Education crossing borders :how Singapore and MIT created a new university

"The book chronicles the history of the collaborative partnership between MIT and the Singapore Ministry of Education to create the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), the country's fourth public university. Fisher describes how MIT faculty communicated the practices and identity of the Institute as they developed and executed the vision for SUTD, and how local actors at the u…

The meat question :animals, humans, and the deep history of food

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Ideas that created the future :classic papers of computer science

"An anthology of classic papers in computer science with introductions by the editor"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

The ends game :how smart companies stop selling products and start delivering…

"An innovative rethinking of our current market system where people pay for products. In the future, we will pay for the results a company can deliver. This book explains how we will reach that future"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Survey of Architectural History in Cambridge, Volume 5: Northwest Cambridge

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Object-oriented programming :the CLOS perspective

To date, books on object-oriented programming have focused either on the methodology of the object-oriented paradigm or on teaching the details of a particular programming language. This collection takes a different approach, examining one object-oriented programming language - the Common-Lisp Object System (CLOS) - as a modern programming tool. The fourteen contributions examine CLOS from a va…

Object recognition in man, monkey, and machine

The contributors bring a wide range of methodologies to bear on the common problem of image-based object recognition. These interconnected essays on three-dimensional visual object recognition present cutting-edge research by some of the most creative neuroscientific, cognitive, and computational scientists in the field. Cassandra Moore and Patrick Cavanagh take a classic demonstration, t…

A robot ping-pong player :experiment in real-time intelligent control

This tour de force in experimental robotics paves the way toward understanding dynamic environments in vision and robotics. It describes the first robot able to play, and even beat, human ping-pong players.Constructing a machine to play ping-pong was proposed years ago as a particularly difficult problem requiring fast, accurate sensing and actuation, and the intelligence to play the game. The …

Seeing human rights :video activism as a proxy profession

Based on the author's dissertation (doctoral)--University of Pennsylvania, 2016."Explores the rise of video in human rights activism and in the wider context of journalism, the law, and advocacy"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Too smart :how digital capitalism is extracting data, controlling our lives, …

"The world is getting smarter. Things of all shapes and sizes-from the smart comb to the smart city and everything between-are now being digitally upgraded with the latest sensors, software, and connectivity. Even your toothbrush can now collect data about when, how long, and how well you brush. And, since it is Bluetooth enabled, it sends that brushing data to cloud servers so that your dentis…