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Insatiable curiosity : Innovation in a Fragile Future
An influential scholar in science studies argues that innovation tames the insatiable and limitless curiosity driving science, and that society's acute ambivalence about this is an inevitable legacy of modernity.Curiosity is the main driving force behind scientific activity. Scientific curiosity, insatiable in its explorations, does not know what it will find, or where it will lead. Science nee…
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Internet architecture and innovation
Today--following housing bubbles, bank collapses, and high unemployment--the Internet remains the most reliable mechanism for fostering innovation and creating new wealth. The Internet's remarkable growth has been fueled by innovation. In this pathbreaking book, Barbara van Schewick argues that this explosion of innovation is not an accident, but a consequence of the Internet's architecture--a …
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Categorization and Naming in Children: Problems of Induction
"A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record. In this landmark work on early conceptual and lexical development, Ellen Markman explores the fascinating problem of how young children succeed at the task of inducing concepts. Backed by extensive experimental results, she challenges the fundamental assumptions of traditional theories of language acquisition and proposes that a set o…
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- 1 online resource (250 pages) :illustrations.
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Causation and Counterfactuals
"A Bradford book."One philosophical approach to causation sees counterfactual dependence as the key to the explanation of causal facts: for example, events c (the cause) and e (the effect) both occur, but had c not occurred, e would not have occurred either. The counterfactual analysis of causation became a focus of philosophical debate after the 1973 publication of the late David Lewis's groun…
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- 1 online resource (viii, 481 pages) :illustrations.
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Technology and the New Economy
Lectures ... originally delivered ... at the University of Hong Kong in 2001-2002 in celebration of its 90th birthday"--Introduction.Essays on the effects of information technology on the economy.One of the most important forces driving economic performance in the United States and other countries during the 1990s was the rise of information technology. The new technology has had such a signifi…
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Circuit Complexity and Neural Networks
Neural networks usually work adequately on small problems but can run into trouble when they are scaled up to problems involving large amounts of input data. Circuit Complexity and Neural Networks addresses the important question of how well neural networks scale - that is, how fast the computation time and number of neurons grow as the problem size increases. It surveys recent research in circ…
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- 9780262281249
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- 1 online resource (xxix, 270 pages) :illustrations.
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Leading open innovation
In today's competitive globalised market, firms are increasingly reaching beyond conventional internal methods of research and development to use ideas developed through processes of open innovation (OI). This book describes the ways that OI expands the space for innovation, describing a range of OI practices, participants, and trends. The contributors report on a variety of OI initiatives, off…
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The Trouble with Computers: Usefulness, Usability, and Productivity
A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 425 pages) :illustrations
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Innovation, dual use, and security :managing the risks of emerging biological…
Recent advances in disciplines such as biotechnology, nanotechnology, and neuropharmacology entail a "dual-use dilemma" because they promise benefits for human health and welfare yet pose the risk of misuse for hostile purposes. The emerging field of synthetic genomics, for example, can produce custom DNA molecules for life-saving drugs but also makes possible the creation of deadly viral agent…
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Too smart :how digital capitalism is extracting data, controlling our lives, …
"The world is getting smarter. Things of all shapes and sizes-from the smart comb to the smart city and everything between-are now being digitally upgraded with the latest sensors, software, and connectivity. Even your toothbrush can now collect data about when, how long, and how well you brush. And, since it is Bluetooth enabled, it sends that brushing data to cloud servers so that your dentis…
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