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How change happens
The different ways that social change happens, from unleashing to nudging to social cascades. How does social change happen. When do social movements take off Sexual harassment was once something that women had to endure; now a movement has risen up against it. White nationalist sentiments, on the other hand, were largely kept out of mainstream discourse; now there is no shortage of media outle…
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Playing smart :on games, intelligence and artificial intelligence
Can games measure intelligence? How will artificial intelligence inform games of the future? In 'Playing Smart', Julian Togelius explores the connections between games and intelligence to offer a new vision of future games and game design. Video games already depend on AI. We use games to test AI algorithms, challenge our thinking, and better understand both natural and artificial intelligence.…
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- 9780262350143
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Inventive minds :Marvin Minsky on education
Six essays by artificial intelligence pioneer Marvin Minsky on how education can foster inventiveness, paired with commentary by Minsky's former colleagues and students. Marvin Minsky was a pioneering researcher in artificial intelligence whose work led to both theoretical and practical advances. His work was motivated not only by technological advancement but also by the desire to understand t…
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- 0262350270
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- 1 online resource (248 pages).
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Designing an internet
Why the Internet was designed to be the way it is, and how it could be different, now and in the future. How do you design an internet The architecture of the current Internet is the product of basic design decisions made early in its history. What would an internet look like if it were designed, today, from the ground up In this book, MIT computer scientist David Clark explains how the Interne…
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- 9780262348508
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Teaching computational thinking :an integrative approach for middle and high …
"This book provides a model for teaching computational thinking to middle and high school students across a broad range of school subjects"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262366142
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Technologies of the human corpse
"How human technological interventions into death and the dead body since the nineteenth century have had a profound impact on today's (and future) end-of-life and human mortality realities. As Director of the Centre for Death and Society, the world's only interdisciplinary studies centre dedicated to researching death, dying, and the dead body, and the son of an American Funeral Director who g…
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The great recession :lessons for central bankers
Conference proceedings.Here, experts assess the role of central banks in responding to the recent financial crisis and in preventing future crises. The contributors focus on monetary policy, the new area of macroprudential policy, and issues of exchange rates, capital flows, and banking and financial markets.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9781283938853
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- 1 online resource (xii, 380 pages) :illustrations
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Scenario visualization :an evolutionary account of creative problem solving
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.
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- 9780262267373
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- 1 online resource (viii, 209 pages) :illustrations
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Better than conscious? :decision making, the human mind, and implications for…
Forum held June 10-15, 2007 in Frankfurt, Germany.Experts discuss the implications of the ways humans reach decisions through the conscious and subconscious processing of information. Conscious control enables human decision makers to override routines, to exercise willpower, to find innovative solutions, to learn by instruction, to decide collectively, and to justify their choices. These and m…
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- 9780262272353
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 449 pages) :illustrations (some color).
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The act of thinking
"A Bradford book."A new theory proposes that thinking is a learned action.In this remarkable monograph, Derek Melser argues that the core assumption of both folk psychology and cognitive science--that thinking goes on in the head--is mistaken. Melser argues that thinking is not an intracranial process of any kind, mental or neural, but is rather a learned action of the person.After an introduct…
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 287 pages)
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