Ford, Martin (Martin R.)
Summary: Examines the effects of accelerating technology on the economic system.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books, a member of the Pereus Books Group 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 331 FORSummary: High school science whiz Ben Cooper goes online to win a computerized 'smart house' designed to make life easier. His real trouble begins when the smart house takes on a virtual motherly identity who is smothering, stubborn, and undeletable.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY SMACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SMAEnz, Tammy
Summary: Artificial intelligence (AI) is already part of our lives. AI can keep the refrigerator stocked and find our favorite music. Cars already brake automatically to avoid crashes and self-driving cars get closer every day. Learn how AI might change how we live and travel, along with the ethical dilemmas we face with a rapidly changing technology.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: An imprint of Capstone Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 006.3 ENZScott, Kevin
Summary: The continued development of AI has the potential to create abundance and opportunity for everyone and help solve some of our most vexing problems. But how do we work to ensure that the continued development of AI allows us to keep the American Dream alive? Kevin Scott offers a clear roadmap to find the answer.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 338 SCOSusskind, Daniel
Summary: "A down-and-out so-and-so gets more than he bargained for when a wave of automation sweeps him and his kind out to an oil-black, petroleum-stink sea of indolent excess and the promise of A WORLD WITHOUT WORK"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt & Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 331.25 SUSShadbolt, Nigel
Summary: The smart-machines revolution is reshaping our lives and our societies, but we are not about to be elbowed aside by a rebel army of super-intelligent robots of our own creation. We were using tools before we became Homo Sapiens, and will continue to build and master them, no matter how complicated they become. How we exercise that control - in our private lives, in employment, in politics - and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 006.301 SHATegmark, Max
Summary: "What jobs should be automated? How should our legal systems handle autonomous systems? How likely is the emergence of suprahuman intelligence? A.I. is the future of science, technology, and business--and there is no person better qualified or situated to explore that future than Max Tegmark. What has A.I. brought us? Where will it lead us? The story of A.I. is the story of intelligence--of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Until this decade, the question of immortality was the stuff of science fiction, but now experts in the fields of artificial intelligence and robotics suggest it will indeed be possible. This cinematic documentary explores the latest technological advancements in AI, robotics and biotech, and poses the question: what is the essence of the human mind, and can this be replicated? Or even more...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC A.RTSummary: The Little Tramp is an oppressed assembly-line factory worker who is used as a guinea pig for his employer's test of a new "Automatic Feeding Machine". He battles it out with technology, unemployment, jail, burglars, demanding customers and bosses. In the midst of his tribulations, he meets up with the girl of his dreams, "The Gamin". They win some and lose more but, at the end, they walk...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS-Fox Video 1992
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MODWest, Darrell M.
Summary: "Robots, artificial intelligence, and driverless cars are no longer things of the distant future. They are with us today and will become increasingly common in coming years, along with virtual reality and digital personal assistants. As these tools advance deeper into everyday use, they raise the question--how will they transform society, the economy, and politics? If companies need fewer...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brookings Institution Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.3 WESSummary: Nothing can replace the skills of good doctors and nurses, but without digital technology and advanced electronic systems, the field of medicine would soon collapse. X-Rays, ultrasounds, CT scans, and MRI and PET imaging all use electronics to map different aspects of the human body and convert the information into a visual format. This program visits one of the world's leading research centers...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: A new generation of industrial materials may change how we think about textiles. Many components of airplanes, including the wings, are already made using carbon fiber composites-a type of technical textile-and the ability of a Formula One racing car to crumple upon impact rather than crushing its driver is due to the properties of these materials. This program examines the construction of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: In 6,000 years of storytelling people have gone from depicting a bison hunt on cave walls to deploying Shakespeare on Facebook walls. The art of storytelling has remained unchanged, the story lines are largely recycled, but the media that humans use to relay tales has evolved with pure, consistent novelty. In this TEDTalk, iPad storyteller Joe Sabia demonstrates how new technology has enlivened...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: Imagine driving in complete darkness without worry-thanks to a virtual picture of the road projected on the windshield. It's an existing technology, not science fiction! With unprecedented access to top-flight engineering projects that are integral to the design of Jaguar cars, this program shows how electronics are taking the art and science of driving into the future. Viewers learn how...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Dannoritzer, Cosima
Summary: Examines how time became a financial commodity.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Icarus Films 2020
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TIMSummary: A comedy in which the vague and clumsy M. Hulot, in contrast to his more wealthy sister and brother-in-law, is constantly at odds with the modern world.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MonSummary: In this TEDTalk, computer scientist Luis von Ahn explains that every time we retype squiggly CAPTCHA letters for online verifications, we are simultaneously helping to digitize old books. The success of his CAPTCHA program led von Ahn to develop more ways to utilize ordinary online activity, or "crowdsource" - resulting in the language-learning site Duolingo, which aims to help users master a...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: UC Berkeley biologist Robert Full is fascinated with cockroach legs that allow them to scuttle at full speed across loose mesh and gecko feet that have billions of nano-bristles to run straight up walls. In this TEDTalk, Full discusses his research on the biomechanics of animal locomotion and his efforts to design the perfect robotic "distributed foot." "Dr Full cheerfully admits that some of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: Kwabena Boahen wants to understand how brains work - and to build a computer by reverse-engineering the human nervous system. His group at Stanford is developing Neurogrid, a hardware platform that will emulate the cortex's inner workings. As Boahen explains in this TEDTalk, his quest to mimic the brain's supercomputing powers in silicon must take into account the messy, redundant processes...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: Touching on biotech, nanotech, robotics, and bioinformatics, Dr. Daniel Kraft presents a vision of medicine that would be preventive, personalized, and participatory. This TEDTalk offers a fast-paced look at the next few years of medical innovation, focusing on the digital devices that will allow physicians to diagnose and even treat illness without using invasive procedures... and that will...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Buchanan, Marlon
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Home BuchananWare, Ruth
Summary: Rowan Caine's live-in nanny position in the Scottish Highlands turns from picture-perfect to a nightmare, leaving her in prison awaiting trial for murder.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WARCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WARWare, Ruth
Summary: "From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of In a Dark, Dark Wood, The Woman in Cabin 10, The Lying Game, and The Death of Mrs. Westaway comes Ruth Ware's highly anticipated fifth novel. When she stumbles across the ad, she's looking for something else completely. But it seems like too good an opportunity to miss--a live-in nannying post, with a staggeringly generous salary. And when Rowan...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scout Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC WARCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WARCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WARSummary: Will replacing a body part be as easy as replacing a light bulb some day? In Body Building, a part of the PBS Scientific American Frontiers series, host Alan Alda journeys behind the scenes with MIT's Robert Langer for a remarkable window into the current scientific advances in repair and replacement of damaged human body parts. The program follows scientists and researchers as they experiment...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2002