Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. — 402 p. After Digital looks at where the field of computation began and where it might be headed, and offers predictions about a collaborative future relationship between human cognition and mechanical computation. Abstract: After Digital looks at where the field of computation began and where it might be headed, and offers predictions...
BCS Learning & Development, 2017. — 336 p. — ISBN: 978-1-78017-36-41. Computational thinking is a timeless, transferable skill that enables you to think more clearly and logically, as well as a way to solve specific problems. Beginning with the core ideas of computational thinking, with this book you'll build up an understanding of the practical problem-solving approach and...
BCS, 2017. — 308 p. — ISBN: 1780173644. Computational thinking is a timeless, transferable skill that enables you to think more clearly and logically, as well as a way to solve specific problems. Beginning with the core ideas of computational thinking, with this book you'll build up an understanding of the practical problem-solving approach and explore how computational...
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016. — 479 p. — ISBN10: 1535041390. — ISBN13: 978-1535041393 Recent advances in understanding the brain and in programming intelligent computers show that we are not far away to achieve a true conscious and creative Artificial Intelligence. But such an AI will not think like a human! It will be much more intelligent and will thinks...
Publisher: The MIT Press, 2016. — 514 p. — ISBN10: 026202957X. — ISBN13: 978-0262029575 What has planetary-scale computation done to our geopolitical realities? It takes different forms at different scales -- from energy and mineral sourcing and subterranean cloud infrastructure to urban software and massive universal addressing systems; from interfaces drawn by the...
O’Reilly Media, 2015. — 473 p. — ISBN13: 978-1491923078. Quite soon, the world’s information infrastructure is going to reach a level of scale and complexity that will force scientists and engineers to approach it in an entirely new way. The familiar notions of command and control are being thwarted by realities of a faster, denser world of communication where choice, variety,...
Singapore: World Scientific, 2023. — 233 p. From the team behind Computer Science for Fun (cs4fn), The Power of Computational Thinking shows that learning to think can be fascinating and fun. Can you become a computational thinker? Can machines have brains? Do computers see and understand the world? Can games help us to study nature, save lives and design the future? Can you...
Independently published, 2021 — 240 p. — ISBN: 978-650022551-8 This book originally written as a thesis with the title “New routes of HCI”, brings together different disciplines – philosophy of mind, Artificial Intelligence (AI), cognitive science, cybernetics and the performing arts – in a transdisciplinary investigation that raises new questions about the human mind and our...
Accenture Global Solutions Lim, 2022. — 318 p. — ISBN: 13 9781647821081. Technology advances are making tech more... human. This changes everything you thought you knew about innovation and strategy. In their groundbreaking book, Human + Machine, Accenture technology leaders Paul R. Daugherty and H. James Wilson showed how leading organizations use the power of human-machine...
Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2014. — 405 p. Through examples and analogies, Computational Thinking for the Modern Problem Solver introduces computational thinking as part of an introductory computing course and shows how computer science concepts are applicable to other fields. It keeps the material accessible and relevant to noncomputer science majors. With numerous color figures,...
Helsinki: University of Helsinki, 2022. — 231 p. This book uses the modern theory of artificial intelligence (AI) to understand human suffering or mental pain. Both humans and sophisticated AI agents process information about the world to achieve goals and obtain rewards, which is why AI can be used as a model of the human brain and mind. This book intends to make the theory...
Routledge India, 2023. — 270 p. To enact the book’s central theme of automation and human agency, the author designed a Bot trained on her book to support dialogue with the content and facilitate discussions. Algorithms and Automation: Governance over Rituals, Machines, and Prototypes, from Sundial to Blockchain is a critical examination of the history and impact of automation...
Article published at: arXiv:1604.00289v2 [cs.AI] Recent progress in artificial intelligence (AI) has renewed interest in building systems that learn and think like people. Many advances have come from using deep neural networks trained end-to-end in tasks such as object recognition, video games, and board games, achieving performance that equals or even beats humans in some...
Springer, 2016. — 442 p. — ISBN: 9811025452. This book presents a comprehensive introduction to Internetware, covering aspects ranging from the fundamental principles and engineering methodologies to operational platforms, quality measurements and assurance and future directions. It also includes guidelines and numerous representative real-world case studies that serve as an...
Jame H. Morris, 2021. — 358 p. What were we thinking as we created the computer revolution? Was it good for humanity? Thoughts of a Reformed Computer Scientist is a search for intelligence across multiple facets of the human condition — religion and science, evolution, and innovation. Jim Morris’s memoir covers his sixty-year career in computer science and weaves the reader...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 197 p. — eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-90853-3. Ayn Rand and the Posthuman is a study of the American novelist’s relationship with twenty-first-century ideas about technology. Rand wrote science fiction that inspired Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, politicians, and economists. Ben Murnane demonstrates Rand’s connection to, and impact on, those with a...
NY: InfoQ, 2018. — 22 p. As our systems scale, we need more complexity, which inherently increases exponentially over time. The need for understanding and navigating this complexity also increases. Chaos engineering is a discipline that allows us to refine, recalibrate, and navigate the understanding of our systems through intentional and careful experimentation in the form of...
The MIT Press, 2017. — 341 p. — ISBN10: 0262036037, ISBN13: 978-0262036030. The Digital Mind: How Science Is Redefining Humanity PDF What do computers, cells, and brains have in common? Computers are electronic devices designed by humans; cells are biological entities crafted by evolution; brains are the containers and creators of our minds. But all are, in one way or another,...
New York: Springer, 2018. — 200 p. As the first book about software culture, this book discusses software culture from three perspectives including historical perspective, the classification of software and software applications. This book takes credit from the view of science and technology development. It analyzed scientific innovations and the social areas promoted following...
New York: Nova Science Pub Inc, 2010. - 246 p. Scientists from different fields are searching for the appropriate definition of what is digital and analogue, but the profile of the technologies that have changed mankind's lifestyle and the history of the world still resist the scrutiny of thinkers. This book suggests some keys to interpret the digital and the analogue machines...
Publishing, 2016. — 48 p. For Machine Use Only expands on the idea of machinic vision, featuring short texts by a range of thinkers, philosophers, and scholars who were asked to contemplate the possibilities and limitations of a world understood and interpreted by algorithmically-driven forms of artificial intelligence. Our increasing reliance on computation requires us to come...
The MIT Press, 2002. — xiv, 210 p. — ISBN: 0-262-19478-3. Classical computationalism — the view that mental states are computational states — has come under attack in recent years. Critics claim that in defining computation solely in abstract, syntactic terms, computationalism neglects the real-time, embodied, real-world constraints with which cognitive systems must cope....
New York: Open Humanities Press, 2020. — 298 p. The book explores the technical as well as cultural imaginaries of programming from its insides. It follows the principle that the growing importance of software requires a new kind of cultural thinking - and curriculum - that can account for, and with which to better understand the politics and aesthetics of algorithmic...
Toronto: Andsor Books, 2013. — 648 p. The mechanistic myth is the belief that everything can be described as a neat hierarchical structure of things within things. And few of us realize that our entire culture is based on this fallacy. While the world consists of complex, interacting structures, we prefer to treat every phenomenon as a simple, isolated structure. Through our...
Routledge, 2018. — 527 p. — ISBN 978- 1- 138- 18668- 2 Computational approaches dominate contemporary cognitive science, promising a unified, scientific explanation of how the mind works. However, computational approaches raise major philosophical and scientific questions. In what sense is the mind computational? How do computational approaches explain perception, learning, and...
Authors not specified. Paris: Tiqqun, 2001. — 83 p. Published in Tiqqun 2, The Cybernetic Hypothesis is forty-three pages long (in the original journal) and divided into eleven sections. Each section begins with one or two quotes which are then critiqued in order to further our understanding of the hypothesis and develop the author’s response. The author(s) write in the first...
New York, USA: Time Inc. Books, 2018. — 169 p. — ISBN: 1547841915. Creativity is one of the most human qualities. But what is creativity, and what makes us creative? The Science of Creativity takes a look at both the science and the art of this world-changing trait-how we define it, how we measure it and what encourages it. With insights from the editors of TIME, this new...
New York: Springer, 2019. — 403 p. From C to CC The Association for Computational Creativity The PROSECCO Vision A Thematic Overview Conclusion: Baby Steps in the Right Direction Background: Boden's Analysis of Creative Systems Terminology A Universe of Possibilities Defining the Conceptual Space Exploring the Conceptual Space The Value of Two Rule Sets, R and T Characterising...
CRC Press, 2024. — 332 p. — ISBN: 978-1-032-56898-0. This book has a single purpose: to help everyone become computational thinkers. Computational thinking (CT) is thinking informed by the digital age, and a computational thinker is someone who can apply that thinking everywhere and anywhere. Through practical examples and easy-to-grasp terminology, this book is a guide to...
CRC Press, 2017. — 288 p. This textbook will help readers acquire computational thinking through an understanding of modern computer technologies. Neither programming background nor learning how to program is required. Students just need to bring their curiosity and an open mind to class. Reading this book can be an excellent way to prepare someone to pursue a rewarding career...
New York: Springer, 2021. — 338 p. This textbook is intended as a textbook for one-semester, introductory computer science courses aimed at undergraduate students from all disciplines. Self-contained and with no prerequisites, it focuses on elementary knowledge and thinking models. The content has been tested in university classrooms for over six years and has been used in...
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