Author: Jack M. Wedam
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1503581055
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
Corporations are spying on you more than government spies ever could. Just follow the money to find out how and why. Corporations can often predict what you will do next, detect subtle changes in your mood, and essentially know what youre thinking about. Development of behavioral biometrics accelerated after 9/11. Some of the research and development was funded by the government to identify potential terrorists and protect the public. However, these technologies are now used by corporations to trample your privacy, practically read your mind, and manipulate you to enhance their profits. Verify the facts yourself. This book contains over two hundred references, including court documents, patents, official government documents, and many other sources. You can do many things to protect yourself. With your help, this book can do for Internet privacy what Ralph Naders Unsafe at Any Speed did for automobile safety.
Cunningly Smart Phones
Author: Jack M. Wedam
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1503581055
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
Corporations are spying on you more than government spies ever could. Just follow the money to find out how and why. Corporations can often predict what you will do next, detect subtle changes in your mood, and essentially know what youre thinking about. Development of behavioral biometrics accelerated after 9/11. Some of the research and development was funded by the government to identify potential terrorists and protect the public. However, these technologies are now used by corporations to trample your privacy, practically read your mind, and manipulate you to enhance their profits. Verify the facts yourself. This book contains over two hundred references, including court documents, patents, official government documents, and many other sources. You can do many things to protect yourself. With your help, this book can do for Internet privacy what Ralph Naders Unsafe at Any Speed did for automobile safety.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1503581055
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
Corporations are spying on you more than government spies ever could. Just follow the money to find out how and why. Corporations can often predict what you will do next, detect subtle changes in your mood, and essentially know what youre thinking about. Development of behavioral biometrics accelerated after 9/11. Some of the research and development was funded by the government to identify potential terrorists and protect the public. However, these technologies are now used by corporations to trample your privacy, practically read your mind, and manipulate you to enhance their profits. Verify the facts yourself. This book contains over two hundred references, including court documents, patents, official government documents, and many other sources. You can do many things to protect yourself. With your help, this book can do for Internet privacy what Ralph Naders Unsafe at Any Speed did for automobile safety.
Parenting for Peace
Author: Marcy Axness
Publisher: Sentient Publications
ISBN: 1591811767
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
This book emphasizes a mother's role in the development of the child's brain and emotional infrastructures.
Publisher: Sentient Publications
ISBN: 1591811767
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
This book emphasizes a mother's role in the development of the child's brain and emotional infrastructures.
Why Muslim Women and Smartphones
Author: Karen Waltorp
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000182649
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Using an assemblage approach to study how Muslim women in Norrebro, Denmark use their phones, Karen Waltorp examines how social media complicates the divide between public and private in relation to a group of people who find this distinction of utmost significance. Building on years of ethnographic fieldwork, Waltorp's ethnography reflects the trust and creativity of her relationships with these women which in turn open up nuanced discussions about both the subject at hand and best practice in conducting anthropological research. Combining rich ethnography with theoretical contextualization, Waltorp's book alternates between ethnography and analysis to illuminate a thoroughly modern community, and reveals the capacity of image-making technology to function as an infrastructure for seeing, thinking and engaging in fieldwork as an anthropologists. Waltorp identifies a series of important issues around anthropological approaches to new media, contributing to new debates around the anthropology of automation, data and self-tracking.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000182649
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Using an assemblage approach to study how Muslim women in Norrebro, Denmark use their phones, Karen Waltorp examines how social media complicates the divide between public and private in relation to a group of people who find this distinction of utmost significance. Building on years of ethnographic fieldwork, Waltorp's ethnography reflects the trust and creativity of her relationships with these women which in turn open up nuanced discussions about both the subject at hand and best practice in conducting anthropological research. Combining rich ethnography with theoretical contextualization, Waltorp's book alternates between ethnography and analysis to illuminate a thoroughly modern community, and reveals the capacity of image-making technology to function as an infrastructure for seeing, thinking and engaging in fieldwork as an anthropologists. Waltorp identifies a series of important issues around anthropological approaches to new media, contributing to new debates around the anthropology of automation, data and self-tracking.
The One Device
Author: Brian Merchant
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1473542545
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 467
Book Description
The secret history of the invention that changed everything and became the most profitable product in the world. Odds are that as you read this, an iPhone is within reach. But before Steve Jobs introduced us to 'the one device', as he called it, a mobile phone was merely what you used to make calls on the go. How did the iPhone transform our world and turn Apple into the most valuable company ever? Veteran technology journalist Brian Merchant reveals the inside story you won't hear from Cupertino - based on his exclusive interviews with the engineers, inventors and developers who guided every stage of the iPhone's creation. This deep dive takes you from inside 1 Infinite Loop to nineteenth-century France to WWII America, from the driest place on earth to a Kenyan pit of toxic e-waste, and even deep inside Shenzhen's notorious 'suicide factories'. It's a first-hand look at how the cutting-edge tech that makes the world work - touch screens, motion trackers and even AI - made its way into our pockets. The One Device is a road map for design and engineering genius, an anthropology of the modern age and an unprecedented view into one of the most secretive companies in history. This is the untold account, ten years in the making, of the device that changed everything.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1473542545
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 467
Book Description
The secret history of the invention that changed everything and became the most profitable product in the world. Odds are that as you read this, an iPhone is within reach. But before Steve Jobs introduced us to 'the one device', as he called it, a mobile phone was merely what you used to make calls on the go. How did the iPhone transform our world and turn Apple into the most valuable company ever? Veteran technology journalist Brian Merchant reveals the inside story you won't hear from Cupertino - based on his exclusive interviews with the engineers, inventors and developers who guided every stage of the iPhone's creation. This deep dive takes you from inside 1 Infinite Loop to nineteenth-century France to WWII America, from the driest place on earth to a Kenyan pit of toxic e-waste, and even deep inside Shenzhen's notorious 'suicide factories'. It's a first-hand look at how the cutting-edge tech that makes the world work - touch screens, motion trackers and even AI - made its way into our pockets. The One Device is a road map for design and engineering genius, an anthropology of the modern age and an unprecedented view into one of the most secretive companies in history. This is the untold account, ten years in the making, of the device that changed everything.
Cunning Machines
Author: Jędrzej Osiński
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1000046028
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
There are many myths and mistakes which make the topics of artificial intelligence complex and confusing. But the truth is that the foundations of AI are not rocket science. People do not need a PhD to understand how a basic neural network works. In fact, one does not even need computer skills to learn this. Cunning Machines: Your Pocket Guide to the World of Artificial Intelligence explains the main concepts: what does AI really mean, where do we find it, how do scientists try to evaluate it, what are its main limitations and what future we can expect with it? It also describes the most popular AI techniques in an easy-to-digest form: Artificial neural networks Genetic algorithms The Monte Carlo method Natural language processing Ontologies and their applications This book is for everyone. Still, it may be especially valuable to teachers who wish to enrich their classes with some interesting and popular topics, sales managers and business analysts who wish to better understand the IT world, and finally politicians and journalists who take part in debates on the latest technologies. Jędrzej Osiński earned a PhD in artificial intelligence, has worked on government grants and has published 14 scientific papers to date. He is also the co-author of two books. At the same time, he has over ten years of experience working in IT companies of different sizes, domains (the web, telecoms, banking, e-learning), organisation structures and locations (Poland, Ireland and the UK). He is also involved in various initiatives promoting AI, science and modern technologies including blog posts, invited talks and TV and radio appearances
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1000046028
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
There are many myths and mistakes which make the topics of artificial intelligence complex and confusing. But the truth is that the foundations of AI are not rocket science. People do not need a PhD to understand how a basic neural network works. In fact, one does not even need computer skills to learn this. Cunning Machines: Your Pocket Guide to the World of Artificial Intelligence explains the main concepts: what does AI really mean, where do we find it, how do scientists try to evaluate it, what are its main limitations and what future we can expect with it? It also describes the most popular AI techniques in an easy-to-digest form: Artificial neural networks Genetic algorithms The Monte Carlo method Natural language processing Ontologies and their applications This book is for everyone. Still, it may be especially valuable to teachers who wish to enrich their classes with some interesting and popular topics, sales managers and business analysts who wish to better understand the IT world, and finally politicians and journalists who take part in debates on the latest technologies. Jędrzej Osiński earned a PhD in artificial intelligence, has worked on government grants and has published 14 scientific papers to date. He is also the co-author of two books. At the same time, he has over ten years of experience working in IT companies of different sizes, domains (the web, telecoms, banking, e-learning), organisation structures and locations (Poland, Ireland and the UK). He is also involved in various initiatives promoting AI, science and modern technologies including blog posts, invited talks and TV and radio appearances
Finding Your Way To Heaven Without a Smartphone
Author: Joe Obidiegwu
Publisher: First Edition Design Pub.
ISBN: 1622879805
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
In efforts to understand the human being, our history, and our future, the story takes the reader through three different continents, gleaning cultural well-being and malaise of different races. The book highlights the common bond between all human races, while exploring reasons for the perceived outer differences our modern world hurtles forward, driven as it is by powerful technological engines of change, characterized by an obsessive and often idolatrous worship of intelligence, ruminative men and women all around the world ponder in the silence of their soul the fate of humanity. In the West, depression, suicide, incomprehensible mass shootings and myriad psychological disorders litter our cultural landscape, while abject poverty ravage developing nations. We have become highly intelligent beings that cannot solve our problems, yet we inhabit a natural world created out of wisdom and much of that wisdom is not reflected in our thoughts and lifestyle Modern man's obsession with intelligence and the material world has left him a stranger to spiritual things and wisdom. Consequently, humanity is left vulnerable to inexplicable and undiagnosed suffering. in an attempt to diagnose what ails modern man, this book presents a convincing and thought-provoking argument that we have forgotten who we are, and in so doing, have built a world terribly out of order with our divine nature. By walking the reader through my Nigerian upbringing and subsequent arrival in the West, I reveal some timeless wisdom that I believe can serve as a cure for some of the things that trouble us today. This inimitable book lights a path directing us again to who we truly are. It is a timely and deft clarion call to all of us. Finding Your Way to Heaven Without a Smartphone is a mixture of autobiography, cultural inquiry and philosophy. Joseph Obidiegwu, an Igbo from Nigeria, has lived on three continents. He has the necessary perspective and wisdom to look at the world's masquerade from different angles. There is no romanticization of traditional African village life, nor is there blind acceptance of the hectic to and fro of modern life on planet Smartphone. Don Burness, Ph.D. Professor of Literature at Franklin Pierce College Author of Echoes of the Sunbird and Wanasema Keywords: Inimitable, Interesting, Insightful, Autobiographical, Philosophical, Spiritual, Cultural, Thought-Provoking, Inspiring, Life-Changing
Publisher: First Edition Design Pub.
ISBN: 1622879805
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
In efforts to understand the human being, our history, and our future, the story takes the reader through three different continents, gleaning cultural well-being and malaise of different races. The book highlights the common bond between all human races, while exploring reasons for the perceived outer differences our modern world hurtles forward, driven as it is by powerful technological engines of change, characterized by an obsessive and often idolatrous worship of intelligence, ruminative men and women all around the world ponder in the silence of their soul the fate of humanity. In the West, depression, suicide, incomprehensible mass shootings and myriad psychological disorders litter our cultural landscape, while abject poverty ravage developing nations. We have become highly intelligent beings that cannot solve our problems, yet we inhabit a natural world created out of wisdom and much of that wisdom is not reflected in our thoughts and lifestyle Modern man's obsession with intelligence and the material world has left him a stranger to spiritual things and wisdom. Consequently, humanity is left vulnerable to inexplicable and undiagnosed suffering. in an attempt to diagnose what ails modern man, this book presents a convincing and thought-provoking argument that we have forgotten who we are, and in so doing, have built a world terribly out of order with our divine nature. By walking the reader through my Nigerian upbringing and subsequent arrival in the West, I reveal some timeless wisdom that I believe can serve as a cure for some of the things that trouble us today. This inimitable book lights a path directing us again to who we truly are. It is a timely and deft clarion call to all of us. Finding Your Way to Heaven Without a Smartphone is a mixture of autobiography, cultural inquiry and philosophy. Joseph Obidiegwu, an Igbo from Nigeria, has lived on three continents. He has the necessary perspective and wisdom to look at the world's masquerade from different angles. There is no romanticization of traditional African village life, nor is there blind acceptance of the hectic to and fro of modern life on planet Smartphone. Don Burness, Ph.D. Professor of Literature at Franklin Pierce College Author of Echoes of the Sunbird and Wanasema Keywords: Inimitable, Interesting, Insightful, Autobiographical, Philosophical, Spiritual, Cultural, Thought-Provoking, Inspiring, Life-Changing
Cunning Husband's Lovely Wife
Author: Qi Yueban
Publisher: Funstory
ISBN: 1648572502
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1419
Book Description
When Song Yu saw the customer, he had sneaked out. He hadn't thought that he would run into a classmate that was deliberately making things difficult for her. A man as calm as the wind and as beautiful as the moon, this was the impression she had of him. However, she didn't know that she was never simple in his heart.
Publisher: Funstory
ISBN: 1648572502
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1419
Book Description
When Song Yu saw the customer, he had sneaked out. He hadn't thought that he would run into a classmate that was deliberately making things difficult for her. A man as calm as the wind and as beautiful as the moon, this was the impression she had of him. However, she didn't know that she was never simple in his heart.
The Cunning of Uncertainty
Author: Helga Nowotny
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0745687652
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
Uncertainty is interwoven into human existence. It is a powerful incentive in the search for knowledge and an inherent component of scientific research. We have developed many ways of coping with uncertainty. We make promises, manage risks and make predictions to try to clear the mists and predict ahead. But the future is inherently uncertain - and the mist that shrouds our path an inherent part of our journey. The burning question is whether our societies can face up to uncertainty, learn to embrace it and whether we can open up to a constantly evolving future. In this new book, Helga Nowotny shows how research can thrive at the cusp of uncertainty. Science, she argues, can eventually transform uncertainty into certainty, but into certainty which remains always provisional. Uncertainty is never completely static. It is constantly evolving. It encompasses geological time scales and, at the level of human experience, split-second changes as cells divide. Life and death decisions are taken in the blink of the eye, while human interactions with the natural environment may reveal their impact over millennia. Uncertainty is cunning. It appears at unexpected moments, it shuns the straight line, takes the oblique route and sometimes the unexpected short-cut. As we acknowledge the cunning of uncertainty, its threats retreat. We accept that any scientific inquiry must produce results that are provisional and uncertain. This message is vital for politicians and policy-makers: do not be tempted by small, short-term, controllable gains to the exclusion of uncertain, high-gain opportunities. Wide-ranging in its use of examples and enriched by the author’s experience as President of the European Research Council, one of the world’s leading funding organisations for fundamental research. The Cunning of Uncertainty is a must-read for students and scholars of all disciplines, politicians, policy-makers and anyone concerned with the fundamental role of knowledge and science in our societies today.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0745687652
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
Uncertainty is interwoven into human existence. It is a powerful incentive in the search for knowledge and an inherent component of scientific research. We have developed many ways of coping with uncertainty. We make promises, manage risks and make predictions to try to clear the mists and predict ahead. But the future is inherently uncertain - and the mist that shrouds our path an inherent part of our journey. The burning question is whether our societies can face up to uncertainty, learn to embrace it and whether we can open up to a constantly evolving future. In this new book, Helga Nowotny shows how research can thrive at the cusp of uncertainty. Science, she argues, can eventually transform uncertainty into certainty, but into certainty which remains always provisional. Uncertainty is never completely static. It is constantly evolving. It encompasses geological time scales and, at the level of human experience, split-second changes as cells divide. Life and death decisions are taken in the blink of the eye, while human interactions with the natural environment may reveal their impact over millennia. Uncertainty is cunning. It appears at unexpected moments, it shuns the straight line, takes the oblique route and sometimes the unexpected short-cut. As we acknowledge the cunning of uncertainty, its threats retreat. We accept that any scientific inquiry must produce results that are provisional and uncertain. This message is vital for politicians and policy-makers: do not be tempted by small, short-term, controllable gains to the exclusion of uncertain, high-gain opportunities. Wide-ranging in its use of examples and enriched by the author’s experience as President of the European Research Council, one of the world’s leading funding organisations for fundamental research. The Cunning of Uncertainty is a must-read for students and scholars of all disciplines, politicians, policy-makers and anyone concerned with the fundamental role of knowledge and science in our societies today.
Emerging Threats and Countermeasures in Cybersecurity
Author: Gulshan Shrivastava
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1394230583
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 521
Book Description
This book is an essential resource for anyone seeking to stay ahead in the dynamic field of cybersecurity, providing a comprehensive toolkit for understanding and combating digital threats and offering practical, insightful guidance ideal for cybersecurity professionals, digital forensic investigators, legal practitioners, law enforcement, scholars, and students. In the rapidly evolving domain of digital security, this book emerges as a vital guide for understanding and addressing the sophisticated landscape of cyber threats. This in-depth volume, featuring contributions from renowned experts, provides a thorough examination of the current state and future challenges in digital security and forensic analysis. The book is meticulously organized into seven sections (excluding conclusion), each focusing on a critical aspect of cybersecurity. It begins with a comprehensive overview of the latest trends and threats in the field, setting the stage for deeper explorations in subsequent sections. Readers will gain insights into a range of topics, from the intricacies of advanced persistent threats and malware, to the security nuances of cyber-physical systems and the Internet of Things (IoT). The book covers cutting-edge topics like blockchain, cryptography, social engineering, cloud security, and data privacy, blending theory with practical case studies. It’s a practical guide for cybersecurity professionals, forensic investigators, legal practitioners, law enforcement, scholars, and students. Offering a comprehensive toolkit for combating digital threats, it’s essential for staying ahead in the fast-evolving field of cybersecurity.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1394230583
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 521
Book Description
This book is an essential resource for anyone seeking to stay ahead in the dynamic field of cybersecurity, providing a comprehensive toolkit for understanding and combating digital threats and offering practical, insightful guidance ideal for cybersecurity professionals, digital forensic investigators, legal practitioners, law enforcement, scholars, and students. In the rapidly evolving domain of digital security, this book emerges as a vital guide for understanding and addressing the sophisticated landscape of cyber threats. This in-depth volume, featuring contributions from renowned experts, provides a thorough examination of the current state and future challenges in digital security and forensic analysis. The book is meticulously organized into seven sections (excluding conclusion), each focusing on a critical aspect of cybersecurity. It begins with a comprehensive overview of the latest trends and threats in the field, setting the stage for deeper explorations in subsequent sections. Readers will gain insights into a range of topics, from the intricacies of advanced persistent threats and malware, to the security nuances of cyber-physical systems and the Internet of Things (IoT). The book covers cutting-edge topics like blockchain, cryptography, social engineering, cloud security, and data privacy, blending theory with practical case studies. It’s a practical guide for cybersecurity professionals, forensic investigators, legal practitioners, law enforcement, scholars, and students. Offering a comprehensive toolkit for combating digital threats, it’s essential for staying ahead in the fast-evolving field of cybersecurity.
Mobile Learning
Author: John Traxler
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135123659
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
Mobile Learning: The Next Generation documents the most innovative projects in context-aware mobile learning in order to develop a richer theoretical understanding of learning in modern mobile-connected societies. Context-aware mobile learning takes advantage of cell phone, mobile, and pervasive personal technologies to design learning experiences that exploit the richness of both indoor and outdoor environments. These technologies detect a learner’s presence in a particular place, the learner’s history in that place or in relation to other people and objects nearby, and adapt learning experiences accordingly, enabling and encouraging learners to use personal and social technologies to capture aspects of the environment as learning resources, and to share their reactions to them.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135123659
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
Mobile Learning: The Next Generation documents the most innovative projects in context-aware mobile learning in order to develop a richer theoretical understanding of learning in modern mobile-connected societies. Context-aware mobile learning takes advantage of cell phone, mobile, and pervasive personal technologies to design learning experiences that exploit the richness of both indoor and outdoor environments. These technologies detect a learner’s presence in a particular place, the learner’s history in that place or in relation to other people and objects nearby, and adapt learning experiences accordingly, enabling and encouraging learners to use personal and social technologies to capture aspects of the environment as learning resources, and to share their reactions to them.