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  • As If Human

    Ethics and Artificial Intelligence

    by Nigel Shadbolt, Roger Hampson ...
    A new approach to the challenges surrounding artificial intelligence that argues for assessing AI actions as if they came from a human beingIntelligent machines present us every day with urgent ethical challenges. Is the facial recognition software used by an agency fair? When algorithms determine questions of justice, finance, health, and defense, are the decisions proportionate, equitable, ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • The Digital Ape

    How to Live (in Peace) with Smart Machines

    by Sir Nigel Shadbolt, Roger Hampson ...
    The smart-machines revolution is reshaping our lives and our societies. Here, Sir Nigel Shadbolt, one of the world's leading authorities on artificial intelligence, and Roger Hampson dispel terror, confusion, and misconception. We are not about to be elbowed aside by a rebel army of super-intelligent robots of our own creation. We were using tools before we became Homo sapiens, and will continue ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • The Spy in the Coffee Machine

    The End of Privacy as We Know It

    by Kieron O'Hara, Nigel Shadbolt ...
    A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader. ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • The Theory and Practice of Social Machines

    by Nigel Shadbolt, Kieron O’Hara, David De Roure, Wendy Hall ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    Social machines are a type of network connected by interactive digital devices made possible by the ubiquitous adoption of technologies such as the Internet, the smartphone, social media and the read/write World Wide Web, connecting people at scale to document situations, cooperate on tasks, exchange information, or even simply to play. Existing social processes may be scaled up, and new social ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

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    How Social Networks Can Make Us Smarter

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  • Analyzing Social Media Networks with NodeXL

    Insights from a Connected World

    by Derek Hansen, Ben Shneiderman, Marc A. Smith ...
    Analyzing Social Media Networks with NodeXL offers backgrounds in information studies, computer science, and sociology. This book is divided into three parts: analyzing social media, NodeXL tutorial, and social-media network analysis case studies. Part I provides background in the history and concepts of social media and social networks. Also included here is social network analysis, which flows ... Read more

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  • Geek Heresy

    Rescuing Social Change from the Cult of Technology

    by Kentaro Toyama ...
    After a decade designing technologies meant to address education, health, and global poverty, award-winning computer scientist Kentaro Toyama came to a difficult conclusion: Even in an age of amazing technology, social progress depends on human changes that gadgets can't deliver.Computers in Bangalore are locked away in dusty cabinets because teachers don't know what to do with them. Mobile phone ... Read more

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  • The Digital Turn

    How the Internet Transforms Our Existence

    by Wim Westera ...
    Awarded with the US National Indie Excellence Award 2014 in Social Media. This book is about digital media. Even more, the book is about us. It explains how the ever-growing flood of digital media affects our perceptions of the world, change our behaviors and eventually transform our very existence. In the era of Facebook, Twitter, Google, and Apple, being online is the standard. We spend many ... Read more

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  • The end of facebook (English version)

    As we know it

    by Pedro Barbosa ...
    The Future of Facebook and social networksCould it soon be the end of Facebook? It may seem a preposterous question to ask, but there are signs that make it a serious and current one: a growing number of long-term users are abandoning the network and the same goes for teenagers. Fatigue is increasing among those who use the social network, while in the stock market, Facebook is still under ... Read more

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  • Electronic Value Exchange

    Origins of the VISA Electronic Payment System

    by David L. Stearns ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    Electronic Value Exchange examines in detail the transformation of the VISA electronic payment system from a collection of non-integrated, localized, paper-based bank credit card programs into the cooperative, global, electronic value exchange network it is today. Topics and features: provides a history of the VISA system from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s; presents a historical narrative based ... Read more

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  • The Practical Handbook of Computerization for Distribution Managers

    by Colin Barrett ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    Back in 1983 I was chatting with Dick Coleman, publisher of Traffic World magazine, when he unexpectedly proposed that I write a column for the magazine on computer applications in the transportation/physical distribution industry. "But, Dick, I don't know all that much about computers," I protested. "You use one, don't you?" he asked logically. Yes, I did; I'd been running my consulting business ... Read more

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  • MOOCs and Their Afterlives

    Experiments in Scale and Access in Higher Education

    Edited by Elizabeth Losh ...
    A trio of headlines in the Chronicle of Higher Education seem to say it all: in 2013, “A Bold Move Toward MOOCs Sends Shock Waves;” in 2014, “Doubts About MOOCs Continue to Rise,” and in 2015, “The MOOC Hype Fades.” At the beginning of the 2010s, MOOCs, or Massive Open Online Courses, seemed poised to completely revolutionize higher education. But now, just a few years into the revolution, ... Read more

    $28.79 USD