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Current Directions in ICT and Society IFIP TC9 50th Anniversary Anthology
This project was motivated by the upcoming fiftieth anniversary of the IFIP Human Choice and Computers (HCC) conference, the event that led to IFIP’s...
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Creative Simulations George Mallen and the Early Computer Arts Society
This book is centred on the practitioner-led Computer Arts Society founded in 1969 and formed to address creative computation in all the arts –...
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The Book of Chatbots From ELIZA to ChatGPT
Primitive software chatbots emerged in the 1960s, evolving swiftly through the decades and becoming able to provide engaging human-to-computer...
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Causality for Artificial Intelligence From a Philosophical Perspective
How can we teach machine learning to identify causal patterns in data? This book explores the very notion of “causality”, identifying from a...
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Vision and Actualization in Academia Georgia Tech’s College of Computing
Although difficult, change in academic structures is necessary today, especially in fast-changing fields today such as biology, computing,...
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Understanding Information History The Case of America in 1920
Microhistory is a technique that has been used effectively by writers of both fiction and nonfiction. It enables the author to cut through the...
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The Future is Digital How Complexity and Artificial Intelligence will Shape Our Lives and Work
This book describes in an easily accessible way how artificial intelligence (AI) will help us to overcome the ongoing rise in complexity and thus...
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Konrad Zuse's Early Computers The Quest for the Computer in Germany
This book describes the historical development of the architectures of the first computers built by the German inventor Konrad Zuse in Berlin between...
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Zeitenwende Wie die IT unsere Welt verändert
Die moderne Informationstechnologie durchdringt und verändert unsere Welt – weit mehr und intensiver, als die meisten von uns ahnen. Das Buch...
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The Gambler and the Scholars Herbert Yardley, William & Elizebeth Friedman, and the Birth of Modern American Cryptology
In May 1917, William and Elizebeth Friedman were asked by the U.S. Army to begin training officers in cryptanalysis and to decrypt intercepted German...
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Chaim L. Pekeris and the Art of Applying Mathematics with WEIZAC, 1955–1963
This book describes the groundbreaking work of Chaim Leib Pekeris and his collaborators. Between 1955 and 1963 they used the first electronic...
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Vom Ding an sich zum Internet der Dinge Löst Künstliche Intelligenz das Problem der subjektiven Erkenntnis?
Seit Beginn dessen, was man Philosophie nennt – also dem Zeitalter der Vorsokratiker – haben große Geister sich bemüht, den Dualismus Geist-Materie...
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The History of the GPU - Eras and Environment
This is the second book in a three-part series that traces the development of the GPU, which is defined as a single chip with an integrated transform...
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A Concise Introduction to Scientific Visualization Past, Present, and Future
Scientific visualization has always been an integral part of discovery, starting first with simplified drawings of the pre-Enlightenment and...
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Neuronale Netze kompakt Vom Perceptron zum Deep Learning
Daten sind das neue Gold - und neuronale Netze haben bereits einigen Unternehmen geholfen, diesen Schatz auszugraben. Verschaffen Sie sich mit diesem...
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Codeknacker gegen Codemacher Die faszinierende Geschichte der Verschlüsselung
Die Verschlüsselungstechnik (Kryptologie) hat eine spannende Geschichte. Sie ist geprägt dramatischen Begebenheiten, genialen Codeknackern und...
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The History of the GPU - New Developments
This third book in the three-part series on the History of the GPUcovers the second to sixth eras of the GPU, which can be found in anything that...
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Cyber and the City Securing London’s Banks in the Computer Age
Cyber security is the greatest risk faced by financial institutions today, a risk they have understood and managed for decades longer than is...
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Tales of Electrologica Computers, Software and People
Manufacturing computers in series was quite a feat in the 1950s. As mathematical as it gets, the machines discussed here were called X1 and X8.
The...
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Feedback Arc Set A History of the Problem and Algorithms
The main aim of the book is to give a review of all relevant information regarding a well-known and important problem of Feedback Arc Set (FAS). This...
