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Algorithms and Autonomy :The Ethics of Automated Decision Systems
Algorithms influence every facet of modern life: criminal justice, education, housing, entertainment, elections, social media, news feeds, work… the list goes on. Delegating important decisions to machines, however, gives rise to deep moral concerns about responsibility, transparency, freedom, fairness, and democracy. Algorithms and Autonomy connects these concerns to the core human value of …
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- 9781108895057
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- viii, 218 p ; ill
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- 174.90063 ALG A
Harnessing Public Research for Innovation in the 21st Century :An Internation…
Universities and public research institutes play a key role in enabling the application of scientific breakthroughs and innovations in the marketplace. Many countries – developed and developing alike – have implemented national strategies to support the application or commercialization of knowledge produced by public research organizations. Universities and public research institutes have i…
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- 9781108904230
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- xxxv, 544 p ; ill
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- 338.926 HER A
Ageing with smartphones in urban Brazil :a work in progress
With people living longer all over the world, ageing has been framed as a socio-economic problem. In Brazil, older people are expected to remain healthy and autonomous while actively participating in society. Based on ethnographic research in São Paulo, Ageing with Smartphones in Urban Brazil shows how older people in a middle-class neighbourhood conciliate these expectations with the freedom …
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- 9781787359963
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- x, 293 p. ill;
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- 303.4833 AGE M
Open Science:the Very Idea
This open access book provides a broad context for the understanding of current problems of science and of the different movements aiming to improve the societal impact of science and research. The author offers insights with regard to ideas, old and new, about science, and their historical origins in philosophy and sociology of science, which is of interest to a broad readership. The book …
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- 9789402421156
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- xxiii, 247 p.
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- 501 OPE F
Energy-Efficient and Semi-automated Truck Platooning
This open access book presents research and evaluation results of the Austrian flagship project “Connecting Austria,” illustrating the wide range of research needs and questions that arise when semi-automated truck platooning is deployed in Austria. The work presented is introduced in the context of work in similar research areas around the world. This interdisciplinary research effort cons…
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- 9783030886820
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- xx; 237p; ill.
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- 629.04 ENE A
Electric-shock weapons, tasers and policing :myths and realities
Building on five years of research, and drawing on criminology, science and technology studies (STS), socio-legal studies and social psychology, this book is the first non-medical book written on electric-shock weapons, of which the best well known is the TASER brand. The police’s ability to use force is one of their most crucial powers, yet one that has been relatively neglected by crimin…
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- 9781003002864
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- 202p
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- 363.230284 ELE A
Law and policy for the quantum age
It is often said that quantum technologies are poised to change the world as we know it, but cutting through the hype, what will quantum technologies actually mean for countries and their citizens? In Law and Policy for the Quantum Age, Chris Jay Hoofnagle and Simson L. Garfinkel explain the genesis of quantum information science (QIS) and the resulting quantum technologies that are most exciti…
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- 9781108883719
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- xxii; 578p; ill.
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- 530.12 LAW C
Media Infrastructures And The Politics of Digital Time; Essays on Hardwired T…
Digital media everyday inscribe new patterns of time, promising instant communication, synchronous collaboration, intricate time management, and profound new advantages in speed. The essays in this volume reconsider these outward interfaces of convenience by calling attention to their supporting infrastructures, the networks of digital time that exert pressures of conformity and standardization…
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- 9789048550753
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Electronic literature as digital humanities :contexts, forms, and practices
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Electronic Literature as Digital Humanities: Contexts, Forms & Practices is a volume of essays that provides a detailed account of born-digital literature by artists and scholars who have contributed to its birth and evolution. Rather than offering a prescriptive defini…
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- 9781501363481
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- ix; 392 pg; ill.
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- 801.950285 ELE e
3D printing technologies
The family of technologies collectively known as additive manufacturing (AM) technologies, and often called 3D-printing technologies, is rapidly revolutionizing industrial production. AM’s potential to produce intricate and customized parts starting from a digital 3D model makes it one of the main pillars for the forthcoming Industry 4.0. Thanks to its advantages over traditional manufacturin…
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- 9783036531700
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- ix, 98p; ill
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- 620.0042 PRI P
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
Seeing the city digitally
This book explores what's happening to ways of seeing urban spaces in the contemporary moment, when so many of the technologies through which cities are visualised are digital. Cities have always been pictured, in many media and for many different purposes. This edited collection explores how that picturing is changing in an era of digital visual culture. Analogue visual technologies like film …
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- 9789048551927
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- 307.76 SEE
Writing manuals for the masses
This open access collection of essays examines the literary advice industry since its emergence in Anglo-American literary culture in the mid-nineteenth century within the context of the professionalization of the literary field and the continued debate on creative writing as art and craft. Often dismissed as commercial and stereotypical by authors and specialists alike, literary advice has non…
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- 9783030536145
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- xxii; 412 PG; ill.
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- 808.0209 WRI w
Memory in motion :archives, technology, and the social
How do new media affect the question of social memory? Social memory is usually described as enacted through ritual, language, art, architecture, and institutions ? phenomena whose persistence over time and capacity for a shared storage of the past was set in contrast to fleeting individual memory. But the question of how social memory should be understood in an age of digital computing, instan…
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- 9789048532063
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- 302
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
Exploring islamic social work :between community and the common good
This open access book addresses, for the first time, Islamic social work as an emerging concept at the interface of Islamic thought and social sciences. Applying a multidisciplinary approach it explores, on the one hand, the discourse that provides religious legitimisation to social work activities and, on the other hand, case studies of practical fields of Islamic social work including educati…
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- 9783030958800
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- xii; 284 PG; ill.
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- 306.697 EXP e
The role of indicators in decisions of technology innovation
There are thousands of indicators produced to understand and govern our societies. Studies about the way indicators are used in technological innovation are significantly rare, despite the centrality of these decisions to promote growth in our technology-intensive civilization. This book presents what is known and what was discovered in a doctoral research, which analysed innovative business le…
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- 9783731504788
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- xi, 247 p.; ill
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- 650 BOA
Advanced Statistical Modeling, Forecasting, and Fault Detection in Renewable …
Fault detection, control, and forecasting have a vital role in renewable energy systems (Photovoltaics (PV) and wind turbines (WTs)) to improve their productivity, ef?ciency, and safety, and to avoid expensive maintenance. For instance, the main crucial and challenging issue in solar and wind energy production is the volatility of intermittent power generation due mainly to weather conditions. …
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- 9781838805456
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- xiv, 197 p. : ill
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- 621.042011 ADV a
Technology and testing :improving educational and psychological measurement
From early answer sheets filled in with number 2 pencils, to tests administered by mainframe computers, to assessments wholly constructed by computers, it is clear that technology is changing the field of educational and psychological measurement. The numerous and rapid advances have immediate impact on test creators, assessment professionals, and those who implement and analyze assessments. Th…
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- 9781317975892
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- xix; 376 pg; ill.
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- 371.26 DRA d
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
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