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Theory and design in the first machine age. by Banham, Reyner.(CARDINAL)149514;
Bibliographical footnotes.
Subjects: Architecture, Modern;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Dinotrux : meet Garby! / by Green, Margaret,1987-author.(CARDINAL)411861;
After D-Structs messes with their ore by covering it in tar, the Dinotrux resolve to build a station made out of strong rock to store their ore, and enlist the help of their new friend, Gardy, who knows all about rocks.Accelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Fiction.; Machine theory; Dinosaurs; Friendship; Friendships.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 4
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Meet Garby! / by Green, Margaret,1987-author.(CARDINAL)411861;
After D-Structs messes with their ore by covering it in tar, the Dinotrux resolve to build a station made out of strong rock to store their ore, and enlist the help of their new friend, Gardy, who knows all about rocks.Accelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Fiction.; Dinosaurs; Friendship; Machine theory; Friendships.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Bot battles / by Schaefer, Lola M.,1950-author.(CARDINAL)208774;
Includes bibliographical references (page 23) and index.Robots compete -- Smart, fast, strong -- It takes a team -- Robot battles -- Behind the robot. -- Fun facts."Which robot is the smartest, the fastest, or the strongest? Learn what robots can do, how engineers design robots, and how scientists and students put their cool creations to the test"--Ages 6-9.Grades 2-3.
Subjects: Robotics; Robots; Machine theory;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 6
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Jed and the junkyard war / by Bohls, Steven,author.(CARDINAL)412782;
Jed must travel to a strange world--where junk is gold and menacing pirate automatons rule the skies--to save his parents.Accelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Science fiction.; Science fiction; Machine theory; Robots; Heroes;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 8
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The Wingsnatchers / by Horwitz, Sarah Jean,author.(CARDINAL)357035;
Aspiring inventor and magician's apprentice Felix Carmer III is aided by Grit, a fiery, flightless faerie princess, in winning a magic competition, in exchange for him helping Grit investigate a string of faerie disappearances.930LAccelerated Reader ARReading CountsA Junior Library Guild selection (JLG.)
Subjects: Action and adventure fiction.; Science fiction.; Magicians; Fairies; Missing persons; Inventors; Machine theory;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 9
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The ascent of information : books, bits, genes, machines, and life's unending algorithm / by Scharf, Caleb,1968-author.(CARDINAL)352726;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Our eternal data -- The burden of an idea -- In sickness and in health -- An ever more tangled bank -- Genes, memes, and dreams -- The information river -- Life made machine -- The great blending -- A universe of dataomes."Your information has a life of its own, and it's using you to get what it wants. One of the most peculiar and possibly unique features of humans is the vast amount of information we carry outside our biological selves. But in our rush to build the infrastructure for the 20 quintillion bits we create every day, we've failed to ask exactly why we're expending ever-increasing amounts of energy, resources, and human effort to maintain all this data. Drawing on deep ideas and frontier thinking in evolutionary biology, computer science, information theory, and astrobiology, Caleb Scharf argues that information is, in a very real sense, alive. All the data we create-all of our emails, tweets, selfies, A.I.-generated text and funny cat videos-amounts to an aggregate lifeform. It has goals and needs. It can control our behavior and influence our well-being. And it's an organism that has evolved right alongside us. This symbiotic relationship with information offers a startling new lens for looking at the world. Data isn't just something we produce; it's the reason we exist. This powerful idea has the potential to upend the way we think about our technology, our role as humans, and the fundamental nature of life. The Ascent of Information offers a humbling vision of a universe built of and for information. Scharf explores how our relationship with data will affect our ongoing evolution as a species. Understanding this relationship will be crucial to preventing our data from becoming more of a burden than an asset, and to preserving the possibility of a human future"--
Subjects: Information theory.; Human-computer interaction.; Human-machine systems.;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 6
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The girl in the steel corset / by Cross, Kady,1971-author(CARDINAL)596825;
Finley, who has a beastly alter ego inside of her, joins Duke Griffin's army of misfits to help stop the Machinist, the criminal behind a series of automaton crimes, from carrying out a plan to kill Queen Victoria during the Jubilee.Accelerated Reader (AR)Accelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Science fiction.; Steampunk fiction.; Detective and mystery fiction.; Young adult fiction.; Young women; Criminals; Young adult fiction.; Nobility; Machine theory; Robots;
Available copies: 10 / Total copies: 16
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In our own image : savior or destroyer? : the history and future of artificial intelligence / by Zarkadakēs, Giōrgos,1964-author.(CARDINAL)291745;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 322-347) and index.Introduction -- Part I. Dreaming of electric sheep. The birth of the modern mind -- Life in the bush of ghosts -- The mechanical Turk -- Loving the alien -- Prometheus unbound -- The return of the gods -- Part II. The mind problem. A blueprint for a universe -- Minds without bodies -- La Résistance -- Peering into the mind -- The cybernetic brain -- Part III. Ada in Wonderland. 'All Cretans are liars' -- The program -- From Bletchley Park to Google campus -- Machines that think -- Darwin at the edge of chaos -- Epilogue : the future of humanity -- Timeline : a brief history of artificial intelligence."Zarkadakis explores one of humankind's oldest love-hate relationships--our ties with artificial intelligence, or AI. He traces AI's origins in ancient myth, through literary classics like Frankenstein to today's sci-fi blockbusters, arguing that a fascination with AI is hardwired into the human psyche. The narrative delves into AI's history, technology, and potential; its manifestations in intelligent machines; its connections to neurology and consciousness, and finally--perhaps most tellingly--what AI reveals about us as human beings. In Our Own Image argues that we are on the brink of a fourth industrial revolution--as science fiction becomes science fact, the world is poised to enter the Age of Artificial Intelligence. Ultimately, as Zarkadakis observes, the fate of AI has profound implications for the future of science and humanity itself."--Jacket.
Subjects: Artificial intelligence; Computers and civilization.; Artificial intelligence; Machine theory.; Human-computer interaction.;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5
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How to speak machine : computational thinking for the rest of us / by Maeda, John,author.(CARDINAL)341384;
Includes bibliographical references and index."John Maeda is one of the world's preeminent interdisciplinary thinkers on technology and design. In How to Speak Machine, he offers a set of simple laws that govern not only the computers of today, but the unimaginable machines of the future. Technology is already more powerful than we can comprehend, and getting more powerful at an exponential pace. Once set in motion, algorithms never tire. And when a program's size, speed, and tirelessness combine with its ability to learn and transform itself, the outcome can be unpredictable and dangerous. Take the seemingly instant transformation of Microsoft's chatbot Tay into a hate-spewing racist, or how crime-predicting algorithms reinforce racial bias. How to Speak Machine provides a coherent framework for today's product designers, business leaders, and policymakers to grasp this brave new world. Drawing on his wide-ranging experience from engineering to computer science to design, Maeda shows how businesses and individuals can identify opportunities afforded by technology to make world-changing and inclusive products--while avoiding the pitfalls inherent to the medium"-- Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Computer logic; Computer algorithms; Machine theory.; Electronic data processing; Product design.;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 4
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