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Best STEM books, AI revolution, engaged learning
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items During the past few years, many countries and groups have been placing great emphasis on the significance of STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) and AI education, practical application. Many is seen falling behind the rest of the world ...
The bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs returns with a “compelling” (The Washington Post) account of how Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues launched a revolution that will allow us to cure diseases, fend off viru... Driven by a passion to understand how nature works and to turn discoveries into inventions, she would help to make what the book’s author, James Watson, told her was the most important biological advance since his codiscovery of the structure of DNA.... You will: Understand CRISPR technology and its impact on humanity Appreciate the ethical implications of gene editing Learn about the competitive nature of scientific research Explore the intersection of science and morality Understand the poten...
The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of ...
Microsoft’s CEO tells the inside story of the company’s continuing transformation, while tracing his own journey from a childhood in India to leading some of the most significant changes of the digital era and offering his vision for the coming wave of intelligent t... is about individual change, the transformation happening inside Microsoft, and the arrival of the most exciting and disruptive wave of technology humankind has experienced – including artificial intelligence, mixed reality, and quantum computing.
Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft's Soul and Imagine a Better ...
Organizations are beginning to create the structures and processes that lead to meaningful value from gen AI. While still in early days, companies are redesigning workflows, elevating governance, and mitigating more risks.
The state of AI: How organizations are rewiring to capture value
In this ground-breaking book, Cambridge-trained sociologist Anthony Elliott argues that much of what passes for conventional wisdom about artificial intelligence is either ill-considered or plain wrong. The reason? The AI revolution is not so much ab... The Culture of AI, Elliott explores how intelligent machines, advanced robotics, accelerating automation, big data and the Internet of Everything impact upon day-to-day life and contemporary societies.
The Culture of AI: Everyday Life and the Digital Revolution / Edition 1
We are living through the most profound information revolution in human history. To understand it, we need to understand what has come before. We have named our species Homo sapiens, the wise human – but if humans are so wise, why are we doing so many self-destructive things? In particular, why are we on the verge of committing ecological and technological suicide? Humanity gains power by building large networks of ...
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow examines what might happen to the world when old myths are coupled with new godlike technologies, such as artificial intelligence and genetic engineering. Humans conquered the world thanks to their unique abili...
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari, Paperback
A vast and largely unseen transformation of how war is fought as profound as the invention of gunpowder or advent of the nuclear age is occurring. Flying cars that can land like helicopters, artificial intelligence-powered drones that can fly into bu...
Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future ...
From the author of Steve Jobs and other bestselling biographies, this is the astonishingly intimate story of Elon Musk, the most fascinating and controversial innovator of our era – a rule-breaking visionary who helped to lead the world into the era ...
Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson, Hardcover
Soon you will live surrounded by AIs. They will organise your life, operate your business, and run core government services. You will live in a world of DNA printers and quantum computers, engineered pathogens and autonomous weapons, robot assistants... Mustafa Suleyman has been at the centre of this revolution. The coming decade, he argues, will be defined by this wave of powerful, fast-proliferating new technologies.
The Coming Wave: AI, Power, and Our Future
It’s time to do things differently. Trust your team. Be radically honest. And never, ever try to please your boss. These are some of the ground rules if you work at Netflix. They are part of a unique cultural experiment that explains how the company...
No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention
Blood in the Machine reaches through time and space to tell a story about how technology changed our world—and how it’s already changing our future. An underground network of 19th century rebels, the Luddites, took up arms against the industrialists automating their work in this true story of the first time that machines came for human jobs—setting the stage for the threat of big tech today.
Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
Exploring the history of extra- monetary economies, Rachel O’Dwyer shows that private and grassroots tokens have always haunted the real economy. But as the large tech platforms issue new money-like instruments, tokens are suddenly everywhere. Amazon’s Turk workers are getting paid in gift cards. Online streamers tr...
Tokens: The Future of Money in the Age of the Platform by Rachel O'Dwyer ...
Civilisation is founded on engineering innovation; all progress stems from the human urge to make things and to shape the world around us, resulting in greater freedom, health and wealth for all. Drawing on history, his own experiences and conversati... Make, Think, Imagine provides an eloquent blueprint for how we can keep moving towards a brighter future.
Make, Think, Imagine: Engineering the Future of Civilization by John Browne ...
Tencent’s ambition to be an essential part of digital daily life means it holds a dizzyingly diverse range of products – music, gaming, messaging, and film. In this fascinating narrative – crammed with insider interviews, exclusive details about the ... Lulu Chen tells the story of how Tencent is changing the world and asks what the consequences will be for us all.
Influence Empire: Inside the Story of Tencent and China's Tech Ambition
How can you broaden student thinking and help them develop their independence and confidence as problem solvers? Real-life problems are a remarkable tool to stretch student thinking and help them develop a deeper understanding of mathematics and its ...
Mathematizing Student Thinking: Connecting Problem Solving to ...
Math and Art: An Introduction to Visual Mathematics explores the potential of mathematics to generate visually appealing objects and reveals some of the beauty of mathematics. It includes numerous illustrations, computer-generated graphics, photographs, and art reproductions to demonstrate how mathema...
Math and Art: An Introduction to Visual Mathematics
AI is about to transform medicine. Here's what you need to know right now. ''The development of AI is as fundamental as the creation of the personal computer. It will change the way people work, learn, and communicate—and transform healthcare. But i...
The AI Revolution in Medicine: GPT-4 and Beyond
This medicine history book charts fascinating developments in diagnosis, surgery, healing and drugs through the ages. Feature spreads explore key medical concepts in detail and enhance the reader’s understanding of human anatomy, surgical instruments...
Clear diagrams explain major diseases like cancer, and trace the progression of medical treatment through time, from ancient healing arts to scurvy and smallpox to modern psychiatry. Double-page features tell the story of the men and women involved i...
It's the perfect book for medical professionals, students of medicine or anyone with a keen interest in medicine, science or social history.
Clear diagrams explain major diseases like cancer, and trace the progression of medical treatment through time, from ancient healing arts to scurvy and smallpox to modern psychiatry. Double-page features tell the story of the men and women involved i...
It's the perfect book for medical professionals, students of medicine or anyone with a keen interest in medicine, science or social history.
Medicine: The Definitive Illustrated History by DK, Hardcover
The authors advocate an acceptance of AI in our lives as an entity to collaborate with and create, harnessing both human and machine intelligence.
The Co-Intelligence Revolution: How Humans and AI Co-Create New Value
Why has artificial intelligence suddenly leapt forward? How can generative AI tools help you? And will AIs lead to human extinction? Find out how AI is set to disrupt societies and economies in this Essential Guide with topics including: How machines learn The road to consciousness Thinking, feeling machines AI scientists and mathematicians Future horizons from utopia to a...
The AI Revolution
Latest, and most forward-thinking moves in AI, regulation, and innovation.
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