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Dance of the photons : from Einstein to quantum teleportation / by Zeilinger, Anton.(CARDINAL)388791;
Underneath the Danube -- Space travel -- The stuff called light. Light is a wave ; Light is particles -- Sheepdogs and Einstein's particles of light -- Einstein and his Nobel Prize -- A conflict -- How we became certain of uncertainty -- Quantum uncertainty : just our ignorance, or is it the way things are? The quantum excuse -- The quantum verdict against teleportation -- Quantum entanglement comes to the rescue. Entangled quantum dice ; The original teleportation protocol -- Alice and Bob in the quantum lab. Alice and Bob's experiment : the first steps -- The polarization of light : a lecture by Professor Quantinger. The polarization of individual quanta of light -- Alice and Bob discover twins. ...And invent hidden properties -- John's introduction of Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen. The reality criterion ; Reality in Alice and Bob's experiment ; The locality assumption -- John's story on local hidden variables -- Alice and Bob's experiment gives confusing results -- John Bell's story -- Alice and Bob find out that things aren't as they think they are -- Faster than light and back into the past? -- Alice, Bob, and the speed of light limit -- Loopholes -- In the Tyrolean Mountains -- The quantum lottery -- Quantum lottery with two photons. Quantum lottery with entangled photons -- Quantum money : the end to all forgery. From classical bits to quantum bits -- A quantum truck can transport more than it can carry -- Atomic sources of entanglement of early experiments -- The super-source and closing the communication loophole -- Quantum teleportation at the River Danube -- The multiphoton surprise and, along the road, quantum teleportation -- Teleporting entanglement. A ghostly idea ; Connecting quantum computer ; Reality vs. information -- Further experiments -- Quantum information technology -- The future of quantum teleportation. Teleportation as a means of travel? -- Signals out of the sky above Tenerife -- Recent developments and some open questions -- What does it all mean?
Subjects: Quantum theory.; Quantum teleportation.;
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Economics. by Forstater, Mathew,1961-(CARDINAL)660445;
Subjects: Economics;
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The network always wins : how to influence customers, stay relevant, and transform your organization to move faster than the market / by Hinssen, Peter,1969-(CARDINAL)597051;
"The Definitive Business Guide to Surviving and Innovating in the Digital Age..The world is changing faster than ever. With the rise of new digital markets and the consequent network-ization of our environment, the phrase "The customer is always right" takes on a whole new meaning..This powerful guide from serial entrepreneur and radical innovation consultant Peter Hinssen shows you how to keep your company up to speed with your market, engage with customers at a time when loyalty keeps fading into the background, and transform your organization into a network in order to thrive in this era of digital disruption...The Network Always Wins provides step-by-step strategies to help you:. Reinvent your company--even after the market has flipped. Tap into the force of the network--and survive in a market characterized by speed, uncertainty, and complexity. Maintain relevance--and stay on top of emerging trends. Connect with your customers--and encourage them to interact.This business guide is as illuminating as it is pleasant and fun to read. It provides everything you need to adapt your organization for this exciting new age of networks and digital disruption. You'll learn how to evolve faster, connect deeper, and make better decisions than ever before. You'll find proven methods to speed up your reaction time, beat the clock of your competitors, and anticipate consumer trends before they even happen..In today's fast-moving marketplace, networks are power. This book shows you how to harness that power. For your company. For your customers. For your continued success in the digital age.."--
Subjects: Strategic planning.; Technological innovations; Information technology; Management.; Business & economics;
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Principles of programming & coding / by Franceschetti, Donald R.,1947-editor.(CARDINAL)651222;
Includes bibliographical references and index3D printing -- Algorithms -- American Standard Code for Information -- Interchange (ASCII) -- Android OS -- Application -- Autonomic computing -- Avatars and simulation -- Binary hexadecimal representations -- Boolean operators -- Branching logic -- Characters and strings -- Cloud computing -- Coding and encryption -- Color coding -- Combinatorics -- Comment programming -- Comparison operators -- Computer animation -- Computer memory -- Computer modeling -- Computer security -- Computer-aided design (CAD) -- Computer-aided design and computer-aided manufacturing software (CAD/CAM) -- Computer-assisted instruction (CAI) -- Conditional operators -- Constraint programming -- Control systems -- Cowboy coding -- CPU design -- Crowdfunding -- Crowdsourcing -- Cryptography -- Data mining -- Data warehouse -- Database design -- Database structuring conventions -- Debugging -- Device drivers -- Diffusion of innovations -- Digital divide -- Digital forensics -- Digital libraries -- Digital native -- Digital photography -- Digital signal processors (DSP) -- Digital watermarking -- Disk operating system (DOS) -- Drone warfare -- Drones -- E-banking -- E-learning -- Electronic circuits -- Electronic communication software -- Encryption -- Error handling -- Event-driven marketing (EDM) -- Expectancy theory -- Experimenter's bias -- Extreme programming -- Firewalls -- Firmware -- Functional electrical stimulation (FES) -- Game programming -- Gamification -- Graphical user interface (GUI) -- Graphics formats -- Guard clause -- HTTP cookie -- Imagined communities -- Incremental development -- Informational technology (IT) -- Information visualization -- Internet Protocol (IP) -- Inversion of control (Hollywood Principle) -- iOS -- Iterative constructs -- Java programming language -- JavaScript -- Knowledge worker -- Levels of processing theory -- Logic synthesis -- Logistics -- Machine learning -- Malware -- Massive open online course (MOOC) -- Meta-analysis -- Metacomputing -- Metadata -- Microprocessors -- Mixed methods research (MMR) -- Mobile apps -- Mobile technology -- Motherboards -- Multiprocessing operating systems (OS) -- Multi-user operating system (OS) -- Naming conventions -- Net neutrality -- Network security -- Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) -- Neuromarketing -- Neuromorphic chips -- Objectivity -- Object-oriented design (OOD) -- Object-oriented programming (OOP) -- Privacy rights -- Programming languages -- Prototyping -- Quantum computing -- Random access memory (RAM) -- Rapid application development (RAD) -- Rational choice theory -- Search engine optimization (SEO) -- Semantic memory -- Semantics -- Signal processing -- Source code comments -- Spiral development -- Standard deviation -- Standpoint theory -- Statistical inference -- String-oriented symbolic languages (SNOBOL) -- Structural equation modeling (SEM) -- Technology in education -- Test doubles -- Theory of multiple intelligences -- Theory X and Theory Y -- Transformation priority premise (TPP) -- Tree structures -- Turing test -- Uncertainty reduction theory (URT) -- Unicode -- UNIX -- Variables and values -- Waterfall development -- Web design -- Web graphic design -- Working memory -- Worse-is-better -- Time Line of Inventions and Advancements in Programming and CodingThis new volume makes sense of the jumble of techno-jargon and programming acronyms for high school and undergraduate students. More than 125 entries explain the fundamental concepts, popular languages, systems, and protocols that go into computer programming.
Subjects: Computer programming.; Coding theory.;
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Beyond weird : why everything you thought you knew about quantum physics is different / by Ball, Philip,1962-author.(CARDINAL)207976;
Includes bibliographical references and index.No one can say what quantum mechanics means (and this is a book about it) -- Quantum mechanics is not really about the quantum -- Quantum objects are particle (but sometimes neither wave nor they might as well be) -- Quantum particles aren't (but sometimes they in two states at once might as well be) --"Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it." Since Niels Bohr said this many years ago, quantum mechanics has only been getting more shocking. We now realize that it's not really telling us that "weird" things happen out of sight, on the tiniest level, in the atomic world: rather, everything is quantum. But if quantum mechanics is correct, what seems obvious and right in our everyday world is built on foundations that don't seem obvious or right at all--or even possible. An exhilarating tour of the contemporary quantum landscape, Beyond Weird is a book about what quantum physics really means--and what it doesn't. Science writer Philip Ball offers an up-to-date, accessible account of the quest to come to grips with the most fundamental theory of physical reality, and to explain how its counterintuitive principles underpin the world we experience. Over the past decade it has become clear that quantum physics is less a theory about particles and waves, uncertainty and fuzziness, than a theory about information and knowledge--about what can be known, and how we can know it. Discoveries and experiments over the past few decades have called into question the meanings and limits of space and time, cause and effect, and, ultimately, of knowledge itself. The quantum world Ball shows us isn't a different world. It is our world, and if anything deserves to be called "weird," it's us.Everything you experience is a (partial) copy of what causes it -- Schrödinger's cat has had kittens -- Quantum mechanics can be harnessed for technology -- Quantum computers don't necessarily perform 'many calculations at once' -- There is no other 'quantum' you -- Things could be even more 'quantum' than they are (so why aren't they)? -- The fundamental laws of quantum mechanics might be simpler than we imagine -- Can we ever get to the bottom of it?What happens' depends on what we find out about it -- There are many ways of theory (and none of them interpreting quantum quite makes sense) -- Whatever the question, the answer is 'Yes' (unless it's 'No') -- Not everything is knowable at once -- The properties of quantum objects don't have to be contained within the objects -- There is no 'spooky action at a distance' -- The everyday world is what quantum becomes at human scales --
Subjects: Sound recordings.; Quantum theory;
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The theory that would not die : how Bayes' rule cracked the enigma code, hunted down Russian submarines, & emerged triumphant from two centuries of controversy / by McGrayne, Sharon Bertsch.(CARDINAL)373334;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-306) and index.Enlightenment and the anti-Bayesian reaction. Causes in the air ; The man who did everything ; Many doubts, few defenders -- Second World War era. Bayes goes to war ; Dead and buried again -- The glorious revival. Arthur Bailey ; From tool to theology ; Jerome Cornfield, lung cancer, and heart attacks ; There's always a first time ; 46,656 varieties -- To prove its worth. Business decisions ; Who wrote The Federalist? The cold warrior ; Three Mile Island ; The Navy searches -- Victory. Eureka! ; Rosetta stones -- Appendixes. Dr. Fisher's casebook ; Applying Baye's Rule to mammograms and breast cancer."Bayes' rule appears to be a straightforward, one-line theorem: by updating our initial beliefs with objective new information, we get a new and improved belief. To its adherents, it is an elegant statement about learning from experience. To its opponents, it is subjectivity run amok. In the first-ever account of Bayes' rule for general readers, Sharon Bertsch McGrayne explores this controversial theorem and the human obsessions surrounding it. She traces its discovery by an amateur mathematician in the 1740s through its development into roughly its modern form by French scientist Pierre Simon Laplace. She reveals why respected statisticians rendered it professionally taboo for 150 years--at the same time that practitioners relied on it to solve crises involving great uncertainty and scanty information, even breaking Germany's Enigma code during World War II, and explains how the advent of off-the-shelf computer technology in the 1980s proved to be a game-changer. Today, Bayes' rule is used everywhere from DNA de-coding to Homeland Security. Drawing on primary source material and interviews with statisticians and other scientists, The Theory That Would Not Die is the riveting account of how a seemingly simple theorem ignited one of the greatest controversies of all time"--
Subjects: Bayesian statistical decision theory;
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Simply Quantum Physics / by Gerhard, Karyn,editor.(CARDINAL)426969; DK Publishing, Inc.(CARDINAL)317714;
The Quantum world - pre-quantum puzzles - the wave function - interpretations of quantum physics - quantum phenomena - quantum technology - quantum information - nuclear physics - particle physics - quantum gravity - quantum biology."A clear, simple, graphic-led introduction to quantum physics. Are you short of time but hungry for knowledge? This beginner's quantum physics book proves that sometimes less is more. Bold graphics and easy-to-understand explanations make it the most accessible guide to quantum physics on the market. This smart but powerful guide cuts through the jargon and gives you the facts in a clear, visual way. Step inside the strange and fascinating world of subatomic physics that at times seems to conflict with common sense. Unlock the mysteries of more than 100 key ideas, from quantum mechanics basics to the uncertainty principle and quantum tunneling. Each pared-back, single-page entry demystifies the groundbreaking ideas in modern science. From Schrödinger's Cat and quantum teleportation to atoms and gravity, Simply Quantum Physics is the ultimate jargon-free overview of the subject. This illuminating reference book introduces you to the greatest physicists of the 20th and 21st centuries, such as Albert Einstein, Neils Bohr, Erwin Schrödinger, Richard Feynman, and more! It's the perfect gift for anyone interested in physics or science in general and life-long learners. Whether you're a physics student or just an interested layman, this indispensable guide is packed with everything you need to quickly and easily understand the basics" --
Subjects: Quantum theory.; Space and time.; Quantum field theory.; Wave functions.;
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Quantum drama : from the Bohr-Einstein debate to the riddle of entanglement / by Baggott, J. E.,author.(CARDINAL)681460; Heilbron, J. L.,author.(CARDINAL)721331;
Includes bibliographic references and index.Prologue -- ACT I. CORRESPONDENCE TO COMPLEMENTARITY -- Mutual Admiration -- An Honourable Funeral -- New Ways to Calculate -- New Ways to Think -- ACT II. UNCERTAINTY TO ORTHODOXY -- Incompatible Conceptions -- Measurement and Impossibility -- EPR, Faust, and the Cat -- Missionaries of the Copenhagen Spirit -- ACT III. ORTHODOXY TO UNCERTAINTY -- Postwar Hostilities -- Skirmishes in Princeton -- Juvenile Deviationism -- Passing the Torch -- ACT IV. PRODUCTIVE INEQUALITIES -- The Theorem of John S. Bell -- Bell Tests and Protests -- While the Photons Are Dancing -- Adventures in Quantum Information -- Where to Cut? Which Way to Go? -- Epilogue."In 1927, Niels Bohr and Albert Einstein began a debate about the interpretation and meaning of the new quantum theory. This would become one of the most famous debates in the history of science. At stake were an understanding of the purpose, and defense of the integrity, of science. What (if any) limits should we place on our expectations for what science can tell us about physical reality?"
Subjects: Informational works.; Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955.; Bohr, Niels, 1885-1962.; Quantum theory.; Physics.; Academic disputations;
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12 essential scientific concepts [sound recording] / by Viskontas, Indre,author.; Recorded Books, LLC.(CARDINAL)561790; Teaching Company.(CARDINAL)349444;
Course workbook includes bibliographical references (pages 169-173).The miracle of life -- The organization of life -- Evolution : the tireless tinkerer -- Other mechanisms of evolution -- DNA and heritability -- Epigenetics, mutations, and gene insertion -- The illusion of coherence : how we see -- Acoustic perception deconstructed -- Our changing brain -- Plasticity, brain training, and beyond -- Magnetism and its magic -- Electrical forces, fields, and circuits -- Thermodynamics : heat, energy, and work -- Metabolism : energy in the cell -- Fluid mechanics : pressure, buoyancy, flow -- Navigation and propulsion in fluids -- The Big Bang that didn't -- The four forces of nature -- The elements of everything -- Looks like a particle, acts like a wave -- Quanta, uncertainty, and a cat -- String theory, membranes, and the multiverse -- Emergence : simple rules, complex systems -- Order out of chaos.Lecturer: Professor Indre Viskontas, University of California, San Francisco.An experienced observer of human behavior, Dr. Viskontas has published groundbreaking work on the neural basis of memory and creativity and has won numerous research awards. And as a professor of music at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, she is pioneering the application of neuroscience to musical training and performance. Accompanying you on this exploration are hundreds of informative visual elements to aid in your understanding, including green screen technology, helpful in-studio demonstrations, and explanatory 3-D graphics and animations. These captivating enhancements add an even greater level of depth and clarity to 12 Essential Scientific Concepts, giving you the opportunity to probe the invisible life of living cells, to tour the tiniest corners of the human brain, and even to visit the universe seconds after its birth.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Science.; Science; Discoveries in science.;
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Humans are not robots : why we all need work flexibility and what company leaders can do about it / by Hawkins, Robert(Freelance writer),author.(CARDINAL)519881(CARDINAL)851454;
Includes bibliographic references and index.For humans and the world -- Definitely not robots -- How to flex -- Work revolution -- Appendices."In this entertaining, thought-provoking, and comprehensive guidebook on work flexibility, Robert Hawkins builds on new and old management theories, case studies, interviews, and his own personal journey from rigidity to flexibility to show leaders how to free hundreds, thousands, millions of people from a way of working that doesn't meet expectations for modern life. Humans Are Not Robots provides theory and evidence to show the urgent need for flexibility for all and then offers practical guidance on rolling out sustainable and successful (and profitable) flexibility campaigns. Hawkins explores various types of flexibility, including remote work, flexitime, compressed workweeks, and job sharing, as well as those not commonly discussed (reduced hours with full pay, return-to-work internships, flexibility in manufacturing, healthcare, construction). He delves into the science of human needs theory to demonstrate how the traditional nine-to-five workplace creates unsustainable lives and shows that, with even small changes, leaders in any industry can use flexibility to: Make work a vital and fun part of life again, Boost productivity, engagement, and innovation, Reduce gender inequality and domestic violence, Delay retirement of workers and mitigate the issues of an ageing population, Fight obesity and reduce the burden of poor health on individuals and health systems, Ensure that people maintain needed skills and relevance in the face of increased automation and uncertainty, Impact climate change, and do all of this while increasing profits. Part philosophical and scientific journey, part how-to guide, Humans are Not Robots provides readers a deep-dive into the world of work flexibility to learn how to fully unlock its power. Essential reading for leaders of any organization, the book presents a stark and beautiful vision of what people's lives could be, and the idea that this can be achieved right now." --
Subjects: Informational works.; Flexible work arrangements.; Flextime.; Personnel management.;
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