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Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. In a world where artificial intelligence increasingly influences the fabric of our daily lives, this accessible book offers a critical examination of AI and its deep entanglement with power structures. Rather than focusing on doomsday scenarios, it emphasise...

Unlock the future of programming on the Ethereum blockchain with Solidity smart contracts Explore and learn smart contract development on the Ethereum blockchain with Beginning Solidity: Learn to Program Smart Contracts with Solidity by Alexandros Dolgov. This book is a guide to taking your first steps and becoming ...

If you're a web designer or app developer interested in sophisticated page styling, improved accessibility, and less time and effort expended, this book is for you. This revised fifth edition provides a comprehensive guide to CSS implementation along with a thorough review of the latest CSS specifications. Authors E...

This open access book presents the concept of Informed Machine Learning and demonstrates its practical use with a compelling collection of applications of this paradigm in industrial and business use cases. These range from health care over manufacturing and material science to more advanced combinations with deep l...

Are you looking for Steve Job's 10 Rules of Success? Here is the story of Steve Jobs… the MAN, the LEGEND, the Apple Founder… He was a genius who gave the world access to technology that is still changing the world. To this day, his greatest accomplishment is the iPhone and still is. Taken away too soon, his legacy ...

Perfect for home learning, this visual guide to computers, the Internet, and social media uses step-by-step diagrams and graphics to explore how kids can get the most from computers while staying safe. Covering everything from data to digital life, from computer coding to cyber attacks, this unique guide gives paren...

Using the factor analysis of information risk (FAIR) methodology developed over ten years and adopted by corporations worldwide, Measuring and Managing Information Risk provides a proven and credible framework for understanding, measuring, and analyzing information risk of any size or complexity. Intended for organi...

This open access book will address the unique requirements and technological tools for analysis of data across the lifespan, from childhood through advanced age. Topics such as sepsis, hospital-acquired infections, mental health, health equity, precision medicine, large language models and generative artificial inte...

Why the race to apply AI in psychiatry is so dangerous, and how to understand the new tech-driven psychiatric paradigm. AI psychiatrists promise to detect mental disorders with superhuman accuracy, provide affordable therapy for those who can’t afford or can’t access treatment, and even invent new psychiatric drugs....

How a form of play becomes a sport: players, agents, referees, leagues, tournaments, sponsorships, and spectators, and the culture of professional computer game play. Competitive video and computer game play is nothing new: the documentary King of Kong memorably portrays a Donkey Kong player's attempts to achieve th...

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What it would mean if ordinary human intelligence were enhancedーor overtakenーby artificial intelligence? The idea that human history is approaching a “singularity”ーthat ordinary humans will someday be overtaken by artificially intelligent machines or cognitively enhanced biological intelligence, or bothーhas move...

As programmers, we’ve all seen source code that’s so ugly and buggy it makes our brain ache. Over the past five years, authors Dustin Boswell and Trevor Foucher have analyzed hundreds of examples of "bad code" (much of it their own) to determine why they’re bad and how they could be improved. Their conclusion? You n...

A step-by-step guide to the qualitative research process that “can be understood by beginners . . . informative and interesting” (Choice). Qualitative Data is meant for the novice researcher who needs guidance on what specifically to do when faced with a sea of information. It takes readers through the qualitative r...

Up-to-date coverage of every topic on the CEH v11 exam Thoroughly updated for CEH v11 exam objectives, this integrated self-study system offers complete coverage of the EC-Council’s Certified Ethical Hacker exam. In this new edition, IT security expert Matt Walker discusses the latest tools, techniques, and exploits...