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  Man-made women: the sexual politics of sex dolls and sex robots
Richardson K., Odlind C., Palgrave Macmillan, New York, NY, 2023. 212 pp.  Type: Book (3031193806)

People with unconventional or even perverse desires sometimes search for alternatives to real human beings. This has led to the development of sex dolls and sex robots, referred to as “man-made women” in this book. However alarming, th...

Mar 21 2024
  A history of fake things on the Internet
Scheirer W., Stanford University Press, Redwood City, CA, 2023. 264 pp.  Type: Book (9781503632882)

With the advent of the Internet, changing perceptions of reality and “fakeness” have impacted user decisions to expose or hide their social identities. The positives of using or working with the Internet encourage real identities, wher...

Mar 20 2024
  Constructed truths: truth and knowledge in a post-truth world
Zoglauer T., Springer International Publishing, Cham, Switzerland, 2023. 162 pp.  Type: Book (3658399414), Reviews: (2 of 2)

Families gather during the holiday season, and heated discussions often erupt over politics and cultural values. This situation has become so frequent that it is standard fare in comedy sketches, jokes, and cartoons. It seems as though the opposin...

Mar 11 2024
  Data-driven prototyping via natural-language-based GUI retrieval
Kolthoff K., Bartelt C., Ponzetto S. Automated Software Engineering 30(1): 2023.  Type: Article

Reading this paper would leave anyone conflicted. It describes a good contribution ridden with flaws. It is puzzling that the referees and journal editors accepted the paper in its current form. The presentation style is verbose, and some of the l...

Mar 7 2024
  Constructed truths: truth and knowledge in a post-truth world
Zoglauer T., Springer International Publishing, Cham, Switzerland, 2023. 162 pp.  Type: Book (3658399414), Reviews: (1 of 2)

Many of us grew up used to having some news sources we could implicitly trust, such as well-positioned newspapers and radio or TV news programs. We knew they would only hire responsible journalists rather than risk diluting public trust and losing...

Mar 6 2024
  Data science: an introduction to statistics and machine learning
Plaue M., Springer International Publishing, Cham, Switzerland, 2023. 385 pp.  Type: Book (3662678810)

This comprehensive textbook covers a broad spectrum of essential topics for understanding and working in the field of data science. It is structured in a clear, well-organized manner, divided into three main parts....

Mar 1 2024
  The structure of game design
Wang W., Springer International Publishing, Cham, Switzerland, 2023. 298 pp.  Type: Book (3031322010)

Game design may seem mystifying to the uninitiated, but Wallace Wang’s The structure of game design attempts to demystify the process of turning an idea into an actual playable game. Structured more like a textbook than a trade book, ...

Feb 29 2024
  Practical implementation of a data lake: translating customer expectations into tangible technical goals
Paul N., Apress, New York, NY, 2023. 222 pp.  Type: Book (1484297342)

Practical implementation of a data lake is a puzzling book. Full of buzzwords and acronyms, it rarely provides their explanation. Writing is colloquial to the extreme, similar to the transcripts of informal discussions between experts, or t...

Feb 26 2024
  The future of work: challenges and prospects for organisations, jobs and workers
Lynn T., Rosati P., Conway E., van der Werff L., Palgrave Macmillan, New York, NY, 2023. 186 pp.  Type: Book (303131493X)

This collection of ten articles written as research papers--each constituting a different chapter of the book--is authored by 27 scholars and edited by four of them. The collection is essentially “a projection of how work, working,...

Feb 23 2024
  10 things software developers should learn about learning
Brown N., Hermans F., Margulieux L. Communications of the ACM 6778-87, 2024.  Type: Article

As software developers, we understand the detailed workings of the different components of our computer systems. And--probably due to how computers were presented since their appearance as “digital brains” in the 1940s--we so...

Feb 22 2024
 
 
 
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