Download or read book Exploring One to one Computing on the Ground written by Poornima Padmanabhan and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, there has been an influx of single-user laptop projects in educational settings. The rationales are to address purported access gaps, foster student-led learning, and encourage the development of 21st century digital literacies. More recently, low-cost laptops are being distributed in developing country contexts, with the goal of providing children with new educational opportunities. However, technologies are being distributed even before the socioeconomic and cultural contexts of their use are fully understood. This work aimed to study one implementation of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) initiative in a South Indian city. A naturalistic case study methodology was adopted to explore how the program manifested in a school for below-poverty-line children. The findings revealed that social, cultural, economic, and curricular considerations both enabled and constrained the program in many ways. This suggests that an understanding of the social-embeddedness of technology is vital to the success of such programs.
Download or read book From Parallel to Emergent Computing written by Andrew Adamatzky and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-03-13 with total page 629 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern computing relies on future and emergent technologies which have been conceived via interaction between computer science, engineering, chemistry, physics and biology. This highly interdisciplinary book presents advances in the fields of parallel, distributed and emergent information processing and computation. The book represents major breakthroughs in parallel quantum protocols, elastic cloud servers, structural properties of interconnection networks, internet of things, morphogenetic collective systems, swarm intelligence and cellular automata, unconventionality in parallel computation, algorithmic information dynamics, localized DNA computation, graph-based cryptography, slime mold inspired nano-electronics and cytoskeleton computers. Features Truly interdisciplinary, spanning computer science, electronics, mathematics and biology Covers widely popular topics of future and emergent computing technologies, cloud computing, parallel computing, DNA computation, security and network analysis, cryptography, and theoretical computer science Provides unique chapters written by top experts in theoretical and applied computer science, information processing and engineering From Parallel to Emergent Computing provides a visionary statement on how computing will advance in the next 25 years and what new fields of science will be involved in computing engineering. This book is a valuable resource for computer scientists working today, and in years to come.
Download or read book An Intuitive Exploration of Artificial Intelligence written by Simant Dube and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-06-21 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book develops a conceptual understanding of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Deep Learning and Machine Learning in the truest sense of the word. It is an earnest endeavor to unravel what is happening at the algorithmic level, to grasp how applications are being built and to show the long adventurous road in the future. An Intuitive Exploration of Artificial Intelligence offers insightful details on how AI works and solves problems in computer vision, natural language understanding, speech understanding, reinforcement learning and synthesis of new content. From the classic problem of recognizing cats and dogs, to building autonomous vehicles, to translating text into another language, to automatically converting speech into text and back to speech, to generating neural art, to playing games, and the author's own experience in building solutions in industry, this book is about explaining how exactly the myriad applications of AI flow out of its immense potential. The book is intended to serve as a textbook for graduate and senior-level undergraduate courses in AI. Moreover, since the book provides a strong geometrical intuition about advanced mathematical foundations of AI, practitioners and researchers will equally benefit from the book.
Download or read book Intelligent Computing written by Kohei Arai and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-06-22 with total page 1127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the proceedings of the Computing Conference 2019, providing a comprehensive collection of chapters focusing on core areas of computing and their real-world applications. Computing is an extremely broad discipline, encompassing a range of specialized fields, each focusing on particular areas of technology and types of application, and the conference offered pioneering researchers, scientists, industrial engineers, and students from around the globe a platform to share new ideas and development experiences. Providing state-of-the-art intelligent methods and techniques for solving real- world problems, the book inspires further research and technological advances in this important area.
Download or read book Machine Intelligence and Robotics written by NASA Study Group on Machine Intelligence and Robotics and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Exploring Space written by Rodney P. Carlisle and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers coverage of human explorations into space - from 19th-century fantasy to 20th-century achievement and the future of space exploration in the 21st century - giving information about the current state of exploration in the final frontier.
Download or read book Seismoelectric Exploration written by Niels Grobbe and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seismoelectric coupling and its current and potential future applications The seismoelectric method—the naturally-occurring coupling of seismic waves to electromagnetic fields—can provide insight into important properties of porous media. With a variety of potential environmental and engineering uses, as well as larger scale applications such as earthquake detection and oil and gas exploration, it offers a number of advantages over conventional geophysical methods. Seismoelectric Exploration: Theory, Experiments, and Applications explores the coupling between poroelastic and electromagnetic disturbances, discussing laboratory experiments, numerical modeling techniques, recent theoretical developments, and field studies. Volume highlights include: Physics of the seismoelectric effect at the microscale Governing equations describing coupled seismo-electromagnetic fields Examples of successful seismoelectric field experiments in different geological settings Current and potential applications of seismoelectric coupling Noise removal techniques for seismoelectric field measurements The American Geophysical Union promotes discovery in Earth and space science for the benefit of humanity. Its publications disseminate scientific knowledge and provide resources for researchers, students, and professionals.
Download or read book Geophysical Abstracts written by Geological Survey (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 1444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Handbook for Seismic Data Acquisition in Exploration written by Brian J. Evans and published by SEG Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This illustration-rich book explains seismic data acquisition operations from a fundamental and practical standpoint, ranging from land to marine 2D methods to 3D seismic methods. Helpful to geologists, field crews, exploration managers, petroleum engineers, and geophysicists, each chapter concludes with exercises on field data recording problems.
Download or read book Fodor s See It London written by Fodor's and published by Random House Digital, Inc.. This book was released on 2012-10-23 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The practical illustrated guide"--Cover.
Download or read book Mining Intelligence and Knowledge Exploration written by Rajendra Prasath and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 862 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the proceedings of the First International Conference on Mining Intelligence and Knowledge Exploration, MIKE 2013, held in Tamil Nadu, India on December 2013. The 82 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 334 submissions. The papers cover the topics such as feature selection, classification, clustering, image processing, network security, speech processing, machine learning, information retrieval, recommender systems, natural language processing, language, cognition and computation and other certain problems in dynamical systems.
Download or read book Training Students to Extract Value from Big Data written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2015-01-16 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the availability of high-throughput data-collection technologies, such as information-sensing mobile devices, remote sensing, internet log records, and wireless sensor networks has grown, science, engineering, and business have rapidly transitioned from striving to develop information from scant data to a situation in which the challenge is now that the amount of information exceeds a human's ability to examine, let alone absorb, it. Data sets are increasingly complex, and this potentially increases the problems associated with such concerns as missing information and other quality concerns, data heterogeneity, and differing data formats. The nation's ability to make use of data depends heavily on the availability of a workforce that is properly trained and ready to tackle high-need areas. Training students to be capable in exploiting big data requires experience with statistical analysis, machine learning, and computational infrastructure that permits the real problems associated with massive data to be revealed and, ultimately, addressed. Analysis of big data requires cross-disciplinary skills, including the ability to make modeling decisions while balancing trade-offs between optimization and approximation, all while being attentive to useful metrics and system robustness. To develop those skills in students, it is important to identify whom to teach, that is, the educational background, experience, and characteristics of a prospective data-science student; what to teach, that is, the technical and practical content that should be taught to the student; and how to teach, that is, the structure and organization of a data-science program. Training Students to Extract Value from Big Data summarizes a workshop convened in April 2014 by the National Research Council's Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics to explore how best to train students to use big data. The workshop explored the need for training and curricula and coursework that should be included. One impetus for the workshop was the current fragmented view of what is meant by analysis of big data, data analytics, or data science. New graduate programs are introduced regularly, and they have their own notions of what is meant by those terms and, most important, of what students need to know to be proficient in data-intensive work. This report provides a variety of perspectives about those elements and about their integration into courses and curricula.
Download or read book Multi Robot Exploration for Environmental Monitoring written by Kshitij Tiwari and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2019-11 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Multi-robot Exploration for Environmental Monitoring: The Resource Constrained Perspective provides readers with the necessary robotics and mathematical tools required to realize the correct architecture. The architecture discussed in the book is not confined to environment monitoring, but can also be extended to search-and-rescue, border patrolling, crowd management and related applications. Several law enforcement agencies have already started to deploy UAVs, but instead of using teleoperated UAVs this book proposes methods to fully automate surveillance missions. Similarly, several government agencies like the US-EPA can benefit from this book by automating the process. Several challenges when deploying such models in real missions are addressed and solved, thus laying stepping stones towards realizing the architecture proposed. This book will be a great resource for graduate students in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Robotics, Machine Learning and Mechatronics. Analyzes the constant conflict between machine learning models and robot resources Presents a novel range estimation framework tested on real robots (custom built and commercially available)
Download or read book Proceedings of the International Field Exploration and Development Conference 2019 written by Jia'en Lin and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-07-11 with total page 3907 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gathers selected papers from the 8th International Field Exploration and Development Conference (IFEDC 2019) and addresses a broad range of topics, including: Low Permeability Reservoir, Unconventional Tight & Shale Oil Reservoir, Unconventional Heavy Oil and Coal Bed Gas, Digital and Intelligent Oilfield, Reservoir Dynamic Analysis, Oil and Gas Reservoir Surveillance and Management, Oil and Gas Reservoir Evaluation and Modeling, Drilling and Production Operation, Enhancement of Recovery, Oil and Gas Reservoir Exploration. The conference not only provided a platform to exchange experiences, but also promoted the advancement of scientific research in oil & gas exploration and production. The book is chiefly intended for industry experts, professors, researchers, senior engineers, and enterprise managers.
Download or read book Knowledge Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems written by Bruno Apolloni and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-09-12 with total page 907 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is part of a three-volume set that constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems, KES 2007. Coverage in this first volume includes artificial neural networks and connectionists systems, fuzzy and neuro-fuzzy systems, evolutionary computation, machine learning and classical AI, agent systems, and information engineering and applications in ubiquitous computing environments.
Download or read book Exploration Geophysics written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Neurodynamics An Exploration in Mesoscopic Brain Dynamics written by Walter Freeman and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2000-03-01 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cortical evoked potentials are of interest primarily as tests of changing neuronal excitabilities accompanying normal brain function. The first three steps in the anal ysis of these complex waveforms are proper placement of electrodes for recording, the proper choice of electrical or sensory stimulus parameters, and the establish ment of behavioral control. The fourth is development of techniques for reliable measurement. Measurement consists of comparison of an unknown entity with a set of standard scales or dimensions having numerical attributes in preassigned degree. A physical object can be described by the dimensions of size, mass, density, etc. In addition there are dimensions such as location, velocity, weight, hardness, etc. Some of these dimensions can be complex (e. g. size depends on three or more subsidiary coordi nates), and some can be interdependent or nonorthogonal (e. g. specification of size and mass may determine density). In each dimension the unit is defined with refer ence to a standard physical entity, e. g. a unit of mass or length, and the result of measurement is expressed as an equivalence between the unknown and the sum of a specified number of units of that entity. The dimensions of a complex waveform are elementary waveforms from which that waveform can be built by simple addition. Any finite single-valued function of time is admissible. They are called basis functions (lO, 15), and they can be expressed in numeric as well as geometric form.
