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The Closed World: Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War America
The Closed World offers a radically new alternative to the canonical histories of computers and cognitive science. Arguing that we can make sense of computers as tools only when we simultaneously grasp their roles as metaphors and political icons, Paul Edwards shows how Cold War social and cultural contexts shaped emerging computer technology--and were transformed, in turn, by information machi…
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- 9780262272162
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- 1 online resource (xx, 440 pages) :illustrations.
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Cognitive Carpentry: A Blueprint for How to Build a Person
A sequel to Pollock's How to Build a Person, this volume builds upon that theoretical groundwork for the implementation of rationality through artificial intelligence. Pollock argues that progress in AI has stalled because of its creators' reliance upon unformulated intuitions about rationality. Instead, he bases the OSCAR architecture upon an explicit philosophical theory of rationality, encom…
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 377 pages) :illustrations
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Curious Visions of Modernity: Enchantment, Magic, and the Sacred
Haunted by a secret knowledge and a repressed enchantment, Western rationality is not what it seems. Rembrandt's famous painting of an anatomy lesson, the shrunken head of an Australian indigenous leader, an aerial view of Paris from a balloon: all are windows to enchantment, curiosities that illuminate something shadowy and forgotten lurking behind the neat facade of a rational world. In Cu…
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The practice of light :a genealogy of visual technologies from prints to pixels
An account of Western visual technologies since the Renaissance traces a history of the increasing control of light's intrinsic excess.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262326568
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 354 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) :illustrations (some color).
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Mens et mania :the MIT nobody knows
A memoir of MIT life, from being Noam Chomsky's boss to negotiating with student protesters.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262300063
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- 1 online resource (xxiii, 223 pages)
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Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Voice, Sound, and Aurality in the Arts
An examination of the role of sound in twentieth-century arts. This interdisciplinary history and theory of sound in the arts reads the twentieth century by listening to it—to the emphatic and exceptional sounds of modernism and those on the cusp of postmodernism, recorded sound, noise, silence, the fluid sounds of immersion and dripping, and the meat voices of viruses, screams, and bestia…
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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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Visual culture
"A short, accesible critical guide to visual culture-what it means to look and see; how the visual impacts our lives, our era, our understandings of each other, and even how it is changing our brains"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262359719
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- 1 online resource (volumes cm.)
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Machines we trust :perspectives on dependable AI
"A collection of critical essays dealing with the social and ethical impacts of AI including issues of trust, reliability, and bias"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262366215
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The householders :Robert Duncan and Jess
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