The author of this book about the future, Bill Gates, is the Harvard dropout who founded Microsoft based on his vision of a personal computer on every desk and in every home. Focusing on the so-called “information superhighway”, Gates describes...
За стеной фильтров. Что Интернет скрывает от вас? / Эли Паризер; пер. с англ. А. Ширикова (Eli Pariser. The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding from You). — М.:...
Algorithms increasingly run our lives. They find books, movies, jobs, and dates for us, manage our investments, and discover new drugs. More and more, these algorithms work by learning from the trails of data we leave in our newly digital world....
What are you doing this weekend? If Friday night's highlights include creating your first C++ program in Visual C++ and CNU C++, then Saturday will find you deep into this book's crash course. Lessons present debugging, flow control commands, and...
Brilliant, shattering, mind-jolting, The Mind’s I is a searching, probing nook—a cosmic journey of the mind—that goes deeply into the problem of self and self-consciousness as anything written in our time. From verbalizing chimpanzees to...
Ruby Under a Microscope gives you a hands-on look at Ruby’s core, using extensive diagrams and thorough explanations to show you how Ruby is implemented (no C skills required). Author Pat Shaughnessy takes a scientific approach, laying out a...
The first book to consider video as an art form, was influential in establishing the field of media arts. In the book he argues that a new, expanded cinema is required for a new consciousness. He describes various types of filmmaking utilising new...