"Between the Tracks will analyze works by composers and researchers who have been under-examined in standard electronic music history books"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
Experts from a range of disciplines explore how humans and artificial agents can quickly learn completely new tasks through natural interactions with each other. Humans are not limited to a fixed set of innate or preprogrammed tasks. We learn quickly through language and other forms of natural interaction, and we improve our performance and teach others what we have learned. Understanding the m…
"The author develops a model of peer pedagogy by examining the popular genre of Let's Play videos as a source of learning for Minecraft players"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
Experts from MIT explore recent advances in cybersecurity, bringing together management, technical, and sociological perspectives.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"An introduction to the major concepts in Cyber Security that includes case examples and tips for individuals to protect themselves"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"The authors develop a framework for introducing coding in the science classroom, in which coding is a form of embodied activity, expression, and language"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
Hackers as vital disruptors, inspiring a new wave of activism in which ordinary citizens take back democracy. Hackers have a bad reputation, as shady deployers of bots and destroyers of infrastructure. In Coding Democracy , Maureen Webb offers another view. Hackers, she argues, can be vital disruptors. Hacking is becoming a practice, an ethos, and a metaphor for a new wave of activism in which …
"Based on fieldwork at three distinct sites in Washington, DC, this book finds that the persistent problem of poverty is often framed as a problem of technology"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
A history of one of the most influential American companies of the last century. For decades, IBM shaped the way the world did business. IBM products were in every large organization, and IBM corporate culture established a management style that was imitated by companies around the globe. It was "Big Blue", an icon. And yet over the years, IBM has gone through both failure and success, survivin…
An introduction to computational thinking that traces a genealogy beginning centuries before the digital computer. A few decades into the digital era, scientists discovered that thinking in terms of computation made possible an entirely new way of organizing scientific investigation; eventually, every field had a computational branch: computational physics, computational biology, computational …