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Computer A History of the Information Machine

Computer A History of the Information Machine

Computer: A History of the Information Machine traces the history of the computer and its unlimited information-processing potential. Comprehensive and accessibly written this fully updated fourth edition adds new chapters on the globalization of information technology the rise of social media fake news and the gig economy and the regulatory frameworks being put in place to tame the ubiquitous computer. Computer is an insightful look at the pace of technological advancement and the seamless way computers are integrated into the modern world. The authors examine the history of the computer including the first steps taken by Charles Babbage in the nineteenth century and how wartime needs and the development of electronics led to the giant ENIAC the first electronic computer. For a generation IBM dominated the computer industry. In the 1980s the desktop PC liberated people from room-sized mainframe computers. Next laptops and smartphones made computers available to half of the world’s population leading to the rise of Google and Facebook and powerful apps that changed the way we work consume learn and socialize. The volume is an essential resource for scholars and those studying computer history technology history and information and society as well as a range of courses in the fields of computer science communications sociology and management. | Computer A History of the Information Machine

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Philosophy through Computer Science An Introduction

Philosophy through Computer Science An Introduction

What do philosophy and computer science have in common? It turns out quite a lot! In providing an introduction to computer science (using Python) Daniel Lim presents in this book key philosophical issues ranging from external world skepticism to the existence of God to the problem of induction. These issues and others are introduced through the use of critical computational concepts ranging from image manipulation to recursive programming to elementary machine learning techniques. In illuminating some of the overlapping conceptual spaces of computer science and philosophy Lim teaches readers fundamental programming skills and allows them to develop the critical thinking skills essential for examining some of the enduring questions of philosophy. Key Features Teaches readers actual computer programming not merely ideas about computers Includes fun programming projects (like digital image manipulation and Game of Life simulation) allowing the reader to develop the ability to write larger computer programs that require decomposition abstraction and algorithmic thinking Uses computational concepts to introduce clarify and develop a variety of philosophical issues Covers various aspects of machine learning and relates them to philosophical issues involving science and induction as well as to ethical issues Provides a framework to critically analyze arguments in classic and contemporary philosophical debates | Philosophy through Computer Science An Introduction

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Choosing and Keeping Computer Staff Recruitment Selection and Development of Computer Personnel

Choosing and Keeping Computer Staff Recruitment Selection and Development of Computer Personnel

This clear and detailed analysis first published in 1976 of recruitment methods staff development techniques staff motivation and organisational structures will be valuable to data processing managers and personnel officers alike. Its practical flavour and real understanding will also be welcomed by general management. The guidelines and detailed checklists will help cut the direct costs of recruiting and the often astonishingly high indirect costs of rapid staff turnover. | Choosing and Keeping Computer Staff Recruitment Selection and Development of Computer Personnel

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Integrating Computer Science Across the Core Strategies for K-12 Districts

Integrating Computer Science Across the Core Strategies for K-12 Districts

Integrating Computer Science Across the Core is a guide to systematizing computer science and computational thinking practices in your school. While most books explain how to teach computer science as a stand-alone discipline this innovative approach will help you leverage your existing curriculum to deepen and expand students’ learning experiences in all content areas. Effective equitable and sustainable this blueprint provides principals curriculum directors directors of technology and other members of your school or district leadership team with suggested organizational structures tips for professional learning and key resources like planning instruments. | Integrating Computer Science Across the Core Strategies for K-12 Districts

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Electoral Survey Methodology Insight from Japan on using computer assisted personal interviews

Electoral Survey Methodology Insight from Japan on using computer assisted personal interviews

While it has been some time since computer technologies were first introduced to social surveys their methodological advantages as well as potential limitations are not yet fully appreciated by the relevant communities of scholars mass media and governmental organizations. What can computer-assisted surveys do which ordinary paper and pencil interviews (PAPI) can never do? How does the usage of computer technology affect the quality of survey process and of collected data? More generally what are the issues pertinent to the methodology of public opinion inquiry that are now revealed by the availability of computer-assisted surveying technique? The book seeks to address these questions systematically with each individual chapter providing a well-focused analysis and ample evidence from Japan. As the computer-assisted survey is bound to be more dominant in the coming years this book provides an important foundation for future academic studies as well as their practical applications in the field. | Electoral Survey Methodology Insight from Japan on using computer assisted personal interviews

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Novice Programming Environments Explorations in Human-Computer Interaction and Artificial Intelligence

Novice Programming Environments Explorations in Human-Computer Interaction and Artificial Intelligence

This book originally published in 1992 encapsulates ten years of research at the Open University’s Human Cognition Research Laboratory. The research investigates the problems of novice programmers and is strongly oriented toward the design and implementation of programming environments aimed at eliminating or easing novices’ problems. A range of languages is studied: Pascal SOLO Lisp Prolog and Knowledge Engineering Programming. The primary emphasis of the empirical studies is to gain some understanding of novices’ mental models of the inner workings of computers. Such (erroneous) models are constructed by novices in their own heads to account for the idiosyncrasies of particular programming languages. The primary emphasis of the implementations described in the book is the provision of automatic debugging aids i. e. artificial intelligence programs which can analyse novices’ buggy programs and make sense of them thereby providing useful advice for the novices. Another related strand taken in some of the work is the concept of pre-emptive design i. e. the provision of tools such as syntax-directed editors and graphical tracers which help programmers avoid many frequently-occurring errors. A common thread throughout the book is its Cognitive Science/Artificial Intelligence orientation. AI tools are used for instance to construct simulation models of subjects writing programs in order to provide insights into what their deep conceptual errors are. At the other extreme AI programs which were developed in order to help student debug their programs are observed empirically in order to ensure that they provide facilities actually needed by real programmers. This book will be of great interest to advanced undergraduate postgraduate and professional researchers in Cognitive Science Artificial Intelligence and Human-Computer Interaction. | Novice Programming Environments Explorations in Human-Computer Interaction and Artificial Intelligence

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Friendship and Technology A Philosophical Approach to Computer Mediated Communication

Friendship and Technology A Philosophical Approach to Computer Mediated Communication

This book explores the nature of technology – participatory media in particular – and its effects on our friendships and our fundamental sense of togetherness. Situating the notion of friendship in the modern era the author examines the possibilities and challenges of technology on our friendships. Taking a media ecology approach to interpersonal communication she looks at issues around phenomenology recognition of friends as unique hermeneutics in a digital world and mediated communication social dimensions of time and space and communication ethics. Examining friendship as a communicative phenomenon and exploring the ways in which it is created sustained managed produced and reproduced this book will be relevant to scholars and students of interpersonal communication mediated communication communication theory and philosophy and media ecology. This book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4. 0 license. https://www. taylorfrancis. com/books/mono/10. 4324/9781003188810/friendship-technology-tiffany-petricini | Friendship and Technology A Philosophical Approach to Computer Mediated Communication

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How to Teach Poetry Writing: Workshops for Ages 8-13 Developing Creative Literacy

How to Teach Poetry Writing: Workshops for Ages 8-13 Developing Creative Literacy

This fully revised and extended third edition of How to Teach Poetry Writing: Workshops for Ages 8–13 is a practical and activity-based resource of writing workshops to help you teach poetry. Designed to build writing reading speaking and listening skills this new edition contains a widened selection of workshops exemplifying a variety of poetry styles both classic and contemporary. Highlighting how the unique features of poetry can be used to teach literary skills this book: includes new workshops which introduce or consolidate spelling punctuation and grammar skills; encourages debate discussion performance and empathy; offers a new focus on confidence building and creativity using performance rhythm rhyme and rap; explores the use of poetry for vocabulary enhancement; encourages reading for pleasure; provides an A to Z guide to poetry and poetry terminology plus a very extensive bibliography enabling you to keep up to date with poetry and poetry resources; represents diverse cultures; highlights cross-curricular links. Promoting creativity achievement mastery and enjoyment How to Teach Poetry Writing: Workshops for Ages 8–13 provides teachers with a wealth of material and the inspiration to create a class of enthusiastic and skilled readers writers listeners and performers. | How to Teach Poetry Writing: Workshops for Ages 8-13 Developing Creative Literacy

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Design for Fragility 13 Stories of Humanitarian Architects

Design for Fragility 13 Stories of Humanitarian Architects

The demand is now urgent for architects to respond to the design and planning challenges of rebuilding cities and landscapes being destroyed by civil conflict (un)natural disasters political instability and poverty. The number of people fleeing their homes and being displaced by such conflict now totals almost 100 million. Despite the massive human and physical costs of these crises the number of architects planners and landscape architects equipped to work with disaster and development professionals in rebuilding in the aftermath of conflict floods fires earthquakes typhoons and tsunamis remains chronically low. Design for Fragility expands the nascent but rapidly growing field of humanitarian architecture by exploring 13 design responses to such conflict and displacement across 11 countries including Australia Bangladesh Fiji India Iran Pakistan and the USA. Linked to this displacement is the systemic poverty that often lingers from previous colonial territories and eras in which many of the featured projects in the book are located. This book follows Charlesworth’s Humanitarian Architecture: 15 Stories of Architects Working After Disasters (Routledge 2014) which analysed the role for architects in exercising ‘spatial agency’ while designing shelter and settlement projects for communities after conflict and disaster. Since that time the humanitarian architecture movement has expanded globally with the prominence of design agencies including the MASS Design Group and Architecture Sans Frontières (ASF) International. Design for Fragility analyses this role of spatial agency in architecture by addressing diverse conditions of fragility across 13 built projects – from refugee housing in Uganda and an orphanage for teenage girls in Iran to a residential centre in Northern Australia for people with acquired brain injury. Each of the projects profiled in this book explore: The experiences and perceptions of fragility – or precarity – that provided a design challenge and directed the particular spatial response. The specific typology of the project whether that be a housing health children’s or a First Nations project. The personal values that influenced the architects to work on humanitarian/community projects and how consultation occurred with diverse and often contested project stakeholders. The experiences of the design team as well as project managers occupants and donors of the built project exploring what they deemed successful about the project and what if any were its limitations. Beautifully designed with over 150 illustrations this practical and inspiring book is for architects landscape architects design educators humanitarian and development aid agencies that are involved or seeking to be part of future disaster mitigation and reconstruction strategies and projects globally. | Design for Fragility 13 Stories of Humanitarian Architects

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Planning For Computing In Higher Education Proceedings Of The 1979 Educom Fall Conference

Planning For Computing In Higher Education Proceedings Of The 1979 Educom Fall Conference

This volume addresses planning for the use of computing and information resources on college and university campuses. The contributors consider computer applications in the areas of instruction research and administration and analyze these from the viewpoints of faculty administrators and computer center directors. One focus of the book which | Planning For Computing In Higher Education Proceedings Of The 1979 Educom Fall Conference

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The Industrialization of Intelligence Mind and Machine in the Modern Age

The Industrialization of Intelligence Mind and Machine in the Modern Age

Originally published in 1989 The Industrialization of Intelligence is a spirited blend of the principles of social science and computer technology. Critically praised in the United States and England by leading lights both literary and technological it develops an original and provocative model of the interplay between computer systems and social systems. Noah Kennedy has composed a compelling story from key episodes in the development of the computer and coupled it with a probing analysis of the true role of automation in modem society. The result firmly plants computer technology in the soil of western culture and denies the shrill claims that the information age represents a sudden break with the historical past. He starts with biographical vignettes from the lives of five pivotal thinkers weaving their crucial insights into the larger fabric of contemporary and future society. He then gives a provocative forecast of the role of artificial intelligence in future society and examines the probable impact of new computer technologies on employment and on the relationships between nations. The result is a reasoned understanding of our imminent future through a thoughtful analysis of our historical past. | The Industrialization of Intelligence Mind and Machine in the Modern Age

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Generative Systems Art The Work of Ernest Edmonds

Generative Systems Art The Work of Ernest Edmonds

In this unique book the author explores the history of pioneering computer art and its contribution to art history by way of examining Ernest Edmonds’ art from the late 1960s to the present day. Edmonds’ inventions of new concepts tools and forms of art along with his close involvement with the communities of computer artists constructive artists and computer technologists provides the context for discussion of the origins and implications of the relationship between art and technology. Drawing on interviews with Edmonds and primary research in archives of his work the book offers a new contribution to the history of the development of digital art and places Edmonds’ work in the context of contemporary art history. | Generative Systems Art The Work of Ernest Edmonds

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Emotion in Animated Films

Emotion in Animated Films

Ranging from blockbuster movies to experimental shorts or documentaries to scientific research computer animation shapes a great part of media communication processes today. Be it the portrayal of emotional characters in moving films or the creation of controllable emotional stimuli in scientific contexts computer animation’s characteristic artificiality makes it ideal for various areas connected to the emotional: with the ability to move beyond the constraints of the empirical real world animation allows for an immense freedom. This book looks at international film productions using animation techniques to display and/or to elicit emotions with a special attention to the aesthetics characters and stories of these films and to the challenges and benefits of using computer techniques for these purposes. | Emotion in Animated Films

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Qualitative Computing: Using Software for Qualitative Data Analysis

Qualitative Computing: Using Software for Qualitative Data Analysis

As qualitative researchers incorporate computer assistance into their analytic approaches important questions arise about the adoption of new technology. Is it worth learning computer-assisted methods? Will the pay-off be sufficient to justify the investment? Which programs are worth learning? What are the effects on the analysis process? This book complements the existing literature by giving a detailed account of the use of four major programs in analyzing the same data. Priority is given to the tasks of qualitative analysis rather than to program capability and the programs are treated as tools rather than as a discipline to be acquired. The key is not what the programs allow researcher to do but whether the tasks that researchers need to undertake are facilitated by the software. Thus the study develops a user-centred approach to the adoption of computer-assisted qualitative data analysis. The author emphasises qualitative analysis as a creative craft but one which must increasingly be subject to rigorous methodological scrutiny. The adoption of computer-aided methods offers opportunities but also dangers and ultimately this book is about the scientific qualitative research. Written in a distinctive and succinct style this book will be valuable to social science researchers and students interested in qualitative research and in the potential for computer-assisted analysis. | Qualitative Computing: Using Software for Qualitative Data Analysis

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Computerization in Developing Countries Model and Reality

Computerization in Developing Countries Model and Reality

Originally published in 1991 this book looks at the problems of applying Western computer programmes to the developing world arguing that the difficulties are as much cultural as technological. The author shows that the underlying models for computer applications are made up from interpretations of reality which are closely related to Western scientific technological and cultural development originating from the Renaissance. The book includes a case study of an Egyptian manufacturing company which reveals the actual problems encountered in the process of computerization. | Computerization in Developing Countries Model and Reality

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Coding Robotics and Engineering for Young Students A Tech Beginnings Curriculum (Grades Pre-K-2)

Coding Robotics and Engineering for Young Students A Tech Beginnings Curriculum (Grades Pre-K-2)

Coding Robotics and Engineering for Young Students builds foundational computer science and robotics skills and knowledge in bright Pre-K-grade 2 students. Originally developed as enrichment courses for Northwestern University's Center for Talent Development this curriculum emphasizes active hands-on and collaborative learning. Students are challenged to learn computer science content such as coding and robotics and engineering concepts as well as practice high-level academic skills such as creative problem solving computational thinking and critical thinking. Instructional practices balance screen time with active collaborative classroom engagement. Learning is deepened when students are challenged to navigate the transition from a virtual learning environment to a tangible learning environment. The lessons can be implemented as standalone enrichment experiences or as part of a coordinated scope and sequence that leads to higher level computer science and engineering studies. Grades Pre-K-2 | Coding Robotics and Engineering for Young Students A Tech Beginnings Curriculum (Grades Pre-K-2)

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Computational Thinking in Education A Pedagogical Perspective

Computational Thinking in Education A Pedagogical Perspective

Computational Thinking in Education explores the relevance of computational thinking in primary and secondary education. As today’s school-aged students prepare to live and work in a thoroughly digitized world computer science is providing a wealth of new learning concepts and opportunities across domains. This book offers a comprehensive overview of computational thinking its history implications for equity and inclusion analyses of competencies in practice and integration into learning instruction and assessment through scaffolded teacher education. Computer science education faculty and pre- and in-service educators will find a fresh pedagogical approach to computational thinking in primary and secondary classrooms. | Computational Thinking in Education A Pedagogical Perspective

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Computing in Organizations Myth and Experience

Computing in Organizations Myth and Experience

Is any image in modern times more evocative of social change than the computer? Popular mythology ascribes extraordinary powers to computers in the ordering of human affairs. Computers are seen as instruments of social transformation and economic change. Indeed it is hard not to find computers in the modern workplace let alone in the home. They are ubiquitous in government offices businesses large and small alike the school and not-for-profit organizations. In this meticulously researched study of computers and computing authors James B. Rule Debra Gimlin and Sylvia Sievers present a fascinating entertaining and thought-provoking survey of the use of what may be the most powerful tool in today's workplace. In the chapter entitled The New York Study: Design and Execution the authors describe their inspiration for the undertaking of their study how they designed their research methods and how they obtained funding for the project. In the chapter What Computers Do; How Computing Changes case studies involving businesses that adopted greater computer usage are described and the authors explain how the new technology was employed for their benefit. In Employment and Efficiency time saving and cost-effectiveness qualities of computer technology are explored. And in Management and Structure the authors posit the role of the computer in organizational transformation. Computing in Organizations is a timely and relevant work and will prove of great benefit to strategic consultants business management personnel sociologists and students of information technology. | Computing in Organizations Myth and Experience

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Digital Research Methods for Translation Studies

Digital Research Methods for Translation Studies

Digital Research Methods for Translation Studies introduces digital humanities methods and tools to translation studies. This accessible book covers computer-assisted approaches to data collection data analysis and data visualization and presentation offering authentic examples of these approaches in both translation studies research and projects from related fields. With a diverse range of examples featuring various contexts and language combinations to ensure relevance to a wide readership this volume covers the strengths and limitations of computer-assisted research methods as well as the ethical challenges specific to this kind of research. This is an essential text for advanced undergraduate and graduate translation studies students as well as researchers looking to adopt new research methods.

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