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Acapella Publishing, March 1995. Trade Paperback. Not just for the technically minded, this is a book that will benefit anyone who wants the best possible music reproduction for the least money.
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MIT Press, April 2026. Trade Paperback. How tech companies, journalists, and policymakers can prevent AI decision-making from going wrong. Our lives are increasingly governed by automated systems influencing everything from medical care to policing to employment opportunities, but researchers and investigative journalists have proven that AI systems regularly get things.....
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MIT Press, August 2021. Trade Paperback. A concise primer on machine learning--computer programs that learn from data and the basis of applications like voice recognition and driverless cars. No in-depth knowledge of math or programming required! Today, machine learning underlies a range of applications we use every day, from product.....
PAMPHLET. Produced by Bell Telephone System, this instructional pamphlet (est. publishing in the later 40s/early 50's) details the history of the telephone, as well as the science and infrastructure behind the national and global telephone systems. Produced by Bell Telephone System, this instructional pamphlet (est. publishing in the later 40s/early.....
US Naval Institute Press, June 1978. Trade Paperback.
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MIT Press (MA), October 2008. Hardcover. Some annotating, highlighting, and dog-earing. Some annotating, highlighting, and dog-earing. Digital media and network technologies are now part of everyday life. The Internet has become the backbone of communication, commerce, and media; the ubiquitous mobile phone connects us with others as it removes us.....
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W. W. Norton & Company, February 2025. Trade Paperback. Literary Theory for Robots reveals the hidden history of modern machine intelligence, taking readers on a spellbinding journey from medieval Arabic philosophy to visions of a universal language, past Hollywood fiction factories and missile defense systems trained on Russian folktales. In.....
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Simon & Schuster, September 2018. Trade Paperback. Soon to be a major motion picture, this is the first--and only--definitive authorized account of Neil Armstrong, the man whose "one small step" changed history. When Apollo 11 touched down on the Moon's surface in 1969, the first man on the Moon became.....
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Oxford University Press, USA, October 1992. Hardcover. From Arnold Schwarzenegger's Terminator, to C-3PO of the Star Wars trilogy, to the comic robot-butler in Woody Allen's Sleeper, the "android" has long been a familiar figure on the American imaginative landscape. But how far removed from reality are such fictitious creations? Will.....
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Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, May 2015. Trade Paperback. Television is the last mass medium to be disrupted by the Internet. Given the intricacies of the industry, it's also going to be the most resistant to change. Alan Wolk, an industry veteran and longtime analyst and observer, lays out how the.....
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Wiley, February 2012. Hardcover. The Internet didn't kill TV! It has become its best friend. Americans are watching more television than ever before, and we're engaging online at the same time we're tuning in. Social media has created a new and powerful "backchannel", fueling the renaissance of live broadcasts. Mobile.....
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MIT Press, March 2019. Trade Paperback. An accessible introduction to 3D printing that outlines the additive manufacturing process, industrial and household markets, and emerging uses. The use of 3D printing--digitally controlled additive manufacturing--is growing rapidly. Consumer models of 3D printers allow people to fabricate small plastic objects, from cabinet knobs.....
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W. W. Norton & Company, March 2020. Trade Paperback. Nicholas Carr's bestseller The Shallows has become a foundational book in one of the most important debates of our time: As we enjoy the internet's bounties, are we sacrificing our ability to read and think deeply? This 10th-anniversary edition includes a......
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John Wiley & Sons, February 2003. Trade Paperback. * Covers techniques for using all of these programs together. * Meets an existing need since Apple doesn't include manuals for this software. * Helps readers take their skills to the next level. * Explains how to use Apple's "i" software with.....
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Random House Publishing Group, November 2024. Trade Paperback. NATIONAL BESTSELLER - "The conscience of the AI revolution" (Fortune) explains how we've arrived at an era of AI harms and oppression, and what we can do to avoid its pitfalls. "AI is not coming, it's here. If we answer the beautiful.....
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W. W. Norton & Company, November 2024. Trade Paperback. Some of humanity's mightiest engineering achievements are small in scale--and, without them, the complex machinery on which our modern world runs would not exist. In Nuts and Bolts, structural engineer Roma Agrawal examines seven of these extraordinary elements: the nail, the.....
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Picador, May 2024. Trade Paperback. "Unsettling, absolutely riveting, and--for better or worse--necessary reading." --Brian Christian, author of Algorithms to Live By and The Alignment Problem An entertaining account of the philosophy and technology of hacking--and why we all need to understand it. It's a signal paradox of our times that.....
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W. W. Norton & Company, October 2021. Trade Paperback. Today's "machine-learning" systems, trained by data, are so effective that we've invited them to see and hear for us--and to make decisions on our behalf. But alarm bells are ringing. Recent years have seen an eruption of concern as the field.....
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Simon & Schuster, February 2024. Hardcover. Instant New York Times Bestseller From award-winning journalist Kara Swisher comes a witty, scathing, but fair accounting of the tech industry and its founders who wanted to change the world but broke it instead. "Swisher, the bad-ass journalist and OG chronicler of Silicon Valley...takes.....
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The MIT Press, April 2020. Trade Paperback. This overview of the ethical issues raised by artificial intelligence moves beyond hype and nightmare scenarios to address concrete questions--offering a compelling, necessary read for our ChatGPT era. Artificial intelligence powers Google's search engine, enables Facebook to target advertising, and allows Alexa and.....
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Little, Brown and Company, September 2023. Hardcover. "The most important book to read about the AI boom" (Wired): The "gripping" (New Yorker) true story of the first time machines came for human jobs--and how the Luddite uprising explains the power, threat, and toll of big tech and AI today Named.....
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Simon & Schuster, February 2020. Trade Paperback. Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster. Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster. A New York Times Best Book of the Year A Time Best Book of the Year A Kirkus Reviews.....
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Icon Books, November 2013. Hardcover.
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University of California Press, March 1994. Paperback.
FARRAR, STRAUS & CUDAHY. Hardcover. Everything and the Kitchen Sink: How the First Century of Industry Created Our First Century of Good Living. Everything and the Kitchen Sink: How the First Century of Industry Created Our First Century of Good Living.
