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	Browse All Reviews > Computing Milieux (K) > Computers And Society (K.4) > General (K.4.0)     Options: All Media Types Journals Proceedings Div Books Whole Books Other Date Reviewed Title Author Publisher Published Date Descending Ascending     1-10 of 131 Reviews about "General (K.4.0)": Date Reviewed   Beyond data: reclaiming human rights at the dawn of the metaverse Renieris E., MIT Press, Cambridge,MA, 2023. 240 pp.  Type: Book (9780262047821) This book is a short, focused essay on data security and privacy. The author makes it clear that these are two separate matters that are often in conflict both in practice and in law. Each of the book’s three major sections emphasizes a diff... May 11 2023   Identifying informative tweets during a pandemic via a topic-aware neural language model Gao W., Li L., Tao X., Zhou J., Tao J. World Wide Web 2655-70, 2023.  Type: Article Years ago, when Twitter was a new social media tool, I reviewed an article for Computing Reviews that looked at how tweets can be used in emergency situations. This new paper follows along similar lines: Twitter can be used to help with spe... Apr 28 2023    Synthetic friends: a philosophy of human-machine friendship Kempt H., Palgrave Macmillan, New York, NY, 2022. 220 pp.  Type: Book (3031136306) The relationships between human beings and robots have been a significant part of science fiction since Isaac Asimov’s robot stories and novels, starting in 1950, and movies and television shows like Forbidden Planet, Blade Runner<... Apr 13 2023    A hacker’s mind: how the powerful bend society’s rules, and how to bend them back Schneier B., W. W. Norton, New York, NY, 2023. 304 pp.  Type: Book (0393866661) By thinking like a hacker, that is, understanding why and how complex systems can fail by finding and taking unfair advantage of imperfections, we might be able to minimize or eliminate unwanted and potentially catastrophic misuse. Common examples... Mar 29 2023    IoT for sustainable smart cities and society Rodrigues J., Agarwal P., Khanna K., Springer International Publishing, Cham, Switzerland, 2022. 338 pp.  Type: Book (303089553X) Before reading this review, take two minutes to reflect upon the following questions:... Feb 28 2023    AI 2041: ten visions for our future Lee K., Qiufan C., Currency, New York, NY, 2021. 480 pp.  Type: Book (978-0-593238-29-5) AI 2041 combines fiction and nonfiction in a satisfyingly long and dense book that attempts to depict artificial intelligence (AI) two decades from now. The first component, by Chen Qiufan (Stanley Chan), consists of ten short stories in a ... Dec 14 2022    Religion and the technological future: an introduction to biohacking, artificial intelligence, and transhumanism Mercer C., Trothen T., Palgrave Macmillan, Switzerland, 2021. 283 pp.  Type: Book (978-3-030623-58-6) When a professor of religion in North Carolina and a professor of ethics in Canada walk into a bar--oops, make that a classroom--what do they talk about? Apparently, they are interested in the power of “biohacking,” defined a... Dec 16 2021    Tools and weapons: the promise and the peril of the digital age Smith B., Browne C., Penguin Press, London, UK, 2019. 368 pp.  Type: Book (978-1-984877-71-0) Digital technology is both a sword and a plowshare. It is disruptive both in positive and negative ways, often at the same time. This book is a superbly written assembly of stories describing how Microsoft, often in partnership with ot... Feb 13 2020   Technology and the intelligence community: challenges and advances for the 21st century Kosal M., Springer International Publishing, New York, NY, 2018. 287 pp.  Type: Book (978-3-319752-31-0) If you have no background in the US intelligence community and your interests include the history, ethics, and organizational dynamics of intelligence agencies, you will find this book interesting. Technical intelligence began as a sup... Feb 19 2019   The stuff of bits Dourish P. (ed), MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2017.  Type: Book (9780262036207) We live in the Information Age, but that does not mean everything is virtual. We use our computers, which are physical entities. These computers are connected to data centers scattered across the globe, and these are physical entities.... Sep 26 2017       Display 510152550100 per page
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