Utopia Computer

Author : Bredella, Nathalie,Dähne, Chris,Lausch, Frederike
Publisher : Universitätsverlag der TU Berlin
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-31
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9783798332706

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Utopia Computer. The “New” in Architecture? by Bredella, Nathalie,Dähne, Chris,Lausch, Frederike Pdf

The critical concern of the book “Utopia Computer” is the euphoria, expectation and hope inspired by the introduction of computers within architecture in the early digital age. With the advent of the personal computer and the launch of the Internet in the 1990s, utopian ideals found in architectural discourse from the 1960s were revisited and adjusted to the specific characteristics of digital media. Taking the 1990s discourse on computation as a starting point, the contributions of this book grapple with the utopian promises associated with topics such as participation, self-organization, and non-standard architecture. By placing these topics in a historical framework, the book offers perspectives for the future role computation might play within architecture and society. Die Publikation „Utopie Computer“ thematisiert die Euphorie und die Erwartungen, die mit der Einführung des Computers in der Architektur im frühen digitalen Zeitalter verbunden sind. Mit dem Aufkommen des Personal Computers und der kommerziellen Nutzung des Internets in den 1990er Jahren werden utopische Ideen, die bereits den Architekturdiskurs der 1960er Jahre prägten, aufgegriffen und an die spezifischen Möglichkeiten der digitalen Medien angepasst. Ausgehend vom Diskurs eines computer-basierten Entwerfens der 1990er Jahre setzen sich die Beiträge dieses Buches mit Entwurfskonzepten der Nachkriegszeit auseinander. Es werden Themen wie Partizipation, Selbstorganisation oder Non-Standard-Architektur in einen historischen Kontext gesetzt und Perspektiven für die zukünftige Rolle des Computers in der Architektur und Gesellschaft entwickelt.

Author : Ajay R. Mishra
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2007-01-11
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780470057636

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Advanced Cellular Network Planning and Optimisation by Ajay R. Mishra Pdf

A highly practical guide rooted in theory to include the necessary background for taking the reader through the planning, implementation and management stages for each type of cellular network. Present day cellular networks are a mixture of the technologies like GSM, EGPRS and WCDMA. They even contain features of the technologies that will lead us to the fourth generation networks. Designing and optimising these complex networks requires much deeper understanding. Advanced Cellular Network Planning and Optimisation presents radio, transmission and core network planning and optimisation aspects for GSM, EGPRS and WCDMA networks with focus on practical aspects of the field. Experts from each of the domains have brought their experiences under one book making it an essential read for design practitioners, experts, scientists and students working in the cellular industry. Key Highlights Focus on radio, transmission and core network planning and optimisation Covers GSM, EGPRS, WCDMA network planning & optimisation Gives an introduction to the networks/technologies beyond WCDMA, and explores its current status and future potential Examines the full range of potential scenarios and problems faced by those who design cellular networks and provides advice and solutions all backed up with real-world examples This text will serve as a handbook to anyone engaged in the design, deployment, performance and business of Cellular Networks. "Efficient planning and optimization of mobile networks are key to guarantee superior quality of service and user experience. They also form the essential foundation for the success of future technology development, making this book a valuable read on the road towards 4G." —Tero Ojanperä, Chief Technology Officer, Nokia Networks

Author : Kyle Mills
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781455572335

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Robert Ludlum's (TM) The Utopia Experiment by Kyle Mills Pdf

With U.S. intelligence agencies wracked by internal power struggles and paralyzed by bureaucracy, the president has been forced to establish his own clandestine group--Covert-One. It's activated only as a last resort, when the threat is on a global scale and time is running out.The Utopia Experiment When Dresner Industries unveils the Merge, a device that is destined to revolutionize the world and make the personal computer and smartphone obsolete, Covert-One operative Colonel Jon Smith is assigned to assess its military potential. He discovers that enhanced vision, real-time battlefield displays, unbreakable security, and near-perfect marksmanship are only the beginning of a technology that will change the face of warfare forever--and one that must be kept out of the hands of America's enemies at all costs. Meanwhile, in the mountains of Afghanistan, CIA operative Randi Russell encounters an entire village of murdered Afghans--all equipped with enhanced Merge technology that even the Agency didn't know existed. As Smith and Russell delve into the circumstances surrounding the Afghans' deaths, they're quickly blocked by someone who seems to have access to the highest levels of the military--a person that even the president knows nothing about. Is the Merge really as secure as its creator claims? And what secrets about its development is the Pentagon so desperate to hide? Smith and Russell are determined to learn the truth. But they may pay for it with their lives . . .

Author : Stephen Rood
Publisher : Butterworth-Heinemann
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0750694947

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Computer Hardware Maintenance by Stephen Rood Pdf

Computer Hardware Maintenance presents the full scope and understanding of how the PC hardware maintenance function should operate and be managed in an organization, including steps involved in containing costs, keeping records, and planning the integration of the help desk function. In today's IS department too often the PC hardware maintenance function is treated as a 'necessary evil', with the understanding that eventually all equipment will have some degree of mechanical or electrical failure. This book discusses scenarios where keeping the maintenance function internal is most viable and where having it external, from a depot service, pickup and delivery, or on-site service, is most viable. Computer Hardware Maintenance concludes with brief descriptions of available third-party systems and how emerging trends in PC hardware configuration as proposed by the Desktop Management Task Force (DMTF) will have a major impact on the PC hardware maintenance function in the future.

Author : Elizabeth R. Petrick
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781421416465

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Making Computers Accessible by Elizabeth R. Petrick Pdf

The revolution in accessible computer technology was fueled by disability activism, the interactive nature of personal computers, and changing public policy. In 1974, not long after developing the first universal optical character recognition technology, Raymond Kurzweil struck up a conversation with a blind man on a flight. Kurzweil explained that he was searching for a use for his new software. The blind man expressed interest: One of the frustrating obstacles that blind people grappled with, he said, was that no computer program could translate text into speech. Inspired by this chance meeting, Kurzweil decided that he must put his new innovation to work to “overcome this principal handicap of blindness.” By 1976, he had built a working prototype, which he dubbed the Kurzweil Reading Machine. This type of innovation demonstrated the possibilities of computers to dramatically improve the lives of people living with disabilities. In Making Computers Accessible, Elizabeth R. Petrick tells the compelling story of how computer engineers and corporations gradually became aware of the need to make computers accessible for all people. Motivated by user feedback and prompted by legislation such as the Americans with Disabilities Act, which offered the promise of equal rights via technological accommodation, companies developed sophisticated computerized devices and software to bridge the accessibility gap. People with disabilities, Petrick argues, are paradigmatic computer users, demonstrating the personal computer’s potential to augment human abilities and provide for new forms of social, professional, and political participation. Bridging the history of technology, science and technology studies, and disability studies, this book traces the psychological, cultural, and economic evolution of a consumer culture aimed at individuals with disabilities, who increasingly rely on personal computers to make their lives richer and more interconnected.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2106 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Brand name products
ISBN : 0787670588

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Brands and Their Companies by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jörn Rüsen,Michael Fehr,Thomas Rieger
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 1845453042

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Thinking Utopia by Jörn Rüsen,Michael Fehr,Thomas Rieger Pdf

After the breakdown of socialist and communist systems in the East, it had become fashionable to declare the so-called "end of utopia" ("end of history," "end of narratives"). The authors of this volume do not share this view but think that it is time to rehabilitate utopian thought. The political concept of Utopia that has given its name to these transcendental projections onto the world has been too narrow to describe and analyze the moving forces of the mind perceiving human existence beyond reality. By broadening the perspectives of utopian studies, these essays enable the reader to reconstruct scholarly paradigms and strategies of utopian, complex and holistic thinking in modern cosmology, philosophy, sociology, in literary, historical and political sciences, and to compare traditions and ways of Western utopian thought to the practice in the East.

Author : Tom Moylan,Raffaella Baccolini
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 303910912X

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Utopia Method Vision by Tom Moylan,Raffaella Baccolini Pdf

This collection addresses the ways in which the contributors approach their study of the objects and practices of utopianism (understood as social anticipations and visions produced through texts and social experiments) and of how, in turn, those objects and practices have shaped their intellectual work and research perspectives.

Author : Gupta M. P.,khanna R. B.
Publisher : PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd.
Page : 772 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9788120342781

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Quantitative Techniques for Decision Making by Gupta M. P.,khanna R. B. Pdf

This thoroughly revised and well-received book, now in its Fourth Edition, continues to give an in-depth and incisive analysis of the various mathematical techniques required for managers in their decision-making process. The book provides a clear understanding of the practical utility of mathematical modelling and techniques, such as linear programming, integer programming, goal programming, dynamic programming, inventory models, decision theory, game theory, network analysis, queuing, simulation and Markov analysis, for solving real-life problems. The book lays emphasis on the practical applications of the techniques rather than their rigorous mathematical treatment. It also discusses probability and probability distributions--essential to tackling the everyday uncertainties of life. The book is primarily intended as a textbook for undergraduate and postgraduate students of management, postgraduate students of commerce, students of Master of Financial Control (MFC) course, and undergraduate students of industrial and production engineering. In addition, practising managers will also find the book immensely helpful in their day-to-day decision-making process. New to This Edition: A section describing the construction of activity on node (AON) networks for CPM and PERT networks has been included considering that most software designed for network analysis plot networks in this format. An appendix on 'Mathematics for Managers' which includes the topics of Matrix Algebra and Differential Calculus. New solved and unsolved problems.

Author : Ryosuke Fuji
Publisher : Kodansha USA
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-02
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9798889333197

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Shangri-La Frontier 14 by Ryosuke Fuji Pdf

Rakuro (aka Sunraku) and his gang are ready to tackle the Global Game Convention! They're striving to beat America's best esports team as they challenge them in a hot new fighting game-but they also need to stall for as much time as possible on the way! Megumi Natsume is going first in this team-based match, followed by Towa Amane (aka Pencilgon), a girl with a knack for dominating the games she joins. And as both teams shortly find out, giving her any sort of freedom in a game world is a very bad idea indeed…

Author : Berit Holmqvist
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0521419956

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The Computer as Medium by Berit Holmqvist Pdf

Many industrial training applications, educational applications, and of course information applications such as databases and hypermedia are all attempts to communicate, and yet we really don't know much about the computer as a communicative medium. Bringing together a collection of essays presenting such diverse theoretical approaches as general semiotics, linguistics, communication theory, literary and art criticism, sociology, and history, the editors set out to establish and elaborate the role of computer systems as a sign technology. The volume is divided into three main parts, each focused on a different field of semiotic inquiry. "Computer-Based Signs" discusses the special nature of signs produced by means of computers. "The Rhetoric of Interactive Media" deals with codes of aesthetics and composition for the new "elastic" medium of communication: interactive fiction and hypertext. "Computers in Context" analyzes computer technology in the larger cultural, historical, and organizational contexts. Scholars in computer science, cognitive science, organization theory, information and media science, semiotics, communication, and linguistics will find this book invaluable, and as current excitement about hypermedia and electronic books continues to grow, a broader audience including computer artists and literary critics will also find it a useful resource.

Author : Yuriko Furuhata
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478022435

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Climatic Media by Yuriko Furuhata Pdf

In Climatic Media, Yuriko Furuhata traces climate engineering from the early twentieth century to the present, emphasizing the legacies of Japan’s empire building and its Cold War alliance with the United States. Furuhata boldly expands the scope of media studies to consider technologies that chemically “condition” Earth’s atmosphere and socially “condition” the conduct of people, focusing on the attempts to monitor and modify indoor and outdoor atmospheres by Japanese scientists, technicians, architects, and artists in conjunction with their American counterparts. She charts the geopolitical contexts of what she calls climatic media by examining a range of technologies such as cloud seeding and artificial snowflakes, digital computing used for weather forecasting and weather control, cybernetics for urban planning and policing, Nakaya Fujiko’s fog sculpture, and the architectural experiments of Tange Lab and the Metabolists, who sought to design climate-controlled capsule housing and domed cities. Furuhata’s transpacific analysis offers a novel take on the elemental conditions of media and climate change.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1578 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Educational law and legislation
ISBN : UCAL:B3605621

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Hearings, Reports and Prints of the House Committee on Education and Labor by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Education
ISBN : UCR:31210018002301

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Alternative Futures in American Education by Anonim Pdf

Author : Michael Miller
Publisher : Que Publishing
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0789731754

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Absolute Beginner's Guide to Computer Basics by Michael Miller Pdf

From CD burners to digital cameras and PDAs, this non-technical, illustrated book shows new computers users how to set up their computer hardware, find their way around the Windows XP desktop, learn to use essential software programs, and get connected to and start using the Internet.