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On the path to AI = Law’s prophecies and the conceptual foundations of the …
This open access book explores machine learning and its impact on how we make sense of the world. It does so by bringing together two ‘revolutions’ in a surprising analogy: the revolution of machine learning, which has placed computing on the path to artificial intelligence, and the revolution in thinking about the law that was spurred by Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr in the last two decades of …
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- 9783030435820
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- XXII, 147 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Preparing for Life in a Digital World = IEA International Computer and Inform…
This Open Access book summarizes the key findings from the second cycle of IEA’s International Computer and Information Literacy Study (ICILS), conducted in 2018. ICILS seeks to establish how well schools around the globe are responding to the need to provide young people with the necessary digital participatory competencies. Effective use of information and communication technologies (ICT) i…
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- 9783030387815
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- XXII, 297 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Smittestopp − A Case Study on Digital Contact Tracing
This open access book describes Smittestopp, the first Norwegian system for digital contact tracing of Covid-19 infections, which was developed in March and early April 2020. The system was deployed after five weeks of development and was active for a little more than two months, when a drop in infection levels in Norway and privacy concerns led to shutting it down. The intention of this book …
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- 978-3-031-05466-2
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- Simula SpringerBriefs on Computing
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Ray Tracing Gems = High-Quality and Real-Time Rendering with DXR and Other APIs
This book is a must-have for anyone serious about rendering in real time. With the announcement of new ray tracing APIs and hardware to support them, developers can easily create real-time applications with ray tracing as a core component. As ray tracing on the GPU becomes faster, it will play a more central role in real-time rendering. Ray Tracing Gems provides key building blocks for develope…
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- 9781484244272
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- XLIV, 607 ill; lamp
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Cloud-Based Remote Sensing with Google Earth Engine
This book guides its audience—which can range from novice users to experts— though a 55-chapter tour of Google Earth Engine. A sequenced and diverse set of lab materials, this is the product of more than a year of effort from more than a hundred individuals, collecting new exercises from professors, undergraduates, master’s students, PhD students, postdocs, and independent consultants. …
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- 978-3-031-26588-4
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- XXI, 1226
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P5 eHealth: An Agenda for the Health Technologies of the Future
This open access volume focuses on the development of a P5 eHealth, or better, a methodological resource for developing the health technologies of the future, based on patients’ personal characteristics and needs as the fundamental guidelines for design. It provides practical guidelines and evidence based examples on how to design, implement, use and elevate new technologies for healthcare to…
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- 9783030279943
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- XI, 189 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Creativity in Art, Design and Technology
Creativity is a difficult concept, how can it best be defined, understood, applied, and practiced? This book provides important answers to these questions. Technology can enable artists to be more creative. Scientific and artistic thinking give us two complementary tools to understand the complexity of the world, with science reducing subjective experience to essential principles and art i…
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- 978-3-031-24869-6
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- XVII, 119
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- Springer Series on Cultural Computing (SSCC)
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Technology, Design and the Arts - Opportunities and Challenges
This open access book details the relationship between the artist and their created works, using tools such as information technology, computer environments, and interactive devices, for a range of information sources and application domains. This has produced new kinds of created works which can be viewed, explored, and interacted with, either as an installation or via a virtual environment s…
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- 978-3-030-42097-0
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- XXV, 387
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- Springer Series on Cultural Computing (SSCC)
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The Datacenter as a Computer
This book describes warehouse-scale computers (WSCs), the computing platforms that power cloud computing and all the great web services we use every day. It discusses how these new systems treat the datacenter itself as one massive computer designed at warehouse scale, with hardware and software working in concert to deliver good levels of internet service performance. The book details th…
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- 9783031017612
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- XVIII, 189
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IEA International Computer and Information Literacy Study 2018 Assessment Fra…
This open access book presents the assessment framework for IEA’s International Computer an Information Literacy Study (ICILS) 2018, which is designed to assess how well students are prepared for study, work and life in a digital world. The study measures international differences in students’ computer and information literacy (CIL): their ability to use computers to investigate, create, pa…
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- 9783030193898
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- VII, 74 hlm,: ill, lamp;
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