Human Programming

Author : Scott Selisker
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452951799
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Human Programming written by Scott Selisker and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2016-08-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do our ways of talking about contemporary terrorism have a history in the science, technology, and culture of the Cold War? Human Programming explores this history in a groundbreaking work that draws connections across decades and throughout American culture, high and low. Scott Selisker argues that literary, cinematic, and scientific representations of the programmed mind have long shaped conversations in U.S. political culture about freedom and unfreedom, and about democracy and its enemies. Selisker demonstrates how American conceptions of freedom and of humanity have changed in tandem with developments in science and technology, including media technology, cybernetics, behaviorist psychology, and sociology. Since World War II, propagandists, scientists, and creative artists have adapted visions of human programmability as they sought to imagine the psychological manipulation and institutional controls that could produce the inscrutable subjects of totalitarian states, cults, and terrorist cells. At the same time, writers across the political spectrum reimagined ideals of American freedom, democracy, and diversity by way of contrast with these posthuman specters of mental unfreedom. Images of such “human automatons” circulated in popular films, trials, travelogues, and the news media, giving form to the nebulous enemies of the postwar and contemporary United States: totalitarianism, communism, total institutions, cult extremism, and fundamentalist terrorism. Ranging from discussions of The Manchurian Candidate and cyberpunk science fiction to the cases of Patty Hearst and the “American Taliban” John Walker Lindh, Human Programming opens new ways of understanding the intertwined roles of literature, film, science, and technology in American culture.

Author : Marina Umaschi Bers
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262368552
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond Coding written by Marina Umaschi Bers and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2022-03-22 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why children should be taught coding not as a technical skill but as a new literacy—a way to express themselves and engage with the world. Today, schools are introducing STEM education and robotics to children in ever-lower grades. In Beyond Coding, Marina Umaschi Bers lays out a pedagogical roadmap for teaching code that encompasses the cultivation of character along with technical knowledge and skills. Presenting code as a universal language, she shows how children discover new ways of thinking, relating, and behaving through creative coding activities. Today’s children will undoubtedly have the technical knowledge to change the world. But cultivating strength of character, socioeconomic maturity, and a moral compass alongside that knowledge, says Bers, is crucial. Bers, a leading proponent of teaching computational thinking and coding as early as preschool and kindergarten, presents examples of children and teachers using the Scratch Jr. and Kibo robotics platforms to make explicit some of the positive values implicit in the process of learning computer science. If we are to do right by our children, our approach to coding must incorporate the elements of a moral education: the use of narrative to explore identity and values, the development of logical thinking to think critically and solve technical and ethical problems, and experiences in the community to enable personal relationships. Through learning the language of programming, says Bers, it is possible for diverse cultural and religious groups to find points of connection, put assumptions and stereotypes behind them, and work together toward a common goal.

Author : John R. Koza
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9780387250670
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Genetic Programming IV written by John R. Koza and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-03-21 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Genetic Programming IV: Routine Human-Competitive Machine Intelligence presents the application of GP to a wide variety of problems involving automated synthesis of controllers, circuits, antennas, genetic networks, and metabolic pathways. The book describes fifteen instances where GP has created an entity that either infringes or duplicates the functionality of a previously patented 20th-century invention, six instances where it has done the same with respect to post-2000 patented inventions, two instances where GP has created a patentable new invention, and thirteen other human-competitive results. The book additionally establishes: GP now delivers routine human-competitive machine intelligence GP is an automated invention machine GP can create general solutions to problems in the form of parameterized topologies GP has delivered qualitatively more substantial results in synchrony with the relentless iteration of Moore's Law

Author : Laura Scotton
Publisher : Writers Republic LLC
ISBN 13 : 1637285604
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Journey of a Lifetime : Overcoming the Human Programming written by Laura Scotton and published by Writers Republic LLC. This book was released on 2021-05-28 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Self-love, I guide you to loving yourself unconditionally, seeing yourself in a higher light. I offer daily wisdom and guidance from source.

Author : Dr John C Lilly
Publisher : Float on
ISBN 13 : 9780692217894
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Programming and Metaprogramming in the Human Biocomputer written by Dr John C Lilly and published by Float on. This book was released on 2014-05-08 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Programming and Metaprogramming in the Human Biocomputer was written by Dr. John C. Lilly about his research conducted at the National Institute of Mental Health. In it, he discusses his invention of float tanks, early communication with dolphins, and investigations into the use of LSD for personal and cultural development. This historic work is reprinted in this version, in its entirety, for the first time in 25 years.

Author : John C. Lilly
Publisher : Ronin Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781579511395
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Programming the Human Biocomputer written by John C. Lilly and published by Ronin Publishing. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The parallels between the human brain and computers is easy to see today. But in the 1950’s when John Lilly developed his theory of the human biocomputer, this was a dramatic new way of viewing humans. Much like a driver can step out of the car, we are not our biocomputer. The Self is something far greater and more mysterious. Rooted in his extensive knowledge of neurophysiology, neuroanatomy and electronics and developed through personal experimentation in the sensory isolation tank which he invented, Lilly presents a method for learning to manipulate—to drive the bio-robot, which is our vehicle here on Earth. robots. This manual shows how to step out of the mind-body and find out who we really are.

Author : Graham J. Burton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139494228
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Placenta and Human Developmental Programming written by Graham J. Burton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-12-16 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Developmental programming is a rapidly advancing discipline of great importance to basic scientists and health professionals alike. This text integrates, for the first time, contributions from world experts to explore the role of the placenta in developmental programming. The book considers the materno-fetal supply line, and how perturbations of placental development impact on its functional capacity. Chapters examine ways in which environmental, immunological and vascular insults regulate expression of conventional and imprinted genes, along with their impact on placental shape and size, transport, metabolism and endocrine function. Research in animal models is integrated with human clinical and epidemiological data, and questions for future research are identified. Transcripts of discussions between the authors allow readers to engage with controversial issues. Essential reading for researchers in placental biology and developmental programming, as well as specialists and trainees in the wider field of reproductive medicine.

Author : United States. Office of Aeronautics and Space Technology Information Sciences and Human Factors Division
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book NASA Information Sciences and Human Factors Program Annual Report, 1985 written by United States. Office of Aeronautics and Space Technology Information Sciences and Human Factors Division and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Information Sciences and Human Factors Division
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book NASA Information Sciences and Human Factors Program Annual Report, 1988 written by United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Information Sciences and Human Factors Division and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Donald Ervin Knuth
Publisher : Stanford Univ Center for the Study
ISBN 13 : 9780937073803
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Literate Programming written by Donald Ervin Knuth and published by Stanford Univ Center for the Study. This book was released on 1992-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literate programming is a programming methodology that combines a programming language with a documentation language, making programs more easily maintained than programs written only in a high-level language. A literate programmer is an essayist who writes programs for humans to understand. When programs are written in the recommended style they can be transformed into documents by a document compiler and into efficient code by an algebraic compiler. This anthology of essays includes Knuth's early papers on related topics such as structured programming as well as the Computer Journal article that launched literate programming. Many examples are given, including excerpts from the programs for TeX and METAFONT. The final essay is an example of CWEB, a system for literate programming in C and related languages. Index included.