Download or read book Conscious Software Development written by Jeff McKenna and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-08-12 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Software development is about more than just the relationship between a person and a computer. It's about people, the ways they work best as individuals and the ways they communicate with each other to create software that one person could not produce alone. Successful software development requires being mindful-being conscious-of how you work and how you interact with others to produce something that you all are proud of. In Conscious Software Development, Jeff McKenna shares insights gained from a lifetime of experience in the industry.
Download or read book The Conscious Code written by Prof. Rocky Scopelliti and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2023-12-08 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an age where Artificial Intelligence (AI) evolves at a breakneck pace, the boundaries of machine capabilities are constantly being redefined. Propelled by advancements in deep learning and related technologies, AI is inching ever closer to mimicking human intellect. But can it achieve consciousness? And if so, at what cost to humanity? This book delves deep into the multi-faceted debate surrounding artificially conscious AI. It untangles ethical quandaries, philosophical dilemmas, technological challenges, political considerations, and the regulatory landscape. By drawing connections between AI research, neuroscience, and cognitive science, the narrative provides a comprehensive understanding of what consciousness might mean in the context of AI. As over a thousand AI luminaries globally sound the alarm, urging a pause on certain AI developments, the book underscores the urgency of its message. Recent incidents have spotlighted AI systems with capabilities so advanced that even their creators grapple to fully grasp or control them. It’s imperative, now more than ever, to critically assess the implications of AI consciousness, weighing its potential risks against its benefits. This book offers both a timely warning and a call to informed action.
Download or read book Software Engineering at Google written by Titus Winters and published by O'Reilly Media. This book was released on 2020-02-28 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, software engineers need to know not only how to program effectively but also how to develop proper engineering practices to make their codebase sustainable and healthy. This book emphasizes this difference between programming and software engineering. How can software engineers manage a living codebase that evolves and responds to changing requirements and demands over the length of its life? Based on their experience at Google, software engineers Titus Winters and Hyrum Wright, along with technical writer Tom Manshreck, present a candid and insightful look at how some of the world’s leading practitioners construct and maintain software. This book covers Google’s unique engineering culture, processes, and tools and how these aspects contribute to the effectiveness of an engineering organization. You’ll explore three fundamental principles that software organizations should keep in mind when designing, architecting, writing, and maintaining code: How time affects the sustainability of software and how to make your code resilient over time How scale affects the viability of software practices within an engineering organization What trade-offs a typical engineer needs to make when evaluating design and development decisions
Download or read book Software Engineering written by Richard W. Selby and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2007-06-04 with total page 835 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the most authoritative archive of Barry Boehm's contributions to software engineering. Featuring 42 reprinted articles, along with an introduction and chapter summaries to provide context, it serves as a "how-to" reference manual for software engineering best practices. It provides convenient access to Boehm's landmark work on product development and management processes. The book concludes with an insightful look to the future by Dr. Boehm.
Download or read book Modern Software Engineering written by David Farley and published by Addison-Wesley Professional. This book was released on 2021-11-16 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Improve Your Creativity, Effectiveness, and Ultimately, Your Code In Modern Software Engineering, continuous delivery pioneer David Farley helps software professionals think about their work more effectively, manage it more successfully, and genuinely improve the quality of their applications, their lives, and the lives of their colleagues. Writing for programmers, managers, and technical leads at all levels of experience, Farley illuminates durable principles at the heart of effective software development. He distills the discipline into two core exercises: learning and exploration and managing complexity. For each, he defines principles that can help you improve everything from your mindset to the quality of your code, and describes approaches proven to promote success. Farley's ideas and techniques cohere into a unified, scientific, and foundational approach to solving practical software development problems within realistic economic constraints. This general, durable, and pervasive approach to software engineering can help you solve problems you haven't encountered yet, using today's technologies and tomorrow's. It offers you deeper insight into what you do every day, helping you create better software, faster, with more pleasure and personal fulfillment. Clarify what you're trying to accomplish Choose your tools based on sensible criteria Organize work and systems to facilitate continuing incremental progress Evaluate your progress toward thriving systems, not just more "legacy code" Gain more value from experimentation and empiricism Stay in control as systems grow more complex Achieve rigor without too much rigidity Learn from history and experience Distinguish "good" new software development ideas from "bad" ones Register your book for convenient access to downloads, updates, and/or corrections as they become available. See inside book for details.
Download or read book The Art of Agile Development written by James Shore and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2008 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For those considering Extreme Programming, this book provides no-nonsense advice on agile planning, development, delivery, and management taken from the authors' many years of experience. While plenty of books address the what and why of agile development, very few offer the information users can apply directly.
Download or read book Software Sustainability written by Coral Calero and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on software sustainability, regarded in terms of how software is or can be developed while taking into consideration environmental, social, and economic dimensions. The sixteen chapters cover various related issues ranging from technical aspects like energy-efficient programming techniques, formal proposals related to energy efficiency measurement, patterns to build energy-efficient software, the role of developers on energy efficient software systems and tools for detecting and refactoring code smells/energy bugs; to human aspects like its impact on software sustainability or the adaptation of ACM/IEEE guidelines for student and professional education and; and an economics-driven architectural evaluation for sustainability. Also aspects as the elements of governance and management that organizations should consider when implementing, assessing and improving Green IT or the relationship between software sustainability and the Corporate Social Responsibility of software companies are included. The chapters are complemented by usage scenarios and experience reports on several domains as cloud applications, agile development or e-Health, among others. As a whole, the chapters provide a complete overview of the various issues related to sustainable software development. The target readership for this book includes CxOs, (e.g. Chief Information Officers, Chief Executive Officers, Chief Technology Officers, etc.) software developers, software managers, auditors, business owners, and quality professionals. It is also intended for students of software engineering and information systems, and software researchers who want to know the state of the art regarding software sustainability.
Download or read book Software Development written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 902 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Digital Business and Intelligent Systems written by Audronė Lupeikienė and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Software Engineering Handbook written by Jessica Keyes and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2002-12-23 with total page 898 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unfortunately, much of what has been written about software engineering comes from an academic perspective which does not always address the everyday concerns that software developers and managers face. With decreasing software budgets and increasing demands from users and senior management, technology directors need a complete guide to the subject
Download or read book Software Engineering A Hands On Approach written by Roger Y. Lee and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook provides a progressive approach to the teaching of software engineering. First, readers are introduced to the core concepts of the object-oriented methodology, which is used throughout the book to act as the foundation for software engineering and programming practices, and partly for the software engineering process itself. Then, the processes involved in software engineering are explained in more detail, especially methods and their applications in design, implementation, testing, and measurement, as they relate to software engineering projects. At last, readers are given the chance to practice these concepts by applying commonly used skills and tasks to a hands-on project. The impact of such a format is the potential for quicker and deeper understanding. Readers will master concepts and skills at the most basic levels before continuing to expand on and apply these lessons in later chapters.
Download or read book Software Engineering for Multi Agent Systems IV written by Alessandro Garcia and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-04-27 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a coherent, well-balanced survey of recent advances in software engineering approaches to the design and analysis of realistic large-scale multi-agent systems (MAS). The chapters included are devoted to various techniques and methods used to cope with the complexity of real-world MAS. Reflecting the importance of agent properties in today's software systems, the power of agent-based software engineering is illustrated using examples that are representative of successful applications.
Download or read book Software Engineering for Experimental Robotics written by Davide Brugali and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-02-15 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reports on the concepts and ideas discussed at the well attended ICRA2005 Workshop on "Principles and Practice of Software Development in Robotics", held in Barcelona, Spain, April 18 2005. It collects contributions that describe the state of the art in software development for the Robotics domain. It also reports a number of practical applications to real systems and discuss possible future developments.
Download or read book The Creation of a Conscious Machine written by Jean E. Tardy and published by Stylus Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2023-12-30 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a groundbreaking journey into the world of Generative AI technology and offers an in-depth look at the prospect of AI achieving consciousness. The book navigates through various historical and modern perspectives on AI, from ancient myths to the Turing Test to the latest in technological advancements. It covers the theoretical and practical aspects of creating a conscious AI, including the specifications for synthetic consciousness and the integration of AI with human cognition. The book questions whether generative AI can meet the traditional criteria of consciousness and how this might be realized. FEATURES Specifies the design choices and implementation strategies that must be followed to successfully build machines that are conscious Explores the entire spectrum of AI development, from ancient origins to the potential future of conscious machines Offers a critical examination of the Turing Test, its variations, and its relevance to modern AI Provides insights into the potential paths and challenges in achieving synthetic consciousness in AI
Download or read book Web Based Application Development written by Grove and published by Jones & Bartlett Publishers. This book was released on 2009-04-22 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perfect for the one-term course, Web-Based Application Development present an introduction to concepts, theories, practices, languages, and tools used to develop applications for the World Wide Web. It provides coverage of the important fundamentals of Web applications while providing the coverage of programming and technology necessary to apply these ideas and put them into practice. In addition to presenting the language and tools found in most texts, Web-Based Application Development goes beyond and includes networking, architecture, security, reliability, and other important concepts and theories necessary today.
Download or read book The Art of Software Innovation written by Minna Pikkarainen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-08-25 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine that you are the CEO of a software company. You know you compete in an environment that does not permit you to treat innovation as a secondary issue. But how should you manage your software innovation to get the most out of it? This book will provide you with the answer. Software innovation is multifaceted and the approaches used by companies can be very different. The team of authors that wrote this book took the assumption that there is no such thing as a universal software engineering process or innovation process. Some things work well for a certain company, others do not. The book is organized around what the authors call eight fundamental practice areas for innovation with software. Each practice area contains a number of activities that can help companies to master that practice area. It also contains industrial experience reports that illustrate the applicability of these practice areas in software companies and is structured in such a way that you can select and read only those practice areas that are relevant to your company. The book is written with an industrial target audience in mind. Its most important goal is to challenge companies by offering them a framework to become more innovation-driven, rather than engineering-driven. Intrigued? Here you will find details of what you and your company can do to understand, implement, and sustain continuous innovation.
