The Essential Turing Seminal Writings in Computing, Logic, Philosophy, Artificial Intelligence, and Artificial Life plus The Secrets of Enigma

Alan Turing was one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century. In 1935, aged 22, he developed the mathematical theory upon which all subsequent stored-program digital computers are modeled. At the outbreak of hostilities with Germany in September 1939, he joined the Goverment Codebreaking team at Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire and played a crucial role in deciphering Engima, the code used by the German armed forces to protect their radio communications. Turing's work on the version of Enigma used by the German navy was vital to the battle for supremacy in the North Atlantic. He also contributed to the attack on the cyphers known as 'Fish,' which were used by the German High Command for the encryption of signals during the latter part of the war. His contribution helped to shorten the war in Europe by an estimated two years. After the war, his theoretical work led to the development of Britain's first computers at the National Physical Laboratory and the Royal Society Computing Machine Laboratory at Manchester University. Turing was also a founding father of modern cognitive science, theorizing that the cortex at birth is an 'unorganized machine' which through 'training' becomes organized 'into a universal machine or something like it.' He went on to develop the use of computers to model biological growth, launching the discipline now referred to as Artificial Life. The papers in this book are the key works for understanding Turing's phenomenal contribution across all these fields. The collection includes Turing's declassified wartime 'Treatise on the Enigma'; letters from Turing to Churchill and to codebreakers; lectures, papers, and broadcasts which opened up the concept of AI and its implications; and the paper which formed the genesis of the investigation of Artifical Life. Download Link 1 | Download Link 2

Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach 2nd Ed. BOOK and SOLUTIONS - Stuart Russell

Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach introduces basic ideas in artificial intelligence from the perspective of building intelligent agents, which the authors define as "anything that can be viewed as perceiving its environment through sensors and acting upon the environment through effectors." This textbook is up-to-date and is organized using the latest principles of good textbook design. It includes historical notes at the end of every chapter, exercises, margin notes, a bibliography, and a competent index. Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach covers a wide array of material, including first-order logic, game playing, knowledge representation, planning, and reinforcement learning. Download Book | Download Solution Manual | Alternative Link (Book and Solution Manual)

Digital Image Processing 2ed - Rafael Gonzales

Digital Image Processing has been the leading textbook in its field for more than 20 years. As was the case with the 1977 and 1987 editions by Gonzalez and Wintz, and the 1992 edition by Gonzalez and Woods, the present edition was prepared with students and instructors in mind. 771e material is timely, highly readable, and illustrated with numerous examples of practical significance. All mainstream areas of image processing are covered, including a totally revised introduction and discussion of image fundamentals, image enhancement in the spatial and frequency domains, restoration, color image processing, wavelets, image compression, morphology, segmentation, and image description. Coverage concludes with a discussion of the fundamentals of object recognition.

Although the book is completely self-contained, a Companion Website (see inside front cover) provides additional support in the form of review material, answers to selected problems, laboratory project suggestions. and a score of other features. A supplementary instructor's manual is available to instructors who have adopted the book for classroom use.

New Features
New chapters on wavelets, image morphology, and color image processing.
More than 500 new images and over 200 new line drawings and tables.
A revision and update of all chapters, including topics such as segmentation by watersheds.
Numerous new examples with processed images of higher resolution.
A reorganization that allows the reader to get to the material on actual image processing much sooner than before.
Updated image compression standards and a new section on compression using wavelets.
A more intuitive development of traditional topics such as image transforms and image restoration.
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RF Circuit Design Theory and Applications BOOK and SOLUTION MANUAL - Reinhold Ludwig

For upper-level Electrical Engineering introductory courses in RF Circuit Design and analog integratedcircuits.

This practical and comprehensive book introduces RF circuit design fundamentals with an emphasis on design methodologies.

• Provides MATLAB routines to carry out simple transmission line computations and allow the graphical display of the resulting impedance behaviors as part of the Smith Chart.
• Allows students to implement these software tools on their own PC.
• All m-files will be included on a bound in CD-ROM.
• Presents RF Amplifier Designs, including small and large signal designs, narrow versus broad band, low noise, and many others.
• Provides students with useful broad-based knowledge of common amplifier designs used in the industry.
• Discusses Matching Networks, such as T and P matching networks and single and double stub matching. It also includes Discrete and Microstrip Line matching techniques with computer simulations....
• Presents Scattering parameterssuch as realistic listings of S-parameters for transistors and transmission line.
• Highlights practical use of S-parameters in circuit design and performance evaluation.
• Features Smith Chart, including series and parallel connections of resistor, capacitor, and inductor networks. It also includes simulations in MATLAB to provide graphical display of circuit behavior and performance analysis.
• Introduces the Smith Chart as a design tool to monitor electric behavior of circuits.
• Introduces the generic forms of Oscillators and Mixers, including negative resistance condition, fixed-frequency, and YIG-tuned designs.
• Explains the most common oscillator designs used in many RF systems.
• Provides an overview of common filter types, including low, high, bandpass, Butterworth, and Chebyshev filters.
• Provides design tools to enable students to develop a host of practically realizable filters.
• Discusses the high-frequency behavior of common circuit components, including the behavior of resistors, capacitors, and inductors.
• Helps students understand the difference of low versus high frequency responses.
• Introduces the theory of distributed parameters through a discussion on Transmission Lines. This includes line parameters, sources and load terminations, and voltage and current waves.
• Outlines the need of distributed circuit theory in today's high frequency circuits.
• Analyzes active/passive RF circuits through various network description models, especially the two-port network. This discussion also covers impedance, admittance, ABCD, h-parameter networks, and interrelations.
• Includes a number of important pedagogical features—Intersperses examples throughout each chapter, and includes self-written MATLAB routines and circuit simulations by a commercial RF software package.
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Robot Modeling and Control - Mark W. Spong

"The coverage is unparalleled in both depth and breadth. No other text that I have seen offers a better complete overview of modern robotic manipulation and robot control."-- Bradley Bishop, United States Naval Academy
Based on the highly successful classic, Robot Dynamics and Control, by Spong and Vidyasagar (Wiley, 1989), Robot Modeling and Control offers a thoroughly up-to-date, self-contained introduction to the field. The text presents basic and advanced material in a style that is at once readable and mathematically rigorous.
Key Features* A step-by-step computational approach helps you derive and compute the forward kinematics, inverse kinematics, and Jacobians for the most common robot designs.* Detailed coverage of vision and visual servo control enables you to program robots to manipulate objects sensed by cameras.* An entire chapter on dynamics prepares you to compute the dynamics of the most common manipulator designs.* The most common motion planning and trajectory generation algorithms are presented in an elementary style.* The comprehensive treatment of motion and force control includes both basic and advanced methods.* The text's treatment of geometric nonlinear control is more readable than in more advanced texts.* Many worked examples and an extensive list of problems illustrate all aspects of the theory.About the authors
Mark W. Spong is Donald Biggar Willett Professor of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Spong is the 2005 President of the IEEE Control Systems Society and past Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology.
Seth Hutchinson is currently a Professor at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, and a senior editor of the IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation. He has published extensively on the topics of robotics and computer vision.
Mathukumalli Vidyasagar is currently Executive Vice President in charge of Advanced Technology at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), India's largest IT firm. Dr. Vidyasagar was formerly the director of the Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (CAIR), under Government of India's Ministry of Defense. Download