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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022. — 328 p. A wide-ranging history of the algorithm. Bringing together the histories of mathematics, Computer Science, and linguistic thought, Language and the Rise of the Algorithm reveals how recent developments in artificial intelligence are reopening an issue that troubled mathematicians well before the computer age: How do you draw...
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...
Springer, 2022. — 241 p. This book shares Chinese scholars’ philosophical views on artificial intelligence. The discussions range from the foundations of AI — the Turing test and creation of machine intelligence — to recent applications of AI, including decisions in games, natural languages, pattern recognition, prediction in economic contexts, autonomous behaviors, and...
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...
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....
Accenture Global Solutions Lim, 2022. — 318 p. — ISBN13: 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...
Springer, 2021. — 634 p. — ISBN: 978-981-16-3848-0. 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...
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...
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...
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: 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...