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Resilient Computer System Design
This book presents a paradigm for designing new generation resilient and evolving computer systems, including their key concepts, elements of supportive theory, methods of analysis and synthesis of ICT with new properties of evolving functioning, as well as implementation schemes and their prototyping. The book explains why new ICT applications require a complete redesign of computer systems to…
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- 621.38
Governing molecules :the discursive politics of genetic engineering in Europe…
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- 9780262274142
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- 1 online resource (viii, 397 pages) : illustrations.
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- Inside Technology
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In the bubble : Designing in a complex world
"We're filling up the world with technology and devices, but we've lost sight of an important question: What is this stuff for? What value does it add to our lives? So asks author John Thackara in his new book, In the Bubble: Designing in a Complex World." "In the Bubble is about a world based less on stuff and more on people. Thackara describes a transformation that is taking place now - not i…
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- 0262201577
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- 1 online resource (ix, 321 pages) : illustrations
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- 600 THA b
Productivity machines :German appropriations of American technologies from ma…
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- 9780262353717
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- 1 online resource (368 pages).
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The Radiance of France: Nuclear Power and National Identity after World War II
How it happened that technological prowess and national glory (or "radiance," which also means "radiation" in French) became synonymous in France as nowhere else.
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- 1 online resource (xxviii, 461 pages) : illustrations, map.
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Learning to communicate in science and engineering : Case Studies from MIT
To many science and engineering students, the task of writing may seem irrelevant to their future professional careers. At MIT, however, students discover that writing about their technical work is important not only in solving real-world problems but also in developing their professional identities. MIT puts into practice the belief that "engineers who don't write well end up working for engin…
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Riding the waves : A Life in Sound, Science, and Industry
The life and work of Renaissance man Leo Beranek: scientist, professor, engineer, business leader, inventor, entrepreneur, musician, television executive, philanthropist, and author.
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Power struggles : Scientific Authority and the Creation of Practical Electric…
Laying the foundation for Thomas Edison, the first electric generators were built in the 1830s, the earliest commercial lighting systems before 1860, and the first commercial application of generator-powered light in the early 1860s. This book examines some of these early applications of electricity.
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Red Prometheus: engineering and dictatorship in East Germany, 1945-1990 / Eng…
This analysis of the relationship between science and totalitarian rule in one of the most technically advanced countries in the East bloc examines professional autonomy under dictatorship and the place of technology in Communist ideology. In Cold War-era East Germany, the German tradition of science-based technology merged with a socialist system that made technological progress central to its…
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- 1 online resource (xxx, 381 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color).
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Find your path :Unconventional lessons from 36 leading scientists and engineers
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- 9780262354837
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- 1 online resource (408 pages).
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