What does the city's form actually mean to the people who live there? What can the city planner do to make the city's image more vivid and memorable to the city dweller? To answer these questions, Mr. Lynch, supported by studies of Los Angeles, Boston, and Jersey City, formulate…
Software has gone from obscurity to indispensability in less than 50 years. Although other industries have followed a similar trajectory, software and its supporting industry are different. In this book the authors explain how software and the software industry are different.
Failed or abandoned software development projects cost the US economy alone billions of dollars a year. In this text, Kweku Ewusi-Mensah offers an empirically grounded study that suggests why these failures happen and how they can be avoided.
Throughout Herbert Simon's wide-ranging career - in public administration, business administration, economics, cognitive psychology, philosophy, artificial intelligence, and computer science - his central aim has been to explain the nature of the thought processes that people us…
In this provocative study, Robert Cummins takes on philosophers, both old and new, who pursue the question of mental representation as an abstraction, apart from the constraints of any particular theory or framework.
