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Digital divas :putting the wow into computing for girls
The geek is male. Or so it seems. As is well documented, there is a distinct under-representation of girls studying computing at high school level and, correspondingly, going on to have careers in IT. To address this problem, in 2007 the authors of this book, with backgrounds in secondary teaching or IT, trialled a new and revolutionary program in schools: ‘Digital Divas’. The Digital Divas…
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- 9781922235862
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- x, 197p. : ill.
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- 004.8352 FIS d
AI in learning :designing the future
AI (Artificial Intelligence) is predicted to radically change teaching and learning in both schools and industry causing radical disruption of work. AI can support well-being initiatives and lifelong learning but educational institutions and companies need to take the changing technology into account. Moving towards AI supported by digital tools requires a dramatic shift in the concept of learn…
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- 9783031096877
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- xv; 344 pg; ill.
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- 607.598 AII a
The post-screen through virtual reality, holograms and light projections
Screens are ubiquitous today. They display information; present image worlds; are portable; connect to mobile networks; mesmerize. However, contemporary screen media also seek to eliminate the presence of the screen and the visibilities of its boundaries. As what is image becomes increasingly indistinguishable against the viewer’s actual surroundings, this unsettling prompts re-examination ab…
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- 9789048552566
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- 302.2 JEN
Marx and digital machines :alienation, technology, capitalism
This book explores the fundamental contradiction at the heart of the digital environment: technology offers all manner of promises, yet habitually fails to deliver. This failure often arises from numerous problems: the proficiency of the technology or end-user, policy failure at various levels, or a combination of these. Solutions such as better technology and more effective end-user education …
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- 9781912656806
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- xiii, 172p
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- 004 MIK m
Digital work in the planetary market
Understanding the embedded and disembedded, material and immaterial, territorialized and deterritorialized natures of digital work. Many jobs today can be done from anywhere. Digital technology and widespread internet connectivity allow almost anyone, anywhere, to connect to anyone else to communicate and exchange files, data, video, and audio. In other words, work can be deterritorialized at a…
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- 9780262543767
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- viii, 356p. : ill
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- 306.36 DIG d
Visual and camera sensors
This book includes 13 papers published in Special Issue ("Visual and Camera Sensors") of the journal Sensors. The goal of this Special Issue was to invite high-quality, state-of-the-art research papers dealing with challenging issues in visual and camera sensors.
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- 9783036515830
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- ix, 281p.; ill.
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- 338.47004095 VIS v
Digital technology and the practices of humanities research
This timely volume illuminates the different forces underlying the shifting practices in humanities research today, with especial focus on how humanists take ownership of, and are empowered by, technology in unexpected ways. Digital Technology and the Practices of Humanities Research is essential reading for scholars, students, and general readers interested in the changing culture of research …
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- 9781783748419
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- xi, 267p. : ill.
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- 001.3072 DIG d
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