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| | | | A Political Theory of Post-Truth
This book combines political theory with media and communications studies in order to formulate a theory of post-truth, concentrating on the latter’s preconditions, context, and functions in today’s societies. Contrary to the prevalent view of post-truth as primarily manipulative, it is argued that post-truth is, instead, a collusion... |
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Science Fact and Science Fiction: An Encyclopedia
Science fiction is a literary genre based on scientific speculation. Works of science fiction use the ideas and the vocabulary of all sciences to create valid narratives that explore the future effects of science on events and human beings. Science Fact and Science Fiction examines in one volume how science has propelled... | | Introduction to Search with Sphinx: From installation to relevance tuning
I can’t quite believe it, but just 10 years ago there was no Google.
Other web search engines were around back then, such as AltaVista, HotBot, Inktomi, and AllTheWeb, among others. So the stunningly swift ascendance of Google can settle in my mind, given some effort. But what’s even more unbelievable is that... | | Smart Graphics: 11th International Symposium on Smart Graphics, Bremen, Germany, July 18-20, 2011
The International Symposium on Smart Graphics serves as a scientific forum
that attracts researchers and practitioners from the fields of computer graphics,
artificial intelligence, cognitive science, human–computer interaction, interface
design, and information visualization. Initiated by Andreas Butz, Antonio
Kr¨uger, and... |
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Information Retrieval: Searching in the 21st Century
In the forty years since I started working in the field, and indeed for some years before that (almost since Calvin Mooers coined the term information storage and retrieval in the 1950s), there have been a significant number of books on information retrieval. Even if we ignore the more specialist research monographs and the... | | Language Grounding in Robots
Written by leading international experts, this volume presents contributions establishing the feasibility of human language-like communication with robots. The book explores the use of language games for structuring situated dialogues in which contextualized language communication and language acquisition can take place. Within the text are... | | Reliability Engineering: Theory and Practice
This book shows how to build in, evaluate, and demonstrate reliability and availability of components, equipment, systems. It presents the state-of-the-art of reliability engineering, both in theory and practice, and is based on the author's more than 30 years experience in this field, half in industry and half as Professor of Reliability... |
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