The transformation of images in the age of new media and the digital revolution.Digital images are an integral part of all media, including television, film, photography, animation, video games, data visualization, and the Internet. In the digital world, spectators become navigators wending their way through a variety of interactive experiences, and images become spaces of visualization with mo…
"A Bradford book."An exploration of embodied intelligence and its implications points toward a theory of intelligence in general; with case studies of intelligent systems in ubiquitous computing, business and management, human memory, and robotics.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"A Bradford book."In this provocative monograph, Bertram Malle describes behavior explanations as having a dual nature -- as being both cognitive and social acts -- and proposes a comprehensive theoretical model that integrates the two aspects. When people try to understand puzzling human behavior, they construct behavior explanations, which are a fundamental tool of social cognition. But, Mall…
"Howard Hathaway Aiken (1900-1973) was a major figure of the early digital era. He is best known for his first machine, the IBM Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator or Harvard Mark I, conceived in 1937 and put into operation in 1944. But he also made significant contributions to the development of applications for the new machines and to the creation of a university curriculum for computer …
Human embryonic stem cells can divide indefinitely and have the potential to develop into many types of tissue. Research on these cells is essential to one of the most intriguing medical frontiers, regenerative medicine. It also raises a host of difficult ethical issues and has sparked great public interest and controversy.This book offers a foundation for thinking about the many issues involve…
Urgent environmental problems call for vigorous research and theory on how humans develop a relationship with nature. In a series of original research projects, Peter Kahn answers this call. For the past eight years, Kahn has studied children, young adults, and parents in diverse geographical locations, ranging from an economically impoverished black community in Houston to a remote village in …
Konferensi Internasional IACR tentang Praktik dan Teori Kriptografi Kunci Publik (PKC 2015) ke-18 diadakan dari tanggal 30 Maret hingga 1 April 2015, di Gaithersburg, MD, AS, di kampus Institut Nasional Standar dan Teknologi (NIST) . Disponsori oleh Asosiasi Internasional untuk Penelitian Kriptologi (IACR), konferensi ini berfokus pada semua aspek teknis kriptografi kunci publik. Prosiding ini …
Kurangnya dana dan kegagalan otoritas publik untuk menyediakan layanan publik yang paling dasar sekalipun membuat Nigeria, seperti banyak negara lainnya, beralih ke kemitraan publik-swasta (KPS) untuk membiayai, mengembangkan, dan meningkatkan infrastrukturnya. Berbagai proyek di berbagai sektor perekonomian Nigeria telah diselesaikan dengan menggunakan model KPS. Beberapa dari proyek-proyek te…
Buku ini merupakan hasil akhir dari program ambisius pengembangan fakultas di Balkan Barat. Didanai selama sepuluh tahun pertama oleh Open Society Institute dan dipimpin oleh Dr. Vesna Bojicic-Dzelilovic, program ini bertujuan untuk membangun kapasitas penelitian dan pengajaran fakultas tingkat junior dan menengah, menghubungkan kembali universitas-universitas yang terpecah karena perang dan pa…
Buku ini memberikan kontribusi penting terhadap pengarusutamaan perdebatan internasional mengenai Tanggung Jawab Sosial Perusahaan (CSR) dan Manajemen yang Bertanggung Jawab. Laporan ini mengacu pada pengalaman di luar sektor swasta kapitalis liberal dan menawarkan perspektif yang mencakup manajemen sektor publik dan swasta. Bab-bab ini menyajikan studi kasus dari berbagai negara, termasuk Ital…