Proceedings from the third annual Robotics: Science and Systems conference, presenting state-of-the-art research on the foundations of robotics, robotics applications, and robotics systems.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
This text is a proposal for an interdisciplinary context-sensitive framework for assessing the strength of scientific arguments that melds J?urgen Habermas's discourse theory and sociological contextualism.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
A famous Iranian dissident calls for universal human rights and democracy based on our common humanity.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
From the former UN head weapons inspector in Iraq, a plea for a renewed global disarmament movement.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
Essays link Gaian science to such global environmental quandaries as climate change and biodiversity destruction, providing perspectives from science, philosophy, politics, and technology.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
An analysis of the ways that software creates new spatialities in everyday life, from supermarket checkout lines to airline flight paths.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
The collected writings of artist and filmmaker Hollis Frampton, including all the essays from the long-unavailable Circles of Confusion along with rare additional material.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
An account of how humans evolved a conscious, vision-related ability unique to their species in order to solve nonroutine problems.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"A Bradford book.""The Turing Test is part of the vocabulary of popular culture - it has appeared in works ranging from the Broadway play Breaking the Code to the comic strip "Robotman." The writings collected for this book examine the profound philosophical issues surrounding the Turing Test as a criterion for intelligence. Alan Turing's idea, originally expressed in a 1950 paper titled "Compu…
In this volume, the author argues that this technology-centric view does not explain how these microscopes helped to launch nanotechnology - and fails to acknowledge the agency of the microscopists in making the STM and its variants critically important tools.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.