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Study of the impact of cybernetics machinery on job design and the division of labour in a postindustrial society, with reference to the USA - assesses implications for industrial management, the relationship of the working group to machinery, and human relations in the work environment; includes a case study of group dynamics at a nuclear reactor. References.
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"Usability Engineering is more important to Computer Science professionals now than ever before. In this landmark new text, Leventhal and Barnes explain how to engineer and evaluate the quality of a user interface. They also explore the interaction between user and interface, as well as actively probing the tools necessary for interface construction. Leventhal and Barnes' approach also incorporates elements of software engineering in order to introduce...
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"Technology is our conduit of power. In our modern world, technology is the gatekeeper deciding who shall have and who shall have not. Either technology works for you or you work for technology. It shapes the human race just as much as we shape it. But where is this symbiosis going? Who provides the directions, the intentions, the goals of this human-machine partnership? Such decisions do not derive from the creators of technology who are enmeshed...
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"According to Rosalind Picard, if we want computers to be genuinely intelligent and to interact naturally with us, we must give computers the ability to recognize, understand, even to have and express emotions." "Part 1 of this book provides the intellectual framework for affective computing. Part 2 discusses the design and construction of affective computers."--Jacket.
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In "Ideas and Information: Managing in a High Tech World", author Arno Penzias, vice president of Bell Labs, successfully conveys the scope and intricacies of the Information Age in language that is both conversational and accessible to non-experts, yet substantial enough in pragmatic and theoretical content to make for learned and informative reading. Penzias' opening strategy is clever: he immediately reduces larger-than-life concepts down to a...
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Researchers at IBM launched a billion-dollar project to develop a machine that could compete in the quiz show Jeopardy--and win. The machine faced off in a high-ratings match against two former champions, Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter. Journalist Stephen Baker carries readers on a captivating journey from the IBM labs to the showdown in Hollywood. The story features brilliant Ph. D.s, Hollywood moguls, knowledge-obsessed Jeopardy masters--and a very...
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"A writer's worm's-eye view of an industry coming into being provides the reader a unique perspective on just why America is the world's capital of progress and innovation. Fred Moody spent a year tracking developments at the center for virtual-reality research, a cluster of Seattle companies formed around the University of Washington's Human Interface Technology Laboratory, and in The Visionary Position he chronicles the birth of an industry."--Jacket....
10) How images think
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"Digital images are an integral part of all media, including television, film, photography, animation, video games, data visualization, and the Internet. In the digital world, spectators become navigators wending their way through a variety of interactive experiences, and images become spaces of visualization with more and more intelligence programmed into the very fabric of communication processes. In [this book, the author] explores this new ecology,...
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