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The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity

PublicAffairs, 2019

A call-to-arms about the broken nature of artificial intelligence, and the powerful corporations that are turning the human-machine relationship on its head.

We like to think that we are in control of the future of "artificial" intelligence. The reality, though, is that we--the everyday...

Pervasive Developmental Disorders: Finding a Diagnosis and Getting Help (Patient Centered Guides)

Patient Centered Guides, 1999

Pervasive developmental disorders (PDD) include autism and a range of other neurological disorders. This book focuses on the most common, PDD-NOS (not otherwise specified). There are at least 250,000 Americans with this diagnosis, one-third of which are children. (According to researchers, there may be as many as twice that number...

Software Engineering: (Update) (8th Edition)

Addison Wesley, 2006

The first edition of this textbook on software engineering was published more than twenty years ago. That edition was wJitten using a dumb terminal attached to an early minicomputer (a PDP-II) that probably cost about $50,000. I wrote this edition on a wireless laptop that cost less than $2,000 and is many times more powerful than...

Principles and Practices of Interconnection Networks (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design)

Morgan Kaufmann, 2003

"Prof. Dally's pioneering research dramatically and permanently changed this field by introducing rigorous evaluation techniques and creative solutions to the challenge of high-performance computer system communication. This book will instantly become a canonical reference in the field of interconnection networks."
-Craig Stunkel,...

Strategies for Information Technology and Intellectual Capital

Information Science Publishing, 2007

"Due to the increasing importance of the intangible assets of a company, firms are now concerned with how best to manage and measure knowledge and other intangibles. In addition to this, information technology has drastically changed the way these measurements are managed. Strategies for Information Technology and Intellectual Capital:...

JavaFX: Developing Rich Internet Applications (Java Series)

Prentice Hall, 2009

It is not often that you get the chance to witness (let alone participate in!) the birth of a truly disruptive technology. We are now at a juncture where information is pervasive—there is a convergence that will allow us to seamlessly move from one information source to another as we conduct our daily lives. Whether we are operating our smart...

The Essence of Multivariate Thinking: Basic Themes and Methods (Multivariate Applications)

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2005

The Essence of Multivariate Thinking is intended to make multivariate statistics more accessible to a wide audience. To encourage a more thorough understanding of multivariate methods, author Lisa Harlow suggests basic themes that run through most statistical methodology. The most pervasive theme is multiplicity. The author argues that the...

Geekonomics: The Real Cost of Insecure Software

Addison Wesley, 2007

You may or may not have an inkling of what insecure software is, how it impacts your life, or why you should be concerned. That is OK. This book attempts to introduce you to the full scope and consequence of software's impact on modern society without baffling the reader with jargon only experts understand or minutia only experts care about. The...

Cartesian Reflections: Essays on Descartes's Philosophy

Oxford University Press, 2008

John Cottingham explores central areas of Descartes's rich and wide-ranging philosophical system, including his accounts of thought and language, of freedom and action, of our relationship to the animal domain, and of human morality and the conduct of life. He also examines ways in which his philosophy has been misunderstood. The Cartesian...

After Effects Apprentice, Second Edition

Focal Press, 2009

If you're new to After Effects and want to get up to speed quickly, After Effects Apprentice was created just for you. With 11 core lessons
plus a hip final project that pulls it all together, you'll learn how to tap this program's vast potential -whether you want to create motion graphics for network television, corporate communications,...

A Handbook of Software and Systems Engineering: Empirical Observations, Laws, and Theories

Addison Wesley, 2003

Computers are the most pervasive tools of modern society. Their deployment relies on advanced methods of software and systems engineering. Based on repeated and consistent observations, key lessons of these fields can now be formulated into rules or even laws, providing initial building blocks towards a theoretical foundation that is essential for...

Writing Machines (Mediaworks Pamphlets)

MIT Press, 2002

Tracing a journey from the 1950s through the 1990s, N. Katherine Hayles uses the autobiographical persona of Kaye to explore how literature has transformed itself from inscriptions rendered as the flat durable marks of print to the dynamic images of CRT screens, from verbal texts to the diverse sensory modalities of multimedia works, from...

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