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“m tomizuka”

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  • World Forum on Smart Materials and Smart Structures Technology

    Proceedings of SMSST'07, World Forum on Smart Materials and Smart Structures Technology (SMSST'07), China, 22-27 May, 2007

    Edited by B.F. Spencer Jr., M. Tomizuka, C.B. Yun, W.M. Chen, R.W. Chen ...
    Research in smart materials and structures seeks to apply multifunctional capabilities of new and existing materials to develop structures and systems that are capable of self-sensing and monitoring, self-diagnosis and prognosis with intelligence, self-healing and repair, and adaptive response to prevent loss of human life and catastrophe, to minimize maintenance and life-cycle costs, and to ... Read more

    $109.99 CAD

  • Beyond Walls and Cages

    Prisons, Borders, and Global Crisis

    by Alison Mountz, Anne Bonds, Bob Libal, Christopher Stenken, Cynthia Bejarano, Jodie Lawston, Joshua M. Price, Laura McTighe, Lauren Martin, Margo Tamez, Maria Morales0, Mariana Viturro1, Micol Seigel2, Monica Varsanyi3, Nicole Porter4, Olga Aksyutina5, Proma Tagore6, Rashad Shabazz7, Renee Feltz8, Ruben R. Murillo9, Said Saddiki0, Stokely Baksh1, Subhash Kateel2, Zoe Hammer-Tomizuka3, Jenna M. Loyd5, Joseph Nevins8, Borderlands Autonomist Collective9, Luis A. Fernandez0, Ruth Wilson Gilmore1, Amy Gottlieb2, Gael Guevara3, Julianne Hing4, Elizabeth Vargas5, Harsha Walia6, Seth Freed Wessler7 ...
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    The crisis of borders and prisons can be seen starkly in statistics. In 2011 some 1,500 migrants died trying to enter Europe, and the United States deported nearly 400,000 and imprisoned some 2.3 million people—more than at any other time in history. International borders are increasingly militarized places embedded within domestic policing and imprisonment and entwined with expanding prison ... Read more

    $86.99 CAD

  • Designing Robot Behavior in Human-Robot Interactions

    by Changliu Liu, Te Tang, Hsien-Chung Lin, Masayoshi Tomizuka ...
    In this book, we have set up a unified analytical framework for various human-robot systems, which involve peer-peer interactions (either space-sharing or time-sharing) or hierarchical interactions. A methodology in designing the robot behavior through control, planning, decision and learning is proposed. In particular, the following topics are discussed in-depth: safety during human-robot ... Read more

    $108.99 CAD

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    by Robyn Maynard ...
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  • The End of Policing

    by Alex S. Vitale ...
    **The best-selling bible of the movement to defund the police in an updated edition"Urgent, provocative, and timely, The End of Policing will make you question most of what you have been taught to believe about crime and how to solve it."—James Forman Jr., author of Locking Up Our Own**The massive uprising that followed the police killing of George Floyd in the summer of 2020— by some estimates ... Read more

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  • Human Re-Identification

    by Ziyan Wu ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    This book covers aspects of human re-identification problems related to computer vision and machine learning. Working from a practical perspective, it introduces novel algorithms and designs for human re-identification that bridge the gap between research and reality. The primary focus is on building a robust, reliable, distributed and scalable smart surveillance system that can be deployed in ... Read more

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  • From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation

    by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor ...
    The author of Race for Profit carries out "[a] searching examination of the social, political and economic dimensions of the prevailing racial order" (Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow).In this winner of the Lannan Cultural Freedom Prize for an Especially Notable Book, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor "not only exposes the canard of color-blindness but reveals how structural racism and class ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Creating Autonomous Vehicle Systems

    by Shaoshan Liu, Liyun Li, Jie Tang, Shuang Wu, Jean-Luc Gaudiot ...
    Series series Synthesis Lectures on Computer Science
    This is one of the first technical overviews of autonomous vehicles written for a general computing and engineering audience. Students will find a comprehensive overview of the entire autonomous technology stack and practitioners will find many practical techniques.Throughout the book, the authors share their practical experiences designing autonomous vehicle systems. These systems are complex, ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD

  • The Locust Effect

    Why the End of Poverty Requires the End of Violence

    by Gary A. Haugen, Victor Boutros ...
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  • Invitation to Law & Society

    An Introduction to the Study of Real Law

    by Kitty Calavita ...
    Series series Chicago Series in Law and Society
    Research and real-life examples that "lucidly connect some of the divisive social issues confronting us today to that thing we call 'the law'" ( Law and Politics Book Review).Law and society is a rapidly growing field that turns the conventional view of law as mythical abstraction on its head. Kitty Calavita brilliantly brings to life the ways in which law is found not only in statutes and ... Read more

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  • Multisensor Data Fusion

    From Algorithms and Architectural Design to Applications

    Edited by Hassen Fourati ...
    Series series Devices, Circuits, and Systems
    Multisensor Data Fusion: From Algorithms and Architectural Design to Applications covers the contemporary theory and practice of multisensor data fusion, from fundamental concepts to cutting-edge techniques drawn from a broad array of disciplines. Featuring contributions from the world’s leading data fusion researchers and academicians, this authoritative book:Presents state-of-the-art advances in ... Read more

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  • Computational Principles of Mobile Robotics

    by Gregory Dudek, Michael Jenkin ...
    This 2010 textbook for advanced undergraduates and graduate students emphasizes algorithms for a range of strategies for locomotion, sensing, and reasoning. It concentrates on wheeled and legged mobile robots but discusses a variety of other propulsion systems. This edition includes advances in robotics and intelligent machines over the ten years prior to publication, including significant ... Read more

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