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Auctions by Timothy P. Hubbard; Harry J. Paarsch
$25.00 AUD
Category: Mind & Body | Series: The\MIT Press Essential Knowledge Ser.
How auctions work, in theory and practice, with clear explanations and real-world examples that range from government procurement to eBay.Although it is among the oldest of market institutions, the auction is ubiquitous in today's economy, used for everything from government procurement to selling adver ...Show more
Metadata by Jeffrey Pomerantz
$30.00 AUD
Category: Mind & Body | Series: The MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
When "metadata" became breaking news, appearing in stories about surveillance by the National Security Agency, many members of the public encountered this once-obscure term from information science for the first time. Should people be reassured that the NSA was "only" collecting metadata about phone cal ...Show more
The Technological Singularity by Murray Shanahan
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Category: Mind & Body | Series: The MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
The idea that human history is approaching a "singularity" -- that ordinary humans will someday be overtaken by artificially intelligent machines or cognitively enhanced biological intelligence, or both -- has moved from the realm of science fiction to serious debate. Some singularity theorists predict ...Show more
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