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Computational Power

The Impact of ICT on Law, Society and Knowledge

by Massimo Durante ...

Series series Antinomies
We delegate more and more decisions and tasks to artificial agents, machine-learning mechanisms, and algorithmic procedures or, in other words, to computational systems. Not that we are driven by powerful ambitions of colonizing the Moon, replacing humans with legions of androids, creating sci-fi scenarios à la Matrix or masterminding some sort of Person of Interest-like Machine. No, the current ... Read more

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We delegate more and more decisions and tasks to artificial agents, machine-learning mechanisms, and algorithmic procedures or, in other words, to computational systems. Not that we are driven by powerful ambitions of colonizing the Moon, replacing humans with legions of androids, creating sci-fi scenarios à la Matrix or masterminding some sort of Person of Interest-like Machine. No, the current
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Ethics, Law and the Politics of Information

A Guide to the Philosophy of Luciano Floridi

by Massimo Durante ...

Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
This book provides a detailed discussion of the theoretical and practical implications of the change driven by ICTs. Such a change is often much more profound than an emphasis on information technology and society can capture, for not only does it bring about ethical and policy vacuums that call for a new understanding of ethics, politics and law, but it also “re-ontologizes reality”, as ... Read more

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This book provides a detailed discussion of the theoretical and practical implications of the change driven by ICTs. Such a change is often much more profound than an emphasis on information technology and society can capture, for not only does it bring about ethical and policy vacuums that call for a new understanding of ethics, politics and law, but it also “re-ontologizes reality”, as
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A Girl's Life Online

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Katherine Tarbox was thirteen when she met twenty-three-year-old "Mark" in an online chat room. A top student and nationally ranked swimmer attending an elite school in an affluent Connecticut town, Katie was also a lonely and self-conscious eighth-grader who craved the attention her workaholic parents couldn't give her. "Mark" seemed to understand her; he told her she was smart and wonderful. ... Read more

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Katherine Tarbox was thirteen when she met twenty-three-year-old "Mark" in an online chat room. A top student and nationally ranked swimmer attending an elite school in an affluent Connecticut town, Katie was also a lonely and self-conscious eighth-grader who craved the attention her workaholic parents couldn't give her. "Mark" seemed to understand her; he told her she was smart and wonderful.
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Scrolling Forward

Making Sense of Documents in the Digital Age

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Like Henry Petroski’s The Pencil, David Levy’s Scrolling Forward takes a common, everyday object, the document, and illuminates what it reveals about us, both in the past and in the digital age.We are surrounded daily by documents of all kinds-letters and credit card receipts, business memos and books, television images and web pages-yet we rarely stop to reflect on their significance. Now, in ... Read more

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Like Henry Petroski’s The Pencil, David Levy’s Scrolling Forward takes a common, everyday object, the document, and illuminates what it reveals about us, both in the past and in the digital age.We are surrounded daily by documents of all kinds-letters and credit card receipts, business memos and books, television images and web pages-yet we rarely stop to reflect on their significance. Now, in
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How to Be a Successful MOOC Student

by Maggie Sokolik, Dorothy Zemach ...

MOOCs – Massive Open Online Courses – enable students around the world to take university courses online. This guide, by the instructors of edX’s most successful MOOC in 2013-2014, Principles of Written English (based on both enrollments and rate of completion), advises current and future students how to get the most out of their online study, covering areas such as what types of courses are ... Read more

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MOOCs – Massive Open Online Courses – enable students around the world to take university courses online. This guide, by the instructors of edX’s most successful MOOC in 2013-2014, Principles of Written English (based on both enrollments and rate of completion), advises current and future students how to get the most out of their online study, covering areas such as what types of courses are
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Programming Social Applications

Building Viral Experiences with OpenSocial, OAuth, OpenID, and Distributed Web Frameworks

by Jonathan LeBlanc ...

Social networking has made one thing clear: websites and applications need to provide users with experiences tailored to their preferences. This in-depth guide shows you how to build rich social frameworks, using open source technologies and specifications. You'll learn how to create third-party applications for existing sites, build engaging social graphs, and develop products to host your own ... Read more

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Social networking has made one thing clear: websites and applications need to provide users with experiences tailored to their preferences. This in-depth guide shows you how to build rich social frameworks, using open source technologies and specifications. You'll learn how to create third-party applications for existing sites, build engaging social graphs, and develop products to host your own
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Digital Era Governance

IT Corporations, the State, and e-Government

by Patrick Dunleavy, Helen Margetts, Simon Bastow, Jane Tinkler ...

Government information systems are big business (costing over 1 per cent of GDP a year). They are critical to all aspects of public policy and governmental operations. Governments spend billions on them - for instance, the UK alone commits £14 billion a year to public sector IT operations. Yet governments do not generally develop or run their own systems, instead relying on private sector computer ... Read more

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Government information systems are big business (costing over 1 per cent of GDP a year). They are critical to all aspects of public policy and governmental operations. Governments spend billions on them - for instance, the UK alone commits £14 billion a year to public sector IT operations. Yet governments do not generally develop or run their own systems, instead relying on private sector computer
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Digital-Forensics and Watermarking

12th International Workshop, IWDW 2013, Auckland, New Zealand, October 1-4, 2013. Revised Selected Papers

Edited by Fernando Pérez-González, Yun Qing Shi, Hyoung-Joong Kim ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Digital-Forensics and Watermarking, IWDW 2013, held in Auckland, New Zealand, during October 2013. The 24 full and 13 poster papers, presented together with 2 abstracts, were carefully reviewed and selected from 55 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on steganography and ... Read more

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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Digital-Forensics and Watermarking, IWDW 2013, held in Auckland, New Zealand, during October 2013. The 24 full and 13 poster papers, presented together with 2 abstracts, were carefully reviewed and selected from 55 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on steganography and
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Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence. Sensing, Processing, and Using Environmental Information

9th International Conference, UCAmI 2015, Puerto Varas, Chile, December 1-4, 2015, Proceedings

Edited by Juan M. García-Chamizo, Giancarlo Fortino, Sergio F. Ochoa ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence, UCAmI 2015, held in Puerto Varas, Chile, in December 2015.The 36 full papers presented together with 11 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 62 submissions. The papers are grouped in topical sections on adding intelligence for environment adaption; ... Read more

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence, UCAmI 2015, held in Puerto Varas, Chile, in December 2015.The 36 full papers presented together with 11 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 62 submissions. The papers are grouped in topical sections on adding intelligence for environment adaption;
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Augmented Reality Art

From an Emerging Technology to a Novel Creative Medium

Edited by Vladimir Geroimenko ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
This is the second edition of the first ever book to explore the exciting new field of augmented reality art and its enabling technologies. The new edition has been thoroughly revised and updated, and contains 5 new chapters. As well as investigating augmented reality as a novel artistic medium the book covers cultural, social, spatial and cognitive facets of augmented reality art.Intended as a ... Read more

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This is the second edition of the first ever book to explore the exciting new field of augmented reality art and its enabling technologies. The new edition has been thoroughly revised and updated, and contains 5 new chapters. As well as investigating augmented reality as a novel artistic medium the book covers cultural, social, spatial and cognitive facets of augmented reality art.Intended as a
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Blogistan

The Internet and Politics in Iran

by Annabelle Sreberny, Gholam Khiabany ...

The protests unleashed by Iran's disputed presidential election in June 2009 brought the Islamic Republic's vigorous cyber culture to the world's attention. Iran has an estimated 700,000 bloggers, and new media such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube were thought to have played a key role in spreading news of the protests. The internet is often celebrated as an agent of social change in countries ... Read more

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The protests unleashed by Iran's disputed presidential election in June 2009 brought the Islamic Republic's vigorous cyber culture to the world's attention. Iran has an estimated 700,000 bloggers, and new media such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube were thought to have played a key role in spreading news of the protests. The internet is often celebrated as an agent of social change in countries
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Passive and Active Measurement

19th International Conference, PAM 2018, Berlin, Germany, March 26–27, 2018, Proceedings

Edited by Robert Beverly, Georgios Smaragdakis, Anja Feldmann ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Passive and Active Measurement, PAM 2018, held in Berlin, Germany, in March 2018.The 20 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 50 submissions. The papers demonstrate the import and extent to which measurements pervade systems – from protocols to performance to security. They are ... Read more

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This book constitutes the proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Passive and Active Measurement, PAM 2018, held in Berlin, Germany, in March 2018.The 20 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 50 submissions. The papers demonstrate the import and extent to which measurements pervade systems – from protocols to performance to security. They are
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