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Lannoo Publishers Homo Digitalis: How digitalisation is making us
Book Synopsis‘All new technology is accompanied with great expectations on the one hand and great fear on the other. Thierry Geerts reduces the digital revolution to its true proportions and shows that we control the impact of technology ourselves: technology becomes what we make of it. Few are better placed than the author to clearly define the potential, the tasks, and the responsibility that awaits each and every one of us.’ – Caroline Pauwels, rector of the VUB ‘After Digitalis drew up the contours of the new digital world, Homo digitalis now describes how we can appropriate it so that digitalisation will benefit humanity. But instead of trying to convince at all costs, Thierry Geerts puts things in perspective. With great expertise, he guides us through numerous groundbreaking initiatives that start-ups and companies in Europe have often developed.‘– Alain Gerlache, journalist ‘This book couldn't have come out at a better time. Change can be scary for many, but above all, it brings many opportunities. Thierry Geerts fantastically explains how Digitalis can be an inclusive place where social mobility and equality are self-evident. Now it’s up to our entrepreneurs, policymakers, and each of us as individuals to gear up and resolutely opt for the digital future.’ – Yasmien Naciri, entrepreneur and marketer ‘Think about the reasons for technology. That is the challenge that Thierry Geerts takes on with gusto and enthusiasm in this fascinating book.’ – Laurent Hublet, co-founder and CEO of BeCentral, the largest digitalis campus in Europe In Homo digitalis, Thierry Geerts, CEO of Google Belgium and Luxembourg, looks at the dangers and opportunities of the digital revolution. Without taboos and with an eye to the future, he offers thoughtful examples of how digitalisation affects us as people and as a society. His conclusion is clear: technology is neutral, and it’s up to people to use it consciously and confidently. If we do that, digitalisation will make us happier, with more time for creativity, personal development, healthcare, and the things that really matter. Then we’ll become more human and we homo sapiens will turn into homo digitalis.
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Springer Human Nature in an Age of Biotechnology: The Case
Book SynopsisNew biotechnologies have propelled the question of what it means to be human – or posthuman – to the forefront of societal and scientific consideration. This volume provides an accessible, critical overview of the main approaches in the debate on posthumanism, and argues that they do not adequately address the question of what it means to be human in an age of biotechnology. Not because they belong to rival political camps, but because they are grounded in a humanist ontology that presupposes a radical separation between human subjects and technological objects.The volume offers a comprehensive mapping of posthumanist discourse divided into four broad approaches—two humanist-based approaches: dystopic and liberal posthumanism, and two non-humanist approaches: radical and methodological posthumanism. The author compares and contrasts these models via an exploration of key issues, from human enhancement, to eugenics, to new configurations of biopower, questioning what role technology plays in defining the boundaries of the human, the subject and nature for each. Building on the contributions and limitations of radical and methodological posthumanism, the author develops a novel perspective, mediated posthumanism, that brings together insights in the philosophy of technology, the sociology of biomedicine, and Michel Foucault’s work on ethical subject constitution. In this framework, technology is neither a neutral tool nor a force that alienates humanity from itself, but something that is always already part of the experience of being human, and subjectivity is viewed as an emergent property that is constantly being shaped and transformed by its engagements with biotechnologies. Mediated posthumanism becomes a tool for identifying novel ethical modes of human experience that are richer and more multifaceted than current posthumanist perspectives allow for.The book will be essential reading for students and scholars working on ethics and technology, philosophy of technology, poststructuralism, technology and the body, and medical ethics.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. A Cartography of the Posthuman.- Chapter 3. The Human Enhancement Debate: For, Against and from Human Nature.- Chapter 4. Towards a Non-Humanist Posthumanism: The Originary Prostheticity of Radical and Methodological Posthumanism.- Chapter 5. From Molar to Molecular Bodies: Posthumanist Frameworks in Contemporary Biology.- Chapter 6. Posthuman Subjectivity: Beyond Modern Metaphysics.- Chapter 7. Technologically Produced Nature: Nature Beyond Schizophrenia and Paranoia.- Chapter 8. New Modes of Ethical Selfhood: Geneticization and Genetically Responsible Subjectivity.- Chapter 9. Conclusion.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Software Literacy: Education and Beyond
Book SynopsisThis book explores the notion of software literacy, a key part of digital literacy which all contemporary students and citizens need to understand. Software literacy involves a critical understanding of how the affordances and conceptual approaches of everything from operating systems, creative apps and media editors, to software-based platforms and infrastructures work to inform and shape the ways we think and act. As a cultural artefact, programing code plays a role in reproducing, reinforcing, and augmenting existing cultural practices, as well as generating completely new coded practices. A proposed three-tier framework for software literacy is the focus for a two-year empirical investigation into how tertiary students become more literate about the nature and implications of software they encounter as part of their tertiary studies. Two case studies of software learning and use in university-level engineering and screen & media studies courses are presented, investigating the mapping of students’ trajectory of the learning of desktop applications against this framework for software literacy. Though the book’s focus is primarily educational, its content also has implications for any field that makes use of software and information & communication technology systems and applications. As such, the book will be of interest to all readers whose work involves the challenges and opportunities presented by software-based teaching and learning; and to those interested in how software impacts the workplace and leisure activities that make up our day-to-day lives.Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction: Software and other literacies.- Chapter 2 A genealogy of software applications.- Chapter 3 The learning, use and critical understanding of software in Media Studies.- Chapter 4 The learning, use and critical understanding of software in Engineering.- Chapter 5 Comparing the cases: What do they tell us about Software Literacy?.- Chapter 6 Software Literacy: Education and beyond.
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Independently Published What Next? The Revolution of Artificial
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Independently Published An Introduction to Sacrificial Anode Cathodic
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Harvard University Press The Genesis of Technoscientific Revolutions
Book SynopsisScientific progress doesn’t always precede engineering advances; it often follows. Answering questions isn’t always the goal; finding questions often is. Sometimes we seek to strengthen conventional wisdom; sometimes to surprise it. What if we could rethink nurturing research, through policy and management, to harmonize with the nature of research?Trade ReviewEssential reading. By integrating the previous work of leading science and technology scholars, creating new terminology, concepts, and logical structures, and including concrete examples, these two eminent leaders make a compelling case for rethinking how we understand and nurture research to advance the public good. -- Laura Diaz Anadon, Chaired Professor of Climate Change Policy, University of CambridgeEnlightening and important. Narayanamurti and Tsao demolish long-accepted tenets of science and technology research by exposing flaws, misconceptions, and anachronisms, then propose a visionary new framework. Invaluable for anyone leading a research enterprise, recruiting talent, or devising new funding mechanisms. -- Nancy Andrews, former Dean of the Duke University School of MedicineA thought-provoking journey. By transcending widespread but limiting beliefs, The Genesis of Technoscientific Revolutions explores how to better understand research and unleash its potential. Highly recommended for all policy makers and leaders interested in improving the effectiveness of research and developing high-performing research institutions. -- Qi-Kun Xue, Director of the Beijing Academy of Quantum Information SciencesHighly accomplished researchers Narayanamurti and Tsao synthesize new and old ideas about how science and technology work together, sharing audacious insights that can improve research outcomes. This book will be a rewarding read for all who want to understand innovation and accelerate it. -- John P. Holdren, former Science Advisor to President Obama and Senate-confirmed Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology PolicyA deep examination of how discoveries and innovations have happened in history, and [it] comes up with a set of methods on nurturing research in public-funded institutions and corporate labs. It is a book that is at once dense and insightful, to be read as much by the shop floor scientist as the CEO, by policymakers as much as university professors. -- Hari Pulakkat * Shaastra *A useful contribution to the study of scientific method and should be of considerable interest to anyone interested in the history and/or the philosophy of science (and technology). * The Complete Review *The book is a rigorous intellectual effort to make the reader aware of some of the most prominent and interesting frameworks of thinking about the development of science and technology that occurred during the 1990s and 2000s. The book should be seen as a manual to help people think about, design, and develop research activities through new conceptual frameworks, frameworks that give primacy neither to science nor to technology. -- Ozan Altan Altinok * Metascience *
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Getty Trust Publications Miracles and Machines: A Sixteenth-Century
Book SynopsisThis volume tells the singular story of an uncanny object at the cusp of art and science: a 450-year-old automaton known as “the monk.” The walking, gesticulating figure of a friar, in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History, is among the earliest extant ancestors of the self-propelled robot. According to lore from the court of Philip II of Spain, the monk represents a portrait of Diego de Alcalá, a humble Franciscan lay brother whose holy corpse was said to be agent to the miraculous cure of Spain’s crown prince as he lay dying in 1562. In tracking the origins of the monk and its legend, the authors visited archives, libraries, and museums across the United States and Europe, probing the paradox of a mechanical object performing an apparently spiritual act. They identified seven kindred automata from the same period, which, they argue, form a paradigmatic class of walking “prime movers,” unprecedented in their combination of visual and functional realism. While most of the literature on automata focuses on the Enlightenment, this enthralling narrative journeys back to the late Renaissance, when clockwork machinery was entirely new, foretelling the evolution of artificial life to come.
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Simon & Schuster Path Between the Seas The Creation of the Panama
Book SynopsisDescribes all the events and personalities involved in the monumental undertaking which precipitated revolution, scandal, economic crisis, and a new Central American republic.
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Penguin Putnam Inc The Knowledge
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McGraw-Hill Education The NALCO Water Handbook Fourth Edition
Book SynopsisPublisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product.The Landmark Water Use and Treatment ResourceâFully Updated for Optimizing Water ProcessesThis industry-standard resource from the worldâs leading water management company offers practical guidance on the use and treatment of water and wastewater in industrial and institutional facilities. Revised to align with the latest regulations and technologies, The Nalco Water Handbook, Fourth Edition, explains water management fundamentals and clearly shows how to improve water quality, minimize usage, and optimize treatment processes. Throughout, new emphasis is placed on todayâs prevailing issues, including water scarcity, stressors, and business risk.Covers all essential wat
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The University of Chicago Press American Genesis
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Harvard University Press Aramis or The Love of Technology
Book SynopsisThe story of Aramis—the guided-transportation system intended for Paris—is told in this fictional account by several parties: an engineer and his professor; company executives and elected officials; a sociologist; and Aramis itself, who delivers a passionate plea on behalf of technological innovations that risk being abandoned by their makers.Trade ReviewIt is [the] world of machines that Latour sets out to rehabilitate in his clever new work…an eminently readable book—even on occasions a ripping good yarn. This time round, the author of such seminal sociology of science texts as We Have Never Been Modern has set out to do something daring: create a new genre, what he calls ‘scientifiction’… The result is a hypertext, weaving real and fictional characters together against the backdrop of an actual project carried out by RATP, the public transport authority for Paris… [A] feisty sociotechnological whodunit. -- Margaret Wertheim * New Scientist *Relationalists have to insist that made–found is as dubious as the value–fact and subject–object distinctions. This claim is not easy to make plausible, but Latour is very good at doing so. He is perhaps the best contemporary exponent of the philosophy of interchanges, of continuous passages across traditional dualisms and traditional disciplinary borders. This is because he combines philosophical sophistication with genuine delight in empirical fieldwork, a fluent and flexible style, an amazingly wide range of reference, and wit. Aramis is often hilarious. In Catherine Porter’s splendidly vigorous and idiomatic translation, it is a good read, a well-paced narrative of instructive events. Any policy maker who contemplates spending public money on technological innovation should read it before signing his or her first contractual agreement. It should also be read by anybody looking for some genuinely fresh philosophical ideas. -- Richard Rorty * Voice Literary Supplement *Mr. Latour, a French sociologist of science, is quite serious…about what he is creating—a new genre of fiction and reality that tells a larger truth… [The Aramis project] may have been a wild goose chase, but some honkers end up in the oven. Aramis, or The Love of Technology, in this translation by Catherine Porter, comes out the way a game bird should, au point, juicy and delicious. -- M. R. Montgomery * New York Times Book Review *Immediately after the project ended, Bruno Latour was asked by the RATP to investigate what went wrong. On the basis of a detailed empirical study, he has written three books in one: a detective novel, in which a sociology professor and a young engineer play the parts of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson; a scholarly treatise introducing the modern sociology of technology; and a reproduction of original archival documents. As the book develops, we hear the voice of technology itself, with Frankenstein’s ‘humachine’ and Aramis himself as spokespersons… Latour’s book does offer important insights into the sociotechnical domain and engineering practices that transcend the Aramis case. It also provides, mainly in the form of methodological discussions, the groundwork for a theory of technology and society. This [is an] important asset, of what I think is Latour’s best book so far. -- Wiebe E. Bijker * Nature *Aramis shows with wonderful clarity the many different stories which were told about all aspects of Aramis. -- David Edgerton * Times Literary Supplement *Aramis…uncovers the limits of sociology in its failure to recognize our essentially social relationship with technical artifacts. Its critical force comes from using ethnography to enable technology to speak, or rather, by allowing us to hear the voice of technology speaking indirectly through administrative documents, political rhetoric, engineering specifications, business plans, fiction, and philosophy. -- Peter Lyman * Contemporary Sociology *Aramis is a case study, a sociological investigation, and, yes, a detective novel unlike any ever written—a carefully constructed, non-fictional narrative of the negotiated fictions that underwrite our mechanical inventions. Latour, one of the most supple and rewarding practitioners of any science, shows that the construction of technological society is at base a human drama and must be told in a commensurate manner. Here at last is science studies that avoids self-exemption and partakes, with humor and emotion, of the very processes it depicts. Aramis is a strange but deep book that comes to counterintuitive, urgent conclusions, pleading for more successful parlay between technology and humanism, animate and inanimate, body and soul. This story has much to say about the world we want to build, the world we think we are building, and the worlds we have failed to pull off. -- Richard Powers, author of Galatea 2.2Table of ContentsPreface Prologue: Who Killed Aramis? 1. An Exciting Innovation 2. Is Aramis Feasible? 3. Shilly-Shallying in the Seventies 4. Interphase: Three Years of Grace 5. The 1984 Decision: Aramis Exists for Real 6. Aramis at the CET Stage: Will It Keep Its Promises? 7. Aramis Is Ready to Go (Away) Epilogue: Aramis Unloved Glossary
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Captured Tanks Under the German Flag Russian
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Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc Subprime Attention Crisis Advertising and the
Book SynopsisFrom FSGO x Logic: a revealing examination of digital advertising and the internet's precarious foundation.
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Duke University Press Cuban Counterpoint Tobacco and Sugar
Book SynopsisTrade Review“The first and only comprehensive study of the West Indian people. Ortiz ushered the Caribbean into the thought of the twentieth century and kept it there.” —C. L. R. JamesTable of ContentsIntroduction to the Duke University Press Edition, by Fernando Coronil ix Introduction, by Bronislaw Malinowski lvii By Way of Prologue, By Herminio Portell Vilá lxv Cuban Counterpoint 3 The Ethnography and Transculturation of Havana Tobacco and the Beginnings of Sugar in America 95 Glossary 311 Index Follows Page 312
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Legare Street Press Praktisches Wörterbuch Der Elektrotechnik Und Chemie in Deutscher
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No Starch Press,US The Maker's Guide To The Zombie Apocalypse
Book SynopsisWhere will you be when the zombie apocalypse hits? Trapping yourself in the basement? Roasting the family pet? Beheading reanimated neighbors? No way. You ll be building fortresses, setting traps, and hoarding supplies, because you, savvy survivor, have snatched up your copy of The Maker's Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse before it s too late. This indispensable guide to survival after Z-day, written by hardware hacker and zombie anthropologist Simon Monk, will teach you how to generate your own electricity, salvage parts, craft essential electronics, and out-survive the undead.,p>Take charge of your environment: Monitor zombie movement with trip wires and motion sensors Keep vigilant watch over your compound with Arduino and Raspberry Pi surveillance systems Power zombie defense devices with car batteries, bicycle generators, and solar power Escape imminent danger: Repurpose old disposable cameras for zombie-distracting flashbangs Open doors remotely for a successful sprint homeTable of ContentsChapter 1: Apocalypse BasicsChapter 2: Generating ElectricityChapter 3: Using ElectricityChapter 4: Zombie AlarmsChapter 5: Surveillance and Raspberry PiChapter 6: Add Remote Access and Detect Open DoorsChapter 7: Environmental MonitoringChapter 8: Building a Control Center for Your BaseChapter 9: Zombie DistractorsChapter 10: Communicating with Other SurvivorsChapter 11: Haptic CommunicationAppendix A: PartsAppendix B: SkillsAppendix C: Arduino Primer
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Dey Street Books Thing Explainer
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S Chand & Co Ltd Basics Of Engineering Mathematics Vol-I
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Back Bay Books The Upstarts Uber Airbnb and the Battle for the
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McGraw-Hill Education Electrochemical Energy Storage
Book SynopsisElectrochemical energy storage principles, applications, and best practicesThis engineering textbook defines the taxonomy of electrochemical energy storage technologies, explains the principles, clarifies mechanisms, quantifies performance, and matches it with applications for electromobility and in renewable energy systems. With 330 equations and over 100 figures, this intensely analytical and at the same time thoroughly descriptive text is intended to help fully understand batteries, hydrogen, and fuel cells, while giving concise insight into electrochemical capacitors and flow batteries. Written by a team of recognized academics, Electrochemical Energy Storage meets the needs of experienced engineers as well as novices in the field through careful articulation of fundamental scientific principles interlaced with comprehensive practical analysis of batteries, fuel cells, and other technologies.Coverage includes:An introduction to electrochem
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Trafford Publishing Servicing ITSM
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The History Press Ltd Faking It: Artificial Intelligence in a Human
Book Synopsis‘Refreshingly clear-eyed … Faking It is an insightful and intelligent book that’s a must for those looking for facts about AI hype.’ – Books+Publishing‘AI will be as big a game-changer as the smart phone and the personal computer – or bigger! This book will help you navigate the revolution.’ – Dr Karl KruszelnickiArtificial intelligence is, as the name suggests, artificial and fundamentally different to human intelligence. Yet often the goal of AI is to fake human intelligence. This deceit has been there from the very beginning. We’ve been trying to fake it since Alan Turing answered the question ‘Can machines think?’ by proposing that machines pretend to be humans.Now we are starting to build AI that truly deceives us. Powerful AIs such as ChatGPT can convince us they are intelligent and blur the distinction between what is real and what is simulated. In reality, they lack true understanding, sentience and common sense. But this doesn’t mean they can’t change the world.Can AI systems ever be creative? Can they be moral? What can we do to ensure they are not harmful? In this fun and fascinating book, Professor Toby Walsh explores all the ways AI fakes it, and what this means for humanity – now and in the future.Trade Review‘Refreshingly clear-eyed … Faking It is an insightful and intelligent book that’s a must for those looking for facts about AI hype.' -- Books+Publishing‘AI will be as big a game-changer as the smart phone and the personal computer – or bigger! This book will help you navigate the revolution.’ -- Dr Karl Kruszelnicki‘Faking It includes a whistlestop tour of AI history, providing a long list of grifts and false dawns, from the 1770 marvel, the Mechanical Turk, a chess-playing automaton secretly linked to a human player, to ELIZA, the 1967 natural language model that could hold a conversation to the level of tuned-out coworker.’ — KURT JOHNSON, THE AGE
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Monash University Publishing A Wild History: Life and Death on the Victoria
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LEGARE STREET PR Encyclopedia of Practical Receipts and Processes
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LEGARE STREET PR Monograms Ciphers
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McGraw-Hill Education McGraw Hills National Electrical Code 2023
Book SynopsisThe most trusted guide to the National Electric Code âfully updated for 2023 rules and regulationsCompletely revised to align with the 2023 NEC, McGraw Hillâs National Electrical Code 2023 Handbook, 31st Edition offers concise explanations, advice, and analysis for all of the current provisions. In-depth coverage of the background and rationale for specific rules enhances your understanding of both meaning and application. This practical resource features over 1,000 figures, photos, and examples.Designed to be used as a companion guide to the 2023 NEC itself, this on-the-job reference is arranged in code order, so the explanation for any topic lines up exactly with the applicable section in the code. You will gain access to straightforward, ready-to-apply code clarification, enabling them to work efficiently and safely and achieve full compliance. â Completely updated to cover all significant changes in the 2023 NE
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Transworld Publishers Ltd Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth
Book SynopsisTHE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER.An unorthodox guide to making things worth making, from 'the father of the iPod and iPhone' and the creator of Nest.Everyone deserves a mentor. For every career crisis, every fork in the road, you need someone to talk to. Someone who's been there before, who knows exactly how wobbly and conflicted you feel, who can give it to you straight:Here's how to think about choosing a job.Here's how to be a better manager.Here's how to approach design.Here's how to start a company.Here's how to run it.Tony Fadell learned all these lessons the hard way. He spent the first 10 years of his career in Silicon Valley failing spectacularly, and the next 20 building some of the most impactful devices in history - the iPod, iPhone, and Nest Learning Thermostat. He has enough stories and advice about leadership, design, startups, mentorship, decision making, devastating screwups, and unbelievable success to fill an encyclopedia.So that's what this book is. An advice encyclopedia. A mentor in a box.But Tony's doesn't follow the standard Silicon Valley credo that you have to radically reinvent everything you do. His advice is unorthodox because it's old school. Because it's based on human nature, not gimmicks.Tony keeps things simple: he just tells you what works. He gives you exactly what you need to make things worth making.PRAISE FOR BUILD'This is the most fun - and the most fascinating - memoir of curiosity and invention that I've ever read.'Malcolm Gladwell,Host of the Revisionist History podcast. Author of Outliers and Talking to Strangers.'Whether you're looking to build a great product, a creative team, a strong culture, or a meaningful career, Tony's guidance will get you thinking and rethinking.'Adam Grant,Author of Think Again & Host of the TED podcast WorkLifeTrade ReviewTony Fadell has made more cool stuff than almost anyone else in the history of Silicon Valley, and in Build he tells us how. This is the most fun - and the most fascinating - memoir of curiosity and invention that I've ever read.Malcolm Gladwell, Host of the Revisionist History podcast. Author of Outliers and Talking to Strangers. * . *Tony Fadell is one of the world's great experts in starting companies and creating insanely great products. He's distilled his wisdom in this book, providing wildly useful mentorship in a delightfully readable set of stories.Walter Isaacson,Author & Biographer of Steve Jobs, Albert Einstein & Leonardo DaVinci * . *Tony Fadell distills his epic career into refreshingly candid, often contrarian advice that you can put into practice right away. Whether you're looking to build a great product, a creative team, a strong culture, or a meaningful career, Tony's guidance will get you thinking and rethinking.Adam Grant,Author of Think Again & Host of the TED podcast WorkLife * . *Super hacks for building a team, building a company [and] how to spot a good idea. All of the chapters are 10/10 solid gold. This book is fantastic.Chris Evans * . *Tony Fadell is the legendary technologist, engineer and entrepreneur who's lived so many lives in the pressure-cooker of Silicon Valley bringing visionary ideas into existence, one after another. The chance to now share his insights, instincts and wisdom is essential reading and a precious gift for any inventor hungry to change the world.Thomas Heatherwick,Award Winning Designer & Founder Heatherwick Studio * . *
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No Starch Press,US Arduino Workshop, 2nd Edition: A Hands-on
Book SynopsisThis long-awaited second edition of the best-selling Arduino Workshop (over 35,000 copies sold) goes beyond making simple projects to teach beginners how to use the Arduino, in-depth. Arduino Workshop is loved by readers because it focuses on learning how the board works rather than simply making a series of canned projects.Trade ReviewReviews for the first edition of Arduino Workshop:"When it comes to technology, there's really something to be said for learning by example, and with each key point focused around a specific project, the information in this book is easy to learn and retain."—Dave Rankin, About.com Open Source"Arduino Workshop was the first book I’ve read that helped me really make sense of the practical applications the Arduino is capable of."—AmateurRadio.com "A very thorough primer for those wishing to jump on the [Arduino] bandwagon."—Kevin Wierzbicki, Campus Circle"I’ve checked out several Arduino “primers,” and found the best one for my purposes to be Arduino Workshop: A Hands-On Introduction with 65 Projects by John Boxall."—Jeff Rowe, MCADCafe.com Blog"A good book for getting started . . . I highly recommend it if you’re thinking about getting into Arduino projects and you’re brand new to this stuff."—Nathan Yau, FlowingDataTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsChapter 1: Getting StartedChapter 2: Exploring the Arduino Board and the IDEChapter 3: First StepsChapter 4: Building BlocksChapter 5: Working with FunctionsChapter 6: Numbers, Variables, and ArithmeticChapter 7: Expanding Your ArduinoChapter 8: LED Numeric Displays and MatricesChapter 9: Liquid Crystal DisplaysChapter 10: Creating your own Arduino LibrariesChapter 11: Numeric KeypadsChapter 12: Accepting User Input with TouchscreensChapter 13: Meet the Arduino FamilyChapter 14: Motors and MovementChapter 15: Using GPS with Your ArduinoChapter 16: Wireless DataChapter 17: Infrared Remote ControlChapter 18: Reading RFID TagsChapter 19: Data BusesChapter 20: Real-time ClocksChapter 21: The InternetChapter 22: Cellular Communications
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd V1
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MIT Press Ltd Nuclear Choices for the TwentyFirst Century A
Book SynopsisAn authoritative and unbiased guide to nuclear technology and the controversies that surround it.Are you for nuclear power or against it? What's the basis of your opinion? Did you know a CT scan gives you some 2 millisieverts of radiation? Do you know how much a millisievert is? Does irradiation make foods safer or less safe? What is the point of a bilateral Russia-US nuclear weapons treaty in a multipolar world? These are nuclear questions that call for nuclear choices, and this book equips citizens to make these choices informed ones. It explains, clearly and accessibly, the basics of nuclear technology and describes the controversies surrounding its use.
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Texas A & M University Press The Rise of Climate Science: A Memoir
Book SynopsisIn a career spanning four decades, Gerald R. North contributed groundbreaking research that continues to shape the modern field of climate science. However, the route he has taken was full of surprising twists and turns that included hate mail, eavesdropping by the KGB, and sometimes acrimonious debate with climate-change deniers.North's significant contributions to the field include his innovative 'toy model' analysis of climate change based on ingeniously simplified models and his lead proposal for and successful approval of the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite. Launched in 1997, the TRMM's purpose was to collect data on the global climate system. The TRMM operated successfully for 17 years before it was deactivated in 2015.In The Rise of Climate Science, North recounts in detail his life in the vanguard of modern climate science. He offers an insider look at the academic research and government initiatives around global warming and what that means for the planet. He includes stories of conversations with top Soviet climate scientists at the height of the Cold War in the late 1970s - complete with clandestine electronic surveillance. He also describes the experience of testifying before Congress and engaging in public exchanges with those who doubted the reality of the phenomenon his research field described.Climatology today has advanced into a mature phase. This book is an important contribution to understanding its development in the twentieth century and adds a distinctly human face and sensibility to the ongoing societal conversation around climate change and its implications for our future.
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Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc What Tech Calls Thinking
Book SynopsisFrom FSGO x Logic: a Stanford professor's spirited dismantling of Silicon Valley's intellectual origins.
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Oxford University Press Inc Trafficking Data
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA timely engagement with debates on the extraction, commodification and protection of data amidst sharpening US -- China tech relations. This volume, given its accessible writing style, might be of interest to students of data governance, communication industries and international relations. * Chenhao Ye, The China Quarterly *In Trafficking Data, Kokas walks us through the most recent trade-offs, Faustian bargains, and back door dealings that Silicon Valley firms use to do business in the People's Republic of China. Only by empowering consumers and holding technology affirms accountable, Kokas argues, can we stifle the international trafficking of our data. * Philip N. Howard, Director, University of Oxford's Programme on Democracy and Technology *China's digital platforms are well known, but Aynne Kokas is the first to study systematically the interactions between the digital products of US techno-liberalism and China's state-directed social order. Trafficking Data breaks new ground in the study of geopolitics and national sovereignty. Given our dependence on platforms and systems fuelled by Chinese AI, Kokas' account of China's expanding networked sovereignty in sectors from agriculture to urban design is essential reading for anyone concerned to bring the digital world back under democratic influence. * Nick Couldry, co-author of The Costs of Connection *Aynne Kokas masterfully guides readers through the complex intersection between widespread data gathering, government policy, and corporate practice, illuminating the deeply troubling consequences for both national security and everyday consumers. This book is a necessary and timely resource for researchers, activists, governments, and anyone who cares about the future of democracy and a rules-based order. * Shanthi Kalathil, co-author of Open Networks, Closed Regimes, and former Coordinator for Democracy and Human Rights, U.S. National Security Council *Aynne Kokas' Trafficking Data is a powerful warning of the risks of the enmeshment of the American and Chinese consumer data systems. It is a clear reminder that addressing the rising digital threats from China first requires getting the U.S house in order. * Adam Segal, Director of the Digital and Cyberspace Policy Program, Council on Foreign Relations *Table of ContentsAcronyms Acknowledgments Preface 1. The Data Trafficking Dilemma 2. What Happens in Vegas Stays in China: The Limits of US Tech Oversight 3. Becoming a Cyber Sovereign: Chinaâs Politics of Data Governance 4. From Farms to Outer Space: How China Networks Sovereignty in the United States 5. Social Media: The Algorithm as National Security Asset 6. Gaming: The Porous Boundaries of Virtual Worlds 7. Money: The Risks of Data Trafficking for China 8. Health: Surveilling Borderless Biodata 9. Home: Data Through the Back Door 10. Toward Data Stabilization Epilogue English- Pinyin- Chinese Glossary Notes References Index
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National Academies Press Medical Isotope Production without Highly
Book SynopsisThis book is the product of a congressionally mandated study to examine the feasibility of eliminating the use of highly enriched uranium (HEU2) in reactor fuel, reactor targets, and medical isotope production facilities. The book focuses primarily on the use of HEU for the production of the medical isotope molybdenum-99 (Mo-99), whose decay product, technetium-99m3 (Tc-99m), is used in the majority of medical diagnostic imaging procedures in the United States, and secondarily on the use of HEU for research and test reactor fuel. The supply of Mo-99 in the U.S. is likely to be unreliable until newer production sources come online. The reliability of the current supply system is an important medical isotope concern; this book concludes that achieving a cost difference of less than 10 percent in facilities that will need to convert from HEU- to LEU-based Mo-99 production is much less important than is reliability of supply.Table of Contents1 Front Matter; 2 Summary; 3 1 Background and Study Task; 4 2 Molybdenum-99/Technetium-99m Production and Use; 5 3 Molybdenum-99/Technetium-99m Supply; 6 4 Molybdenum-99/Technetium-99m Supply Reliability; 7 5 Molybdenum-99/Technetium-99m Demand; 8 6 Molybdenum-99/Technetium-99m Production Costs; 9 7 Conversion to LEU-Based Production of Molybdenum-99: Technical Considerations; 10 8 Conversion to LEU-Based Production of Molybdenum-99: Regulatory Considerations; 11 9 Conversion to LEU-Based Production of Molybdenum-99: General Approaches and Timing; 12 10 Conversion to LEU-Based Production of Molybdenum-99: Prospects and Feasibility; 13 11 Progress in Eliminating HEU Use; 14 References; 15 Appendix A: Section 630 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005; 16 Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members; 17 Appendix C: Presentations and Visits; 18 Appendix D: Alternative Molybdenum-99 Production Processes; 19 Appendix E: Correspondence with Atomic Energy of Canada Limited; 20 Appendix F: Present Value Calculation; 21 Appendix G: Glossary; 22 Appendix H: Acronyms
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CRC Press Bicycle Engineering and Technology
Book SynopsisCovering the applied science, manufacturing methods and mathematics related to cycles and cycling in an easy-to-understand way which will be accessible to both experienced cyclists and laypeople. This book will be a particularly useful resource for students on IMI, City & Guilds and Cytech Cycle Maintenance courses. Table of Contents1. Brief History of Bicycles and Bicycling 2. The Bicycle Frame 3. Wheels and Tyres 4. Gears and Drive 5. Brakes 6. Let’s get comfortable, saddles and handle bars 7. Electrical Power 8. Add-ons and Kit 9. Bicycle Materials 10. Soldering, Brazing and Welding 11. Reinforced Composite Materials 12. Data 13. Heath, Safety and Environment 14. The Bicycle Industry 15. Science Terminology 16. Service and Repair
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Handbook of the Law of Algorithms
Book SynopsisFeaturing thirty-five chapters from US, EU, and Asian scholars, this volume explores how algorithms are not only challenging current law, but also the foundations of society itself. The book's interdisciplinary approach makes it a key resource for scholars of law, information and computer science, and engineering, as well as legislators.Trade Review'… timely … Highly recommended.' S. Clerc, ChoiceTable of ContentsPart I. Introduction and Setting the Stage for a Law of Algorithms: 1. An introduction to law and algorithms Woodrow Barfield and Jessica Barfield; 2. The opinion of machines Curtis E. A. Karnow; 3. Private accountability in an age of artificial intelligence Sonia K. Katyal; 4. Algorithmic legitimacy Ari Ezra Waldman; 5. Understanding transparency in algorithmic accountability Margaret Kaminsky; Part II. Business, Regulations, and Decision Making with Algorithms: 6. Algorithms and contract law Lauren Henry Scholz; 7. Algorithms, agreements, and agency Shawn Bayern; 8. Algorithmic governance and administrative law Steven M. Appel and Cary Coglianese; 9. Discrimination in the age of algorithms Robin Nunn; 10. Algorithmic competition, collusion and price discrimination Salil K. Mehra; 11. The rule of law and algorithmic governance Ronan Kennedy; 12. Governance of algorithms: rethinking public sector use of algorithms for predictive purposes Anjanette H. Raymond and Ciabhan Collelly; 13. From rule of law to statute drafting: legal issues for algorithms in government decision-making Monika Zalnieriute, Lisa Burton Crawford, Janina Boughey, Lyria Bennett Moses and Sarah Logan; 14. Algorithmic decision systems: using automation and machine learning in the public administration David Restrepo Amariles; 15. From legal sources to programming code: automatic individual decisions in public administration and computers under the law Dag Wiese Schartum; Part III. Intellectual Property and Algorithms: 16. Inventive algorithms and the evolving nature of innovation Ryan Abbott; 17. Software patenting and Section 101's gatekeeping function Andrew Chin; 18. Intellectual property as a crossroad: awarding IP protection for algorithms Aviv Gaon; Part IV. Criminal Law, Tort Issues and Algorithms: 19. The use of algorithms in criminal adjudication Andrea Roth; 20. Assessing risk of offending through algorithms Christopher Slobogin; 21. Injury by algorithms Seema Ghatnekar Tilak; 22. When do algorithmic tortfeasors that caused damage warrant unique legal treatment? Karni Chagal-Feferkorn; Part V. Constitutional Law, Human Rights, and Algorithms: 23. Tort-law applying a 'reasonableness' standard to algorithms Karni Chagal-Feferkorn; 24. Human rights-based approach to AI and algorithms: concerning welfare technologies Jedrzej Niklas; 25. Four modes of speech protection for algorithms Kyle Langvardt; 26. Algorithms and freedom of expression Manasin (Veenu) Goswami; 27. Artificial minds in first amendments borderlands Marc Jonathan Blitz; 28. The first amendment and algorithms Stuart Minor Benjamin; 29. Algorithmic analysis of social behavior for profiling, ranking, and assessment Nizan Geslevich Packin and Yafit Lev-Aretz; 30. Algorithmic stages in privacy data analytics: process and probabilities Ronald P. Loui, Arno R. Lodder, and Stephanie A. Quick; Part VI. Applications and Future Directions of Law and Algorithms: 31. Moral machines: the emerging EU policy on 'Trustworthy AI' Andrea Renda; 32. Law in the Turing's Cathedral Nicola Lettieri; 33. Arguing over algorithms: mapping the dilemmas in operationalizing 'ethical' artificial intelligence Mariano-Clorentino Cuellar and Robert J. MacCoun; 34. Embodiment and algorithms for human robot interaction Yueh-Hsuan Weng and Chih-Hsing Ho; 35. On being trans-human: commercial BCIs and the quest for autonomy Argyro P. Karanasiou.
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MIT Press Ltd Child Data Citizen How Tech Companies are
Book SynopsisAn examination of the datafication of family life--in particular, the construction of our children into data subjects.Our families are being turned into data, as the digital traces we leave are shared, sold, and commodified. Children are datafied even before birth, with pregnancy apps and social media postings, and then tracked through babyhood with learning apps, smart home devices, and medical records. If we want to understand the emergence of the datafied citizen, Veronica Barassi argues, we should look at the first generation of datafied natives: our children. In Child Data Citizen, she examines the construction of children into data subjects, describing how their personal information is collected, archived, sold, and aggregated into unique profiles that can follow them across a lifetime.
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MIT Press Ltd Proxies The Cultural Work of Standing In
Book SynopsisHow those with the power to design technology, in the very moment of design, are allowed to imagine who is included--and who is excluded--in the future.Our world is built on an array of standards we are compelled to share. In Proxies, Dylan Mulvin examines how we arrive at those standards, asking, To whom and to what do we delegate the power to stand in for the world? Mulvin shows how those with the power to design technology, in the very moment of design, are allowed to imagine who is included--and who is excluded--in the future.For designers of technology, some bits of the world end up standing in for other bits, standards with which they build and calibrate. These proxies carry specific values, even as they disappear from view. Mulvin explores the ways technologies, standards, and infrastructures inescapably reflect the cultural milieus of their bureaucratic homes. Drawing on archival research, he investigates some of the basic building-blocks of our sh
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MIT Press Ltd Levels of Organization in the Biological Sciences
Book SynopsisScientific philosophers examine the nature and significance of levels of organization, a core structural principle in the biological sciences.This volume examines the idea of levels of organization as a distinct object of investigation, considering its merits as a core organizational principle for the scientific image of the natural world. It approaches levels of organization--roughly, the idea that the natural world is segregated into part-whole relationships of increasing spatiotemporal scale and complexity--in terms of its roles in scientific reasoning as a dynamic, open-ended idea capable of performing multiple overlapping functions in distinct empirical settings.The contributors--scientific philosophers with longstanding ties to the biological sciences--discuss topics including the philosophical and scientific contexts for an inquiry into levels; whether the concept can actually deliver on its organizational promises; the role of levels in the development an
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MIT Press Ltd People Count ContactTracing Apps and Public
Book SynopsisAn introduction to the technology of contact tracing and its usefulness for public health, considering questions of efficacy, equity, and privacy.How do you stop a pandemic before a vaccine arrives? Contact tracing is key, the first step in a process that has proven effective: trace, test, and isolate. Smartphones can collect some of the information required by contact tracers--not just where you've been but also who's been near you. Can we repurpose the tracking technology that we carry with us--devices with GPS, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and social media connectivity--to serve public health in a pandemic? In People Count, cybersecurity expert Susan Landau looks at some of the apps developed for contact tracing during the COVID-19 pandemic, finding that issues of effectiveness and equity intersect. Landau explains the effectiveness (or ineffectiveness) of a range of technological interventions, including dongles in Singapore that collect proximity information; In
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MIT Press Ltd Media Disrupted Surviving Pirates Cannibals and
Book SynopsisHow the internet disrupted the recorded music, newspaper, film, and television industries and what this tells us about surviving technological disruption.Much of what we think we know about how the internet disrupted media industries is wrong. Piracy did not wreck the recording industry, Netflix isn't killing Hollywood movies, and information does not want to be free. In Media Disrupted, Amanda Lotz looks at what really happened when the recorded music, newspaper, film, and television industries were the ground zero of digital disruption. It's not that digital technologies introduced new media, Lotz explains; rather, they offered existing media new tools for reaching people. For example, the MP3 unbundled recorded music; as the internet enabled new ways for people to experience and pay for music, the primary source of revenue for the recorded music industry shifted from selling music to licensing it. Cable television providers, written off as predigital d
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MIT Press Ltd Into the Anthropocosmos A Whole Space Catalog
Book SynopsisA lavishly illustrated catalog of space technology of the future: lab-tested devices, experiments, and habitats for the age of participatory space exploration.As Earthlings, we stand on the brink of a new age: the Anthropocosmos—an era of space exploration in which we can expand humanity’s horizons beyond our planet’s bounds. And in this new era, we have twin responsibilities, to Earth and to space; we should neither abandon our own planet to environmental degradation nor litter the galaxy with space junk. This fascinating and generously illustrated volume—designed by MIT Media Lab researcher Sands Fish—presents space technology for this new age: prototypes, artifacts, experiments, and habitats for an era of participatory space exploration. These projects, developed as part of MIT’s Space Exploration Initiative, range from nanoscale imaging of microbes to responsive, sensor-mediated living environments. They show the usefu
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MIT Press Ltd Computational Imaging
Book SynopsisA comprehensive and up-to-date textbook and reference for computational imaging, which combines vision, graphics, signal processing, and optics.Computational imaging involves the joint design of imaging hardware and computer algorithms to create novel imaging systems with unprecedented capabilities. In recent years such capabilities include cameras that operate at a trillion frames per second, microscopes that can see small viruses long thought to be optically irresolvable, and telescopes that capture images of black holes. This text offers a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to this rapidly growing field, a convergence of vision, graphics, signal processing, and optics. It can be used as an instructional resource for computer imaging courses and as a reference for professionals. It covers the fundamentals of the field, current research and applications, and light transport techniques. The text first presents an imaging toolkit, including optics, ima
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MIT Press Ltd Seven Sublimes
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MIT Press Ltd Technoscience in History Prussia 17501850
Book SynopsisThe relationship of the current technosciences and the older engineering sciences, examined through the history of the “useful” sciences in Prussia.Do today's technoscientific disciplines—including materials science, genetic engineering, nanotechnology, and robotics—signal a radical departure from traditional science? In Technoscience in History, Ursula Klein argues that these novel disciplines and projects are not an “epochal break,” but are part of a history that can be traced back to German “useful” sciences and beyond. Klein's account traces a deeper history of technoscience, mapping the relationship between today's cutting-edge disciplines and the development of the useful and technological sciences in Prussia from 1750 to 1850. Klein shows that institutions that coupled natural-scientific and technological inquiry existed well before the twentieth century. Focusing on the science of mining, technical chemistr
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MIT Press Ltd Beyond the Valley Mit Press How Innovators Around
Book SynopsisHow to repair the disconnect between designers and users, producers and consumers, and tech elites and the rest of us: toward a more democratic internet.In this provocative book, Ramesh Srinivasan describes the internet as both an enabler of frictionless efficiency and a dirty tangle of politics, economics, and other inefficient, inharmonious human activities. We may love the immediacy of Google search results, the convenience of buying from Amazon, and the elegance and power of our Apple devices, but it's a one-way, top-down process. We're not asked for our input, or our opinions—only for our data. The internet is brought to us by wealthy technologists in Silicon Valley and China. It's time, Srinivasan argues, that we think in terms beyond the Valley.Srinivasan focuses on the disconnection he sees between designers and users, producers and consumers, and tech elites and the rest of us. The recent Cambridge Analytica and Russian misinformation scandals exemplify
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