¡Alerta!
A lively account of a controversial technology developed to mitigate earthquake risk and change how we live with threatening environments. The Sistema de Alerta Sísmica Mexicano is the world's oldest...
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224 pages
2023-04-11 Published
To Know Is to Compare
How systematic comparative research can unlock the potential of social media scholarship. Though diverse and fruitful, social media scholarship too often focuses on single platforms in single countries, disconnected from...
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224 pages
2023-04-18 Published
Selling the American People
How marketers learned to dream of optimization and speak in the idiom of management science well before the widespread use of the Internet. Algorithms, data extraction, digital marketers monetizing "eyeballs":...
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348 pages
2023-07-18 Published
Deep Learning (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning series)
Deep learning is a form of machine learning that enables computers to learn from experience and understand the world in terms of a hierarchy of concepts. Because the computer gathers...
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800 pages
2017-01-03 Published
Real Life in Real Time
The cultural ramifications of online live streaming, including its effects on identity and power in digital spaces. Some consider live streaming—the broadcasting of video and/or audio footage live online—simply an...
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352 pages
2023-08-22 Published
Probabilistic Machine Learning
A detailed and up-to-date introduction to machine learning, presented through the unifying lens of probabilistic modeling and Bayesian decision theory. This book offers a detailed and up-to-date introduction to machine...
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944 pages
2022-02-01 Published
Foundations of Machine Learning, 2nd Edition
A new edition of a graduate-level machine learning textbook that focuses on the analysis and theory of algorithms. This book is a general introduction to machine learning that can serve...
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504 pages
2019-04-02 Published
The Perception Machine
A provocative investigation of the future of photography and human perception in the age of AI. We are constantly photographing and being photographed while feeding machine learning databases with our...
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288 pages
2023-11-07 Published
No Heavenly Bodies
The compelling and little-known history of satellite communications that reveals the Soviet and Eastern European roles in the development of its infrastructure. Taking its title from Hannah Arendt's description of...
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256 pages
2023-11-28 Published
Going Big
All the crucial skills scientists need to make a professional transition into large projects and collaborations that require governance and project management. Modern science increasingly tackles ambitious projects whose size...
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144 pages
2024-03-26 Published