John R. Koza

Martin A. Keane

Matthew J. Streeter

William Mydlowec

Jessen Yu

Guido Lanza

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Computer Science

Routine Human-Competitive Machine Intelligence

Genetic Programming IV: Routine Human-Competitive Machine Intelligence presents the application of GP to a wide variety of problems involving automated synthesis of controllers, circuits, antennas, genetic networks, and metabolic pathways. The book describes fifteen instances where GP has created an entity that either infringes or duplicates the functionality of a previously patented 20th-century invention, six instances where it has done the same with respect to post-2000 patented inventions, two instances where GP has created a patentable new invention, and thirteen other human-competitive results. The book additionally establishes: GP now delivers routine human-competitive machine intelligence GP is an automated invention machine GP can create general solutions to problems in the form of parameterized topologies GP has delivered qualitatively more substantial results in synchrony with the relentless iteration of Moore's Law

Genetic Programming IV

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David Andre

Forrest H. Bennett

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

Darwinian Invention and Problem Solving

Genetic programming (GP) is a method for getting a computer to solve a problem by telling it what needs to be done instead of how to do it. Koza, Bennett, Andre, and Keane present genetically evolved solutions to dozens of problems of design, control, classification, system identification, and computational molecular biology. Among the solutions are 14 results competitive with human-produced results, including 10 rediscoveries of previously patented inventions.

Genetic Programming III

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Inside cover is signed by original owner, otherwise no markings on pages.

Automatic Discovery of Reusable Programs

Background on genetic algorithms, LISP, and genetic programming. Hierarchical problem-solving. Introduction to automatically defined functions: the two-boxes problem. Problems that straddle the breakeven point for computational effort. Boolean parity functions. Determining the architecture of the program. The lawnmower problem. The bumblebee problem. The increasing benefits of ADFs as problems are scaled up. Finding an impulse response function. Artificial ant on the San Mateo trail. Obstacle-avoiding robot. The minesweeper problem. Automatic discovery of detectors for letter recognition. Flushes and four-of-a-kinds in a pinochle deck. Introduction to biochemistry and molecular biology. Prediction of transmembrane domains in proteins. Prediction of omega loops in proteins. Lookahead version of the transmembrane problem. Evolutionary selection of the architecture of the program. Evolution of primitives and sufficiency. Evolutionary selection of terminals. Evolution of closure. Simultaneous evolution of architecture, primitive functions, terminals, sufficiency, and closure. The role representation and the Lens effect. Default parameters. Computer implementation. Electronic mailing list and public repository.

Genetic Programming II

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Book is like new, but inside cover is signed and some pages have minor “margin highlights” - see last two pictures.

On the Programming of Computers by Means of Natural Selection

In this ground-breaking book, John Koza shows how this remarkable paradigm works and provides substantial empirical evidence that solutions to a great variety of problems from many different fields can be found by genetically breeding populations of computer programs. Genetic programming may be more powerful than neural networks and other machine learning techniques, able to solve problems in a wider range of disciplines. In this ground-breaking book, John Koza shows how this remarkable paradigm works and provides substantial empirical evidence that solutions to a great variety of problems from many different fields can be found by genetically breeding populations of computer programs. Genetic Programming contains a great many worked examples and includes a sample computer code that will allow readers to run their own programs.In getting computers to solve problems without being explicitly programmed, Koza stresses two points: that seemingly different problems from a variety of fields can be reformulated as problems of program induction, and that the recently developed genetic programming paradigm provides a way to search the space of possible computer programs for a highly fit individual computer program to solve the problems of program induction. Good programs are found by evolving them in a computer against a fitness measure instead of by sitting down and writing them.

Genetic Programming

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Guy. Kawasaki

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and Actions

Enchantment, as defined by bestselling business guru Guy Kawasaki, is not about manipulating people. It transforms situations and relationships. It con­verts hostility into civility and civility into affinity. It changes skeptics and cynics into believers and the undecided into the loyal.

Enchantment can happen during a retail transaction, a high-level corporate negotiation, or a Facebook update. And when done right, it's more powerful than traditional persuasion, influence, or marketing techniques.

Kawasaki argues that in business and personal interactions, your goal is not merely to get what you want but to bring about a voluntary, enduring, and delightful change in other people. By enlisting their own goals and desires, by being likable and trustworthy, and by framing a cause that others can embrace, you can change hearts, minds, and actions.

Enchantment

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Bruce Schneier

Digital Security in a Networked World

Bestselling author Bruce Schneier offers his expert guidance on achieving security on a network
Internationally recognized computer security expert Bruce Schneier offers a practical, straightforward guide to achieving security throughout computer networks. Schneier uses his extensive field experience with his own clients to dispel the myths that often mislead IT managers as they try to build secure systems. This practical guide provides readers with a better understanding of why protecting information is harder in the digital world, what they need to know to protect digital information, how to assess business and corporate security needs, and much more.
* Walks the reader through the real choices they have now for digital security and how to pick and choose the right one to meet their business needs
* Explains what cryptography can and can't do in achieving digital security

Secrets and Lies

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Steve Grand

Book, spine, and dust cover in good condition. Some highlighting and a few margin notes on pages.

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Life and How to Make It

And in this book - a chance for the devoted fan and the simply curious onlookers to see the world from the perspective of an original philosopher-engineer and intellectual maverick - Steve Grand proposes an answer.".

Creation

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James Bailey

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

The Computer Challenge to Human Intelligence

Through the first fifty years of the computer revolution, scientists have been trying to program electronic circuits to process information the same way humans do. Doing so has reassured us all that underlying every new computer capability, no matter how miraculously fast or complex, are human thought processes and logic. But cutting-edge computer scientists are coming to see that electronic circuits really are alien, that the difference between the human mind and computer capability is not merely one of degree (how fast), but of kind(how). The author suggests that computers "think” best when their "thoughts” are allowed to emerge from the interplay of millions of tiny operations all interacting with each other in parallel. Why then, if computers bring to the table such very different strengths and weaknesses, are we still trying to program them to think like humans? A work that ranges widely over the history of ideas from Galileo to Newton to Darwin yet is just as comfortable in the cutting-edge world of parallel processing that is at this very moment yielding a new form of intelligence, After Thought describes why the real computer age is just beginning.

After Thought

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Bart Kosko

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

The New Science of Fuzzy Logic

A washing machine that gauges each load to determine how much soap to use An air conditioner that constantly adjusts cooling strength based on room temperature These "smart" products are possible with the advent of "fuzzy logic, " the principle that's revolutionizing science. Now, its chief proponent presents a brilliant, popular account of the field called the "new chaos.".

Fuzzy Thinking

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Marvin Minsky

Commonsense Thinking, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of the Human Mind

A leading contributor to artificial intelligence offers insight into the numerous ways in which the mind works to demonstrate how emotions and feelings are just different ways of thinking, in an account that poses controversial ideas about the potential for designing machines that are capable of thinking like humans. By the author of The Society of Mind.

The Emotion Machine

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Stan Franklin

Stan Franklin is the perfect tour guide through the contemporary interdisciplinary matrix of artificial intelligence, cognitive science, cognitive neuroscience, artificial neural networks, artificial life, and robotics that is producing a new paradigm of mind. Along the way, Franklin makes the case for a perspective that rejects a rigid distinction between mind and non-mind in favor of a continuum from less to more mind.

Artificial Minds

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P. C. W. Davies

A Theory of Everything?

Superstrings

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James Gleick

Making a New Science

Explains the meaning and application of chaos--the study of patterns emerging from seemingly random phenomena--and introduces the scientists responsible for major discoveries in this field

Chaos

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Jeff Heaton

Nature can be a great source of inspiration for artificial intelligence algorithms because its technology is considerably more advanced than our own. Among its wonders are strong AI, nanotechnology, and advanced robotics. Nature can therefore serve as a guide for real-life problem solving. In this book, you will encounter algorithms influenced by ants, bees, genomes, birds, and cells that provide practical methods for many types of AI situations. Although nature is the muse behind the methods, we are not duplicating its exact processes. The complex behaviors in nature merely provide inspiration in our quest to gain new insights about data. Artificial Intelligence for Humans is a book series meant to teach AI to those readers who lack an extensive mathematical background. The reader only needs knowledge of basic college algebra and computer programming. Additional topics are thoroughly explained. Every chapter also includes a programming example. Examples are currently provided in Java, C#, and Python. Other languages are planned. No knowledge of biology is needed to read this book. With a forward by Dave Snell.

Artificial Intelligence for Humans, Volume 2: Nature-Inspired Algorithms

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David E. Goldberg

Good condition hardcover, NO dust jacket.

A gentle introduction to genetic algorithms. Genetic algorithms revisited: mathematical foundations. Computer implementation of a genetic algorithm. Some applications of genetic algorithms. Advanced operators and techniques in genetic search. Introduction to genetics-based machine learning. Applications of genetics-based machine learning. A look back, a glance ahead. A review of combinatorics and elementary probability. Pascal with random number generation for fortran, basic, and cobol programmers. A simple genetic algorithm (SGA) in pascal. A simple classifier system(SCS) in pascal. Partition coefficient transforms for problem-coding analysis.

Genetic Algorithms in Search, Optimization and Machine Learning

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Mark Ward

Dust jacket and spine in good condition. Outer top page surface stamped as library book. No markings on interior pages.

The Startling World of Artificial Life

Describes scientific research which combines technology with biology to create inanimate objects which behave like living organisms, and discusses current ideas about evolution and the origins of life.

Virtual Organisms

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Philip C. Jackson

Comprehensive survey of artificial intelligence -- the study of how computers can be made to act intelligently. Includes introductory and advanced material. Extensive notes updating the main text. 132 illustrations.

Introduction to Artificial Intelligence

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Steven Levy

A Report from the Frontier Where Computers Meet Biology

This enthralling book alerts us to nothing less than the existence of new varieties of life. Some of these species can move and eat, see, reproduce, and die. Some behave like birds or ants. One such life form may turn out to be our best weapon in the war against AIDS. What these species have in common is that they exist inside computers, their DNA is digital, and they have come into being not through God's agency but through the efforts of a generation of scientists who seek to create life in silico. But even as it introduces us to these brilliant heretics and unravels the intricacies of their work. Artificial Life examines its subject's dizzying philosophical implications: Is a self-replicating computer program any less alive than a flu virus? Are carbon-and-water-based entities merely part of the continuum of living things? And is it possible that one day "a-life" will look back at human beings and dismiss us as an evolutionary way station -- or, worse still, a dead end?

Artificial Life

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Harry Lorayne

Jerry Lucas

The Classic Guide to Improving Your Memory at Work, at School, and at Play

Unleash the hidden power of your mind

It's there in all of us. A mental resource we don't think much about. Memory. And now there's a way to master its power. . . . 

Through Harry Lorayne and Jerry Lucas's simple, fail-safe memory system, you can become more effective, more imaginative, and more powerful at work, at school, in sports, and at play.

* Read with speed and greater understanding.
* File phone numbers, data, figures, and appointments right in your head.
* Send those birthday and anniversary cards on time.
* Learn foreign words and phrases with ease.
* Shine in the classroom and shorten study hours.
* Dominate social situations: Remember and use important personal details.

Begin today. The change in your life will be unforgettable

The Memory Book

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Mark A. Ludwig

Computer Viruses, Artificial Life and Evolution

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Steven Johnson

The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software

In the tradition of Being Digital and The Tipping Point, Steven Johnson, acclaimed as a "cultural critic with a poet's heart" (The Village Voice), takes readers on an eye-opening journey through emergence theory and its applications.

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
A VOICE LITERARY SUPPLEMENT TOP 25 FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR
AN ESQUIRE MAGAZINE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
Explaining why the whole is sometimes smarter than the sum of its parts, Johnson presents surprising examples of feedback, self-organization, and adaptive learning. How does a lively neighborhood evolve out of a disconnected group of shopkeepers, bartenders, and real estate developers? How does a media event take on a life of its own? How will new software programs create an intelligent World Wide Web?

In the coming years, the power of self-organization -- coupled with the connective technology of the Internet -- will usher in a revolution every bit as significant as the introduction of electricity. Provocative and engaging, Emergence puts you on the front lines of this exciting upheaval in science and thought.

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Genetic Programming III

John R. Koza

Genetic Programming II

John R. Koza

Genetic Programming

Guy. Kawasaki

Enchantment

Bruce Schneier

Secrets and Lies

Steve Grand

Creation

James Bailey

After Thought

Bart Kosko

Fuzzy Thinking

Marvin Minsky

The Emotion Machine

Stan Franklin

Artificial Minds

P. C. W. Davies

Superstrings

James Gleick

Chaos

Jeff Heaton

Artificial Intelligence for Humans, Volume 2: Nature-Inspired Algorithms

David E. Goldberg

Genetic Algorithms in Search, Optimization and Machine Learning

Mark Ward

Virtual Organisms

Philip C. Jackson

Introduction to Artificial Intelligence

Steven Levy

Artificial Life

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The Memory Book

Mark A. Ludwig

Computer Viruses, Artificial Life and Evolution

Steven Johnson

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