A new era is rapidly approaching when computers will not merely be instruments for data creation manipulation and management but empowered by artificial intelligence they will become agents of design themselves. Architects need a strategy for facing the opportunities and threats of these emergent capabilities or risk being left behind. Architecture’s best-known technologist Phil Bernstein provides that strategy. Divided into three key sections – Process Relationships and Results – Machine Learning lays out an approach for anticipating understanding and managing a world in which computers often augment but may well also supplant knowledge workers like architects. Armed with this insight practices can take full advantage of the new technologies to future-proof their business. Features chapters on: Professionalism Tools and technologies Laws policy and risk Delivery means and methods Creating consuming and curating data Value propositions and business models. | Machine Learning Architecture in the age of Artificial Intelligence

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The Humanitarian Machine Reflections from Practice

The Humanitarian Machine Reflections from Practice

As the world reels from the impact of a global pandemic and increasing intensity of climate-caused hazards the humanitarian sector has never been more relevant. But providing aid to those affected by disasters and crises is more complex than ever. In The Humanitarian Machine aid workers reflect on their own experiences of working in crisis. As they write about their work and the ways in which they each approach the challenges of helping people they comment on some of the most vexing issues facing the humanitarian sector. Each speaks from their own perspective asking tough questions sharing thoughtful reflections about their ongoing work and unpacking what it really means to be a humanitarian worker. The stories they tell whether recounting a specific experience or reflecting on years of practice reveal the dilemmas they face and demystify the overly romanticized aura that sometimes surrounds humanitarian practice. Complementing the candid accounts that humanitarian leaders contribute in this book the editors examine how their stories perceptions and understandings align with similar conversations that take place in other settings. Viewed together in this way the insights and reflections provided in this book will be invaluable for humanitarian practitioners students and researchers alike. | The Humanitarian Machine Reflections from Practice

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Modeling and Control of AC Machine using MATLAB /SIMULINK

Modeling and Control of AC Machine using MATLAB /SIMULINK

This book introduces electrical machine modeling and control for electrical engineering and science to graduate undergraduate students as well as researchers who are working on modeling and control of electrical machines. It targets electrical engineering students who have no time to derive mathematical equations for electrical machines in particular induction machine (IM) and doubly fed induction machines (DFIM). The main focus is on the application of field oriented control technique to induction motor (IM) and doubly fed induction motor (DFIM) in details and since the induction motors have many drawback using this technique therefore the application of a nonlinear control technique (feedback linearization) is applied to a reduced order model of DFIM to enhance the performance of doubly fed induction motor. FeaturesServes as text book for electrical motor modeling simulation and control; especially modeling of induction motor and doubly fed induction motor using different frame of references. Vector control (field oriented control) is given in more detailed and is applied to induction motor. A nonlinear controller is applied to a reduced model of an doubly induction motor associated with a linear observer to estimate the unmeasured load torque which is used to enhance the performance of the vector control to doubly fed induction motor. Access to the full MATLAB/SIMULINK blocks for simulation and control. | Modeling and Control of AC Machine using MATLAB®/SIMULINK

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Computer A History of the Information Machine

Computer A History of the Information Machine

Computer: A History of the Information Machine traces the history of the computer and its unlimited information-processing potential. Comprehensive and accessibly written this fully updated fourth edition adds new chapters on the globalization of information technology the rise of social media fake news and the gig economy and the regulatory frameworks being put in place to tame the ubiquitous computer. Computer is an insightful look at the pace of technological advancement and the seamless way computers are integrated into the modern world. The authors examine the history of the computer including the first steps taken by Charles Babbage in the nineteenth century and how wartime needs and the development of electronics led to the giant ENIAC the first electronic computer. For a generation IBM dominated the computer industry. In the 1980s the desktop PC liberated people from room-sized mainframe computers. Next laptops and smartphones made computers available to half of the world’s population leading to the rise of Google and Facebook and powerful apps that changed the way we work consume learn and socialize. The volume is an essential resource for scholars and those studying computer history technology history and information and society as well as a range of courses in the fields of computer science communications sociology and management. | Computer A History of the Information Machine

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Belief Action and Rationality over Time

Belief Action and Rationality over Time

Action theorists and formal epistemologists often pursue parallel inquiries regarding rationality with the former focused on practical rationality and the latter focused on theoretical rationality. In both fields there is currently a strong interest in exploring rationality in relation to time. The exploration raises questions about the rationality of certain patterns over time. For example it raises questions about the rational permissibility of certain patterns of intention; similarly it raises questions about the rational permissibility of certain patterns of belief. While the action-theoretic and epistemic questions raised are closely related advances in one field are not always processed by the other. This volume brings together contributions by scholars in action theory and formal epistemology working on questions regarding rationality and time so that researchers in these overlapping fields can profit from each other’s insights. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Canadian Journal of Philosophy. | Belief Action and Rationality over Time

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Regional Innovation Potential: The Case of the U.S. Machine Tool Industry

Regional Innovation Potential: The Case of the U.S. Machine Tool Industry

This title was first published in 2000: Steven Nivin analyzes a process vital to economic development - technological change. He furthers understanding of the processes driving innovation so that we may gain a deeper insight into the development of economies. Specifically the study explores the concept of innovation potential and the factors that result in variations in innovation potential across metropolitan areas using the US machine tool industry as a case study. To provide a comparison the same models are also estimated for the semiconductor industry. The findings indicate that urbanisation economies localization economies human capital universities and invention-derived knowledge are significant factors. The study assesses the contributions of three different skill levels of human capital; college-educated graduate degree and locally produced PhD’s in mechanical and electrical engineering. Only the graduate and PhD degree measures are found to be significant indicating the importance of having a highly skilled pool of labour within the region. The influences of the factors appear to be similar across industries with some slight differences. The transfer of knowledge through patents is also studied. It is found that the transmission of this knowledge is slower between different industries relative to the transmission within the same industry. | Regional Innovation Potential: The Case of the U. S. Machine Tool Industry

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Analysing English-Arabic Machine Translation Google Translate Microsoft Translator and Sakhr

Analysing English-Arabic Machine Translation Google Translate Microsoft Translator and Sakhr

Machine Translation (MT) has become widely used throughout the world as a medium of communication between those who live in different countries and speak different languages. However translation between distant languages constitutes a challenge for machines. Therefore translation evaluation is poised to play a significant role in the process of designing and developing effective MT systems. This book evaluates three prominent MT systems including Google Translate Microsoft Translator and Sakhr each of which provides translation between English and Arabic. In the book Almahasees scrutinizes the capacity of the three systems in dealing with translation between English and Arabic in a large corpus taken from various domains including the United Nation (UN) the World Health Organization (WHO) the Arab League Petra News Agency reports and two literary texts: The Old Man and the Sea and The Prophet. The evaluation covers holistic analysis to assess the output of the three systems in terms of Translation Automation User Society (TAUS) adequacy and fluency scales. The text also looks at error analysis to evaluate the systems’ output in terms of orthography lexis grammar and semantics at the entire-text level and in terms of lexis grammar and semantics at the collocation level. The research findings contained within this volume provide important feedback about the capabilities of the three MT systems with respect to EnglishArabic translation and paves the way for further research on such an important topic. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of translation studies and translation technology. | Analysing English-Arabic Machine Translation Google Translate Microsoft Translator and Sakhr

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Diffractive Ethnography Social Sciences and the Ontological Turn

Diffractive Ethnography Social Sciences and the Ontological Turn

Across intellectual disciplines the ontological turn is restructuring how we think about our relationships with the natural world. Influenced by the seemingly disparate realms of indigenous philosophy and quantum physics the turn invites us to think about intra-actions and assemblages of human and nonhuman entities. This raises epistemological questions about how we know about the world and spotlights some of the problems with how we currently do conventional social science research. Diffractive Ethnography invites social scientists to consider alternate methodologies that account for the complexity of human behavior situated in larger environmental contexts. For both novice and experienced researchers this thought-provoking book opens new ways of thinking about methodology and raises questions about the ethical and justice orientations of our work. | Diffractive Ethnography Social Sciences and the Ontological Turn

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Encyclopedia of Microcomputers Volume 6 - Electronic Dictionaries in Machine Translation to Evaluation of Software: Microsoft Word Version 4.0

Encyclopedia of Microcomputers Volume 6 - Electronic Dictionaries in Machine Translation to Evaluation of Software: Microsoft Word Version 4.0

The Encyclopedia of Microcomputers serves as the ideal companion reference to the popular Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Technology. Now in its 10th year of publication this timely reference work details the broad spectrum of microcomputer technology including microcomputer history; explains and illustrates the use of microcomputers throughout academe business government and society in general; and assesses the future impact of this rapidly changing technology. | Encyclopedia of Microcomputers Volume 6 - Electronic Dictionaries in Machine Translation to Evaluation of Software: Microsoft Word Version 4. 0

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The Industrialization of Intelligence Mind and Machine in the Modern Age

The Industrialization of Intelligence Mind and Machine in the Modern Age

Originally published in 1989 The Industrialization of Intelligence is a spirited blend of the principles of social science and computer technology. Critically praised in the United States and England by leading lights both literary and technological it develops an original and provocative model of the interplay between computer systems and social systems. Noah Kennedy has composed a compelling story from key episodes in the development of the computer and coupled it with a probing analysis of the true role of automation in modem society. The result firmly plants computer technology in the soil of western culture and denies the shrill claims that the information age represents a sudden break with the historical past. He starts with biographical vignettes from the lives of five pivotal thinkers weaving their crucial insights into the larger fabric of contemporary and future society. He then gives a provocative forecast of the role of artificial intelligence in future society and examines the probable impact of new computer technologies on employment and on the relationships between nations. The result is a reasoned understanding of our imminent future through a thoughtful analysis of our historical past. | The Industrialization of Intelligence Mind and Machine in the Modern Age

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A Demographic Study of an Egyptian Province (Sharquiya)

A Demographic Study of an Egyptian Province (Sharquiya)

Initially published in 1943. In A Demographic Study of an Egyptian Province (Sharquiya) Dr Ammar an Egyptian anthropologist raises a number of questions around the relevance of and need for accurate population statistics in field economic studies. His tables and sociological analysis will be of particular interest to those working in other Muslim areas and the economic conclusions he draws have familiarity to all who are studying 'the problem of primary poverty'.

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Postmodernism Philosophy and the Arts

Postmodernism Philosophy and the Arts

This book first published in 1990 addresses the broad cultural phenomenon that is postmodernism. The first part of the book raises some general theoretical questions about postmodernism – its language and its politics for example. The second section attends to particular ‘sites’ namely the various arts themselves and the philosophical understanding of them. Here one finds specific readings of architecture painting literature theatre photography film television dance and fashion. | Postmodernism Philosophy and the Arts

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Burden-sharing in NATO

Burden-sharing in NATO

This book first published in 1983 analyses the debate around burden-sharing in NATO where the main issue is the distribution amongst the allies of the burden of maintaining the security arrangement. This raises problems of defining measuring and comparing the defence efforts of the various countries. This book examines the issues and argues for the need to address directly the fundamental problems concerning the Cold War security relationship between the United States and Western Europe.

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The Forest Certification Handbook

The Forest Certification Handbook

First published in 1995 The Forest Certification Handbook has become the landmark book concerning all aspects of forest and wood product certification from policy to business to in-the-field technical issues. Yet since first publication an enormous amount has happened in the field. This new second edition has been entirely rewritten to incorporate the changes over the past decade and is a complete and up-to-date source of information on all aspects of developing selecting and operating a forest certification programme that provides both market security and raises standards of forest management.

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Barth's Theology of Interpretation

Barth's Theology of Interpretation

Through his single-minded insistence on the priority of the Bible in the life of the church Karl Barth (1886-1968) decisively shaped the course of twentieth-century Christian theology. Drawing on both familiar texts and recently published archival material Barth's Theology of Interpretation sheds new light on Barth's account of just what it is that scripture gives and requires. In tracing the movement of Barth’s earlier thinking about scriptural reading the book also raises important questions about the ways in which Barth can continue to influence contemporary discussions about the theological interpretation of scripture.

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Boudica Britannia

Boudica Britannia

When Roman troops threatened to seize the wealth of the Iceni people their queen Boudica retaliated by inciting a major uprising allying her tribe with the neighbouring Trinovantes. The ensuing clash is one of the most important - and dramatic - events in the history of Britain standing testament to what can happen when an insensitive colonial power meets determined resistance from a subjugated people head-on. In this fascinating account of a legendary figure Miranda Aldhouse-Green raises questions about female power colonial oppression and whether Boudica would be seen today as a freedom fighter terrorist or martyr. | Boudica Britannia

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History and Art History Looking Past Disciplines

History and Art History Looking Past Disciplines

Through a series of cross-disciplinary and interdisciplinary interventions leading international scholars of history and art history explore ways in which the study of images enhances knowledge of the past and informs our understanding of the present. Spanning a diverse range of time periods and places the contributions cumulatively showcase ways in which ongoing dialogue between history and art history raises important aesthetic ethical and political questions for the disciplines. The volume fosters a methodological awareness that enriches exchanges across these distinct fields of knowledge. This innovative book will be of interest to scholars in art history cultural studies history visual culture and historiography. | History and Art History Looking Past Disciplines

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Cross-Gender China Across Yin-Yang Across Cultures and Beyond Jingju

Cross-Gender China Across Yin-Yang Across Cultures and Beyond Jingju

Cross-Gender China the outcome of more than twenty years of theatrical and sociological research deconstructs the cultural implications of cross-gender performance in today's China. The recent revival in male-to-female cross-gender nandan performance in Chinese theatre raises a multitude of questions: it may suggest new gender dynamics or new readings of old aesthetic traditions in new socio-cultural contexts. Interrogating the positions of the gender being performed and the gender doing the performing this volume gives a broad cultural account of the contexts in which this unique performance style has found new life. | Cross-Gender China Across Yin-Yang Across Cultures and Beyond Jingju

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