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Critical Code Studies
Computer source code has become part of popular discourse. Code is read not only by programmers but by lawyers, artists, pundits, reporters, political activists, and literary scholars; it is used in political debate, works of art, popular entertainment, and historical accounts. In this book, Mark Marino argues that code means more than merely what it does; we must also consider what it means. W…
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Musical Bodies, Musical Minds: Enactive Cognitive Science and the Meaning of …
Musical Bodies, Musical Minds offers an innovative account of human musicality that draws on recent developments in embodied cognitive science. The authors explore musical cognition as a form of sense-making that unfolds across the embodied, environmentally embedded, and sociomaterially extended dimensions that compose the enactment of human worlds of meaning. This perspective enables new ways …
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Sensing Machines: How Sensors Shape Our Everyday Life
Sensing machines are everywhere in our world. As we move through the day, electronic sensors and computers adjust our thermostats, guide our Roombas, count our steps, change the orientation of an image when we rotate our phones. There are more of these electronic devices in the world than there are people—in 2020, thirty to fifty billion of them (versus 7.8 billion people), with more than a t…
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Inequality and growth : theory and policy implications
Even minute increases in a country's growth rate can result in dramatic changes in living standards over just one generation. The benefits of growth, however, may not be shared equally. Some may gain less than others, and a fraction of the population may actually be disadvantaged. Recent economic research has found both positive and negative relationships between growth and inequality across na…
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 327 pages) : illustrations.
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Computer Environments for Children: A Reflection on Theories of Learning and …
Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral--Harvard University, 1985).What are computers in education being used for? In this book, Cynthia Solomon takes a welcome look at the possibilities and issues of learning with and about computers in schools or in any other learning environment.Solomon focuses on the use of computers within the framework of recent innovative theories of learni…
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- 1 online resource (viii, 183 pages) :illustrations
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Infinity and perspective
A philosophical exploration of the origin and limits of the modern world.Much postmodern rhetoric, suggests Karsten Harries, can be understood as a symptom of our civilization's discontent, born of regret that we are no longer able to experience our world as a cosmos that assigns us our place. But dissatisfaction with the modern world may also spring from a conviction that modernism has failed …
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- 1 online resource (xii, 380 pages) : illustrations
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Computer Methods in the Analysis of Large-Scale Social Systems (Second Edition)
Contributions to this edition of Computer Methods have been extensively revised and contain much new material--updating the proceedings of a conference held in 1964 at the Joint Center for Urban Studies of MIT and Harvard University. In this conference social scientists experienced in computer use compared notes on the problems and benefits encountered in their studies with beginners in compute…
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Inflation targeting, debt, and the Brazilian experience, 1999 to 2003
How Brazil's monetary and fiscal policies survived a series of severe economic shocks and the policy lessons for other countries.Inflation targeting--when central bank policies set specific inflation rate objectives--is widely used by both developed and developing countries around the world (although not by the United States or the European Central Bank). This collection of original essays look…
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- 1 online resource (xxii, 303 pages) : illustrations
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The Computer Revolution in Canada: Building National Technological Competence
Includes index.The forces that shaped Canada's digital innovations in the postwar period.After World War II, other major industrialized nations responded to the technological and industrial hegemony of the United States by developing their own design and manufacturing competence in digital electronic technology. In this book John Vardalas describes the quest for such competence in Canada, explo…
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- 1 online resource (vi, 409 pages) :illustrations.
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Information arts : intersections of art, science, and technology
An introduction to the work and ideas of artists who use--and even influence--science and technology.A new breed of contemporary artist engages science and technology--not just to adopt the vocabulary and gizmos, but to explore and comment on the content, agendas, and possibilities. Indeed, proposes Stephen Wilson, the role of the artist is not only to interpret and to spread scientific knowled…
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- 1 online resource (xxiv, 945 pages) : illustrations.
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