Indeed, be it CS, Library Sciences, or Information Systems.

Like kakarigeiko said: people need to understand that it's exciting and meaningful and full of deep, useful ideas, that there is no magic or mysticism about getting things to work... that the magic and mystique is in the emergent properties of information automation: discovery, metareasoning, abstraction, autonomy, and scalable complex systems.

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Banazir

!!! Same here! The Wonka has me under his spell...

HappyHappyHappyHappy!

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Banazir

It's great for techie books. But I didn't have any luck while searching for novels and poetry.

It looks as if it would be easier to search tables of contents and full text using Google Print than Amazon. And the keywords are highlighted when you look at the pages.

I can see that this would come in fairly useful for someone who remembers a chapter heading, and the look of the cover, but is completely blanking on the name of the book itself.

Banazir's example of "machine learning" isn't all that great, since most of the books retrieved have "machine learning" in the title. You might as well go straight to Amazon at that point. But perhaps the phrase in question is "generative models". Google Print may well deliver the answer faster than a shotgun search in Amazon, or a cross-your-fingers-and-hope-someone-included-contents-notes search in OCLC.

There's more information at http://print.google.com/intl/en/googleprint/about.html

It's worth keeping an eye on, I suppose. (And actually, I'm going to revisit some of cavlec's writings on this, since I'm pretty sure she's talked about this a bit at http://cavlec.yarinareth.net/ )

Yes, yes, and yes. :-D

And you?

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Banazir

lolol, that's a good oath.

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Banazir