Against nature

A pithy work of philosophical anthropology that explores why humans find moral orders in natural orders. Why have human beings, in many different cultures and epochs, looked to nature as a source of norms for human behavior From ancient India and ancient Greece, medieval France and Enlightenment America, up to the latest controversies over gay marriage and cloning, natural orders have been enli…

Giving bodies back to data :image-makers, bricolage, and reinvention in magne…

"Giving Bodies Back to Data focuses on the entanglement between the history and practice of data visualization across disciplines and cultures, focusing on the invention of MRI"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

The ends game :how smart companies stop selling products and start delivering…

"An innovative rethinking of our current market system where people pay for products. In the future, we will pay for the results a company can deliver. This book explains how we will reach that future"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Survey of Architectural History in Cambridge, Volume 5: Northwest Cambridge

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Object recognition in man, monkey, and machine

The contributors bring a wide range of methodologies to bear on the common problem of image-based object recognition. These interconnected essays on three-dimensional visual object recognition present cutting-edge research by some of the most creative neuroscientific, cognitive, and computational scientists in the field. Cassandra Moore and Patrick Cavanagh take a classic demonstration, t…

A robot ping-pong player :experiment in real-time intelligent control

This tour de force in experimental robotics paves the way toward understanding dynamic environments in vision and robotics. It describes the first robot able to play, and even beat, human ping-pong players.Constructing a machine to play ping-pong was proposed years ago as a particularly difficult problem requiring fast, accurate sensing and actuation, and the intelligence to play the game. The …

Seeing human rights :video activism as a proxy profession

Based on the author's dissertation (doctoral)--University of Pennsylvania, 2016."Explores the rise of video in human rights activism and in the wider context of journalism, the law, and advocacy"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Uncertain archives :critical keywords for big data

"The ambition of this book is to examine in close detail the whole range of epistemological, political and ethical uncertainties that are being raised by big data in our time"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Against moral responsibility

Here, Bruce Waller launches a spirited attack on a system that is profoundly entrenched in our society and its institutions deeply rooted in our emotions, and vigorously defended by philosophers from ancient times to the present.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Social science for what? :battles over public funding for the "other sciences…

How the NSF became an important yet controversial patron for the social sciences, influencing debates over their scientific status and social relevance. In the early Cold War years, the U.S. government established the National Science Foundation (NSF), a civilian agency that soon became widely known for its dedication to supporting first-rate science. The agency's 1950 enabling legislation made…