Reading Machines

Author : Stephen Ramsay
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780252093449

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Reading Machines by Stephen Ramsay Pdf

Besides familiar and now-commonplace tasks that computers do all the time, what else are they capable of? Stephen Ramsay's intriguing study of computational text analysis examines how computers can be used as "reading machines" to open up entirely new possibilities for literary critics. Computer-based text analysis has been employed for the past several decades as a way of searching, collating, and indexing texts. Despite this, the digital revolution has not penetrated the core activity of literary studies: interpretive analysis of written texts. Computers can handle vast amounts of data, allowing for the comparison of texts in ways that were previously too overwhelming for individuals, but they may also assist in enhancing the entirely necessary role of subjectivity in critical interpretation. Reading Machines discusses the importance of this new form of text analysis conducted with the assistance of computers. Ramsay suggests that the rigidity of computation can be enlisted in the project of intuition, subjectivity, and play.

Author : White Eric White
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474441513

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Reading Machines in the Modernist Transatlantic by White Eric White Pdf

A revisionist account of technology's role in the aesthetics, spaces and politics of transatlantic avant-gardesExplores of a range of key avant-garde formations in the modernist transatlantic period, from the Italian futurists and English Vorticists to the Dada-surrealist and post-Harlem Renaissance African American experimentalistsExplores writers' and artists' inventions as well as their texts, and involves them directly in the messy transductions of technology in cultureDraws on previously unknown photos, manuscripts and other evidence that reveals the untold story of Bob and Rose Brown's 'reading machine' - a cross-disciplinary, meta-formational, and transnational project that proposed to transform the everyday act of readingReading Machines in the Modernist Transatlantic provides a new account of aesthetic and technological innovation, from the Machine Age to the Information Age. Drawing on a wealth of archival discoveries, it argues that modernist avant-gardes used technology not only as a means of analysing culture, but as a way of feeding back into it. As well as uncovering a new invention by Mina Loy, the untold story of Bob Brown's 'reading machine' and the radical technicities of African American experimentalists including Gwendolyn Bennett and Ralph Ellison, the book places avant-gardes at the centre of innovation across a variety of fields. From dazzle camouflage to microfilm, and from rail networks to broadcast systems, White explores how vanguardists harnessed socio-technics to provoke social change.

Author : Jennifer Liberts
Publisher : Step Into Reading
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781101940266

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Monster Phonics (Blaze and the Monster Machines): 12 Step Into Reading Books by Jennifer Liberts Pdf

"Join Blaze and the monster machines for Monster phonics! Blaze, AJ, Gabby, and their friends roar into reading in this fun and educational phonics book set."--Container.

Author : Grant Hamilton
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781785353253

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The World of Failing Machines by Grant Hamilton Pdf

The World of Failing Machines offers the first full-length discussion of the relationship between speculative realism and literary criticism. In identifying some of the most significant coordinates of speculative-realist thought, this book asks what the implications might be for the study of literature. It is argued that the first casualty might well be the form of the traditional essay.

Author : Ray Kurzweil
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0140282025

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The Age of Spiritual Machines by Ray Kurzweil Pdf

The inventor of the most innovative and compelling technology of our era, an international authority on artificial intelligence, and bestselling author of The Singularity is Nearer now offers a framework for envisioning the twenty-first century in The Age of Spiritual Machines--an age in which the marriage of human sensitivity and artificial intelligence fundamentally alters and improves the way we live. Kurzweil's prophetic blueprint for the future takes us through the advances that inexorably result in computers exceeding the memory capacity and computational ability of the human brain by the year 2020 (with human-level capabilities not far behind); in relationships with automated personalities who will be our teachers, companions, and lovers; and in information fed straight into our brains along direct neural pathways. Optimistic and challenging, thought-provoking and engaging, The Age of Spiritual Machines is the ultimate guide on our road into the next century.

Author : Lisa Gitelman
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0804732701

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Scripts, Grooves, and Writing Machines by Lisa Gitelman Pdf

"The phonograph and the typewriter may be things of the past, but this book will resonate with readers who are engaged daily with computer networks, hypertexts, and the forms that mass media will take in the new century."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Shawna Ross,James O'Sullivan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781137595690

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Reading Modernism with Machines by Shawna Ross,James O'Sullivan Pdf

This book uses the discipline-specific, computational methods of the digital humanities to explore a constellation of rigorous case studies of modernist literature. From data mining and visualization to mapping and tool building and beyond, the digital humanities offer new ways for scholars to questions of literature and culture. With the publication of a variety of volumes that define and debate the digital humanities, we now have the opportunity to focus attention on specific periods and movements in literary history. Each of the case studies in this book emphasizes literary interpretation and engages with histories of textuality and new media, rather than dwelling on technical minutiae. Reading Modernism with Machines thereby intervenes critically in ongoing debates within modernist studies, while also exploring exciting new directions for the digital humanities—ultimately reflecting on the conjunctions and disjunctions between the technological cultures of the modernist era and our own digital present.

Author : Erin Seagraves,Heather Baker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Early childhood education
ISBN : 1606177273

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My Neighbors and Their Simple Machines by Erin Seagraves,Heather Baker Pdf

Author : Audrey Watters
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2023-02-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780262546065

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Teaching Machines by Audrey Watters Pdf

How ed tech was born: Twentieth-century teaching machines--from Sidney Pressey's mechanized test-giver to B. F. Skinner's behaviorist bell-ringing box. Contrary to popular belief, ed tech did not begin with videos on the internet. The idea of technology that would allow students to "go at their own pace" did not originate in Silicon Valley. In Teaching Machines, education writer Audrey Watters offers a lively history of predigital educational technology, from Sidney Pressey's mechanized positive-reinforcement provider to B. F. Skinner's behaviorist bell-ringing box. Watters shows that these machines and the pedagogy that accompanied them sprang from ideas--bite-sized content, individualized instruction--that had legs and were later picked up by textbook publishers and early advocates for computerized learning. Watters pays particular attention to the role of the media--newspapers, magazines, television, and film--in shaping people's perceptions of teaching machines as well as the psychological theories underpinning them. She considers these machines in the context of education reform, the political reverberations of Sputnik, and the rise of the testing and textbook industries. She chronicles Skinner's attempts to bring his teaching machines to market, culminating in the famous behaviorist's efforts to launch Didak 101, the "pre-verbal" machine that taught spelling. (Alternate names proposed by Skinner include "Autodidak," "Instructomat," and "Autostructor.") Telling these somewhat cautionary tales, Watters challenges what she calls "the teleology of ed tech"--the idea that not only is computerized education inevitable, but technological progress is the sole driver of events.

Author : United States. Bureau of Marine Inspection and Navigation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1937
Category : Merchant marine
ISBN : STANFORD:36105130406130

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Instruments, Machines, and Equipments Approved, Vessels Inclined, and Rulings by United States. Bureau of Marine Inspection and Navigation Pdf

Author : Byron Barton
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1987-09-25
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780694001903

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Machines at Work by Byron Barton Pdf

‘With the call of ‘Hey, you guys! Let’s get to work,’ women and men shoulder drills and picks, board cranes and cement mixers, and set their equipment bulldozing and steamrolling across vibrant page spreads. Barton generates the excitement of road and building construction for young sidewalk engineers.’ —BL. 1988 Fanfare Honor List (The Horn Book) Notable 1987 Children's Trade Books in Social Studies (NCSS/CBC) Outstanding Science Trade Books for Children 1987 (NSTA/CBC) 1987 Children's Books (NY Public Library)

Author : A. Schulter,H. Wagner
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-26
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781000100068

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Tunnel Boring Machines: Trends in Design and Construction of Mechanical Tunnelling by A. Schulter,H. Wagner Pdf

In the past ten years there was a worldwide trend towards increased use of Tunnel Boring Machines (TBM's). This trend covers a broad variety of applications ranging both from small diameters for sewers and other utilities to large diameters for double track railway and even three-lane highway tunnels. The response to this has been the development of both hard rock machines in the direction for application in soft ground, and soft ground TBM's to be used in soft rock. Parallel to the technical development of TBM's towards applications for longer tunnels, running through changing geological conditions, there are needs for the development of lining methods. 'TBM Tunnel Trends' an international lecture serie collection, aims to present the latest scientific and practical state of the art of TBM tunnelling, taking into consideration interactions between machinery and lining. 26 international highly recognized papers.

Author : for the National Academy of Sciences
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1994-02-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0309049881

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Voice Communication Between Humans and Machines by for the National Academy of Sciences Pdf

Science fiction has long been populated with conversational computers and robots. Now, speech synthesis and recognition have matured to where a wide range of real-world applicationsâ€"from serving people with disabilities to boosting the nation's competitivenessâ€"are within our grasp. Voice Communication Between Humans and Machines takes the first interdisciplinary look at what we know about voice processing, where our technologies stand, and what the future may hold for this fascinating field. The volume integrates theoretical, technical, and practical views from world-class experts at leading research centers around the world, reporting on the scientific bases behind human-machine voice communication, the state of the art in computerization, and progress in user friendliness. It offers an up-to-date treatment of technological progress in key areas: speech synthesis, speech recognition, and natural language understanding. The book also explores the emergence of the voice processing industry and specific opportunities in telecommunications and other businesses, in military and government operations, and in assistance for the disabled. It outlines, as well, practical issues and research questions that must be resolved if machines are to become fellow problem-solvers along with humans. Voice Communication Between Humans and Machines provides a comprehensive understanding of the field of voice processing for engineers, researchers, and business executives, as well as speech and hearing specialists, advocates for people with disabilities, faculty and students, and interested individuals.

Author : Patent office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 834 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600040516

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Patents for inventions. Abridgments of specifications by Patent office Pdf

Author : Kazuo Ishiguro
Publisher : Knopf Canada
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780735281257

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Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 BOOKER PRIZE NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE GLOBE AND MAIL, THE GUARDIAN, ESQUIRE, VOGUE, TIME, THE WASHINGTON POST, THE TIMES (UK), VULTURE, THE ECONOMIST, NPR, AND BOOKRIOT ON PRESIDENT OBAMA’S SUMMER 2021 READING LIST The magnificent new novel from Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro--author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize-winning The Remains of the Day. “The Sun always has ways to reach us.” From her place in the store, Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, watches carefully the behaviour of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass in the street outside. She remains hopeful a customer will soon choose her, but when the possibility emerges that her circumstances may change forever, Klara is warned not to invest too much in the promises of humans. In Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro looks at our rapidly changing modern world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator to explore a fundamental question: what does it mean to love?