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What algorithms want : imagination in the age of computing
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ISBN: 9780262035927 9780262536042 9780262338837 0262338831 0262035928 0262536048 9780262338844 026233884X Year: 2017 Publisher: Cambridge The MIT Press

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We depend on -- we believe in -- algorithms to help us get a ride, choose which book to buy, execute a mathematical proof. It's as if we think of code as a magic spell, an incantation to reveal what we need to know and even what we want. Humans have always believed that certain invocations -- the marriage vow, the shaman's curse -- do not merely describe the world but make it. Computation casts a cultural shadow that is shaped by this long tradition of magical thinking. In this book, Ed Finn considers how the algorithm -- in practical terms, a method for solving a problem -- has its roots not only in mathematical logic but also in cybernetics, philosophy, and magical thinking. Finn argues that the algorithm deploys concepts from the idealized space of computation in a messy reality, with unpredictable and sometimes fascinating results. Drawing on sources that range from Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash to Diderot's Encyclopedie, from Adam Smith to the Star Trek computer, Finn explores the gap between theoretical ideas and pragmatic instructions. He examines the development of intelligent assistants like Siri, the rise of algorithmic aesthetics at Netflix, Ian Bogost's satiric Facebook game Cow Clicker, and the revolutionary economics of Bitcoin. He describes Google's goal of anticipating our questions, Uber's cartoon maps and black box accounting, and what Facebook tells us about programmable value, among other things.If we want to understand the gap between abstraction and messy reality, Finn argues, we need to build a model of algorithmic reading and scholarship that attends to process, spearheading a new experimental humanities.Bron : http://www.bol.com


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Imagining transmedia
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ISBN: 0262377500 0262377519 0262547430 Year: 2024 Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press,

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"A collection of essays from the Center for Science and the Imagination that combines theory and practice for a critical assesment of the transmedia landscape"--


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Hieroglyph : stories and visions for a better future
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ISBN: 9780062204691 9780062204714 Year: 2014 Publisher: New York : William Morrow,

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Frankenstein, or, The modern Prometheus : annotated for scientists, engineers, and creators of all kinds
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ISBN: 0262340267 0262533286 0262340259 0262340275 9780262340267 9780262340274 9780262533287 Year: 2017 Publisher: Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press,

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This new critical edition of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein was developed by leading scholars for aspiring scientists, engineers, and medical professionals. This unique framing will make this a core text in promoting and enhancing interdisciplinary dialogue on the nature, roles, and responsibilities of scientists and engineers in society. To be published in time for the 2018 bicentennial of its original publication, this edition will be produced in print and as an enhanced e-book. The e-book will contain the full text of the novel (in the public domain) plus all of the substantial scholarly material that was commissioned and developed for this new edition, including essays by leading scholars, and will be most valuable to students and teachers of ethics. Digital features will include include reader annotation, bookmarking, and multimedia content.

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Frankenstein : or, the modern Prometheus : annotated for scientists, engineers, and creators of all kinds
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ISBN: 9780262340250 Year: 2017 Publisher: Cambridge, MA ; London MIT Press

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