Most Popular Books by Melanie Mitchell

Learn about school bus drivers and how they do their job.

An introduction to wood and its uses in everyday life.

Each title in this series focuses on a different component of staying healthy. Topics include physical, behavioural and emotional aspects of health, giving kids friendly yet instructive advice. Fun activities and questions keep readers engaged.

A very simple introduction to ears and some of the animals that have them.

A simple introduction to some different animals that have tails.

Introduces the many jobs and responsibilities of grade school teachers.

Provides a simple introduction to eyes.

Suitable for young children to develop hand-eye co-ordination, and for little hands to stroke. Part of a series of four books, this work features two soft-to-touch animals on every page. It helps children play with the eight velvety safari animals, matching each baby with its mummy and then fitting them together again by pressing out!

This handy pocket reference and interactive CD-ROM will help you learn and retain important information you need as a dental assistant, and it is all in one place. The "Pocket Guide" format allows you to have a complete and handy resource during clinical dental assistant practice. You can quickly and effortlessly review tray setups, dental materials, dental charting, cement mixing, assembling the XCP instrument, and film placements. The hands-on Pocket Guide plus interactive CD-ROM facilitate learning and can be used as a reference or for review. Interactive exercises, procedure videos, a database of dental materials, and Internet links will make your career as a dental assistant easier.

Meet Bonnie the Highland cow in this unique novelty shaped board book! Bonnie likes eating tasty grass, but she does not like pesky flies. Bonnie likes her warm hairy coat, but she does not like impatient cars. And Bonnie loves her new wee calf! Wee ones will enjoy spending time with a happy Highland cow and her friends in this colourful and sturdy board book, which is full of bright and dynamic illustrations and lots of fun details to spot.

Readers can move the little lamb as the Good Shepherd tries to find him, in this illustrated version of the parable.

«Melanie Mitchell scrive sull''intelligenza artificiale con voce calda e amichevole e una brillantezza che nessuna macchina potrebbe sperare di eguagliare... per ora». Steven Strogatz «Un tour illuminante su come funziona l''intelligenza artificiale e sul perché non è all''altezza della vera intelligenza umana». Sean Carroll Quanto sono intelligenti i piú avanzati programmi di intelligenza artificiale? Possiamo fidarci di loro nelle decisioni che toccano le nostre vite? E in che misura dovremmo cominciare a preoccuparci rispetto a quando potrebbero superarci? Nessuna impresa scientifica recente è stata cosí entusiasmante, terrorizzante, piena di promesse stravaganti e di frustranti battute d''arresto quanto l''intelligenza artificiale. Con chiarezza e passione, Melanie Mitchell, un''importante scienziata informatica, ci offre un avvincente resoconto dell''intelligenza artificiale contemporanea. Arricchito di storie personali e un tocco di umorismo, il volume illustra il funzionamento di macchine che imitano l''apprendimento, la percezione, il linguaggio e persino la creatività e il buon senso umani. Intrecciando i progressi dell''intelligenza artificiale con le scienze cognitive e la filosofia, l''autrice sonda in che modi le macchine «intelligenti » di oggi possono effettivamente pensare o comprendere e se abbiano anche bisogno delle qualità umane piú peculiari. Una panoramica accessibile, chiara ed equilibrata dell''intelligenza artificiale, di ciò che la ricerca ha effettivamente realizzato, dei suoi limiti invalicabili e di cosa significherà nel futuro.

This text provides an intimate, highly readable tour of the sciences of complexity, which seek to explain how large-scale complex, organized, and adaptive behaviour can emerge from simple interactions among myriad individuals.