Author: Eric Saunders
Publisher: Turing Tests
ISBN: 9781838577117
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This collection of over 200 sudoku puzzles is published in association with The Turing Trust. Inspired the legacy of the brilliant World War II codebreaker Alan Turing, these puzzles designed to present a tough challenge. They are divided into three levels of difficulty, the final of which is for true experts. This puzzle book includes a foreword written by Sir Dermot Turing, nephew of Alan Turing and trustee of Bletchley Park, the former British codebreaking HQ where Alan Turing worked. Its retro 1940s cover is reminiscent of wartime book designs and makes a wonderful gift. Set your mind to work and see whether you have the skills to become a Bletchley Park number cruncher. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Turing Test series by Arcturus Publishing is full of mind-bending puzzles to test your intellect. Sales of these books support the work of The Turing Trust, a charity set up by Alan Turing's family to provide much needed computers to schools in Africa.
The Turing Tests Expert Sudoku
Author: Eric Saunders
Publisher: Turing Tests
ISBN: 9781838577117
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This collection of over 200 sudoku puzzles is published in association with The Turing Trust. Inspired the legacy of the brilliant World War II codebreaker Alan Turing, these puzzles designed to present a tough challenge. They are divided into three levels of difficulty, the final of which is for true experts. This puzzle book includes a foreword written by Sir Dermot Turing, nephew of Alan Turing and trustee of Bletchley Park, the former British codebreaking HQ where Alan Turing worked. Its retro 1940s cover is reminiscent of wartime book designs and makes a wonderful gift. Set your mind to work and see whether you have the skills to become a Bletchley Park number cruncher. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Turing Test series by Arcturus Publishing is full of mind-bending puzzles to test your intellect. Sales of these books support the work of The Turing Trust, a charity set up by Alan Turing's family to provide much needed computers to schools in Africa.
Publisher: Turing Tests
ISBN: 9781838577117
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This collection of over 200 sudoku puzzles is published in association with The Turing Trust. Inspired the legacy of the brilliant World War II codebreaker Alan Turing, these puzzles designed to present a tough challenge. They are divided into three levels of difficulty, the final of which is for true experts. This puzzle book includes a foreword written by Sir Dermot Turing, nephew of Alan Turing and trustee of Bletchley Park, the former British codebreaking HQ where Alan Turing worked. Its retro 1940s cover is reminiscent of wartime book designs and makes a wonderful gift. Set your mind to work and see whether you have the skills to become a Bletchley Park number cruncher. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Turing Test series by Arcturus Publishing is full of mind-bending puzzles to test your intellect. Sales of these books support the work of The Turing Trust, a charity set up by Alan Turing's family to provide much needed computers to schools in Africa.
The Turing Tests Expert Number Crunch Puzzles
Author: Eric Saunders
Publisher: Sirius Entertainment
ISBN: 9781398809154
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Published in association with the Turing Trust, this challenging collection of number crunch puzzles will really put your numerical skills to the test. Follow in the footsteps of famous World War II codebreaker Alan Turing who used impeccable logic to decipher the military codes used by Germany and its allies. These expert puzzles offer a tough but enjoyable metal work-out, with puzzles in three levels of difficulty. Starting at the top with the number provided, your challenge is work downwards from one box to another, applying the mathematical instructions to your running total until you reach a final answer. You can write the answer to each step down, or to really stretch yourself, keep the running total in your head, which is easier said than done! This book includes a foreword written by Sir Dermot Turing, nephew of Alan Turing and trustee of the former British codebreaking HQ, Bletchley Park. Sales of these books support the work of The Turing Trust, a charity set up by Alan Turing's family which provides much needed computers to schools in Africa. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Turing Tests are a series of innovative puzzle books, inspired by the ingenious problem-solving skills of World War II codebreaker Alan Turing. Each title includes a variety of compelling puzzle types designed to challenge and stretch your mind. Do you have what it takes to solve them all?
Publisher: Sirius Entertainment
ISBN: 9781398809154
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Published in association with the Turing Trust, this challenging collection of number crunch puzzles will really put your numerical skills to the test. Follow in the footsteps of famous World War II codebreaker Alan Turing who used impeccable logic to decipher the military codes used by Germany and its allies. These expert puzzles offer a tough but enjoyable metal work-out, with puzzles in three levels of difficulty. Starting at the top with the number provided, your challenge is work downwards from one box to another, applying the mathematical instructions to your running total until you reach a final answer. You can write the answer to each step down, or to really stretch yourself, keep the running total in your head, which is easier said than done! This book includes a foreword written by Sir Dermot Turing, nephew of Alan Turing and trustee of the former British codebreaking HQ, Bletchley Park. Sales of these books support the work of The Turing Trust, a charity set up by Alan Turing's family which provides much needed computers to schools in Africa. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Turing Tests are a series of innovative puzzle books, inspired by the ingenious problem-solving skills of World War II codebreaker Alan Turing. Each title includes a variety of compelling puzzle types designed to challenge and stretch your mind. Do you have what it takes to solve them all?
Artificial Intelligence and Games
Author: Georgios N. Yannakakis
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319635190
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
This is the first textbook dedicated to explaining how artificial intelligence (AI) techniques can be used in and for games. After introductory chapters that explain the background and key techniques in AI and games, the authors explain how to use AI to play games, to generate content for games and to model players. The book will be suitable for undergraduate and graduate courses in games, artificial intelligence, design, human-computer interaction, and computational intelligence, and also for self-study by industrial game developers and practitioners. The authors have developed a website (http://www.gameaibook.org) that complements the material covered in the book with up-to-date exercises, lecture slides and reading.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319635190
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
This is the first textbook dedicated to explaining how artificial intelligence (AI) techniques can be used in and for games. After introductory chapters that explain the background and key techniques in AI and games, the authors explain how to use AI to play games, to generate content for games and to model players. The book will be suitable for undergraduate and graduate courses in games, artificial intelligence, design, human-computer interaction, and computational intelligence, and also for self-study by industrial game developers and practitioners. The authors have developed a website (http://www.gameaibook.org) that complements the material covered in the book with up-to-date exercises, lecture slides and reading.
The Alan Turing Codebreaker's Puzzle Book
Author:
Publisher: Sirius Entertainment
ISBN: 9781788287166
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Published in association with The Turing Trust, this incredible collection of puzzles allows you to test if you have the range of puzzle-solving abilities required to have been one of Alan Turing's codebreakers.
Publisher: Sirius Entertainment
ISBN: 9781788287166
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Published in association with The Turing Trust, this incredible collection of puzzles allows you to test if you have the range of puzzle-solving abilities required to have been one of Alan Turing's codebreakers.
Games, Puzzles, and Computation
Author: Robert A. Hearn
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1439865051
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
The authors show that there are underlying mathematical reasons for why games and puzzles are challenging (and perhaps why they are so much fun). They also show that games and puzzles can serve as powerful models of computation-quite different from the usual models of automata and circuits-offering a new way of thinking about computation. The appen
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1439865051
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
The authors show that there are underlying mathematical reasons for why games and puzzles are challenging (and perhaps why they are so much fun). They also show that games and puzzles can serve as powerful models of computation-quite different from the usual models of automata and circuits-offering a new way of thinking about computation. The appen
The Improv Handbook
Author: Tom Salinsky
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350026174
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 521
Book Description
The Improv Handbook is the most comprehensive, smart, helpful and inspiring guide to improv available today. Applicable to comedians, actors, public speakers and anyone who needs to think on their toes, it features a range of games, interviews, descriptions and exercises that illuminate and illustrate the exciting world of improvised performance. First published in 2008, this second edition features a new foreword by comedian Mike McShane, as well as new exercises on endings, managing blind offers and master-servant games, plus new and expanded interviews with Keith Johnstone, Neil Mullarkey, Jeffrey Sweet and Paul Rogan. The Improv Handbook is a one-stop guide to the exciting world of improvisation. Whether you're a beginner, an expert, or would just love to try it if you weren't too scared, The Improv Handbook will guide you every step of the way.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350026174
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 521
Book Description
The Improv Handbook is the most comprehensive, smart, helpful and inspiring guide to improv available today. Applicable to comedians, actors, public speakers and anyone who needs to think on their toes, it features a range of games, interviews, descriptions and exercises that illuminate and illustrate the exciting world of improvised performance. First published in 2008, this second edition features a new foreword by comedian Mike McShane, as well as new exercises on endings, managing blind offers and master-servant games, plus new and expanded interviews with Keith Johnstone, Neil Mullarkey, Jeffrey Sweet and Paul Rogan. The Improv Handbook is a one-stop guide to the exciting world of improvisation. Whether you're a beginner, an expert, or would just love to try it if you weren't too scared, The Improv Handbook will guide you every step of the way.
Wikinomics
Author: Don Tapscott
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440639485
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
The acclaimed bestseller that's teaching the world about the power of mass collaboration. Translated into more than twenty languages and named one of the best business books of the year by reviewers around the world, Wikinomics has become essential reading for business people everywhere. It explains how mass collaboration is happening not just at Web sites like Wikipedia and YouTube, but at traditional companies that have embraced technology to breathe new life into their enterprises. This national bestseller reveals the nuances that drive wikinomics, and share fascinating stories of how masses of people (both paid and volunteer) are now creating TV news stories, sequencing the human gnome, remixing their favorite music, designing software, finding cures for diseases, editing school texts, inventing new cosmetics, and even building motorcycles.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440639485
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
The acclaimed bestseller that's teaching the world about the power of mass collaboration. Translated into more than twenty languages and named one of the best business books of the year by reviewers around the world, Wikinomics has become essential reading for business people everywhere. It explains how mass collaboration is happening not just at Web sites like Wikipedia and YouTube, but at traditional companies that have embraced technology to breathe new life into their enterprises. This national bestseller reveals the nuances that drive wikinomics, and share fascinating stories of how masses of people (both paid and volunteer) are now creating TV news stories, sequencing the human gnome, remixing their favorite music, designing software, finding cures for diseases, editing school texts, inventing new cosmetics, and even building motorcycles.
How to Build a Business Rules Engine
Author: Malcolm Chisholm
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
ISBN: 9781558609181
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Demonstrating how to develop a business rules engine, this guide covers user requirements, data modelling, metadata and more. A sample application is used throughout the book to illustrate concepts. The text includes conceptual overview chapters suitable for management-level readers, including a general introduction, business justification, development and implementation considerations and more. Demonstrating how to develop a business rules engine, this guide covers user requirements, data modelling and metadata. It includes conceptual overview chapters suitable for management-level readers, a general introduction, business justification, development and implementation considerations.
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
ISBN: 9781558609181
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Demonstrating how to develop a business rules engine, this guide covers user requirements, data modelling, metadata and more. A sample application is used throughout the book to illustrate concepts. The text includes conceptual overview chapters suitable for management-level readers, including a general introduction, business justification, development and implementation considerations and more. Demonstrating how to develop a business rules engine, this guide covers user requirements, data modelling and metadata. It includes conceptual overview chapters suitable for management-level readers, a general introduction, business justification, development and implementation considerations.
Coders at Work
Author: Peter Seibel
Publisher: Apress
ISBN: 1430219491
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 619
Book Description
Peter Seibel interviews 15 of the most interesting computer programmers alive today in Coders at Work, offering a companion volume to Apress’s highly acclaimed best-seller Founders at Work by Jessica Livingston. As the words “at work” suggest, Peter Seibel focuses on how his interviewees tackle the day-to-day work of programming, while revealing much more, like how they became great programmers, how they recognize programming talent in others, and what kinds of problems they find most interesting. Hundreds of people have suggested names of programmers to interview on the Coders at Work web site: www.codersatwork.com. The complete list was 284 names. Having digested everyone’s feedback, we selected 15 folks who’ve been kind enough to agree to be interviewed: Frances Allen: Pioneer in optimizing compilers, first woman to win the Turing Award (2006) and first female IBM fellow Joe Armstrong: Inventor of Erlang Joshua Bloch: Author of the Java collections framework, now at Google Bernie Cosell: One of the main software guys behind the original ARPANET IMPs and a master debugger Douglas Crockford: JSON founder, JavaScript architect at Yahoo! L. Peter Deutsch: Author of Ghostscript, implementer of Smalltalk-80 at Xerox PARC and Lisp 1.5 on PDP-1 Brendan Eich: Inventor of JavaScript, CTO of the Mozilla Corporation Brad Fitzpatrick: Writer of LiveJournal, OpenID, memcached, and Perlbal Dan Ingalls: Smalltalk implementor and designer Simon Peyton Jones: Coinventor of Haskell and lead designer of Glasgow Haskell Compiler Donald Knuth: Author of The Art of Computer Programming and creator of TeX Peter Norvig: Director of Research at Google and author of the standard text on AI Guy Steele: Coinventor of Scheme and part of the Common Lisp Gang of Five, currently working on Fortress Ken Thompson: Inventor of UNIX Jamie Zawinski: Author of XEmacs and early Netscape/Mozilla hacker
Publisher: Apress
ISBN: 1430219491
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 619
Book Description
Peter Seibel interviews 15 of the most interesting computer programmers alive today in Coders at Work, offering a companion volume to Apress’s highly acclaimed best-seller Founders at Work by Jessica Livingston. As the words “at work” suggest, Peter Seibel focuses on how his interviewees tackle the day-to-day work of programming, while revealing much more, like how they became great programmers, how they recognize programming talent in others, and what kinds of problems they find most interesting. Hundreds of people have suggested names of programmers to interview on the Coders at Work web site: www.codersatwork.com. The complete list was 284 names. Having digested everyone’s feedback, we selected 15 folks who’ve been kind enough to agree to be interviewed: Frances Allen: Pioneer in optimizing compilers, first woman to win the Turing Award (2006) and first female IBM fellow Joe Armstrong: Inventor of Erlang Joshua Bloch: Author of the Java collections framework, now at Google Bernie Cosell: One of the main software guys behind the original ARPANET IMPs and a master debugger Douglas Crockford: JSON founder, JavaScript architect at Yahoo! L. Peter Deutsch: Author of Ghostscript, implementer of Smalltalk-80 at Xerox PARC and Lisp 1.5 on PDP-1 Brendan Eich: Inventor of JavaScript, CTO of the Mozilla Corporation Brad Fitzpatrick: Writer of LiveJournal, OpenID, memcached, and Perlbal Dan Ingalls: Smalltalk implementor and designer Simon Peyton Jones: Coinventor of Haskell and lead designer of Glasgow Haskell Compiler Donald Knuth: Author of The Art of Computer Programming and creator of TeX Peter Norvig: Director of Research at Google and author of the standard text on AI Guy Steele: Coinventor of Scheme and part of the Common Lisp Gang of Five, currently working on Fortress Ken Thompson: Inventor of UNIX Jamie Zawinski: Author of XEmacs and early Netscape/Mozilla hacker
The F. Scott Fitzgerald Collection
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher: Sirius Entertainment
ISBN: 9781839407567
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Three novels and nine short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Publisher: Sirius Entertainment
ISBN: 9781839407567
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Three novels and nine short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald.