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The Prodigy Project

Author : Doug Flanders MD
Publisher :
Release Date : 2010-11
ISBN 10 : 0982626924
Pages : 336 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (626 users)

Download The Prodigy Project PDF Full or another Format written by Doug Flanders MD and published by . This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Someone is trying to resurrect ancient viruses hidden deep within the human genetic code to create a biological weapon so specific that it can target an individual . . . or an entire race. When two young prodigies discover their "medical research" is being used to build this weapon, they seek outside help to destroy it and to flee China. Help comes in the unlikely guise of Jon Gunderson-doctor, bio-weapons expert, and devoted family man whose unsuspecting wife and nine children have unwittingly accompanied him on yet another assignment. Once the truth comes to light, the Gundersons will have to set aside their differences if they hope to rescue the prodigies and escape with their lives. The fate of the world hangs in the balance as the bittersweet dynamics of a large but loving family take center stage against the backdrop of China's breathtaking landscapes.

The Prodigy's Cousin

Author : Joanne Ruthsatz
Publisher : Penguin
Release Date : 2016-03-01
ISBN 10 : 9780698168602
Pages : 272 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (698 users)

Download The Prodigy's Cousin PDF Full or another Format written by Joanne Ruthsatz and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We all know the autistic genius stereotypes. The absentminded professor with untied shoelaces. The geeky Silicon Valley programmer who writes bulletproof code but can’t get a date. But there is another set of (tiny) geniuses whom you would never add to those ranks—child prodigies. We mostly know them as the chatty and charming tykes who liven up daytime TV with violin solos and engaging banter. These kids aren’t autistic, and there has never been any kind of scientific connection between autism and prodigy. Until now. Over the course of her career, psychologist Joanne Ruthsatz has quietly assembled the largest-ever research sample of these children. Their accomplishments are epic. One could reproduce radio tunes by ear on a toy guitar at two years old. Another was a thirteen-year-old cooking sensation. And what Ruthsatz’s investigation revealed is nothing short of astonishing. Though the prodigies aren’t autistic, many have autistic family members. Each prodigy has an extraordinary memory and a keen eye for detail—well-known but often-overlooked strengths associated with autism. Ruthsatz and her daughter and coauthor, Kimberly Stephens, now propose a startling possibility: What if the abilities of child prodigies stem from a genetic link with autism? And could prodigies— children who have many of the strengths of autism but few of the challenges—be the key to a long-awaited autism breakthrough? In The Prodigy’s Cousin, Ruthsatz and Stephens narrate the poignant stories of the children they have studied, including that of a two-year-old who loved to spell words like “algorithm” and “confederation,” a six-year-old painter who churned out masterpieces faster than her parents could hang them, and a typically developing thirteen-year-old who smacked his head against a church floor and woke up a music prodigy. This inspiring tale of extraordinary children, indomitable parents, and a researcher’s unorthodox hunch is essential reading for anyone interested in the brain and human potential. Ruthsatz and Stephens take us from the prodigies’ homes to the depths of the autism archives to the cutting edge of genetics research, all while upending our understanding of what makes exceptional talent possible.

The Prodigy

Author : Martin Roach
Publisher : Bonnier Zaffre
Release Date : 2010-07
ISBN 10 : 9781906191177
Pages : 208 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (96 users)

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Machine Learning

Author : Yves Kodratoff
Publisher : Morgan Kaufmann
Release Date : 1990
ISBN 10 : 1558601198
Pages : 840 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (61 users)

Download Machine Learning PDF Full or another Format written by Yves Kodratoff and published by Morgan Kaufmann. This book was released on 1990 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the largest and most active areas of AI, machine learning is of interest to students of psychology, philosophy of science, and education. Although self-contained, volume III follows the tradition of volume I (1983) and volume II (1986). Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Learning Search Control Knowledge

Author : Steven Minton
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 1988-10-31
ISBN 10 : 0898382947
Pages : 230 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (382 users)

Download Learning Search Control Knowledge PDF Full or another Format written by Steven Minton and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1988-10-31 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ability to learn from experience is a fundamental requirement for intelligence. One of the most basic characteristics of human intelligence is that people can learn from problem solving, so that they become more adept at solving problems in a given domain as they gain experience. This book investigates how computers may be programmed so that they too can learn from experience. Specifically, the aim is to take a very general, but inefficient, problem solving system and train it on a set of problems from a given domain, so that it can transform itself into a specialized, efficient problem solver for that domain. on a knowledge-intensive Recently there has been considerable progress made learning approach, explanation-based learning (EBL), that brings us closer to this possibility. As demonstrated in this book, EBL can be used to analyze a problem solving episode in order to acquire control knowledge. Control knowledge guides the problem solver's search by indicating the best alternatives to pursue at each choice point. An EBL system can produce domain specific control knowledge by explaining why the choices made during a problem solving episode were, or were not, appropriate.

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine

Author : Riccardo Bellazzi
Publisher : Springer
Release Date : 2007-08-30
ISBN 10 : 9783540735991
Pages : 509 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (54 users)

Download Artificial Intelligence in Medicine PDF Full or another Format written by Riccardo Bellazzi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-08-30 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine in Europe, AIME 2007, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands in July 2007. The 28 revised full papers and 38 revised short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 137 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on agent-based systems, temporal data mining, machine learning and knowledge discovery, text mining, natural language processing and generation, ontologies, decision support systems, applications of AI-based image processing techniques, protocols and guidelines, as well as workflow systems.

Applied Natural Language Processing in the Enterprise

Author : Ankur A. Patel
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Release Date : 2021-05-12
ISBN 10 : 9781492062547
Pages : 336 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (492 users)

Download Applied Natural Language Processing in the Enterprise PDF Full or another Format written by Ankur A. Patel and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2021-05-12 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NLP has exploded in popularity over the last few years. But while Google, Facebook, OpenAI, and others continue to release larger language models, many teams still struggle with building NLP applications that live up to the hype. This hands-on guide helps you get up to speed on the latest and most promising trends in NLP. With a basic understanding of machine learning and some Python experience, you'll learn how to build, train, and deploy models for real-world applications in your organization. Authors Ankur Patel and Ajay Uppili Arasanipalai guide you through the process using code and examples that highlight the best practices in modern NLP. Use state-of-the-art NLP models such as BERT and GPT-3 to solve NLP tasks such as named entity recognition, text classification, semantic search, and reading comprehension Train NLP models with performance comparable or superior to that of out-of-the-box systems Learn about Transformer architecture and modern tricks like transfer learning that have taken the NLP world by storm Become familiar with the tools of the trade, including spaCy, Hugging Face, and fast.ai Build core parts of the NLP pipeline--including tokenizers, embeddings, and language models--from scratch using Python and PyTorch Take your models out of Jupyter notebooks and learn how to deploy, monitor, and maintain them in production

Machine Learning

Author : Tom M. Mitchell
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-12-06
ISBN 10 : 9781461322795
Pages : 429 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (461 users)

Download Machine Learning PDF Full or another Format written by Tom M. Mitchell and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the currently most active research areas within Artificial Intelligence is the field of Machine Learning. which involves the study and development of computational models of learning processes. A major goal of research in this field is to build computers capable of improving their performance with practice and of acquiring knowledge on their own. The intent of this book is to provide a snapshot of this field through a broad. representative set of easily assimilated short papers. As such. this book is intended to complement the two volumes of Machine Learning: An Artificial Intelligence Approach (Morgan-Kaufman Publishers). which provide a smaller number of in-depth research papers. Each of the 77 papers in the present book summarizes a current research effort. and provides references to longer expositions appearing elsewhere. These papers cover a broad range of topics. including research on analogy. conceptual clustering. explanation-based generalization. incremental learning. inductive inference. learning apprentice systems. machine discovery. theoretical models of learning. and applications of machine learning methods. A subject index IS provided to assist in locating research related to specific topics. The majority of these papers were collected from the participants at the Third International Machine Learning Workshop. held June 24-26. 1985 at Skytop Lodge. Skytop. Pennsylvania. While the list of research projects covered is not exhaustive. we believe that it provides a representative sampling of the best ongoing work in the field. and a unique perspective on where the field is and where it is headed.

Transforming Health Care Through Informatics

Author : Nancy M. Lorenzi
Publisher :
Release Date : 1999
ISBN 10 : UOM:39015042082092
Pages : 1288 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (39 users)

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Generating Abstraction Hierarchies

Author : Craig A. Knoblock
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-12-06
ISBN 10 : 9781461531524
Pages : 168 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (461 users)

Download Generating Abstraction Hierarchies PDF Full or another Format written by Craig A. Knoblock and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Generating Abstraction Hierarchies presents a completely automated approach to generating abstractions for problem solving. The abstractions are generated using a tractable, domain-independent algorithm whose only inputs are the definition of a problem space and the problem to be solved and whose output is an abstraction hierarchy that is tailored to the particular problem. The algorithm generates abstraction hierarchies that satisfy the `ordered monotonicity' property, which guarantees that the structure of an abstract solution is not changed in the process of refining it. An abstraction hierarchy with this property allows a problem to be decomposed such that the solution in an abstract space can be held invariant while the remaining parts of a problem are solved. The algorithm for generating abstractions is implemented in a system called ALPINE, which generates abstractions for a hierarchical version of the PRODIGY problem solver. Generating Abstraction Hierarchies formally defines this hierarchical problem solving method, shows that under certain assumptions this method can reduce the size of a search space from exponential to linear in the solution size, and describes the implementation of this method in PRODIGY. The abstractions generated by ALPINE are tested in multiple domains on large problem sets and are shown to produce shorter solutions with significantly less search than problem solving without using abstraction. Generating Abstraction Hierarchies will be of interest to researchers in machine learning, planning and problem reformation.

Machine Learning Proceedings 1991

Author : Machine Learning
Publisher : Morgan Kaufmann
Release Date : 2014-06-28
ISBN 10 : 9781483298177
Pages : 661 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (483 users)

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Reasoning Web

Author : Pedro Barahona
Publisher : Springer
Release Date : 2006-08-29
ISBN 10 : 9783540384120
Pages : 269 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (54 users)

Download Reasoning Web PDF Full or another Format written by Pedro Barahona and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-08-29 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents thoroughly arranged tutorial papers corresponding to lectures given by leading researchers at the Second International Summer School on Reasoning Web in Lisbon, Portugal, in September 2006. Building on the predessor school held in 2005 and published as LNCS 3564, the ten tutorial lectures presented provide competent coverage of current topics in semantic Web research and development.

Wrecking Ball

Author : Stu Woolman
Publisher : African Books Collective
Release Date : 2021-04-29
ISBN 10 : 9781920033736
Pages : 422 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (92 users)

Download Wrecking Ball PDF Full or another Format written by Stu Woolman and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2021-04-29 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wrecking Ball explores, in an unprecedented manner, a decalogue of wicked problems that confronts humanity: Nuclear proliferation, climate change, pandemics, permanent technological unemployment, Orwellian public and private surveillance, social media that distorts reality, cyberwarfare, the fragmentation of democracies, the inability of nations to cabin private power, the failure of multinational institutions to promote collaboration and the deepening of autocratic rule in countries that have never known anything but extractive institutions. Collectively, or even severally, these wicked problems constitute crises that could end civilisation. Does this list frighten you, or do you blithely assume that tomorrow will be just like yesterday? Wrecking Ball shows that without an inclusive system of global governance, the collective action required to solve those wicked problems falls beyond the remit of the world's 20 inclusive democracies, 50 flawed democracies and 130 extractive, elitist autocracies. Flawed democracies and autocracies that already struggle to produce goods necessary for their own citizens to flourish, are simply incapable of committing to international arrangements that address the existential threats posed by the decalogue of wicked problems. This then is our children's inheritance: Dystopias far, far worse than the polities that we ourselves have known. What, if anything, can mitigate the harms that are our legacy? Wrecking Ball offers, as an answer, a ground-breaking analysis of South Africa's political economy. It demonstrates that this country's elitist and extractive political and economic institutions not only make resolution of ongoing domestic crises unattainable, likewise, they make meaningful responses to wicked problems impossible. Smart people think they have all the answers. Without laboring under any such illusions, Martin Luther King Jr eloquently opined: 'The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.' But what will happen, King would acidly ask, if we continue to dawdle, and simply run out of time? Wrecking Ball similalry operates under no such 'smart' pretenses, and undeterred and unmatched ventures into terrrains traversed by truly great political economists: Smith, Ricardo, Marx and Keynes. By knitting together what we all know to be the facts, with cutting edge theory in economics, sociology, history and political science, the book paints an unflinching portrait of where we are, and where we are headed. Are we ready to be honest with ourselves about the likely future of this overheated, overpopulated planet?

Knowledge Management for Health Care Procedures

Author : David Riano
Publisher : Springer
Release Date : 2008-02-23
ISBN 10 : 9783540786245
Pages : 166 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (54 users)

Download Knowledge Management for Health Care Procedures PDF Full or another Format written by David Riano and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-02-23 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The incursion of information and communication technologies (ICT) in health care entails evident bene?ts at the levels of security and e?ciency that improve not only the quality of life of the patients, but also the quality of the work of the health care professionals and the costs of national health care systems. Leaving research approaches aside, the analysis of ICT in health care shows an evo- tion from the initial interest in representing and storing health care data (i. e. , electronic health care records) to the current interest of having remote access to electronic health care systems, as for example HL7 initiatives or telemedicine. This sometimes imperceptible evolution can be interpreted as a new step of the progress path of health care informatics, whose next emerging milestone is the convergenceof current solutions with formal methods for health care kno- edge management. In this sense, K4CARE is a European project aiming at contributing to this progress path. It is centered on the idea that health care knowledge rep- sented in a formal waymay favor the treatment of home care patients in modern societies. The project highlights several aspects that are considered relevant to the evolution of medical informatics: health care knowledge production, health care knowledge integration, update, and adaptation, and health care intelligent systems.

Biomedical Informatics

Author : Edward H. Shortliffe
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2006-12-02
ISBN 10 : 9780387362786
Pages : 1038 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (387 users)

Download Biomedical Informatics PDF Full or another Format written by Edward H. Shortliffe and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-12-02 with total page 1038 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the role of computers in the provision of medical services. It provides both a conceptual framework and a practical approach for the implementation and management of IT used to improve the delivery of health care. Inspired by a Stanford University training program, it fills the need for a high quality text in computers and medicine. It meets the growing demand by practitioners, researchers, and students for a comprehensive introduction to key topics in the field. Completely revised and expanded, this work includes several new chapters filled with brand new material.

The Description Logic Handbook

Author : Franz Baader
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2003-01-09
ISBN 10 : 0521781760
Pages : 576 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (781 users)

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Empirical Methods in Natural Language Generation

Author : Emiel Krahmer
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2010-09-09
ISBN 10 : 9783642155727
Pages : 363 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (642 users)

Download Empirical Methods in Natural Language Generation PDF Full or another Format written by Emiel Krahmer and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-09-09 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Natural language generation (NLG) is a subfield of natural language processing (NLP) that is often characterized as the study of automatically converting non-linguistic representations (e.g., from databases or other knowledge sources) into coherent natural language text. In recent years the field has evolved substantially. Perhaps the most important new development is the current emphasis on data-oriented methods and empirical evaluation. Progress in related areas such as machine translation, dialogue system design and automatic text summarization and the resulting awareness of the importance of language generation, the increasing availability of suitable corpora in recent years, and the organization of shared tasks for NLG, where different teams of researchers develop and evaluate their algorithms on a shared, held out data set have had a considerable impact on the field, and this book offers the first comprehensive overview of recent empirically oriented NLG research.