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and the Gmwth of ~mental wledoe. By Deborah G. Mayo. University of Chicago Prees, Chicago. (1996). 493 pages. 574.OO~f?59.25(clotzi29.95, E23.95 (paper). Contents: Preface. 1. Learning from error. 2. Ducks, rabbits, and normal science: Hecasting the Kuhn’s-eye view of Popper. 3. The new experimentalism and the Bayesian way. 4. Duhem, Kuhn, and Bayes. 5. Models of experimental inquiry. 6. Severe tests and methodological underdetermination. 7. The experimental basis from which to test hypotheses: Brownian motion. 8. Severe tests and novel evidente. 9. Hunting and snooping: Understanding the NeymanPesrson predesignationlst stance. 10. Why you cannot be just a little bit Bayesian. ll. Why Pearson rejected the Neyman-Pearson (behavioristic) philosophy and a note on objectivity in statistics. 12. Error statistics and Peircean errror correction. 13. Toward an error-statistical philosophy of science. Heferencea. Index. The Mao-Buildina and Exvlomtion Stmteuies of a Simvle Sonar-Eauizwed Robot:An Exuerimental. Quantitative &&&g. By David Lee. Cambridge University Prees, Cambridge, U.K. (1996). 228 pages. $54.95. Contents: Preface. 1. Question, context and method. 1. Starting points. 2. Maps used in previous research. 3. The maps used in this research. 4. Approaches to exploration. 11. System components. 5. The robot. 6. Modelling the sonar sensor. 7. Map construction. 8. Path planning. 9. Localisation. 10. Map quality metrics. 111.Experiments. ll. Experimental evaluation. 12. Wall-following. 13. The results of localisation. 14. Supervised wall-following. 15. Can a human do any better? 16. Longest lines of sight. 17. Freespace boundaries. 18. Summsry of experimental results. 19. Conclusions. 20. Directions for further research. A. The feature-map data structure. B. Test rooms. C. Finding the best& line. D. AHNE’s standard dialogue. Bibliography. Index. The Onoins of Gmmmar: Evidente frvm Earlv Lunouaae Comorehension. By Kathy Kirsh-Pssek snd Roberta Michnick Golinkoff. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. (1996). 230 pages. $30.00. Contents: Acknowledgements. 1. Introduction. 2. Theories of language acquisition. 3. The intermodal preferential looking parsdigm. 4. Infants’perception of constituent structure. 5. Single-word speakers’comprehension of word order. 6. Young children’s use of syntactic frames to derive meaning. Notes. Fleferences. Index. Americnn Technolooicnl Sublime. By David E. Nye. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. (1995). 225 pages. $16.00. Contents: Acknowledgements. Introduction. 1. The sublime. 2. The American sublime. 3. The railrosd: The dynamic sublime. 4. Bridges and skyscrapers: The geometrical sublime. 5. The factory: From the pastoral mi11to the industrial sublime. 6. The electrlcal sublime: The double of technology. 7. The electric cityscape: The unintended sublime. 8. Synthesis: The 1939 New York World’s Fair. 9. Atomic bomb and Apollo X1: New forms of the dynamic sublime. 10. Hededicating the Statue of Liberty. ll. The consumer’s sublime. Noten. Bibliography. Index. Rmdamentals of Numeri& Comoutinq. By L. F. Shampine, R. C. Allen, Jr. and S. Pruess. John Wiley & Sons, New York. (1997). 268 pages. $72.95. Contents: 1. Error8 and floating point arithmetic. 2. Systems of linear equations. 3. Interpolation. 4. Boots of nonlinear equations. 5. Numerical integration. 6. Ordinary dlfferential equations. Appendix A. Notation and some theorems from the calculus. Answers to selected exerclses. Index. Hioh-Leve1 Vi&on: Obiect Recoanition and Visual Coanition. Shimon Ullman. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. (1996). 412 pages. $40.00. Contents: Preface. Acknowledgements. 1. Object recognition. 2. Approaches to object recognition. 3. The alignment of pictorial descriptions. 4. The alignment of smooth bounding contours. 5. Flecognition by the combination of views. 6. Clsssliication. 7. Image and model correspondence. 8. Segmentation and saliency. 9. Visual cognition and visual routines. 10. Sequence seeking and counter streams: A model for visual cortext. Appendices. A. Alignment by features. B. The curvature method. C. Errors of the curvature method. D. Locally afline matching. E. Definitions. Bibliography. Index. ami tic Behaviour. By D. K. Arrowsmith and C. Place. Chapman & Hall, New York. (1992). 330 pages. $32.95. Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Linear systems. 3. Non-linear systems in the plane. 4. Flows on non-planar phsse spaces. 5. Applications 1: Planar phase spaces. 6. Applications 11: Non-planar phase spaces, families of systems and bifurcations. Bibllography. Hints to Exerclses. Index.
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and the Gmwth of ~mental wledoe. By Deborah G. Mayo. University of Chicago Prees, Chicago. (1996). 493 pages. 574.OO~f?59.25(clotzi29.95, E23.95 (paper). Contents: Preface. 1. Learning from error. 2. Ducks, rabbits, and normal science: Hecasting the Kuhn’s-eye view of Popper. 3. The new experimentalism and the Bayesian way. 4. Duhem, Kuhn, and Bayes. 5. Models of experimental inquiry. 6. Severe tests and methodological underdetermination. 7. The experimental basis from which to test hypotheses: Brownian motion. 8. Severe tests and novel evidente. 9. Hunting and snooping: Understanding the NeymanPesrson predesignationlst stance. 10. Why you cannot be just a little bit Bayesian. ll. Why Pearson rejected the Neyman-Pearson (behavioristic) philosophy and a note on objectivity in statistics. 12. Error statistics and Peircean errror correction. 13. Toward an error-statistical philosophy of science. Heferencea. Index. The Mao-Buildina and Exvlomtion Stmteuies of a Simvle Sonar-Eauizwed Robot:An Exuerimental. Quantitative &&&g. By David Lee. Cambridge University Prees, Cambridge, U.K. (1996). 228 pages. $54.95. Contents: Preface. 1. Question, context and method. 1. Starting points. 2. Maps used in previous research. 3. The maps used in this research. 4. Approaches to exploration. 11. System components. 5. The robot. 6. Modelling the sonar sensor. 7. Map construction. 8. Path planning. 9. Localisation. 10. Map quality metrics. 111.Experiments. ll. Experimental evaluation. 12. Wall-following. 13. The results of localisation. 14. Supervised wall-following. 15. Can a human do any better? 16. Longest lines of sight. 17. Freespace boundaries. 18. Summsry of experimental results. 19. Conclusions. 20. Directions for further research. A. The feature-map data structure. B. Test rooms. C. Finding the best& line. D. AHNE’s standard dialogue. Bibliography. Index. The Onoins of Gmmmar: Evidente frvm Earlv Lunouaae Comorehension. By Kathy Kirsh-Pssek snd Roberta Michnick Golinkoff. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. (1996). 230 pages. $30.00. Contents: Acknowledgements. 1. Introduction. 2. Theories of language acquisition. 3. The intermodal preferential looking parsdigm. 4. Infants’perception of constituent structure. 5. Single-word speakers’comprehension of word order. 6. Young children’s use of syntactic frames to derive meaning. Notes. Fleferences. Index. Americnn Technolooicnl Sublime. By David E. Nye. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. (1995). 225 pages. $16.00. Contents: Acknowledgements. Introduction. 1. The sublime. 2. The American sublime. 3. The railrosd: The dynamic sublime. 4. Bridges and skyscrapers: The geometrical sublime. 5. The factory: From the pastoral mi11to the industrial sublime. 6. The electrlcal sublime: The double of technology. 7. The electric cityscape: The unintended sublime. 8. Synthesis: The 1939 New York World’s Fair. 9. Atomic bomb and Apollo X1: New forms of the dynamic sublime. 10. Hededicating the Statue of Liberty. ll. The consumer’s sublime. Noten. Bibliography. Index. Rmdamentals of Numeri& Comoutinq. By L. F. Shampine, R. C. Allen, Jr. and S. Pruess. John Wiley & Sons, New York. (1997). 268 pages. $72.95. Contents: 1. Error8 and floating point arithmetic. 2. Systems of linear equations. 3. Interpolation. 4. Boots of nonlinear equations. 5. Numerical integration. 6. Ordinary dlfferential equations. Appendix A. Notation and some theorems from the calculus. Answers to selected exerclses. Index. Hioh-Leve1 Vi&on: Obiect Recoanition and Visual Coanition. Shimon Ullman. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. (1996). 412 pages. $40.00. Contents: Preface. Acknowledgements. 1. Object recognition. 2. Approaches to object recognition. 3. The alignment of pictorial descriptions. 4. The alignment of smooth bounding contours. 5. Flecognition by the combination of views. 6. Clsssliication. 7. Image and model correspondence. 8. Segmentation and saliency. 9. Visual cognition and visual routines. 10. Sequence seeking and counter streams: A model for visual cortext. Appendices. A. Alignment by features. B. The curvature method. C. Errors of the curvature method. D. Locally afline matching. E. Definitions. Bibliography. Index. ami tic Behaviour. By D. K. Arrowsmith and C. Place. Chapman & Hall, New York. (1992). 330 pages. $32.95. Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Linear systems. 3. Non-linear systems in the plane. 4. Flows on non-planar phsse spaces. 5. Applications 1: Planar phase spaces. 6. Applications 11: Non-planar phase spaces, families of systems and bifurcations. Bibllography. Hints to Exerclses. Index.
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