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The universal history of computing : from the abacus to the quantum computer / by Ifrah, Georges.(CARDINAL)524072;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 378-394) and index.
Subjects: Computers; Electronic data processing;
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Subjects: Information storage and retrieval systems; Online bibliographic searching; Online data processing;
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New power [large print] : how movements build, businesses thrieve, and ideas catch fire in our hyperconnected world / by Heimans, Jeremy,author.(CARDINAL)613540; Timms, Henry,author.(CARDINAL)677195;
For the vast majority of human history, the rules of power were clear. To get ahead or get things done, you mastered "old power": closed, inaccessible, and leader-driven. Once gained, old power is jealously guarded, and the powerful spend it carefully, like currency. But our ubiquitous connectivity has made possible a new form of power, one that operates differently, like a current. "New power" is power made by many; it is open, participatory, and peer-driven. Like water or electricity, it is most forceful when it surges. The challenge with new power is not to hoard it but to channel it. New power is what fuels the rise of participatory platforms like Facebook and YouTube, peer-based services like Uber and Airbnb, and rapid-fire social movements like #BlackLivesMatter. It propelled the unlikely success of Barack Obama's 2008 campaign and the unlikelier victory of Donald Trump in 2016. And it gives ISIS its power to propagate its brand and distribute its violence. Even old power institutions like the papacy, NASA, and LEGO have figured out how to channel new power to stage improbable reinventions. In "New Power," the social visionaries Jeremy Heimans and Henry Timms provide the tools for using new power to successfully spread an idea, lead a movement, or build a career in the twenty-first century. Drawing on examples from business, politics, popular culture, and social justice, they explain the new world we live in--a world of crowds, chaos, and hyperconnection. A world in which, more and more, everyone expects to participate.
Subjects: Software.; Large print books.; Computer science; Information technology.; Business; Software engineering.; Management information systems.;
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Literary theory for robots : how computers learned to write / by Tenen, Dennis,author.(CARDINAL)884705;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-146) and index."Reveals the hidden history of modern machine intelligence, taking readers on a spellbinding journey from medieval Arabic philosophy to visions of a universal language, past Hollywood fiction factories and missile defense systems trained on Russian folktales. In this reflection on the shared pasts of literature and computer science, engineer and professor of comparative literature Dennis Yi Tenen provides crucial context for recent developments in AI, which holds important lessons for the future of humans living with smart technology. Intelligence expressed through technology should not be mistaken for a magical genie, capable of self-directed thought or action. Rather, in original and witty prose, Yi Tenen asks us to read past the artifice-to better perceive the mechanics of collaborative work. Something as simple as a spell-checker or a grammar-correction tool, embedded in every word-processor, represents the culmination of a shared human effort, spanning centuries. Smart tools, like dictionaries and grammar books, have always accompanied the act of writing, thinking, and communicating. That these paper machines are now automated does not bring them to life. Nor can we cede agency over the creative process. With its masterful blend of history, technology, and philosophy, Yi Tenen's work ultimately urges us to view AI as a matter of labor history, celebrating the long-standing cooperation between authors and engineers."--
Subjects: Artificial intelligence; Robotics; Automation; Machine learning.;
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The sound of the future : the coming age of voice technology / by Dengel, Tobias,author.(CARDINAL)878521; Weber, Karl,1953-author.(CARDINAL)300198;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-314) and index.Prologue: the power and potential of voice technology -- Introduction: unmistakable signs of the impending voice-technology wave -- The human needs met by voice technology. Speed: increasing the efficiency of every human-machine interaction -- Safety: creating a less dangerous world -- Knowledge: getting critical information when and where you need it -- Inclusion: creating a world where no one is left behind -- Engagement: making life more creative, entertaining, and enjoyable -- Transformation: voice-enabled business models that will change industry landscapes -- Rise to the challenge. Falling barriers: overcoming the technical, organizational, and social challenges to voice technology -- Making voice an integral part of your existing business systems -- Training voice tools to understand your world -- Designing and redesigning the multimodal user experience."Voice is the next technology--remarkably similar in potential impact to the Internet and mobile computing--poised to change the way the world works. Tobias Dengel is in the vanguard of this breakthrough, understanding the deep, wide-ranging implications voice will have for every industry. And here he connects the dots about this emerging paradigm to vividly illustrate how business leaders can stay ahead of the game, rather than scrambling to catch up, as voice technology gradually reveals its power, creating a host of new winners and losers. Using fascinating, colorful stories, Dengel explains how the "voice-first" experience is becoming part of the global technology mainstream, exploring the ways voice will do a better job of serving basic human needs such as safety, speed, accuracy, convenience, and fun, as well as making it possible for hundreds of millions of people around the planet to participate more fully and productively in today's high-tech world by making interactions with technology virtually effortless. A pervasive technology like the Internet and mobile, voice, with applications in marketing, sales, service, manufacturing, and logistics, will change the way we work at every level and every function, driving down costs, boosting productivity, and enabling the creation of entirely new business models. This is not simply about Siri and Alexa. They are the tantalizing but incomplete precursors of the ultimate interface that will make technology easier, faster, more accurate, and more human."--
Subjects: Informational works.; Voice computing.; Natural language processing (Computer science);
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The efficiency paradox : what big data can't do / by Tenner, Edward,author.(CARDINAL)186139;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-263) and index."A bold challenge to our obsession with efficiency--and a new understanding of how to benefit from the powerful potential of serendipity. Algorithms, multitasking, the sharing economy, life hacks: our culture can't get enough of efficiency. One of the great promises of the Internet and big data revolutions is the idea that we can improve the processes and routines of our work and personal lives to get more done in less time than ever before. There is no doubt that we're performing at higher levels and moving at unprecedented speed, but what if we're headed in the wrong direction? Melding the long-term history of technology with the latest headlines and findings of computer science and social science, The Efficiency Paradox questions our ingrained assumptions about efficiency, persuasively showing how relying on the algorithms of platforms can in fact lead to wasted efforts, missed opportunities, and above all an inability to break out of established patterns. Edward Tenner offers a smarter way of thinking about efficiency, revealing what we and our institutions, when equipped with an astute combination of artificial intelligence and trained intuition, can learn from the random and unexpected."--"Bold challenge to our obsession with efficiency--and a new understanding of how to benefit from the powerful potential of serendipity"--Preface: The seven deadly sins of efficiency : why it is still a work in progress -- From mill to platform : how the nineteenth century redefined efficiency and the twenty-first has transformed it -- The failed promise of the information explosion : how the quest to measure elite science empowered populist culture -- The mirage of the teaching machine : why learning is still a slog after fifty years of Moore's Law -- Moving targets : what geographic information can't do -- The managed body : why we are still waiting for RoboDoc -- Inspired inefficiency : how to balance algorithm and intuition.
Subjects: Industrial efficiency.; Serendipity.; Artificial intelligence.; Big data.;
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How we learn : why brains learn better than any machine ... for now / by Dehaene, Stanislas,author.(CARDINAL)374931;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Seven definitions of learning -- Why our brain learns better than current machines -- Babies' invisible knowledge -- The birth of a brain -- Nurture's share -- Recycle your brain -- Attention -- Active engagement -- Error feedback -- Consolidation -- Conclusion. Reconciling education with neuroscience."In today's technological society, with an unprecedented amount of information at our fingertips, learning plays a more central role than ever. In How We Learn, Stanislas Dehaene decodes its biological mechanisms, delving into the neuronal, synaptic, and molecular processes taking place in the brain. He explains why youth is such a sensitive period, during which brain plasticity is maximal, but also assures us that our abilities continue into adulthood, and that we can enhance our learning and memory at any age. We can all "learn to learn" by taking maximal advantage of the four pillars of the brain's learning algorithm: attention, active engagement, error feedback, and consolidation. The human brain is an extraordinary machine. Its ability to process information and adapt to circumstances by reprogramming itself is unparalleled, and it remains the best source of inspiration for recent developments in artificial intelligence. The exciting advancements in A.I. of the last twenty years reveal just as much about our remarkable abilities as they do about the potential of machines. How We Learn finds the boundary of computer science, neurobiology, and cognitive psychology to explain how learning really works and how to make the best use of the brain's learning algorithms, in our schools and universities as well as in everyday life"--Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
Subjects: Learning, Psychology of.; Cognitive psychology.; Neuroplasticity.; Cognitive science.;
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What would it take to upload a mind? / by Durkin, Megan Ray,author.;
From your brain to a computer -- What does it mean to upload a mind? -- How would mind uploading work? -- Current tech -- What tech is needed? -- What could the future look like?"In science fiction, people upload their minds into computers for them to be stored. How could this futuristic way of preserving the mind work? Scientists have some ideas, which involve mapping the brain cell by cell. Discover the science and technology behind what it would take to upload a mind in real life!"--Grades: 4-6
Subjects: Whole brain emulation; Brain; Uploading of data; Neurotechnology (Bioengineering); Brain.; Data processing.; Technological innovations.;
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Bits to bitcoin : how our digital stuff works / by Day, Mark Stuart,author.; Jennings, C. A.,illustrator.;
Introduction -- I. Single process. Steps -- Processes -- Names -- Recursion -- Limits : imperfect programs -- Limits : perfect programs -- II. Interacting processes. Coordination -- State, change, and equality -- Controlled access -- Interrupts -- Virtualization -- Separation -- Packets -- Browsing -- III. Unstoppable processes. Failure -- Software failure -- Reliable networks -- Inside the cloud -- Browsing revisited -- IV. Defending processes. Attackers -- Thompson's hack -- Secrets -- Secure channel, key distribution, and certificates -- Bitcoin goals -- Bitcoin mechanisms -- Looking back.An accessible guide to our digital infrastructure, explaining the basics of operating systems, networks, security, and other topics for the general reader. Most of us feel at home in front of a computer; we own smartphones, tablets, and laptops; we look things up online and check social media to see what our friends are doing. But we may be a bit fuzzy about how any of this really works. In Bits to Bitcoin, Mark Stuart Day offers an accessible guide to our digital infrastructure, explaining the basics of operating systems, networks, security, and related topics for the general reader. He takes the reader from a single process to multiple processes that interact with each other; he explores processes that fail and processes that overcome failures; and he examines processes that attack each other or defend themselves against attacks. Day tells us that steps are digital but ramps are analog; that computation is about "doing something with stuff" and that both the "stuff" and the "doing" can be digital. He explains timesharing, deadlock, and thrashing; virtual memory and virtual machines; packets and networks; resources and servers; secret keys and public keys; Moore's law and Thompson's hack. He describes how building in redundancy guards against failure and how endpoints communicate across the Internet. He explains why programs crash or have other bugs, why they are attacked by viruses, and why those problems are hard to fix. Finally, after examining secrets, trust, and cheating, he explains the mechanisms that allow the Bitcoin system to record money transfers accurately while fending off attacks--
Subjects: Computer science; Digital communications;
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Face value : the irresistible influence of first impressions / by Todorov, Alexandre B.,author.(CARDINAL)829713;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Machine generated contents note: -- Prologue 1 1 The Appeal Of Physiognomy 1 The Physiognomists' Promise 9 2 Single-Glance Impressions 28 3 Consequential Impressions 48 2 Understanding First Impressions 4 The Psychologist's Trade 73 5 Making The Invisible Visible 93 6 The Functions Of Impressions 112 7 The Eye Of The Beholder 131 3 The (Mis)accuracy Of First Impressions 8 Misleading Images 147 9 Suboptimal Decisions 168 10 Evolutionary Stories 185 11 Life Leaves Traces On Our Faces 203 4 The Special Status Of Faces 12 Born To Attend To Faces 219 13 Face Modules In The Brain 233 14 Illusory Face Signals 246 Epilogue: More Evolutionary Stories 264 Acknowledgments 269 Notes And References 271 Image Credits 311 Index 319." We make up our minds about others after seeing their faces for a fraction of a second--and these snap judgments predict all kinds of important decisions. For example, politicians who simply look more competent are more likely to win elections. Yet the character judgments we make from faces are as inaccurate as they are irresistible; in most situations, we would guess more accurately if we ignored faces. So why do we put so much stock in these widely shared impressions? What is their purpose if they are completely unreliable? In this book, Alexander Todorov, one of the world's leading researchers on the subject, answers these questions as he tells the story of the modern science of first impressions. Drawing on psychology, cognitive science, neuroscience, computer science, and other fields, this accessible and richly illustrated book describes cutting-edge research and puts it in the context of the history of efforts to read personality from faces. Todorov describes how we have evolved the ability to read basic social signals and momentary emotional states from faces, using a network of brain regions dedicated to the processing of faces. Yet contrary to the nineteenth-century pseudoscience of physiognomy and even some of today's psychologists, faces don't provide us a map to the personalities of others. Rather, the impressions we draw from faces reveal a map of our own biases and stereotypes. A fascinating scientific account of first impressions, Face Value explains why we pay so much attention to faces, why they lead us astray, and what our judgments actually tell us. "--
Subjects: Body image.; Social perception.; Social psychology.;
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