Computer Science History

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    • Machine Learning and Human Values
    • Auteur(s): Brian Christian
    • Narrateur(s): Brian Christian
    • Durée: 13 h et 33 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-10-06
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 35 évaluations
    • Today's "machine-learning" systems, trained by data, are so effective that we've invited them to see and hear for us - and to make decisions on our behalf. But alarm bells are ringing. Systems cull résumés until, years later, we discover that they have inherent gender biases.

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    • An Apollo 13 Astronaut's Journey
    • Auteur(s): Fred Haise
    • Narrateur(s): Joe Barrett
    • Durée: 7 h et 2 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-04-05
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 2 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • In the gripping Never Panic Early, Fred Haise, Lunar Module Pilot for Apollo 13, offers a detailed firsthand account of when disaster struck three days into his mission to the moon....

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    • The Science of Socially Aware Algorithm Design
    • Auteur(s): Michael Kearns, Aaron Roth
    • Narrateur(s): Teri Schnaubelt
    • Durée: 6 h et 27 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-07-14
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • Michael Kearns and Aaron Roth explain how we can better embed human principles into machine code - without halting the advance of data-driven scientific exploration....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A Video Game, an Obsession, and America's Violent Past
    • Auteur(s): Tore C. Olsson
    • Narrateur(s): Roger Clark
    • Durée: 10 h et 28 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-08-06
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 évaluations
    • Red Dead Redemption and Red Dead Redemption II, set in 1911 and 1899, are the most-played American history video games since The Oregon Trail. How do they fare as re-creations of history? In this engaging book, award-winning American history professor Tore Olsson takes up that question and more.

    Prix courant: 26,21$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Rescuing Social Change from the Cult of Technology
    • Auteur(s): Kentaro Toyama
    • Narrateur(s): Sean Pratt
    • Durée: 9 h et 7 min
    • Date de publication: 2015-06-23
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • In 2004 Kentaro Toyama, an award-winning computer scientist, moved to India to start a new research group for Microsoft....

    Prix courant: 37,04$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Can Democracy Withstand the Imminent Transformation of Work, Wealth, and the Social Order?
    • Auteur(s): David Barnhizer, Daniel Barnhizer
    • Narrateur(s): Stefan Rudnicki
    • Durée: 12 h
    • Date de publication: 2019-07-16
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • As AI and robotics eliminate jobs across the spectrum, governmental revenues will plummet while the debt increases dramatically. This crisis of limited resources on all levels will drive many into homelessness....

    Prix courant: 22,54$ ou 1 crédit

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    • How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
    • Auteur(s): Simon Winchester
    • Narrateur(s): Simon Winchester
    • Durée: 11 h et 46 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-05-08
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 60 évaluations
    • The best-selling author traces the development of technology from the Industrial Age to the Digital Age to explore the single component crucial to advancement - precision - in a superb history....

    Prix courant: 31,46$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
    • Auteur(s): Serhii Plokhy
    • Narrateur(s): Ralph Lister
    • Durée: 14 h et 52 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-05-15
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 38 évaluations
    • From a preeminent historian of Eastern Europe, the definitive history of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster....

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    • How Eight Technologies Made Us Human, Transformed Society, and Brought Our World to the Brink
    • Auteur(s): Richard L. Currier
    • Narrateur(s): Noah Michael Levine
    • Durée: 10 h et 36 min
    • Date de publication: 2015-11-23
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 évaluations
    • Although we usually think of technology as something unique to modern times, our ancestors began to create the first technologies millions of years ago....

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    • How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work
    • Auteur(s): Steven Kotler, Jamie Wheal
    • Narrateur(s): Fred Sanders
    • Durée: 8 h et 24 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-02-21
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 348 évaluations
    • The authors of the best-selling Bold and The Rise of Superman explore altered states of consciousness and how they can ignite passion, fuel creativity, and accelerate problem solving....

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    • The Triumphs and Tragedies of the World's First Computer
    • Auteur(s): Scott McCartney
    • Narrateur(s): Adams Morgan
    • Durée: 6 h et 18 min
    • Date de publication: 2000-11-02
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 évaluations
    • For all his genius, John von Neumann was not, as he is generally credited, the true father of the modern computer. That honor belongs to the two men - John Mauchly and Presper Eckert - who built...

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    • The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
    • Auteur(s): Shoshana Zuboff
    • Narrateur(s): Nicol Zanzarella
    • Durée: 24 h et 16 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-01-28
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 119 évaluations
    • The Age of Surveillance Capitalism is neither a hand-wringing narrative of danger and decline nor a digital fairy tale. It offers a reasoned and evocative examination of the contests over the next chapter of capitalism that will decide the meaning of information civilization....

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    • How the AI-Powered Metaverse Will Reshape the World
    • Auteur(s): Alvin Wang Graylin, Louis Rosenberg, Neal Stephenson - foreword
    • Narrateur(s): Ciaran Saward
    • Durée: 11 h et 30 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-03-05
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • Two industry veterans provide a data-driven debate on whether the new world we're creating will be a technological utopia or an AI-powered dystopia and give guidance on how to aim for the best future we can....

    Prix courant: 37,83$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon
    • Auteur(s): Kim Zetter
    • Narrateur(s): Joe Ochman
    • Durée: 13 h
    • Date de publication: 2014-11-11
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 53 évaluations
    • The virus now known as Stuxnet was unlike any other piece of malware built before: Rather than simply hijacking targeted computers or stealing information from them, it proved that a piece of code could escape the digital realm and wreak actual, physical destruction....

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    • AI, ChatGPT, and the Race that Will Change the World
    • Auteur(s): Parmy Olson
    • Narrateur(s): Lisa Flanagan
    • Durée: 9 h et 25 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-09-10
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • In November 2022, a webpage was posted online with a simple text box. It was ChatGPT, and was unlike any app people had used before. Parmy Olson uses her experience covering technology to bring to light the exploitation of the greatest invention in human history, and how it will impact us all.

    Prix courant: 26,21$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google
    • Auteur(s): Scott Galloway
    • Narrateur(s): Jonathan Todd Ross
    • Durée: 8 h et 32 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-10-03
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 244 évaluations
    • Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google are the four most influential companies on the planet. Just about everyone thinks they know how they got there. They're wrong....

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    • Auteur(s): Erik Larson
    • Narrateur(s): Bob Balaban
    • Durée: 11 h et 56 min
    • Date de publication: 2006-10-10
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 32 évaluations
    • Thunderstruck tells the stories of two men: Hawley Crippen, a very unlikely murderer, and Guglielmo Marconi, the obsessive creator of a seemingly supernatural means of communication....

    Prix courant: 42,25$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
    • Auteur(s): Margot Lee Shetterly
    • Narrateur(s): Robin Miles
    • Durée: 10 h et 47 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-09-06
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 32 évaluations
    • The phenomenal true story of the Black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America's greatest achievements in space....

    Prix courant: 40,78$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Inventor of the Electrical Age
    • Auteur(s): W. Bernard Carlson
    • Narrateur(s): Allan Robertson
    • Durée: 16 h et 11 min
    • Date de publication: 2014-01-16
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 évaluations
    • Nikola Tesla was a major contributor to the electrical revolution that transformed daily life at the turn of the 20th century....

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    • The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked
    • Auteur(s): Adam Alter
    • Narrateur(s): Adam Alter
    • Durée: 8 h et 17 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-03-07
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 171 évaluations
    • Welcome to the age of behavioral addiction - an age in which half of the American population is addicted to at least one behavior. We obsess over our emails, Instagram likes, and Facebook feeds; we binge on TV episodes and YouTube videos; we work longer hours each year....

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