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Person of interest [videorecording] : the complete second season / by Nolan, Jonathan,DirectorCreator(CARDINAL)540001; Caviezel, Jim,1968-Actor(CARDINAL)807247; Chapman, Kevin,Actor; Henson, Taraji P.,Actor(CARDINAL)549808;
The contingency -- Bad code -- Masquerade -- Triggerman -- Bury the lede -- The high road -- Critical -- Til death -- C.O.D. -- Shadow box -- 2 [Pi, r] -- Prisoner's dilema -- Dead reckoning -- One percent -- Booked solid -- Relevance -- Proteus -- All in -- Trojan horse -- In extremis -- Zero day -- God mode.Jim Caviezel, Kevin Chapman, Michael Emerson, Taraji P. Henson.Using data siphoned off the U.S. intelligence agencies' threat matrix, information not related to terrorism, but rather violent crimes of a personal nature, during each episode, the former CIA agent and his enigmatic partner identify a 'person of interest' and set about solving the mystery of the impending crime. Tapping into the world's Big Brother-like surveillance network, the shadowy duo knows that something bad is going to happen; it's their mission to discover what that event will be.TV rating: Not rated.
Subjects: Action and adventure television programs.; Detective and mystery television programs.; Drama.; Fiction television programs.; Films for the hearing impaired.; Mystery television programs.; Television programs.; Television series.; United States. Central Intelligence Agency; Crime; Electronic surveillance;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Geniuses at war : Bletchley Park, Colossus, and the dawn of the digital age / by Price, David A.(David Andrew),1961-author.(CARDINAL)725784;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-231) and index.The right type of recruit -- The palace coup -- Breaking Tunny -- The soul of a new machine -- Decrypting for D-Day -- After the war -- Epilogue: Turing's child machine, 1968."Geniuses at War is the dramatic, untold story of the brilliant team who built the world's first digital electronic computer at Bletchley Park, during a critical time in World War II. Decoding the communication of the Nazi high command was imperative for the success of the Allied invasion of Normandy. The Nazi missives were encrypted by the "Tunny" cipher, a code that was orders of magnitude more difficult to crack than the infamous Enigma code. But Tommy Flowers, a maverick English working-class engineer, devised the ingenious, daring, and controversial plan to build a machine that could think at breathtaking speed and break the code in nearly real time. Together with the pioneering mathematician Max Newman and Enigma code-breaker Alan Turing, Flowers and his team produced--against the odds, the clock, and a resistant leadership--Colossus, the world's first digital electronic computer, the machine that would help bring the war to an end. With fascinating detail and illuminating insight, David A. Price's Geniuses at War tells, for the first time, the mesmerizing story of the great minds behind Colossus, and chronicles their remarkable feats of engineering genius which ushered in the dawn of the digital age"--
Subjects: Cryptography; Lorenz cipher system.; World War, 1939-1945;
Available copies: 17 / Total copies: 18
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Who broke the wartime codes? / by Barber, Nicola,author.(CARDINAL)340270;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 62-63) and index.A daring raid -- What were wartime codes? -- Who wanted to break them? -- What sort of people were they? -- What did they do to break the codes? -- Who used the information they found? -- What happened to the code-breakers after the war? -- Why was their work significant?Junior Library GuildThis account of the Allied efforts to decode Axis messages--and keep the success of their efforts secret--describes the men and women behind the scenes, as well as the institutions they served, and the early computers devised for the purpose.11-13.6-8.1130LAccelerated Reader ARA Junior Library Guild selection (JLG)
Subjects: Cryptographers; Cryptographers; Cryptography; Cryptography; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; Cryptographers; World War, 1939-1945; Cryptographers; Cryptographers; Cryptography; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The secret lives of codebreakers : the men and women who cracked the Enigma code at Bletchley Park / by McKay, Sinclair.(CARDINAL)487914; McKay, Sinclair.Secret life of Bletchley Park.(CARDINAL)403538;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-339) and index.Reporting for duty -- 1938-39: The school of codes -- 1939: Rounding up the brightest and the best -- The house and the surrounding country -- 1939: How do you break the unbreakable? -- 1939-40: The Enigma initiation -- Freezing billets and outdoor loos -- 1940: the first glimmers of light -- 1940: inspiration and intensity -- 1940: The coming of the bombes -- 1940: Enigma and the Blitz -- Bletchley and the class question -- 1941: The Battle of the Atlantic -- Food, booze and too much tea -- 1941: The wrens and their larks -- 1941: Bletchley and Churchill -- Military or civilian? -- 1942: Grave setbacks and internal strife -- The rules of attraction -- 1943: A very special relationship -- 1943: The hazards of careless talk -- Bletchley and the Russians-- The cultural life of Bletchley Park -- 1943-44: The rise of the colossus -- 1944-45: D-Day and the end of the war -- 1945 and after: The immediate aftermath -- Bletchley's intellectual legacy -- After Bletchley : the silence descends -- The rescue of the Park.
Subjects: Government Code and Cypher School (Great Britain); World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
Available copies: 8 / Total copies: 9
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The secret life of Bletchley Park : the WWII codebreaking centre and the men and women who worked there / by McKay, Sinclair.(CARDINAL)487914;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Reporting for duty -- 1938-39 : the school of codes -- 1939 : rounding up the brightest and the best -- The house and the surrounding country -- 1939 : how do you break the unbreakable? -- 1939-40 : the Enigma initiation -- Freezing billets and outdoor loos -- 1940 : the first glimmers of light -- 1940 : inspiration and intensity -- 1940 : the coming of the bombes -- 1940 : Enigma and the Blitz -- Bletchley and the class question -- 1941 : the battle of the Atlantic -- Food, booze and too much tea -- 1941 : the wrens and their larks -- 1941 : Bletchley and Churchill -- Military or civilian? -- 1942 : grave setbacks and internal strife -- The rules of attraction -- 1943 : a very special relationship -- 1943 : the hazards of careless talk -- Bletchley and the Russians -- The cultural life of Bletchley Park -- 1943-44 : the rise of the Colossus -- 1944-45 : D-Day and the end of the war -- 1945 and after : the immediate aftermath -- Bletchley's intellectual legacy -- After Bletchley : the silence descends -- The rescue of the Park.Bletchley Park was where one of the war's most famous and crucial achievements was made: the cracking of Germany's "Enigma" code in which its most important military communications were couched. This country house in the Buckinghamshire countryside was home to Britain's most brilliant mathematical brains, like Alan Turing, and the scene of immense advances in technology -- indeed, the birth of modern computing. The military codes deciphered there were instrumental in turning both the Battle of the Atlantic and the war in North Africa. But, though plenty has been written about the boffins, and the codebreaking, fictional and non-fiction -- from Robert Harris and Ian McEwan to Andrew Hodges' biography of Turing -- what of the thousands of men and women who lived and worked there during the war? What was life like for them -- an odd, secret territory between the civilian and the military? Sinclair McKay's book is the first history for the general reader of life at Bletchley Park, and an amazing compendium of memories from people now in their eighties -- of skating on the frozen lake in the grounds (a depressed Angus Wilson, the novelist, once threw himself in) -- of a youthful Roy Jenkins, useless at codebreaking, of the high jinks at nearby accommodation hostels -- and of the implacable secrecy that meant girlfriend and boyfriend working in adjacent huts knew nothing about each other's work.--Publisher.General.
Subjects: Government Code and Cypher School (Great Britain); World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The Kraken project : a novel / by Preston, Douglas J.,author.(CARDINAL)189094;
"NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center is designing a probe which will be dropped into the Kraken Mare, one of the methane seas of Titan. There, it will embark on a journey of exploration. As the probe is being tested at Goddard, things go awry, and an explosion kills seven scientists. The AI program in the probe, a powerful, self-modifying AI called "Dorothy," flees into the Internet. Series character Wyman Ford is tapped by the president's science advisor to track down the software with the help of Dorothy's creator, Melissa Shepherd. As the two of them trace Dorothy in her wanderings in cyberspace, they realize Dorothy's horrific experiences in the wasteland of the Internet have changed her--utterly. But for the better . . . or worse? At the same time, they learn Dorothy is being pursued by a pair of Wall Street high-frequency traders, who want to turn her into an algorithmic-trading slave-bot. Pursued relentlessly by the traders, Dorothy jumps out of the Internet into a child's toy robot, to hide. Now the only person standing between the murderous algo traders and Dorothy is a lonely, twelve-year-old boy living on an isolated bay on the coast of northern California. But is Dorothy bent on doing good . . . or on wiping out the cancer of the human race?"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Science fiction.; Novels.; Cyberspace; Internet; Electronic trading of securities; Artificial intelligence;
Available copies: 51 / Total copies: 53
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Artificial intellegencia : a novel / by Clarke, Richard A.(Richard Alan),1951-author.;
"Our lives are more controlled by computers and algorithms than we understand, but who controls the computers? Artificial Intelligencia steps behind the veil into the world of hackers, intelligence agents, surveillance systems, quantum computing, and deadly international competition. A junior Chinese police detective stumbles onto a global plot that has control of camera and computer systems tracking billions of humans, including people who seem to exist only in cyberspace. He created the world's most advanced surveillance system and now an even more powerful program is after him. Ranging from inside the highest offices in China to the halls of Washington's security establishment and the cutting-edge labs of Canada and California, Chief Inspector Wei Bao races to stop an impending disaster. Only two problems: he does not know what the disaster will be or who is going to perpetrate it"--
Subjects: Novels.; Artificial intelligence; Cyberterrorism; Electronic surveillance; Hacking; Police; Police.;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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Seizing the electronic high ground : transforming aerial intelligence for the United States Army / by Hauser, Thomas N.,author.; Lance, Darell G.,writer of foreword.; United States.Army.Army Intelligence & Security Command,issuing body.(CARDINAL)893235;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-255) and index.Foreword / Darell G. Lance -- Preface -- Prologue -- Task Force 138 : enter low-intensity conflict in Central America -- A foothold in Central America -- The military intelligence battalion (low intensity) -- The first Gulf War -- CRAZY HORSE's last stand -- Unmanned aerial vehicles -- Supporting the field stations -- Airborne reconnaissance low in the western hemisphere -- JSTARS rising -- INSCOM in the twenty-first century -- Epilogue"On the battlefield, the high ground had long been the maneuver objective that awarded a bird's eye view of an opponent's position and an improved tactical advantage for offensive and defensive posture. When technology and industrialization began to transform warfare, it became a metaphor for military professionals to promote the latest advancement. "The electronic high ground" was one such imagining, used to emphasize the importance of aerial-sensor technology. In Seizing the Electronic High Ground, Thomas Hauser probes the recent past to explain why the U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM) is the exclusive manager of the Army's assets for aerial-intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (AISR) in the twenty-first century and how it delivers, maintains, and operates AISR systems in high demand worldwide. In 1981, INSCOM had a light footing in aerial intelligence, but its achievements in aviation were notable for uncovering a decade-long North Korean military-force buildup--a revelation that profoundly affected the policies of the U.S. and its allies in the region. Fresh off this success, the command went on to assume executive authority for low-intensity aerial operations in Central America. New, more-advanced equipment would be needed, and "the electronic high ground" would continue as an expression to energize support for acquisition and implementation. Not intended to have a role in combat development, INSCOM's aviation staff nevertheless rose to the occasion by introducing new designs for low-intensity conflict in underdeveloped regions of the world, delivering experimental proofs of concept that had the potential to provide qualitative support to the regular force, and even conceiving the ideas for future projects based on mission requirements. Furthermore, the command then built specialized aerial units and a support structure to run the resulting systems on a permanent basis. In this way, the products quite often led to enduring missions. For the Army, INSCOM now holds "the electronic high ground.""--
Subjects: Aerial observation (Military science); Aerial reconnaissance; Electronic intelligence; United States. Army. Army Intelligence & Security Command;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Careers in artificial intelligence / by Gregory, Josh,author.(CARDINAL)345750;
Hello, emerging tech careers! -- AI research scientist -- Data scientist -- Game developer -- Machine learning engineer -- Robotics engineer -- Software developer -- Can you imagine?Readers get acquainted with the people behind today's most cutting-edge technologies in the artificial intelligence field--from bright ideas to cool new products--and inspires readers to consider a high-tech future career. Careers in Artificial Intelligence introduces six exciting careers and features sidebar activities that invite readers to Imagine That! and Dig Deeper!--Grades 4 to 6.930L
Subjects: Artificial intelligence; Electronic data processing;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 4
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War of shadows : codebreakers, spies, and the secret struggle to drive the Nazis from the Middle East / by Gorenberg, Gershom,author.(CARDINAL)277995;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-392) and index."As World War II rages in North Africa, General Irwin Rommel marches his troops swiftly through Egypt, aiming to overrun he entire Middle East. An uncanny sense of his enemies' weaknesses and positions informs each move. The Nazis, somehow, have a source for the Allies' greatest secrets. Yet Rommel is not the only one with stolen knowledge. allies cryptographers are breaking the extraordinarily complex Nazi code Enigma. On the brink of disaster, a fevered, high-stakes search for the Nazis' source begins."--
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; Espionage;
Available copies: 9 / Total copies: 9
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