"The first-person account of what it is actually like to be what Deleuze & Guattari call a "schizo on a stroll.""--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
Thomas Davenport offers a guide to using artificial intelligence in business. He describes what technologies are available and how companies can use them for business benefits and competitive advantage. He cuts through the hype of the AI craze - remember when it seemed plausible that IBM's Watson could cure cancer? - to explain how businesses can put artificial intelligence to work now, in the …
Why the United States has developed an economy divided between rich and poor and how racism helped bring this about.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"A "bounded rationality" approach to understanding how people classify entities in real world situations, with imperfect information and limited time"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"Demystifying consciousness: how subjective experience can be explained by natural brain and evolutionary processes. Consciousness is often considered a mystery. How can the seemingly immaterial experience of consciousness be explained by the material neurons of the brain? There seems to be an unbridgeable gap between understanding the brain as an objectively observed biological organ and accou…
An accessible introduction to 3D printing that outlines the additive manufacturing process, industrial and household markets, and emerging uses. The use of 3D printing--digitally controlled additive manufacturing -- is growing rapidly. Consumer models of 3D printers allow people to fabricate small plastic objects, from cabinet knobs to wedding cake toppers. Industrial uses are becoming widespre…
A new way of thinking about data science and data ethics that is informed by the ideas of intersectional feminism. Today, data science is a form of power. It has been used to expose injustice, improve health outcomes, and topple governments. But it has also been used to discriminate, police, and surveil. This potential for good, on the one hand, and harm, on the other, makes it essential to ask…
Why the Internet was designed to be the way it is, and how it could be different, now and in the future. How do you design an internet The architecture of the current Internet is the product of basic design decisions made early in its history. What would an internet look like if it were designed, today, from the ground up In this book, MIT computer scientist David Clark explains how the Interne…
"The use of infographics is on the rise in newspapers, on television, and on the web. Data visualizations are now ubiquitous in education and corporate life as well. Yet modern communications scholarship has had little to say about this development: the infographic has so far existed on the periphery of communications studies. To date, no serious attempt has been made to explore the historical …