Computers category: 49053 books
Becoming Digital
Toward a Post-Internet Society
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
Becoming Digital examines the transition from the online world we have known to the Next Internet, which is emerging from the convergence of Cloud Computing, Big Data Analytics, and the Internet of Things. The Cloud stores and processes information in data centers; Big Data Analytics provide the tools...
Natural-Born Cyborgs
Minds, Technologies, and the Future of Human Intelligence
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2003
From Robocop to the Terminator to Eve 8, no image better captures our deepest fears about technology than the cyborg, the person who is both flesh and metal, brain and electronics. But philosopher and cognitive scientist Andy Clark sees it differently. Cyborgs, he writes, are not something to be feared--we...
The Golden Ticket
P, NP, and the Search for the Impossible
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2013
The P-NP problem is the most important open problem in computer science, if not all of mathematics. The Golden Ticket provides a nontechnical introduction to P-NP, its rich history, and its algorithmic implications for everything we do with computers and beyond. In this informative and entertaining...
by Christopher Hou and Elizabeth Hou
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2016
In today’s technological world, we are all fascinated with blogging on the internet. An increasing number of teens and businesses run blogs on several social media websites. In fact, some of the web's most influential voices now belong to bloggers as young as 13. Blogs created by teenagers...
by Andrew O'Brien
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Since the first patented invention in 1947, video gaming has become a key component of modern culture and of our social, creative and technological history - and today its popularity is at an all-time high.
This fascinating book takes you through the history of computer games, from the golden...
ICTs and Sustainable Solutions for the Digital Divide
Theory and Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
The coming of age of the personal computer and World Wide Web has made it possible to reach a much wider portion of populations. Technological determinists as well as social activists saw the potential of deploying networked computers to the general citizenry, and internet cafés and telecentres were...
by Linda Herkenhoff, John Fogli
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Applied Business Statistics for Business and Management using Microsoft Excel is the first book to illustrate the capabilities of Microsoft Excel to teach applied statistics effectively. It is a step-by-step exercise-driven guide for students and practitioners who need to master Excel to solve...
by Carl Timm, Richard Perez
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2010
Seven Deadliest Social Network Attacks provides a comprehensive view into how social networking attacks have impacted the livelihood and lives of adults and children. The book is separated into seven chapters, with each focusing on a specific type of attack that has been furthered through the use of...
State, Society and Information Technology in Asia
Alterity Between Online and Offline Politics
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Many maintain that the arrival of computers networked across sovereign borders and physical barriers is a liberating force that will produce a global dialogue of liberal hues but this book argues that this dominant paradigm needs to be supplemented by the perspective of alterity in the impact of Information...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2011
This book looks at the future of advertising from the perspective of pervasive computing. Pervasive computing encompasses the integration of computers into everyday devices, like the covering of surfaces with interactive displays and networked mobile phones. Advertising is the communication of sponsored...
Design, User Experience, and Usability: Design Thinking and Methods
5th International Conference, DUXU 2016, Held as Part of HCI International 2016, Toronto, Canada, July 17–22, 2016, Proceedings, Part I
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2016
The three-volume set LNCS 9746, 9747, and 9748 constitutes the proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Design, User Experience, and Usability, DUXU 2016, held as part of the 18th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2016, in Toronto, Canada, in July 2016, jointly...
Social Computing and Social Media
8th International Conference, SCSM 2016, Held as Part of HCI International 2016, Toronto, ON, Canada, July 17–22, 2016. Proceedings
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2016
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Social Computing and Social Media, SCSM 2016, held as part of the 18th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2016, held in Toronto, ON, Canada, in July 2016. The total of 1287 papers and 186...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
This journal subline serves as a forum for stimulating and disseminating innovative research ideas, theories, emerging technologies, empirical investigations, state-of-the-art methods, and tools in all different genres of edutainment, such as game-based learning and serious games, interactive storytelling,...
Digital Soul
Intelligent Machines and Human Values
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2004
Should the day come when intelligent machines not only make computations but also think and experience emotions as humans do, how will we distinguish the human” from the machine”? This introduction to artificial intelligence and to its potentially profound social, moral, and ethical implications...