Thema Technikgeschichte – alle Bücher, Seite 4

Sabrina Lausen
Mensch-Maschine-Verhältnisse

Mensch-Maschine-Verhältnisse bestimmen mehr denn je den Alltag. Auf das Spannungsfeld zwischen Mensch und Maschine, Kultur und Technik geht die Autorin in diesem Buch ein. Sie erläutert die Wahrnehmung vo…

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Claire Le Goues
Try Turning It Off and on Again

A fun and fact-filled guide for anyone who has ever wondered why a technology that runs virtually every aspect of our lives is so bafflingly weirdSoftware is an engineering material that has transformed h…

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Hans-Erhard Lessing
Das Fahrrad

'Eine spannende und vergnügliche Lektüre zum Fahrrad'Swen Neumann, LesartHans-Erhard Lessing erzählt, wie das Fahrrad vor 200 Jahren weltweit eine nie gekannte Euphorie auslöste. Eine Kulturgeschichte des…

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Helen Liang,
Why Communities Need Engineers

Community is essential for humans. But living together comes with challenges--challenges often solved by engineers!Access to clean drinking water? Engineers did that. Managing garbage? Engineers too. Safe…

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Sabine Loewe-Hannatzsch
"Grenzen der Beherrschbarkeit"

Freiberger Forschungen zur Wissenschafts- und Technikgeschichte - Band 2

Die Stilllegung, Sanierung und Rekultivierung der ehemaligen Urangewinnungs- und Uranaufbereitungsanlagen in Sachsen und Thüringen wird seit 1991 von der Wismut GmbH, als Nachfolgerin des einstigen Bergba…

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David Lopez-Paz
The Invariance Principle

How statistical invariances will help us build AI systems exhibiting human-like performance by following human-like strategies.Current machine learning systems crumble when the distributions of training a…

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Roberta J Magnusson
Urban Infrastructure in Medieval England

How medieval English towns built, sustained, and reimagined the lifelines of urban life.In the bustling market towns and growing cities of medieval England between 1200 and 1600, public works were the lif…

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Daniele L. R. Marini
The Mandate of Heaven

Astronomers' Universe

This book explores the rich and ancient tradition of Chinese astronomy, which developed as early as the third millennium BCE and was first documented on oracle bones over 4,000 years ago. Through a histor…

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The Marquand House Collective
Auditing AI

How tech companies, journalists, and policymakers can prevent AI decision-making from going wrong.Our lives are increasingly governed by automated systems influencing everything from medical care to polic…

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Moujan Matin, Michael Tite
Glazed Ceramics of the Islamic World 700-1600 CE

Of all the material culture of the Islamic World prior to the sixteenth century, only ceramics survive in a way which forms a continuous representative visual history. As such, ceramics provide a unique c…

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Moujan Matin, Michael Tite
Glazed Ceramics of the Islamic World 700-1600 CE

Of all the material culture of the Islamic World prior to the sixteenth century, only ceramics survive in a way which forms a continuous representative visual history. As such, ceramics provide a unique c…

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Fenwick McKelvey
SimPolitics

Information Policy

How computer models became fundamental to political practice---from winning elections to global affairs---and how we imagine political futures as a computing problem.For more than six decades, the public …

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Phillip S Meilinger
Building an Air Force

Until the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour, America did not want war, with the 1930s marked by strong isolationism and an emphasis on defense. However, in December 1941, it wasn't defensive aircraft the A…

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Umberto Meneghetti
A Brief History of Cams and Cam Mechanisms

History of Mechanism and Machine Science - Band 50

This book offers a description of the evolution of cams and their uses from the Middle Ages to the present day, highlighting their contribution to the development of technology. Usually, in the history of…

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Brian Merchant
Blood in the Machine

"The most important book to read about the AI boom" (Wired): **The "gripping" (New Yorker ) true story of the first time machines came for human jobs---and how the Luddite uprising exp…

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Ben Mezrich
Breaking Twitter

'An excitable, high-octane account' - IndependentIn October 2022, Elon Musk marched through Twitter's front doors after buying the digital giant for $44 billion. His takeover came with the promise of fund…

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Dan Moore
In 200 Rätseln um die Welt

Logikrätsel mit Niveau Nostalgischer Rätselspaß im Stil von Jules Verne: Erleben Sie eine fantasievolle Reise In 80 Tagen um die Welt durch das Viktorianische Zeitalter Mehr als 200 spannende Logikrätsel …

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Elio Morillo
The Boy Who Reached for the Stars

"The engineer known as the "space mechanic" speaks to both our future and past in this breathless memoir of his journey from Ecuador to NASA and beyond. Elio Morillo's life is abruptly spun…

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Lisa Nakamura
The Inattention Economy

Revealing the unheralded contributions of women of color to the foundation and development of the digital economyThe Inattention Economy challenges the widespread myth that the internet was born from the …

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Jen Newens
American Imagination

Pet rocks. The lunar module. Peanut butter. The cotton gin. Post-It Notes. MTV. Celebrate the 250th anniversary of our nation's Declaration of Independence with this unique look at objects that celebrate …

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