This book offers comparative insights into the challenges and opportunities surrounding emerging technology and the internet as it is used and perceived throughout the world, providing students with cross-cultural and cross-national perspectives.
This book, aimed at general readers, covers the entirety of computing history from antiquity to the present, placing the story of computing into the broader context of politics, economics, society, and more.
This authoritative reference work will provide readers with a complete overview of artificial intelligence (AI), including its historic development and current status, existing and projected AI applications, and present and potential future impact on the United States and the world.
A dive-right-in, quick-start guide for busy library professionals who want to build literacy, STEAM, and other 21st-century skills using simple robots in a fun, collaborative environment.
Challenging the notion that francophone literature generally valorizes a traditional, natural mode of being over a scientific, modern one, Inter-tech(s) proposes a new understanding of the relationship between France and its former colonies in Africa and the Caribbean by exploring how various postindependence authors depict technology as a mediator between them.
TEXT ONLY EBThe Sunday Times BestsellerA glorious insight into Britain over the last 150 years - its history, landscape and people - from the window of Britain's many and magnificent railway journeys.
The Sunday Times BestsellerA glorious insight into Britain over the last 150 years - its history, landscape and people - from the window of Britain's many and magnificent railway journeys.
The dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest: the search for the solution of how to calculate longitude and the unlikely triumph of an English genius.
The ideas behind Ethereum in the words of its founder, describing a radical vision for more than a digital currency-reinventing organisations, economics, and democracy itself in the age of the internet.
Wenn ein Satellit in der absoluten Schwerelosigkeit des Weltraums seine Triebwerke zunden muss, gibt es ein massives Problem: Da es kein "e;Unten"e; gibt, schwebt der flussige Raketentreibstoff als chaotische, wabernde Blase irgendwo in der Mitte des Tanks.
Einen modernen Hochgeschwindigkeitszug, der mit 300 Kilometern pro Stunde rast, kann man nicht allein mit klassischen, mechanischen Bremsbacken stoppen - die immense kinetische Energie wurde die Stahlscheiben innerhalb von Sekunden zum Schmelzen bringen.
When a nuclear reactor is refueled, the old uranium rods are no longer efficient enough to generate commercial power, but they are still intensely radioactive and generating massive amounts of "e;decay heat.
Jahrtausendelang basierte die Herstellung von Kase auf einer makabren Zutat: Lab (Chymosin), ein Enzym, das ausschlielich aus der Magenschleimhaut toter Kalber gewonnen wurde.
Wenn Sie eine teure Luxusuhr kaufen oder auf das Linsensystem eines modernen militarischen Zielsuch-Lasers blicken, schauen Sie nicht auf normales Glas.
Fur die meisten von uns ist der Geschirrspuler eine simple, fast schon banale Kiste: Man raumt dreckige Teller hinein, wirft einen Tab dazu, und spater ist alles sauber.
Buscar la simplicidad puede llevarnos a una paradoja: desear algo sencillo y facil de usar, y que al mismo tiempo sea capaz de realizar todas aquellas tareas complejas que necesitamos que haga.
