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Enhanced living environments : algorithms, architectures, platforms, and systems
This open access book is the final publication of the COST Action IC1303 “Algorithms, Architectures and Platforms for Enhanced Living Environments (AAPELE)” project. Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) is an area of research based on Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), medical research, and sociological research. AAL is based on the notion that technology and science can provide im…
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- 9783030107529
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- xx, 322p. : ill.
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- 004.019 ENH e
IEA international computer and information literacy study 2018 assessment fra…
This open-access book presents the assessment framework for IEA’s International Computer an Information Literacy Study (ICILS) 2018, which is designed to assess how well students are prepared for study, work and life in a digital world. The study measures international differences in students’ computer and information literacy (CIL): their ability to use computers to investigate, create, pa…
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- 9783030193898
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- vi, 74p. : ill.
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- 028.7 INT i
Exploring resilience : a scientific journey from practice to theory
Resilience has become an important topic on the safety research agenda and in organizational practice. Most empirical work on resilience has been descriptive, identifying characteristics of work and organizing activity which allow organizations to cope with unexpected situations. Fewer studies have developed testable models and theories that can be used to support interventions aiming to increa…
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- 9783030031893
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- vi, 128p. : ill.
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- 363.11 EXP e
Disrupting finance : finTech and strategy in the 21st century
This open access Pivot demonstrates how a variety of technologies act as innovation catalysts within the banking and financial services sector. Traditional banks and financial services are under increasing competition from global IT companies such as Google, Apple, Amazon and PayPal whilst facing pressure from investors to reduce costs, increase agility and improve customer retention. Technolog…
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- 9783030023300
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- xxv, 175p. : ill.
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- 332.10285 DIS d
Sonic skills : listening for knowledge in science, medicine and engineering (…
It is common for us today to associate the practice of science primarily with the act of seeing—with staring at computer screens, analyzing graphs, and presenting images. We may notice that physicians use stethoscopes to listen for disease, that biologists tune into sound recordings to understand birds, or that engineers have created Geiger tellers warning us for radiation through sound. But …
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- 9781137598295
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- ix, 174p. ill.
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- 501.4 BIJ s
The everyday life of an algorithm
This open access book begins with an algorithm–a set of IF…THEN rules used in the development of a new, ethical, video surveillance architecture for transport hubs. Readers are invited to follow the algorithm over three years, charting its everyday life. Questions of ethics, transparency, accountability and market value must be grasped by the algorithm in a series of ever more demanding for…
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- 9783030005788
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- ix, 151p. : ill.
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- 303.483 NEY e
Introduction to a Future Way of Thought on Marx and Heidegger
"Technologists only change the world in various ways in generalized indifference; the point is to think the world and interpret the changes in its unfathomability, to perceive and experience the difference binding being to the nothing." Anticipating the age of planetary technology Kostas Axelos, a Greek-French philosopher, approaches the technological question in this book, first published in 1…
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- 9783957960054
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- 183p.
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- 193 INT i
Writing, Medium, Machine: Modern Technographies
Writing, Medium, Machine: Modern Technographies is a collection of thirteen essays by leading scholars which explores the mutual determination of forms of writing and forms of technology in modern literature. The essays unfold from a variety of historical and theoretical perspectives the proposition that literature is not less but more mechanical than other forms of writing: a transfigurative i…
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- 9781785420184
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- 223 p.
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- 809.933558 TRO w
Special topics in information technology
This open access book presents nine outstanding doctoral dissertations in Information Technology from the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy. Information Technology has always been highly interdisciplinary, as many aspects have to be considered in IT systems. The doctoral studies program in IT at Politecnico di Milano emphasizes this interdis…
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- 9783030320942
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- xiv, 131p. : ill.
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- 004.6 SPE s
Your post has been removed : tech giants and freedom of speech
This open access monograph argues established democratic norms for freedom of expression should be implemented on the internet. Moderating policies of tech companies as Facebook, Twitter and Google have resulted in posts being removed on an industrial scale. While this moderation is often encouraged by governments - on the pretext that terrorism, bullying, pornography, “hate speech” and “…
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- 9783030259686
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- xviii, 287p. : ill.
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- 323.443 FRE y
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