The Digital Ape

Author : Sir Nigel Shadbolt,Roger Hampson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-03
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780190932992

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The Digital Ape by Sir Nigel Shadbolt,Roger Hampson Pdf

The smart-machines revolution is reshaping our lives and our societies. Here, Sir Nigel Shadbolt, one of the world's leading authorities on artificial intelligence, and Roger Hampson dispel terror, confusion, and misconception. We are not about to be elbowed aside by a rebel army of super-intelligent robots of our own creation. We were using tools before we became Homo sapiens, and will continue to build and master them, no matter how complicated they become. How we exercise that control--in our private lives, in employment, in politics--and make the best of the wonderful opportunities, will determine our collective future well-being. Chapter by chapter, The Digital Ape outline how our choices and the use and adaptation of the tools we've created can lead to opportunities for the environment (both built and natural), health, and our security. Shadbolt and Hampson are uniquely well-suited to draw on historical precedent and technical know-how to offer a vision of the future that is exciting, rather than nerve-wracking, to contemplate.

Author : Michael Lenox
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781503635760

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Strategy in the Digital Age by Michael Lenox Pdf

Digital transformation is much more than building a digital infrastructure to gather and process data. It is about understanding how digital technologies enable the creation of innovative services and products. It is about identifying new competitive positions and business models and thinking critically about how to both create and capture value. Strategy in the Digital Age directly engages these concerns and provides a comprehensive roadmap for planning a successful digital strategy and executing a digital transformation in organizations. Covering major topics such as big tech, data analytics, artificial intelligence, blockchain, cryptocurrency, autonomy, cybersecurity, data privacy, and antitrust, strategy expert Michael Lenox outlines a set of novel, original frameworks to help those undertaking digital transformation at their organization devise their strategy. Readers will also come away with a greater understanding of how to navigate the human dimension of digital transformation and tackle the numerous social and policy challenges raised by digital technology. With insights from major companies such as Spotify, Facebook, and Uber, Lenox delivers a compelling volume that offers both a foundational understanding of this dynamic environment and an action plan for those seeking a path to digital strategy implementation for their organization.

Author : Lisa Purse
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780748646913

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Digital Imaging in Popular Cinema by Lisa Purse Pdf

To what extent has cinema been transformed by the advent of digital imaging? Have digital solutions to production challenges begun to change our experience of films, and their characters, action and narratives? And what impact does the inclusion of digital imaging in the film frame have on our interpretation and analysis of film texts?Digital Imaging in Popular Cinema explores these issues through analysis of specific film moments and extended case studies of films including Minority Report, King Kong, 300 and Hugo. It discusses how digital imaging can mimic, transform, shape and generate both fantastical and mundane objects and phenomena from scratch, and what the implications are for how we 'read' films, and explores how cultural ideas about digital imaging can influence meaning within a film, a scene or even a single shot.The increasingly widespread use of digital imaging in cinema means that we can no longer afford to ignore it when critically analysing and interpreting film texts. This innovative and engaging book provides a blueprint for approaching digital imaging in contemporary film, and is therefore essential reading for all those working in the field of Film Studies.

Author : Mathias Risse
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781009255219

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Political Theory of the Digital Age by Mathias Risse Pdf

This book investigates how artificial intelligence might influence our political practices and ideas, and how we should respond.

Author : John D. Newell
Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-13
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780323795029

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Developing the Digital Lung by John D. Newell Pdf

Reflecting recent major advances in the field of artificial intelligence, Developing the Digital Lung, From First Lung CT to Clinical AI, by Dr. John Newell, is your go-to reference for all aspects of applied artificial intelligence in lung disease development, including application to clinical medicine. It provides a unique overview of the field, beginning with a review of the origins of artificial intelligence in the mid-1970s and progressing to its application to clinical medicine in the early 2020s. Organized based on the four stages of development, this practical, easy-to-use resource helps you effectively apply artificial intelligences to lung imaging. Traces the development of precise quantitative CT of diffuse lung disease through the use of applied AI, leading to faster effective diagnosis of patients with lung disease. Reviews CT manufacturers, models and scanning protocol used to produce the 3D digital maps of the lungs. Discusses how the data processed by AI algorithms can produce measures of emphysema, air trapping, and airway wall thickening in subjects with COPD and measures of pulmonary fibrosis and traction bronchiectasis in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). Demonstrates the differences between reactive machine AI and limited memory AI methods. Includes comprehensive case studies and current information on cloud computing.

Author : Chris Stansel
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798852920621

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The Analog Ape by Chris Stansel Pdf

Has digital technology become a problem in our lives? Well, it must at least be a concern or else you wouldn't be reading this blurb. But not to worry, this book isn't about shaming your habits, quite the opposite actually. The carefully orchestrated digital realm many of us now live in is built on pitting ourselves... against ourselves. On the surface we have the digital mask, a façade that obscures our view and makes us believe we're capable of non-stop productivity, infinite learning, and the perfect life. Behind the mask, we have our flawed, innate, humanness-an object of shame in the modern world. But only in understanding and accepting the confusing mess we call being human can we finally rip off that suffocating digital mask for good and become an "Analog Ape." As we embark on the digital minimalism quest together, I hope this companion guide can help lead you through many of the roadblocks I encountered on my own journey toward making digital technology a tool again, and not a lifestyle. Our approach will be focused on harnessing the secret power of our humanity-a power our ancestors understood well-and reincorporating it into our lives. And by the end of this process, we may not be perfect. But we will be whole.

Author : Richard Klaw
Publisher : Tachyon Publications
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781616961411

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The Apes of Wrath by Richard Klaw Pdf

In the Rue Morgue, the jungles of Tarzan, the fables of Aesop, and outer space, the apes in these seventeen fantastic tales boldly go where humans dare not. Including a foreword from Rupert Wyatt, the director of Rise of the Planet of the Apes, this provocative anthology delves into our fascination with and fear of our simian cousins. “Evil Robot Monkey” introduces a disgruntled chimp implanted with a chip that makes him cleverer than both his cohort and humans alike. In “Murders in the Rue Morgue,” a murder mystery unravels with the discovery of a hair that does not appear quite human. Merging steampunk with slapstick, “The Ape-Box Affair” has a not-so-ordinary orangutan landing on Earth in a spherical flying ship—where he is promptly mistaken for an alien. King Kong sets a terrible example with booze and Barbie dolls in “Godzilla’s 12-Step Program.” If you’ve ever wondered what makes humans different from apes, soon you’ll be asking yourself, is it even less than we think?

Author : Guy Kawasaki,Shawn Welch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0988523108

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APE, Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur by Guy Kawasaki,Shawn Welch Pdf

APE’s thesis is powerful yet simple: filling the roles of Author, Publisher and Entrepreneur yields results that rival traditional publishing.

Author : Robbins Burling
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2007-03-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191509186

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The Talking Ape by Robbins Burling Pdf

In this mind-opening book, Robbins Burling presents the most convincing - and the most readable - account of the origins of language yet published. He sheds new light on how language affects the way we think, behave, and relate to each other, and he gives us a deeper understanding of the nature of language itself. The author traces language back to its earliest origins among our distant ape-like forbears several million years ago. He offers a new account of the route by which we acquired our defining characteristic and explores the changing nature of language as it developed through the course of our evolution. He considers what the earliest forms of communication are likely to have been, how they worked, and why they were deployed. He examines the qualities of mind and brain needed to support the operations of language and the advantages they offered for survival and reproduction. He investigates the beginnings and prehistories of vocabulary and grammar; and connects work in fields extending from linguistics, sign languages, and psychology to palaeontology, evolutionary biology, and archaeology. And he does all this in a style that is crystal-clear, constantly enlivened by wit and humour.

Author : Alan Walker,Pat Shipman
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0674016750

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The Ape in the Tree by Alan Walker,Pat Shipman Pdf

Detailing the unfolding discovery of a crucial link in our evolution, this book is written in the voice of Walker, whose involvement with Proconsul began when his graduate supervisor analyzed the tree-climbing adaptations in the arm and hand of this extinct creature. Today, Proconsul is the best-known fossil ape in the world.

Author : Susan Kralovansky
Publisher : Super Sandcastle
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1624032877

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Monkey Or Ape? by Susan Kralovansky Pdf

Some types of animals look alike but they are not the same! Monkey or Ape? explores the stealthy differences between the two animals. Kids will learn to look at their size, their tails, how they walk, where the live and more. Simple sentences and eye-catching photographs will keep kids engaged. Fun facts will help them learn new things. Step-by-step animal crafts help kids demonstrate what they have discovered with this fun title. Aligned to Common Core standards and correlated to state standards. Super Sandcastle is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

Author : International Association for Analog Computation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1256 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Electronic analog computers
ISBN : UOM:39015023106233

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AICA by International Association for Analog Computation Pdf

Author : John Sorenson
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781861897466

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Ape by John Sorenson Pdf

Apes—to look at them is to see a mirror of ourselves. Our close genetic relatives fascinate and unnerve us with their similar behavior and social personality. Here, John Sorenson delves into our conflicted relationship to the great apes, which often reveals as much about us as humans as it does about the apes themselves. From bonobos and chimpanzees to gibbons, gorillas, and orangutans, Ape examines the many ways these remarkable animals often serve as models for humans. Anthropologists use their behavior to help explain our fundamental human nature; scientists utilize them as subjects in biomedical research; and behavioral researchers experiment with ways apes emulate us. Sorenson explores the challenges to the complex division between apes and ourselves, describing language experiments, efforts to cross-foster apes by raising them as human children, and the ethical challenges posed by the Great Ape Project. As well, Ape investigates representations of apes in popular culture, particularly films and advertising in which apes are often portrayed as human caricatures, monsters, and clowns. Containing nearly one hundred illustrations of apes in nature and culture, Ape will appeal to readers interested in animal-human relationships and anyone curious to know more about our closest animal cousins, many of whom teeter on the brink of extinction.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Computer simulation
ISBN : UOM:39076000308184

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Simulation by Anonim Pdf

Author : Andrew Keen
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780802192318

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The Internet Is Not the Answer by Andrew Keen Pdf

The renowned Internet commentator and author of How to Fix the Future“expos[es] the greed, egotism and narcissism that fuels the tech world” (Chicago Tribune). The digital revolution has contributed to the world in many positive ways, but we are less aware of the Internet’s deeply negative effects. The Internet Is Not the Answer, by longtime Internet skeptic Andrew Keen, offers a comprehensive look at what the Internet is doing to our lives. The book traces the technological and economic history of the Internet, from its founding in the 1960s through the rise of big data companies to the increasing attempts to monetize almost every human activity. In this sharp, witty narrative, informed by the work of other writers, reporters, and academics, as well as his own research and interviews, Keen shows us the tech world, warts and all. Startling and important, The Internet Is Not the Answer is a big-picture look at what the Internet is doing to our society and an investigation of what we can do to try to make sure the decisions we are making about the reconfiguring of our world do not lead to unpleasant, unforeseen aftershocks. “Andrew Keen has written a very powerful and daring manifesto questioning whether the Internet lives up to its own espoused values. He is not an opponent of Internet culture, he is its conscience, and must be heard.” —Po Bronson, #1 New York Times–bestselling author