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10. A glance into the future
Michael Dunn and Tony Hope
in Medical Ethics: A Very Short Introduction (2nd edn)
The future of medical ethics, the ways in which it will develop and change, will be largely determined by the nature of the new situations that arise. ‘A glance into the future’ suggests ...
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6. Robotic futures
Alan Winfield
in Robotics: A Very Short Introduction
The story of robots is still unfolding. ‘Robotic futures’ looks to the future of robotic science in space exploration and other areas of everyday life. Would it be possible to build a ...
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5. The computer that cried
Dylan Evans
in Emotion: A Very Short Introduction (2nd edn)
The most recent discipline to have entered the debate on emotion is artificial intelligence. Since the early 1990s, computer scientists have become increasingly interested in building ...
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6. Heuristic computing
Subrata Dasgupta
in Computer Science: A Very Short Introduction
Many ordinary problems and everyday activities are not conducive to algorithmic solutions. Yet, people do perform these tasks and solve such problems, so what other computational means are ...
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Artificial Intelligence: A Very Short Introduction
Margaret A. Boden
The applications of Artificial Intelligence lie all around us and affect all aspects of our lives. The results of Artificial Intelligence have been invaluable to biologists, psychologists, ...
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Robotics: A Very Short Introduction
Alan Winfield
Robotics: A Very Short Introduction explains how it is that robotics can be both a success story and a disappointment, how robots can be both ordinary and remarkable, and looks ...
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1. What is a robot?
Alan Winfield
in Robotics: A Very Short Introduction
‘What is a robot?’ discusses three definitions of 'a robot': an artificial device that can sense its environment and purposefully act on or in that environment; an embodied artificial ...
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4. The global computer
Darrel Ince
in The Computer: A Very Short Introduction
‘The global computer’ aims to change the reader's perception of a computer from a single grey box to part of a global supercomputer linked via the Internet. Computers cannot solve every ...
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7. Computational thinking
Subrata Dasgupta
in Computer Science: A Very Short Introduction
What is computational thinking? The AI researcher Paul Rosenbloom’s interpretation focuses on two relationships: interaction (a ‘reciprocal action, effect or influence’ between two ...
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4. The art, science, and engineering of programming
Subrata Dasgupta
in Computer Science: A Very Short Introduction
Algorithmic thinking is sometimes not enough—programming is also required. A computer program is the specification of a desired computation in a language communicable to physical computers. ...
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Computer Science: A Very Short Introduction
Subrata Dasgupta
Over the past sixty years, there has been spectacular growth of the technologies associated with the computer. Yet, the science underpinning this technology is less visible and little ...
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