The ascent of information :
Author
Format:
Books
Physical Description
340 pages ; 24 cm
Production / Publication Information
New York : Riverhead Books, 2021.
Summary
"Your information has a life of its own, and it's using you to get what it wants. One of the most peculiar and possibly unique features of humans is the vast amount of information we carry outside our biological selves. But in our rush to build the infrastructure for the 20 quintillion bits we create every day, we've failed to ask exactly why we're expending ever-increasing amounts of energy, resources, and human effort to maintain all this data. Drawing on deep ideas and frontier thinking in evolutionary biology, computer science, information theory, and astrobiology, Caleb Scharf argues that information is, in a very real sense, alive. All the data we create-all of our emails, tweets, selfies, A.I.-generated text and funny cat videos-amounts to an aggregate lifeform. It has goals and needs. It can control our behavior and influence our well-being. And it's an organism that has evolved right alongside us. This symbiotic relationship with information offers a startling new lens for looking at the world. Data isn't just something we produce; it's the reason we exist. This powerful idea has the potential to upend the way we think about our technology, our role as humans, and the fundamental nature of life. The Ascent of Information offers a humbling vision of a universe built of and for information. Scharf explores how our relationship with data will affect our ongoing evolution as a species. Understanding this relationship will be crucial to preventing our data from becoming more of a burden than an asset, and to preserving the possibility of a human future"--
Call Number
003.54 SCH
Publication Date
2021
Language
English
ISBN
9780593087244
Deep learning for beginners :
Author
Format:
Books
Physical Description
174 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Production / Publication Information
[Place of publication not identified] : Data Science , [2018]
Summary
If you are looking for a complete beginners guide to learn deep learning with examples, in just a few hours, then you need to continue reading. This book delves into the basics of deep learning for those who are enthusiasts concerning all things machine learning and artificial intelligence. For those who have seen movies which show computer systems taking over the world like, Terminator, or benevolent systems that watch over the population, i.e. Person of Interest, this should be right up your alley.
Call Number
006.312 COO
Publication Date
2018
Language
English
ISBN
9783903331464 9781725065277
A mind at play :
Author
Format:
Books
Physical Description
xv, 366 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Production / Publication Information
New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, 2017.
Summary
"The life and times of one of the foremost intellects of the twentieth century: Claude Shannon--the architect of the Information Age, whose insights stand behind every computer built, email sent, video streamed, and webpage loaded. Claude Shannon was a groundbreaking polymath, a brilliant tinkerer, and a digital pioneer. He constructed a fleet of customized unicycles and a flamethrowing trumpet, outfoxed Vegas casinos, and built juggling robots. He also wrote the seminal text of the digital revolution, which has been called 'the Magna Carta of the Information Age.' His discoveries would lead contemporaries to compare him to Albert Einstein and Isaac Newton. His work anticipated by decades the world we'd be living in today--and gave mathematicians and engineers the tools to bring that world to pass. In this elegantly written, exhaustively researched biography, Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman reveal Claude Shannon's full story for the first time. It's the story of a small-town Michigan boy whose career stretched from the era of room-sized computers powered by gears and string to the age of Apple. It's the story of the origins of our digital world in the tunnels of MIT and the 'idea factory' of Bell Labs, in the 'scientists' war' with Nazi Germany, and in the work of Shannon's collaborators and rivals, thinkers like Alan Turing, John von Neumann, Vannevar Bush, and Norbert Wiener. And it's the story of Shannon's life as an often reclusive, always playful genius. With access to Shannon's family and friends, A Mind at Play brings this singular innovator and creative genius to life."--Jacket.
Call Number
B SHANNON
Publication Date
2017
Language
English
ISBN
9781476766683 9781476766690
by
Driver, Lee
Format:
eAudiobook
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Libby
by
Finlayson, James Gordon
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eBook
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Libby
The discoveries :
Author
Format:
Books
Physical Description
xviii, 553 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Edition
First edition
Production / Publication Information
New York : Pantheon Books, c2005.
Call Number
509 LIG
Publication Date
2005
Language
English
ISBN
9780375421686
by
Jetten, Jolanda
Format:
eBook
Electronic Format:
HTML, ADOBE EPUB, KINDLE
Vendor
Libby
Gale Academic OneFile Select
Format:
Books
System details note
Mode of access: Remote access through World Wide Web.
Production / Publication Information
[Farmington Hills, Mich.] : Gale Group, [c1999]-
Summary
Expanded Academic ASAP contains citations and many full-text articles on current events, general sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Designed primarily to support undergraduate-level research, the database is useful to anyone seeking information on these topics. Journal coverage is from 1994 to the present, and backfiles (1980-1993) are available for some journals.
Call Number
ONLINE
Publication Date
1999-2024
Language
English
by
Edwards, John
Format:
eBook
Electronic Format:
HTML, ADOBE EPUB, KINDLE
Vendor
Libby
by
Petersen, James C.
Format:
eBook
Electronic Format:
HTML, ADOBE EPUB, KINDLE
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Libby
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