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Value sensitive design :shaping technology with moral imagination
Using our moral and technical imaginations to create responsible innovations: theory, method, and applications for value sensitive design. Implantable medical devices and human dignity. Private and secure access to information. Engineering projects that transform the Earth. Multigenerational information systems for international justice. How should designers, engineers, architects, policy maker…
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- 9780262351690
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- 1 online resource (248 pages) :illustrations
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Racing the beam :the Atari video computer system
The Atari Video Computer System dominated the home video game market so completely that "Atari" became the generic term for a video game console. The Atari VCS was affordable and offered the flexibility of changeable cartridges. Nearly a thousand of these were created, the most significant of which established new techniques, mechanics, and even entire genres. This book offers a detailed and ac…
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- 9780262254939
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- 1 online resource (xii, 180 pages) :illustrations.
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Protocells :bridging nonliving and living matter
The first comprehensive general resource on state-of-the-art protocell research, describing current approaches to making new forms of life from scratch in the laboratory.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262282093
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- 1 online resource (xxi, 684 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) :illustrations (some color)
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Bioethics in the age of new media
Joanna Zylinska examines the ethical challenges presented by technology to the allegedly sacrosant idea of the human & makes a proposal for a new ethics of life rooted in the philosophy of alterity.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262255141
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- 1 online resource (xv, 230 pages)
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Contagious architecture :computation, aesthetics, and space
In Contagious Architecture, Luciana Parisi offers a philosophical inquiry into the status of the algorithm in architectural and interaction design. Her thesis is that algorithmic computation is not simply an abstract mathematical tool but constitutes a mode of thought in its own right, in that its operation extends into forms of abstraction that lie beyond direct human cognition and control. Th…
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- 9780262312615
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- 1 online resource (xx, 370 pages) :illustrations.
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Nurturing dreams :collected essays on architecture and the city
Unavailable as a collection until now, these essays document both the intellectual journey of one of the world's leading architects and a critical period in the evolution of architectural thought.Born in Tokyo, educated in Japan and the United States, and principal of an internationally acclaimed architectural practice, celebrated architect Fumihiko Maki brings to his writings on architecture a…
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- 9780262278911
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 273 pages) :illustrations
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The configuration space method for kinematic design of mechanisms
A novel algorithmic approach to mechanism design based on a geometric representation of kinematic function called configuration space partitions."This book presents the configuration space method for computer-aided design of mechanisms with changing part contacts. Configuration space is a complete and compact geometric representation of part motions and part interactions that supports the core …
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- 9780262265874
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 195 pages) :illustrations
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In praise of reason
A spirited defense of the relevance of reason for an era of popular skepticism over such matters as climate change, vaccines, and evolution.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 026230113X
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- 1 online resource (xii, 166 pages)
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Access denied :the practice and policy of global Internet filtering
Many countries around the world block or filter Internet content, denying access to information that they deem too sensitive for ordinary citizens--most often about politics, but sometimes relating to sexuality, culture, or religion. Access Denied documents and analyzes Internet filtering practices in more than three dozen countries, offering the first rigorously conducted study of an accelerat…
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- 9780262255998
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- 1 online resource (xv, 449 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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The letters of George Santayana.
Letters from the last years of Santayana's life, written as he completed Dominations and Powers, the final volume of his autobiography, and the one-volume abridgement of his early five-part masterwork, The Life of Reason.This final volume of Santayana's letters spans the last five years of the philosopher's life. Despite the increasing infirmities of age and illness, Santayana continued to be r…
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- Santayana ed.
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- 9780262283014
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- 1 online resource (1 volume) :illustrations.
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