Mindbridge

Author : Joe Haldeman
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781497692404

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Mindbridge by Joe Haldeman Pdf

A remarkable alien technology could have devastating consequences for humanity in this novel by the Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author of The Forever War. In the far future, the accidental scientific breakthrough known as the Levant-Meyer Translation changes everything. Suddenly people can leap instantaneously across the universe, albeit temporarily, enabling teams of Tamers to explore far-flung worlds and prepare them for possible human habitation. But one expedition doesn’t make it back alive. Jacque Lefavre achieves his lifelong dream of becoming a Tamer when he joins the Agency for Extraterrestrial Development. On his first exploratory mission to a planet known as Groombridge, Lefavre and his team encounter something truly extraordinary: a small, nonsentient creature that, when joined with another of its kind, creates a telepathic “bridge.” But exploiting this psychic link could bring unanticipated perils, for it is about to bring Lefavre and his team into dangerously close contact with the L’vrai, an ancient, advanced, and hostile race of star travelers—an encounter that could prove to be the first step in humankind’s salvation . . . or its doom. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Joe Haldeman including rare images from the author’s personal collection.

Author : Joan Gordon
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1980-01-01
Category : Science fiction, American
ISBN : 9780916732066

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Joe Haldeman by Joan Gordon Pdf

A chronology and study of Haldeman's life and works.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Information Gatekeepers Inc
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Author : Brian Stableford
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781434457431

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Against the New Gods and Other Essays on Writers of Imaginative Fiction by Brian Stableford Pdf

Eight highly-readable essays on science fiction and fantasy writers, including David Brin, Jonathan Carroll, Samuel R. Delany, Joe Haldeman, Robert Irwin, Graham Joyce, Michael Shea, plus a major piece, "Against the New Gods," on British SF and crime writer Sydney Fowler Wright. Complete with Bibliography and Index.

Author : Kate Lanz,Paul Brown
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030221539

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All the Brains in the Business by Kate Lanz,Paul Brown Pdf

The power of gender difference, not gender equality, is a secret source for success. Some smart businesses are starting to wake up to this fact. This book explores why and how. Properly valuing brain gender diversity in the workplace is one of the biggest and largely untapped sources of competitive advantage for modern businesses. Recent advances in neuroscience provide the key to unlocking it. Modern research shows that there are gender-based differences in the brain – it’s just not as simple as a binary between a ‘male brain’ and ‘female brain’. In fact, our brains are like a mosaic where many of the tiles are available in thousands of shades on a spectrum between pink and blue. The problem is that our workplaces tend to be governed by structures, processes and cultures that are practically pure blue. All the brains in the business that are elsewhere on the spectrum cannot thrive as they might, so sources of productivity, creativity and agility go untapped. Anyone who manages people needs to understand how the brain works and the impact it has on how people work together as teams. Anyone who wants to unlock the talent and productivity of all of their people needs to understand how recent findings around male- and female-type brains should shape the way they manage. Leading applied neuroscientists and international corporate coaches Kate Lanz and Paul Brown show you why and how to access all the brains in your business.

Author : Boitan, Iustina Alina,Marchewka-Bartkowiak, Kamilla
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781799843917

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Fostering Innovation and Competitiveness With FinTech, RegTech, and SupTech by Boitan, Iustina Alina,Marchewka-Bartkowiak, Kamilla Pdf

Due to the emergence of innovative technologies, various professional fields are transforming their traditional business practices. Specifically, the financial and legal markets are experiencing this digital transformation as professionals and researchers are finding ways to improve efficiency, personalization, and security in these economic sectors. Significant research is needed to keep pace with the continuous advancements that are taking place in finance. Fostering Innovation and Competitiveness with FinTech, RegTech, and SupTech provides emerging research exploring the theoretical and practical aspects of technologically innovative mechanisms and applications within the financial, economic, and legal markets. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics such as crowdfunding platforms, crypto-assets, and blockchain technology, this book is ideally designed for researchers, economists, practitioners, policymakers, analysts, managers, executives, educators, and students seeking current research on the strategic role of technology in the future development of financial and economic activity.

Author : Agata Stachowicz-Stanusch,Wolfgang Amann
Publisher : IAP
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781641138116

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Management and Business Education in the Time of Artificial Intelligence by Agata Stachowicz-Stanusch,Wolfgang Amann Pdf

Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are one of top investment priorities in these days. They are aimed at finding applications in fields of special value for humans, including education. The fourth industrial revolution will replace not only human hands but also human brains, the time of machines requires new forms of work and new ways of business education, however we must be aware that if there is no control of human-AI interaction, there is a risk of losing sight of this interaction’s goal. First, it is important to get people to truly understand AI systems, to intentionally participate in their use, as well as to build their trust, because “the measure of success for AI applications is the value they create for human lives” (Stanford University 2016, 33). Consequently, society needs to adapt to AI applications if it is to extend its benefits and mitigate the inevitable errors and failures. This is why it is highly recommended to create new AI-powered tools for education that are the result of cooperation between AI researchers and humanities’ and social sciences’ researchers, who can identify cognitive processes and human behaviors. This book is authored by a range of international experts with a diversity of backgrounds and perspectives hopefully bringing us closer to the responses for the questions what we should teach (what the ‘right’ set of future skills is), how we should teach (the way in which schools should teach and assess them) and where we should teach (what implications does AI have for today’s education infrastructure). We must remember as we have already noticed before “...education institutions would need to ensure that that they have an appropriate infrastructure, as well as the safety and credibility of AI-based systems. Ultimately, the law and policies need to adjust to the rapid pace of AI development, because the formal responsibility for appropriate learning outcomes will in future be divided between a teacher and a machine. Above all, we should ensure that AI respect human and civil rights (Stachowicz-Stanusch, Amann, 2018)”.

Author : Joe Luegers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1736541145

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The Bridge by Joe Luegers Pdf

The first book in The Mindbridge Trilogy. Maeryn Kacey's fourteenth birthday didn't go quite as planned. One minute she's hanging out at the MotherTech headquarters, her family's artificial intelligence company in Indianapolis, and the next she's trapped in the body of a girl from a universe known as Gaia. This new world is in the midst of a civil war with a group of violent, teleporting Nomads, and as Maeryn dives into the history of Gaia she discovers some unsettling truths about herself and her family. Kaija Monhegan's fourteenth cycle day didn't go quite as planned. One minute she's hiding in the woods on Monhegan Island, trying to awaken her newfound telepathic powers, and the next she finds herself trapped in the body of a girl from a universe known as Earth. This new world is full of technological marvels, deceitful people, and a secret shared history with Gaia that makes it the absolute most dangerous place for Kaija to be. Maeryn needs to survive in a place where her intellect does her little good. Kaija needs to get back to her own body before the chaos on Gaia leaves her no home to return to. They both feel scared and isolated, but Maeryn and Kaija have never really been alone.

Author : Ron Lieber,Tom Meltzer,Julie Doherty
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39076002766637

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Best Entry-level Jobs by Ron Lieber,Tom Meltzer,Julie Doherty Pdf

Reveals where the best first job opportunities in the country are, and what you need to do to get them.

Author : Andreas Sudmann
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783839447192

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The Democratization of Artificial Intelligence by Andreas Sudmann Pdf

After a long time of neglect, Artificial Intelligence is once again at the center of most of our political, economic, and socio-cultural debates. Recent advances in the field of Artifical Neural Networks have led to a renaissance of dystopian and utopian speculations on an AI-rendered future. Algorithmic technologies are deployed for identifying potential terrorists through vast surveillance networks, for producing sentencing guidelines and recidivism risk profiles in criminal justice systems, for demographic and psychographic targeting of bodies for advertising or propaganda, and more generally for automating the analysis of language, text, and images. Against this background, the aim of this book is to discuss the heterogenous conditions, implications, and effects of modern AI and Internet technologies in terms of their political dimension: What does it mean to critically investigate efforts of net politics in the age of machine learning algorithms?

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business records
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123417631

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E-doc by Anonim Pdf

Author : Joe Haldeman
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780312536633

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The Forever War by Joe Haldeman Pdf

"Del Rey book." Battling the Taurans in space was one problem as Private William Mandella worked his way up the ranks to major. In spanning the stars, he aged only months while Earth aged centuries.

Author : Cory Ng,John Alarcon
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000331752

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Artificial Intelligence in Accounting by Cory Ng,John Alarcon Pdf

Artificial Intelligence in Accounting: Practical Applications was written with a simple goal: to provide accountants with a foundational understanding of AI and its many business and accounting applications. It is meant to serve as a guide for identifying opportunities to implement AI initiatives to increase productivity and profitability. This book will help you answer questions about what AI is and how it is used in the accounting profession today. Offering practical guidance that you can leverage for your organization, this book provides an overview of essential AI concepts and technologies that accountants should know, such as machine learning, deep learning, and natural language processing. It also describes accounting-specific applications of robotic process automation and text mining. Illustrated with case studies and interviews with representatives from global professional services firms, this concise volume makes a significant contribution to examining the intersection of AI and the accounting profession. This innovative book also explores the challenges and ethical considerations of AI. It will be of great interest to accounting practitioners, researchers, educators, and students.

Author : Thomas R. Weirich,Thomas C. Pearson,Natalie Tatiana Churyk
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781119698135

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Accounting and Auditing Research by Thomas R. Weirich,Thomas C. Pearson,Natalie Tatiana Churyk Pdf

Accounting and Auditing Research, 10th Edition prepares students and early-stage practitioners to use well-established research solutions in a broad range of practical applications, from financial accounting and tax planning, to investigating fraud and auditing various business problems. Emphasizing real-world skills development, this fully-updated textbook covers the current tools, techniques, and best practices in applied professional research and analysis. The authors provide comprehensive yet accessible coverage of the entire research process, explaining how to utilize major research databases and audit software packages in a clear and systematic manner. The tenth edition features carefully revised content designed to enhance effectiveness, increase readability, and strengthen learning and retention. The book’s classroom-proven pedagogy features expert tips for performing common research tasks, sidebar boxes that summarize and expand upon key concepts, and a variety of end-of-chapter exercises that reinforce the material and develop readers’ skills.

Author : Algis Budrys
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Science fiction
ISBN : 9781300346593

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Benchmarks Continued 1975-1982 by Algis Budrys Pdf

Consists of book reviews and essays written for The magazine of fantasy and science fiction.