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1 online resource. |
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text file PDF |
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polychrome |
| Series |
The MIT Press Ser.
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MIT Press Ser.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Quantum physics takes free will into account / Ignacio Cirac -- Unifying particle physics with cosmology of the primordial universe / José Bernabéu -- For exoplanets, anything is possible / Sara Seager -- From Casimir forces to black-body radiation : quantum and thermal fluctuations / Alejandro W. Rodriguez -- Challenge of climate change / Mario J. Molina -- Graphene and its "family" : the finest materials ever to exist / Pablo Jarillo-Herrero -- Laws of thermodynamics will tell you what is and what is not possible / Avelina Corma -- Wisdon hewn in ancient stones / John Ochsendorf -- Galileo programme : planning uncertainty and imagining the possible and the impossible / Javier Benedicto -- Looking forward in architecture by looking back / Yung Ho Chang -- Seamless coupling of bits and atoms / Hiroshi Ishii. |
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Convergence culture : where old and new media collide / Henry Jenkins -- Logic of physics and logic of computer science / Bebo White -- Pillars of MIT : innovation, radical meritocracy, and open knowledge / Hal Abelson -- We need algorithms that can make explicit what is implicit / Bernardo Cuenca Grau -- Emergence of a nonbiological intelligence / Michail Bietsas -- Remember our future : the frontier of search technologies / Ricardo Baeza-Yates -- Challenge of the open dissemination of knowledge, distributed intelligence, and information technology / Anne Margulies -- Technology is something to make the world a better place / Tim O'Reilly -- Encryption as a human right / David Casacuberta -- Order in cyberspace can only be maintained with a combination of ethics and technology / John Perry Barlow -- Free software paradigm and the hacker ethic / Richard Stallman. |
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"Affective computing" is no an oxymoron / Rosalind W. Picard -- Mind, brain, and behavior / Alvaro Pascual-Leone -- MIT collaborative innovation : it takes>2 to tango / Israel Ruiz -- Mind over matter : brain-machine interfaces / Jose M. Carmena -- We want robots to see and understand the world / Antonio Torralba -- Between caves : from Plato to the brain through the internet / Javier Echeverria -- There will be no end of work / Paul Osterman -- A smart mob is not necessarily a wise mob / Howard Rheingold -- Measuring the intelligence of everything / José Hernández-Orallo -- Touching the soul of Michelangelo / Gianluigi Colalucci -- Geometry of a multidimensional universe : weightless art and the painting of the void / José María Yturralde. |
| Summary |
Conversations with scientists, conducted by a veteran science writer, addressing such issues as intelligence, consciousness, global warming, energy, changing the past, and even the philosophical curveball, "Is the universe a hologram?" |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Science -- Miscellanea.
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Science -- Miscellanea. |
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Science -- Popular works.
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Science -- Popular works. |
| Indexed Term |
PHYSICAL SCIENCES/General |
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NEUROSCIENCE/General |
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COMPUTER SCIENCE/General |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Trivia and miscellanea.
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Popular works.
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Trivia and miscellanea.
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| Added Author |
Plasencia, Adolfo, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Is the universe a hologram? Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2017] 9780262036016 (DLC) 2016038291 (OCoLC)958796601 |
| ISBN |
9780262339308 (electronic book) |
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0262339307 (electronic book) |
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9780262339315 (electronic book) |
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0262339315 (electronic book) |
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9780262036016 |
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0262036010 |
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9780262339292 |
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0262339293 |
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