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Weapons in space :technology, politics, and the rise and fall of the Strategi…
"This is the first historical work that situates the Strategic Defense Initiative within a new phase in the militarization of space, uncovering a largely secret history of the role of military space technologies in late-Cold War U.S. defense strategy and foreign relations"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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More than a glitch :confronting race, gender, and ability bias in tech
"Broussard argues that the structural inequalities reproduced in algorithmic systems are no glitch. They are part of the system design. This book shows how everyday technologies embody racist, sexist, and ableist ideas; how they produce discriminatory and harmful outcomes; and how this can be challenged and changed"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Balkan cyberia :Cold War computing, Bulgarian modernization, and the informat…
"Original take on the history of socialist Bulgaria, examined through the prism of computers to make broader claims about political, economic, intelligence, social, and cultural life in Bulgaria, and by extension, the Soviet bloc and state socialism in general"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Media ruins :Cambodian postwar infrastructural reconstruction and the geopoli…
"Looks at the role of media in post-conflict reconstruction and reconciliation, with Cambodia as the central case study"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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The world set free
"Building on the recent discovery that "the atom, that once we thought hard and impenetrable, and indivisible and final and - lifeless - lifeless, is really a reservoir of immense energy," Wells conjures a 1950s England in which clean, efficient atomic engines have transformed life for the better. Alas, a world war breaks out, in which atomic bombs wipe out the world's great cities. Worldwide c…
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AI assistants
"A brief introduction to the technology, the issues and future of virtual agents such as Siri, Alexa and the Google Assistant"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Born to parse :how children select their languages
"This book represents a new approach to language acquisition and to variable properties in language. By taking a novel approach in allowing for an account of the acquisition of variable properties of language and a biologically plausible treatment of language variation, Lightfoot argues against the use of binary parameters, for the centrality of parsing in language acquisition, and for the "ope…
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Technical debt in practice :how to find it and fix it
"A look at technical debt in software that focuses on the practical implications of technical debt for the entire software lifecycle"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Critical code studies :initial methods
"Critical Code Studies (CCS) names a set of methodologies for the exploration of computer source code using the hermeneutics of the humanities. Like 10 PRINT CHR$ (205.5 + RND (1)); : GOTO 10, Mark Marino's Critical Code Studies treats code not as merely functional but as a text, one that can be read, and misinterpreted, by non-programmers. As the author notes, code's "meaning is not determined…
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Disrupted economic relationships :disasters, sanctions, dissolutions
Empirical studies and theoretical analyses examine the causes and consequences of disruptions in cross-border economic relationships, including political conflict, economic sanctions, and institutional collapse. Cross-border economic relationships gradually strengthened in the decades after World War II; for most of the postwar period, international trade and investment have grown faster than o…
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