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Beyond numbers and demographics: "experience-near" explorations of the digital divide
Adams R. ACM SIGCAS Computers and Society 31(3): 5-8, 2001. Type: Article
The focus of the September 2001 issue of Computers and Society, the newsletter of the ACM’s special interest group on computers and society, is the digital divide. It contains three papers on this topic, which were als...
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Jun 26 2002 |
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Technology fountainheads
Corey E., Harvard Business School Press, Boston, MA, 1996. Type: Book (9780875847238)
A book about research and development (R&D) consortia may not appeal to a wide audience beyond economists, entrepreneurs, or perhaps political scientists. However, there are some interesting nuggets to be found here, which reve...
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Sep 1 1997 |
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Pianos not stereos
Resnick M., Bruckman A., Martin F. interactions 3(5): 40-50, 1996. Type: Article
This brief, popular introduction to the latest offerings of the MIT Media Lab continues in the tradition of Seymour Papert’s important work on Logo [1], with typical claims for a massive transformation of ...
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Mar 1 1997 |
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Windows on the workplace
Greenbaum J. (ed), Monthly Review Press, New York, NY, 1995. Type: Book (9780853459019)
Greenbaum has written a book that is at once an excellent brief history of the computerization of the office; a cautionary tale about unsubstantiated claims and the marginalization of workers, primarily women; and a call for serious po...
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Feb 1 1997 |
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War of the worlds
Slouka M., Basic Books, Inc., New York, NY, 1995. Type: Book (9780465004867)
This brief, passionately argued book follows in the tradition of such critics as Jacques Ellul, Joseph Weizenbaum, Langdon Winner, Theodore Roszak, and Neil Postman. To say that Slouka, a lecturer in literature and culture at the Unive...
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Jun 1 1996 |
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Realizing the information future
, National Academy Press, Washington, DC, 1994. Type: Book (9780309050449)
This timely book provides important technical information and valuable recommendations useful in penetrating the ever-increasing dust clouds generated by the information highway public relations machine. In 1988, the Computer Science a...
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Feb 1 1996 |
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Intelligent behaviour in animals and robots
McFarland D., Bösser T., MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1993. Type: Book (9780262132930)
Some 47 years ago, MIT Press and John Wiley & Sons published an important book by Norbert Wiener, whose title, Cybernetics or control and communication in the animal and the machine [1], closely parallels that of the boo...
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Apr 1 1995 |
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In our own image
Caudill M., Oxford University Press, Inc., New York, NY, 1992. Type: Book (9780195073386)
What is the intended audience for this book? If it is the technically aware, especially in such areas as artificial intelligence (AI) or connectionism, the book may arouse such feelings as anger, impatience, and concern, and even stir ...
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Jan 1 1994 |
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Knowledge systems design
Debenham J., Prentice-Hall, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1989. Type: Book (9789780135164280)
Debenham makes few concessions to the casual reader. His book does not purport to ease the interested company into building an expert system using a commercially available shell or special-purpose high-level language. It does not go on...
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Nov 1 1990 |
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Artificial intelligence and expert systems: case studies in the knowledge domain of archaeology
Gardin J., Halsted Press, New York, NY, 1988. Type: Book (9789780470212202)
Expert systems (ES), which are the primary and by far the most widespread application area of artificial intelligence (AI), continue to find new domains to conquer. This book presents six case studies in classical archeology, one in me...
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Mar 1 1990 |
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