An Introduction to Information Theory: Symbols, Signals and Noise by Dover Publications $14.95
Covers encoding and binary digits, entropy, language and meaning, efficient encoding and the noisy channel, and explores ways in which information theory relates to physics, cybernetics, psychology, and art. "Uncommonly good...the most satisfying discussion to be found." — Scientific American. 1980 edition.

The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing's Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine by Wiley $29.99
Programming Legend Charles Petzold unlocks the secrets of the extraordinary and prescient 1936 paper by Alan M. TuringMathematician Alan Turing invented an imaginary computer known as the Turing Machine; in an age before computers, he explored the concept of what it meant to be computable, creating the field of computability theory in the process, a foundation of present-day computer...

Machine Learning by McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math $136.80
This exciting addition to the McGraw-Hill Series in Computer Science focuses on the concepts and techniques that contribute to the rapidly changing field of machine learning--including probability and statistics, artificial intelligence, and neural networks--unifying them all in a logical and coherent manner. Machine Learning serves as a useful reference tool for software developers and...

Persuasive Technology: Using Computers to Change What We Think and Do (Interactive Technologies) by Morgan Kaufmann $52.95
Can computers change what you think and do? Can they motivate you to stop smoking, persuade you to buy insurance, or convince you to join the Army? "Yes, they can," says Dr. B.J. Fogg, director of the Persuasive Technology Lab at Stanford University. Fogg has coined the phrase "Captology"(an acronym for computers as persuasive technologies) to capture the domain of research, design, and...

Information Theory, Inference and Learning Algorithms by Cambridge University Press $80.00
Information theory and inference, often taught separately, are here united in one entertaining textbook. These topics lie at the heart of many exciting areas of contemporary science and engineering - communication, signal processing, data mining, machine learning, pattern recognition, computational neuroscience, bioinformatics, and cryptography. This textbook introduces theory in tandem with...

Shadows of the Mind: A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness by Oxford University Press, USA $24.99
A New York Times bestseller when it appeared in 1989, Roger Penrose's The Emperor's New Mind was universally hailed as a marvelous survey of modern physics as well as a brilliant reflection on the human mind, offering a new perspective on the scientific landscape and a visionary glimpse of the possible future of science. Now, in Shadows of the Mind, Penrose offers another exhilarating look at...

Probabilistic Robotics (Intelligent Robotics and Autonomous Agents series) by The MIT Press $60.00
Probabilistic robotics is a new and growing area in robotics, concerned with perception and control in the face of uncertainty. Building on the field of mathematical statistics, probabilistic robotics endows robots with a new level of robustness in real-world situations.This book introduces the reader to a wealth of techniques and...

The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics (Popular Science) by Oxford University Press, USA $19.95
For decades, proponents of artificial intelligence have argued that computers will soon be doing everything that a human mind can do. Admittedly, computers now play chess at the grandmaster level, but do they understand the game as we do? Can a computer eventually do everything a human mind can do? In this absorbing and frequently contentious book, Roger Penrose--eminent physicist and...

Robot Building for Beginners (Technology in Action) by Apress $23.96
Loads of pictures and very frank discussion make this book a pleasure to read, and a real learning tool.The author gives lots of practical advice, some of which would be useful even to experienced tinkerers. It is very thorough.— Edward Chin, The Canadian Linux Users' ExchangeLearning robotics by yourself isn't easy, but it helps when the encouragement comes from an expert who's spent years in...

Mindware: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Cognitive Science by Oxford University Press, USA $59.00
Mindware is an introductory text with a difference. In eight short chapters it tells a story and invites the reader to join in some up-to-the-minute conceptual discussion of the key issues, problems, and opportunities in cognitive science. The story is about the search for a cognitive scientific understanding of mind. It is presented as a no-holds-barred journey from early work in Artificial...