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From the simplest software to electronic brains, and from smartphone apps to social media and video games, there are gigabytes of data for you to unravel. Discover the skills you'll need to become a top-class coder or a cyber sensation, and how microprocessors monitor our factories, fitness, traffic, and even guide robots across other worlds.

Challenges the dominant habits and worldview that are present in our Internet consumption and shows how God's wisdom for our lives makes us more fully human in the face of dehumanizing technology.

Would you visit an art gallery to see a painting created by a computer? Or read a poem written by a software program? Artificial intelligence (AI) program are now capable of generating artworks that rival those produced by human artists. AI can generate paintings, music, poetry, and even sculptures that challenge traditional notions of art. Learn how these high-tech methods are transforming the creative process.

This book offers a survey of library technology that's already transitioning from trend to everyday reality--systems, software, and approaches crucial to the knowledge institutions of tomorrow. Covers mobile technologies; privacy-protection technology tools; the Internet of Things (IoT); virtual reality; bots and automation; machine learning applications for libraries; libraries as digital humanities enablers; visualizations in discovery systems;...

Bestselling author of Easy Riders, Raging Bulls and Down and Dirty Pictures, cultural critic Peter Biskind turns his eye toward the new golden age of television, sparked by the fall of play-it-safe network TV and the rise of boundary-busting cable followed by streaming, that overturned both-based on exclusive, candid, and colorful interviews with executives, writers, showrunners, directors, and actors.

This book surveys approaches to knowledge management (KM) that address hierarchical power structures and internal competition to get measurable results. With insights from case studies at academic and special libraries, this book covers demystifying KM by reframing it to reflect organizational needs; six elements of an actionable knowledge audit; harvesting staff insights; effective communities of practice; platforms and library tools; fostering knowledge...

Con multitud de datos e ilustraciones impactantes, este excelente libro ofrece una alternativa fiable para toda la familia frente a las dudosas fuentes de información online. Esta enciclopedia completamente ilustrada es el antídoto frente a Internet. Es una gran obra de referencia escrita por expertos para un mundo sobrecargado con informaciones poco fiables. Desde física cuántica hasta el Teorema de Pitágoras, desde la Antigua Roma hasta las...

This guide offers dozens of design thinking exercises, such as rapid prototyping, empathy mapping, and logic models, as part of a start-to-finish model for developing a new program concept. It also provides information about ways to connect with the community, and how to move technology beyond the walls of the library.

"Vividly portrayed, meticulously researched picture" — Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review
Meet Ham, Minnie, Enos, Roscoe, Tiger, and Rocky.
When the United States was scrambling to catch up to the Soviets after their successful launch of Sputnik, they didn't turn to Mercury Seven astronauts Alan Shepard and John Glenn. Rather, they began bringing chimpanzees to Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico for a top-secret program....

The bestselling, award-winning author of The Power delivers a dazzling tour de force where a handful of friends plot a daring heist to save the world from the tech giants whose greed threatens life as we know it. When Martha Einkorn fled her father's isolated compound in Oregon, she never expected to find herself working for a powerful social media mogul hell-bent on controlling everything. Now, she's surrounded by mega-rich companies designing private...