"Artificial Intelligence is a disruptive technology across business and society. There are three long-term trends driving this AI revolution: the emergence of Big Data, the creation of cheaper and more powerful computers, and development of better algorithms for processing an learning from data. Deep learning is the subfield of Artificial Intelligence that focuses on creating large neural network models that are capable of making accurate data driven...

"A concise overview of the ethical issues that are likely to emerge as robots become more social and more integrated into human life"--

"A brief introduction to "whiteness"-as a concept, as a phenomenon, as a field of scholarly inquiry-providing a bridge between the world of academic "whiteness studies" and public and activist spaces"--

"The essence and resonance of echo as an acoustic, literary, linguistic, and mythological phenomenon"--

"How the underlying biology of the "placebo effect" works and how could this change the way we think about modern and future medicine"--

A consumer's guide to the food system, from local to global: our part as citizens in the interconnected networks, institutions, and organizations that enable our food choices. -- from Amazon.

"A brief introduction to the physics of supernovae--explosions of dying stars that yield heavy chemical elements and spark the birth of new stars--and to past, present, and future research directions"--

In this volume of the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Ansgar Allen charts the long history of cynicism, from the "fearless speech" of Greek Cynics in the fourth century BCE to the contemporary cynic's lack of social and political convictions. Allen describes ancient Cynicism as an improvised philosophy and a way of life disposed to scandalize contemporaries, subjecting their cultural commitments to derision. He chronicles the subsequent "purification"...

"Historical, cultural, environmental, political, global treatment of hunting for the Essential Knowledge series"--