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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 …
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- 9780262255615
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 275 pages) :illustrations.
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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.
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- 0262365405
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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…
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Scientists under surveillance :the FBI files
Cold War-era FBI files on famous scientists, including Neil Armstrong, Isaac Asimov, Albert Einstein, Richard Feynman, Alfred Kinsey, and Timothy Leary. Armed with ignorance, misinformation, and unfounded suspicions, the FBI under J. Edgar Hoover cast a suspicious eye on scientists in disciplines ranging from physics to sex research. If the Bureau surveilled writers because of what they believe…
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- 9780262353021
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- 1 online resource (440 pages).
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Achievement relocked :loss aversion and game design
How game designers can use the psychological phenomenon of loss aversion to shape player experience. Getting something makes you feel good, and losing something makes you feel bad. But losing something makes you feel worse than getting the same thing makes you feel good. So finding $10 is a thrill; losing $10 is a tragedy. On an "intensity of feeling" scale, loss is more intense than gain. This…
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- 9780262357043
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- 1 online resource (152 pages).
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Michael Snow
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- 9780262355148
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- 1 online resource (288 pages).
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Uncertain archives :critical keywords for big data
"The ambition of this book is to examine in close detail the whole range of epistemological, political and ethical uncertainties that are being raised by big data in our time"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262361280
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Anti-vaxxers :how to challenge a misinformed movement
"A presentation of the scientific argument in favor of vaccination, which probes the consequences, origins and impact of the the anti-vaccination movement"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262359566
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- 1 online resource (1 volume) :illustrations (black and white).
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On Leon Baptista Alberti :his literary and aesthetic theories
A penetrating study of Alberti's writings on philosophy, ethics, aesthetics architecture, and literature.Listen to Alberti's voice. This is what Mark Jarzombek has done in studying virtually all of Alberti's writings on philosophy, ethics, aesthetics architecture, and literature. Jarzombek's thorough grasp of Alberti's thought and painstaking analysis of his elusive identity transform our image…
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- 9780262367899
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 258 pages) :illustrations
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On the contrary :critical essays, 1987-1997
Paul and Patricia Churchland take on their critics—with verve, combativeness, and generosity. Paul M. and Patricia S. Churchland are towering figures in the fields of philosophy, neuroscience, and consciousness. This collection was prepared in the belief that the most useful and revealing of anyone's writings are often those shorter essays penned in conflict with or criticism of one's prof…
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- 0585021848
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- 1 online resource (xii, 349 pages) :illustrations.
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