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The incredible, harrowing account of how American democracy was
hacked by Moscow as part of a covert operation to influence the
U.S. election and help Donald Trump gain the presidency. Russian
Roulette is...the most thorough and riveting account. -- The New
York Times Russian Roulette is a story of political skullduggery
unprecedented in American history. It weaves together tales of
international intrigue, cyber espionage, and superpower rivalry.
After U.S.-Russia relations soured, as Vladimir Putin moved to
reassert Russian strength on the global stage, Moscow trained its
best hackers and trolls on U.S. political targets and exploited
WikiLeaks to disseminate information that could affect the 2016
election. The Russians were wildly successful and the great
break-in of 2016 was no third-rate burglary. It was far more
sophisticated and sinister -- a brazen act of political espionage
designed to interfere with American democracy. At the end of the
day, Trump, the candidate who pursued business deals in Russia,
won. And millions of Americans were left wondering, what the hell
happened? This story of high-tech spying and multiple political
feuds is told against the backdrop of Trump's strange relationship
with Putin and the curious ties between members of his inner circle
-- including Paul Manafort and Michael Flynn -- and Russia. Russian
Roulette chronicles and explores this bizarre scandal, explains the
stakes, and answers one of the biggest questions in American
politics: How and why did a foreign government infiltrate the
country's political process and gain influence in Washington?
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Membrane Computing - 9th International Workshop, WMC 2008, Edinburgh, UK, July 28-31, 2008, Revised Selected and Invited Papers (Paperback, 2009 ed.)
David Corne, Pierluigi Frisco, Gheorghe Paun, Grzegorz Rozenberg, Arto Salomaa
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This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the 9th
Workshop on Membrane Computing, WMC9, which took place in
Edinburgh, UK, during July 28-31,2008. The ?rst three workshopson
membrane computing were or- nized in Curtea de Arge, s, Romania -
they took place in August 2000 (with the proceedings published in
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, volume 2235), in August 2001
(with a selection of papers published as a special issue of Fun-
menta Informaticae, volume 49, numbers 1-3, 2002), and in August
2002 (with the proceedings published in Lecture Notes in Computer
Science, volume 2597). The next ?ve workshops were organized in
Tarragona, Spain, in July 2003, in Milan, Italy, in June 2004, in
Vienna, Austria, in July 2005, in Leiden, The Netherlands, in July
2006, and in Thessaloniki, Greece, in June 2007, with the
proceedings published as volumes 2933, 3365, 3850, 4361, and 4860
of Lecture Notes in Computer Science."
This text examines how multiobjective evolutionary algorithms
and related techniques can be used to solve problems, particularly
in the disciplines of science and engineering. Contributions by
leading researchers show how the concept of multiobjective
optimization can be used to reformulate and resolve problems in
areas such as constrained optimization, co-evolution,
classification, inverse modeling, and design.
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Evolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimization - First International Conference, EMO 2001, Zurich, Switzerland, March 7-9, 2001 Proceedings (Paperback, 2001 ed.)
Eckart Zitzler, Kalyanmoy Deb, Lothar Thiele, Carlos Coello Coello, David Corne
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Multi-Criterion Optimization, EMO 2001, held in Zurich, Switzerland in March 2001.The 45 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 87 submissions. Also included are two tutorial surveys and two invited papers. The book is organized in topical sections on algorithm improvements, performance assessment and comparison, constraint handling and problem decomposition, uncertainty and noise, hybrid and alternative methods, scheduling, and applications of multi-objective optimization in a variety of fields.
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Real-World Applications of Evolutionary Computing - EvoWorkshops 2000: EvoIASP, EvoSCONDI, EvoTel, EvoSTIM, EvoRob, and EvoFlight, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, April 17, 2000 Proceedings (Paperback, 2000 ed.)
Stefano Cagnoni, Riccardo Poli, George D Smith, David Corne, Martin Oates, …
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The increasingly active eld of Evolutionary Computation (EC)
provides val- ble tools, inspired by the theory of natural
selection and genetic inheritance, to problem solving, machine
learning, and optimization in many real-world app- cations. Despite
some early intuitions about EC, that can be dated back to the -
vention of computers, and a better formal de nition of EC, made in
the 1960s, the quest for real-world applications of EC only began
in the late 1980s. The dramatic increase in computer performances
in the last decade of the 20th c- tury gave rise to a positive
feedback process: EC techniques became more and more applicable,
stimulating the growth of interest in their study, and allowing, in
turn, new powerful EC paradigms to be devised. In parallel with new
theoretical results, the number of elds to which EC is being
applied is increasing day by day, along with the complexity of
applications and application domains. In particular, industrially
relevant elds, such as signal and image processing, computer
vision, pattern recognition, industrial control, telecommunication,
scheduling and timetabling, and aerospace engineering are employing
EC techniques to solve complex real-world problems.
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Evolutionary Image Analysis, Signal Processing and Telecommunications - First European Workshops, EvoIASP'99 and EuroEcTel'99 Goeteborg, Sweden, May 26-27, 1999, Proceedings (Paperback, 1999 ed.)
Riccardo Poli, Hans-Michael Voigt, Stefano Cagnoni, David Corne, George D Smith, …
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This book consitutes the refereed joint proceedings of the First
European Workshop on Evolutionary Computation in Image Analysis and
Signal Processing, EvoIASP '99 and of the First European Workshop
on Evolutionary Telecommunications, EuroEcTel '99, held in G
teborg, Sweden in May 1999. The 18 revised full papers presented
were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the volume.
The book presents state-of-the-art research results applying
techniques from evolutionary computing in the specific application
areas.
This book constitutes the refereed post-workshop proceedings of the
AISB International Workshop on Evolutionary Computing, held in
Manchester, UK, in April 1997.
The 22 strictly reviewed and revised full papers presented were
selected for inclusion in the book after two rounds of refereeing.
The papers are organized in sections on evolutionary approaches to
issues in biology and economics, problem structure and finite
landscapes, evolutionary machine learning and classifier systems,
evolutionary scheduling, and more techniques and applications of
evolutionary algorithms.
"[Corn is] a great journalist. I love the way he thinks. I love the
way he writes. I'm so glad he's done a super-readable, modern
history of the right...We just need smart, digestible history about
this stuff right now...[AMERICAN PSYCHOSIS] is perfectly
timed...Relevant history for where we are right now." -Rachel
Maddow, host, The Rachel Maddow Show "With AMERICAN PSYCHOSIS,
David Corn 'did the full homework to take us all the way back to
where it really begins.'" -Lawrence O'Donnell, host, The Last Word
A fast-paced, rollicking, behind-the-scenes account of how the GOP
since the 1950s has encouraged and exploited extremism, bigotry,
and paranoia to gain power, AMERICAN PSYCHOSIS offers readers a
brisk, can-you-believe-it journey through the netherworld of
far-right irrationality and the Republican Party's interactions
with the darkest forces in America. In a compelling and
thoroughly-researched narrative, Corn reveals the hidden history of
how the Party of Lincoln forged alliances with extremists, kooks,
racists, and conspiracy-mongers and fostered fear, anger, and
resentment to win elections-and how this led to Donald Trump's
triumph and the transformation of the GOP into a Trump personality
cult that foments and bolsters the crazy and dangerous excesses of
the right. The Trump-incited insurrectionist attack on the US
Capitol on January 6, 2021, was no aberration. AMERICAN PSYCHOSIS
shows it was a continuation of the long and deep-rooted Republican
practice of boosting and weaponizing the rage and derangement of
the right. The gripping tale in AMERICAN PSYCHOSIS covers the last
seven decades. From McCarthyism to the John Birch Society to
segregationists to the New Right to the religious right to Rush
Limbaugh to Newt Gingrich to the militia movement to Fox News to
Sarah Palin to the Tea Party to Trumpism, the Republican Party has
deliberately nurtured and exploited rightwing fear and loathing
fueled by paranoia, grievance, and tribalism. This powerful and
important account explains how one political party has harnessed
the worst elements in politics to poison the nation's discourse and
threaten American democracy.
A fast-paced, rollicking, behind-the-scenes account of how the GOP
since the 1950s has encouraged and exploited extremism, bigotry,
and paranoia to gain power, American Psychosis offers readers a
brisk, can-you-believe-it journey through the netherworld of
far-right irrationality and the Republican Party's interactions
with the darkest forces in America. In a compelling and
thoroughly-researched narrative, Corn reveals the hidden history of
how the Party of Lincoln forged alliances with extremists, kooks,
racists, and conspiracy-mongers and fostered fear, anger, and
resentment to win elections-and how this led to Donald Trump's
triumph and the transformation of the GOP into a Trump personality
cult that foments and bolsters the crazy and dangerous excesses of
the right. The Trump-incited insurrectionist attack on the US
Capitol on January 6, 2021, was no aberration. American Psychosis
shows it was a continuation of the long and deep-rooted Republican
practice of boosting and weaponizing the rage and derangement of
the right. The gripping tale in American Psychosis covers the last
seven decades. From McCarthyism to the John Birch Society to
segregationists to the New Right to the religious right to Rush
Limbaugh to Newt Gingrich to the militia movement to Fox News to
Sarah Palin to the Tea Party to Trumpism, the Republican Party has
deliberately nurtured and exploited right-wing fear and loathing
fuelled by paranoia, grievance, and tribalism. This powerful and
important account explains how one political party has harnessed
the worst elements in politics to poison the nation's discourse and
threaten American democracy. "[Corn is] a great journalist. I love
the way he thinks. I love the way he writes. I'm so glad he's done
a super-readable, modern history of the right...We just need smart,
digestible history about this stuff right now...[American
Psychosis] is perfectly timed...Relevant history for where we are
right now." -Rachel Maddow, host, The Rachel Maddow Show "With
American Psychosis, David Corn 'did the full homework to take us
all the way back to where it really begins.'" -Lawrence O'Donnell,
host, The Last Word
Featured on CNN, C-SPAN, FOX News, NBC's Today Show, Democracy NOW
, News Hour with Jim Lehrer and other leading talk shows. In the
late 1960s, the bipartisan Eisenhower Violence Commission, formed
by President Lyndon Baines Johnson and extended by President
Richard Nixon, warned that most civilizations have fallen less from
external assault than from internal decay. Over recent years, the
internal decay prophesied by the Violence Commission, but also by
President Dwight D. Eisenhower in his military-industrial complex
farewell speech, has been reflected in American public policies.
The fault lies on both sides of the political aisle. After Pearl
Harbor, "Mr. Republican," Senator Robert A. Taft, said criticism is
patriotic. Patriotism, Democracy, and Common Sense assembles more
than three dozen patriots. They range from Kevin Phillips, chief
political strategist for Richard Nixon's victory in 1968, and
former Ambassador Joseph Wilson IV, called a "true American hero"
by President George H. W. Bush in 1991, to Jessica Tuchman Mathews,
President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and
former Oklahoma Senator Fred R. Harris, who advocated grassroots,
populist policies when he ran for president in the 1970s. Why have
American policies failed? What alternative policies can return
America to its promise, internally and in the eyes of a global
community shaken by, among other things, American torture and
sexual humiliation of prisoners in Iraq? Patriotism, Democracy and
Common Sense answers these questions in a preposterous way. It asks
citizens and policy makers to actually connect the dots-to move
America forward by developing mutually supportive and complementary
foreign, national security, Middle East, economic, domestic, inner
city, media, campaign finance and voting reform policies. Too much
to expect of our civilization? This important and timely effort is
published in cooperation with The Milton S. Eisenhower Foundation.
From Patriotism, Democracy, and Common Se
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