"Saltman wrestles with the contradiction between the demand for radical empiricism ("data driven" everything) in contemporary education, and the flight from evidence in the enactment of policy and politics"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"An exploration of the future of work featuring real-world profiles of changing jobs and work arrangements in light of human/AI interaction"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"The authors of Machines Like Us explore what it would take to endow computers with the kind of common sense that humans depend on every day--critically needed for AI systems to be successful in the world and to become trustworthy"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"Analyzing the transformation of photography by computation - and the transformation of human perception by algorithmically-driven images, from CGI to AI - The Perception Machine brings together media theory and neuroscience to understand what it means to live surrounded by image flows and machine eyes"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"Stiny extends his arguments around shape grammars outlined in his 2006 book Shape in order to provide insights into visual calculating with rules and grammar in art and design"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
An analysis of advances in military technology that illustrates the importance of organizational flexibility in both an attacker's innovations and an opponent's adaptations. How important is military innovation in determining outcomes during armed conflict In Innovation and Adaptation in War , Matthew Tattar questions the conventional wisdom that, to succeed, military organizations must innovat…
"After Eating explores the emerging field of metabolic arts, practices which engage the materials and methodologies of not only food and ingestion but also digestion and metabolism"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
The power of art and design to create a life worth living: designs, inventions, and artworks from the Azraq Refugee Camp in Jordan. This book shows how refugees use art and design to transform their living environments, restoring humanity within circumstances that seem aimed at depriving them of it. Featuring more than twenty projects created by Syrian refugees at the Azraq Refugee Camp in Jord…
"The author builds on insights developed from observations of Mexico's earthquake early warning system, Sistema de Alerta S?ismica Mexicano, to show how particular social and physical conditions animate the design, maintenance, and use of environmental monitoring technologies, and how they shape where, when, and for whom these technologies manage risk"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"Selfie Democracy exposes the unintended consequences of wireless technologies on political leadership and shows how seemingly benign mobile devices that hold out the promise of direct democracy ultimately undermine representative forms of government and deepen partisan divides. As the smart phone and mobile applications are reshaping civic participation, attitudes about freedom, civic rights, …