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Author : C. Stewart Gillmor
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 686 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0804749140
Terman was widely hailed as the magnet that drew talent together into what became known as Silicon Valley."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Richard Snow
Publisher : Scribner
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781501190810
A propulsive and “entertaining” (The Wall Street Journal) history chronicling the conception and creation of the iconic Disneyland theme park, as told like never before by popular historian Richard Snow. One day in the early 1950s, Walt Disney stood looking over 240 acres of farmland in Anaheim, California, and imagined building a park where people “could live among Mickey Mouse and Snow White in a world still powered by steam and fire for a day or a week or (if the visitor is slightly mad) forever.” Despite his wealth and fame, exactly no one wanted Disney to build such a park. Not his brother Roy, who ran the company’s finances; not the bankers; and not his wife, Lillian. Amusement parks at that time, such as Coney Island, were a generally despised business, sagging and sordid remnants of bygone days. Disney was told that he would only be heading toward financial ruin. But Walt persevered, initially financing the park against his own life insurance policy and later with sponsorship from ABC and the sale of thousands and thousands of Davy Crockett coonskin caps. Disney assembled a talented team of engineers, architects, artists, animators, landscapers, and even a retired admiral to transform his ideas into a soaring yet soothing wonderland of a park. The catch was that they had only a year and a day in which to build it. On July 17, 1955, Disneyland opened its gates…and the first day was a disaster. Disney was nearly suicidal with grief that he had failed on a grand scale. But the curious masses kept coming, and the rest is entertainment history. Eight hundred million visitors have flocked to the park since then. In Disney’s Land, “Snow brings a historian’s eye and a child’s delight, not to mention superb writing, to the telling of this fascinating narrative” (Ken Burns) that “will entertain Disneyphiles and readers of popular American history” (Publishers Weekly).
Author : Rebecca S. Lowen
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1997-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0520917901
The "cold war university" is the academic component of the military-industrial-academic complex, and its archetype, according to Rebecca Lowen, is Stanford University. Her book challenges the conventional wisdom that the post-World War II "multiversity" was created by military patrons on the one hand and academic scientists on the other and points instead to the crucial role played by university administrators in making their universities dependent upon military, foundation, and industrial patronage. Contesting the view that the "federal grant university" originated with the outpouring of federal support for science after the war, Lowen shows how the Depression had put financial pressure on universities and pushed administrators to seek new modes of funding. She also details the ways that Stanford administrators transformed their institution to attract patronage. With the end of the cold war and the tightening of federal budgets, universities again face pressures not unlike those of the 1930s. Lowen's analysis of how the university became dependent on the State is essential reading for anyone concerned about the future of higher education in the post-cold war era.
Author : Marc Rothenberg
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 637 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9780815307624
Annotation This Encyclopedia examines all aspects of the history of science in the United States with a special emphasis placed on the historiography of science in America. Contains more than 500 entries written by experts in the field.
Author : James E. Dobson
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-04
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781452968872
A revealing genealogy of image-recognition techniques and technologies Today’s most advanced neural networks and sophisticated image-analysis methods come from 1950s and ’60s Cold War culture—and many biases and ways of understanding the world from that era persist along with them. Aerial surveillance and reconnaissance shaped all of the technologies that we now refer to as computer vision, including facial recognition. The Birth of Computer Vision uncovers these histories and finds connections between the algorithms, people, and politics at the core of automating perception today. James E. Dobson reveals how new forms of computerized surveillance systems, high-tech policing, and automated decision-making systems have become entangled, functioning together as a new technological apparatus of social control. Tracing the development of a series of important computer-vision algorithms, he uncovers the ideas, worrisome military origins, and lingering goals reproduced within the code and the products based on it, examining how they became linked to one another and repurposed for domestic and commercial uses. Dobson includes analysis of the Shakey Project, which produced the first semi-autonomous robot, and the impact of student protest in the early 1970s at Stanford University, as well as recovering the computer vision–related aspects of Frank Rosenblatt’s Perceptron as the crucial link between machine learning and computer vision. Motivated by the ongoing use of these major algorithms and methods, The Birth of Computer Vision chronicles the foundations of computer vision and artificial intelligence, its major transformations, and the questionable legacy of its origins. Cover alt text: Two overlapping circles in cream and violet, with black background. Top is a printed circuit with camera eye; below a person at a 1977 computer.
Author : Lynn Eden
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0801435781
Whole World on Fire focuses on a technical riddle wrapped in an organizational mystery: How and why, for more than half a century, did the U.S. government fail to predict nuclear fire damage as it drew up plans to fight strategic nuclear war?U.S. bombing in World War II caused massive fire damage to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but later war plans took account only of damage from blast; they completely ignored damage from atomic firestorms. Recently a small group of researchers has shown that for modern nuclear weapons the destructiveness and lethality of nuclear mass fire often--and predictably--greatly exceeds that of nuclear blast. This has major implications for defense policy: the U.S. government has underestimated the damage caused by nuclear weapons, Lynn Eden finds, and built far more warheads, and far more destructive warheads, than it needed for the Pentagon's war-planning purposes. How could this have happened? The answer lies in how organizations frame the problems they try to solve. In a narrative grounded in organization theory, science and technology studies, and primary historical sources (including declassified documents and interviews), Eden explains how the U.S. Air Force's doctrine of precision bombing led to the development of very good predictions of nuclear blast--a significant achievement--but for many years to no development of organizational knowledge about nuclear fire. Expert communities outside the military reinforced this disparity in organizational capability to predict blast damage but not fire damage. Yet some innovation occurred, and predictions of fire damage were nearly incorporated into nuclear war planning in the early 1990s. The author explains how such a dramatic change almost happened, and why it did not. Whole World on Fire shows how well-funded and highly professional organizations, by focusing on what they do well and systematically excluding what they don't do well, may build a poor representation of the world--a self-reinforcing fallacy that can have serious consequences. In a sweeping conclusion, Eden shows the implications of the analysis for understanding such things as the sinking of the Titanic, the collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, and the poor fireproofing in the World Trade Center.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : India
ISBN : UCAL:B3076082
Author : Charles Dorn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:C3495918
Author : R P Meena
Publisher : GRASP IAS
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Target PT 2020 in 100 days: UPSC Prelims: day 46-60 MCQs The first stage of UPSC Civil Service Examination is Preliminary Examination. The pattern of the examination is objective type, where you need to select the correct answer using the four options given. In such a pattern students tends to fall into the trap of confusion and anxiety and choose wrong answer. In order to avoid doing such kind of mistake is to practice multiple choice questions as many as possible. To be thorough with a particular topic one must solve as many mcqs as possible this will not only make the concepts more firm but will also boost confidence .This UPSC Prelims pdf consists of around 400-500 free mcqs of Indian Economy for UPSC Prelims. These important mcqs for IAS Prelims are developed by keeping UPSC prelims syllabus in mind. This will make your preparation a full proof one. This UPSC study material of Indian Economy mcqs covers not only static topics but also current events. Solving these mcqs will give you an added advantage and will help you in the examination .This will ensure that you don’t succumb to the pressure of the examination hall and clear this examination with vibrant colors. PT 2020 in 100 days: UPSC Prelims: day 16-30 MCQs.
Author : Andrew Arsan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781787381094
Lebanon seems a country in the grip of permanent crisis. In recent years it has suffered blow after blow, from Rafiq Hariri's assassination in 2005, to the 2006 July War, to the current Syrian conflict, which has brought a million refugees streaming into the country. This is an account not just of Lebanon's high politics, with its endless rows, walk-outs, machinations and foreign alliances, but also of the politics of everyday life: all the stresses and strains the country's inhabitants face, from electricity black-outs and uncollected rubbish to stagnating wages and property bubbles. Andrew Arsan moves between parliament and the public squares where protesters gather, between luxury high-rises and refugee camps, and between expensive nightclubs and seafront promenades, providing a comprehensive view of Lebanon in the twenty-first century. Where others have treated Lebanon's woes as exceptional, a by-product of its sectarianism and particular vulnerability to regional crises, Arsan argues that there is nothing particular about Lebanon's predicament. Rather, it is a country of the age--one of neoliberal economics, populist fervor, forced displacement, rising xenophobia, and public disillusion. Lebanon, in short, offers us a lens through which to look on our times.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1990-05-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015018854524
As millions of people have been exposed to computing through the tremendous growth of microcomputers, there has developed an increasing appreciation of the history of data processing, which dates back many decades before the arrival of the computer. Stretching back to at least the 1860s, such early technologies as adding machines, punch cards, and the office appliance industry are now being recognized for their place in the history of the information processing industry. This work brings together a comprehensive list of sources that offer a general introduction to the literature of the industry. Divided into nine chapters covering topics and historical periods, the bibliography provides an annotated list of published materials describing both the history of the industry and significant items of general interest. Each chapter is introduced with a short review of historically important issues and comments on the literature, and contains contemporary publications as well as more recent material. To give the work a continuing usefulness, ongoing publications, such as computer magazines, are highlighted. Entries are grouped under nearly 100 subheadings, covering such material as contemporary descriptions of hardware and software of the past, seminal technical papers, industry surveys, programming languages, significant individuals and companies, and the role of Japan and microcomputing. All citations are annotated with a brief summary of either the work's contents or its historical importance, while two indexes provide both subject references and author citations. This bibliography will be an important reference source for courses in the history of data processing and business history, and a useful addition to public, college, and university libraries.
Author : Jay P. Pederson
Publisher : International Directory of Com
Page : 730 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2003-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : PSU:000049753363
Multi-volume major reference work bringing together histories of companies that are a leading influence in a particular industry or geographic location. For students, job candidates, business executives, historians and investors.
Author : Sri Gaddam
Publisher : Morgan James Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-15
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781683503880
Destination Success is a fable told for anyone that wakes up, and heads to work wondering if there is more to life. Do you feel professionally unfulfilled? If you do, you are not alone. There is an army of people that look and act just like you. And if that describes you, then this story will be one of hope, if only to inspire you to survey your life, and make the necessary changes to elevate it. Together, we can manifest great change in your life. Winston Churchill said, “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” Our story will be one of courage—the courage to take great risk to find great reward.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Somerset Publishing
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105060546277
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1530 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : American literature
ISBN : UCD:31175014728086
