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AI assistants
"A brief introduction to the technology, the issues and future of virtual agents such as Siri, Alexa and the Google Assistant"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262365451
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Recommendation engines
"How does Netflix know just what to suggest you watch next? How does Amazon determine what a "customer like you" has also purchased? The answer is recommender systems, the technological concept that lies at the heart of most of the successful companies in the digital economy. Michael Schrage starts with the origins of recommender systems, which go back further than you think (see: the Oracle at…
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- 9780262358798
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Echo
An exploration of echo not as simple repetition but as an agent of creative possibilities. In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Amit Pinchevski proposes that echo is not simple repetition and the reproduction of sameness but an agent of change and a source of creation and creativity. Pinchevski views echo as a medium, connecting and mediating across and between disparate …
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- 9780262368834
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- 1 online resource (232 pages).
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Ketamine
"A complete and authoritative guide to the science of ketamine, the controversial yet current drug of choice for treating depression, a drug whose efficacy and impact is not yet well-established"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262363600
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Running smart :how science can improve your endurance and performance
"A runner and science journalist seeks to find the scientific basis for much of the commonly transmitted wisdom that exists in the running community"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262365197
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Bright galaxies, dark matter, and beyond :the life of astronomer Vera Rubin
How Vera Rubin convinced the scientific community that dark matter might exist, persevering despite early dismissals of her work. We now know that the universe is mostly dark, made up of particles and forces that are undetectable even by our most powerful telescopes. The discovery of the possible existence of dark matter and dark energy signaled a Copernican-like revolution in astronomy: not on…
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- 9780262366885
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- 1 online resource (256 pages)
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Youth mental health :a paradigm for prevention and early intervention
Experts discuss the potential of early intervention to transform outcomes for people with mental disorders. Mental illness represents one of the largest disease burdens worldwide, yet treatments have been largely ineffective in improving the quality of life for millions of affected individuals--in part because approaches taken have focused on late-stage disorders in adulthood. This volume shift…
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- 9780262044547
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- 1 online resource (288 pages).
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Resistance to the current :the dialectics of hacking
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- 9780262372008
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- 1 online resource (240 pages).
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CRISPR people :the science and ethics of editing humans
"Beginning with the amazing tale of the Chinese "CRISPR Babies," Greely tells the complex story of human germline editing, covering the science, ethics, law, and politics"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262363563
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 380 pages).
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Selling the American people :advertising, optimization, and the origins of Ad…
How marketers learned to dream of optimization and speak in the idiom of management science well before the widespread use of the Internet. Algorithms, data extraction, digital marketers monetizing "eyeballs": these all seem like such recent features of our lives. And yet, Lee McGuigan tells us in this eye-opening book, digital advertising was well underway before the widespread use of the Inte…
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- 9780262374248
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