eBooks ex machina? Dispatches from the New Digital Information Order
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Deus ex Machina
Once there was a time when mainframes walked the earth and reigned supreme over all the land. Lowly users were far too unclean and unschooled to commune with these vastly superior beings made of silicon and software, and so there arose among us a programming priesthood who served as intermediaries between human and machine. Like the monks of old, who studiously labored over the production of el...
متن کاملPercutaneous Ventricular Assist Devices: New Deus Ex Machina?
The development of ventricular assist devices has broadened the means with which one can treat acute heart failure. Percutaneous ventricular assist devices (pVAD) have risen from recent technological advances. They are smaller, easier, and faster to implant, all important qualities in the setting of acute heart failure. The present paper briefly describes the functioning and assets of the most ...
متن کاملEx Machina: Personal Attacks Seen at Scale
The damage personal attacks cause to online discourse motivates many platforms to try to curb the phenomenon. However, understanding the prevalence and impact of personal attacks in online platforms at scale remains surprisingly difficult. The contribution of this paper is to develop and illustrate a method that combines crowdsourcing and machine learning to analyze personal attacks at scale. W...
متن کاملMassively-Parallel Computing on Cog ex Machina
Cog ex Machina is a software framework for building massively-parallel applications on commodity, multicore hardware. Complex models may be expressed in a simple, abstract programming model, while hiding the complexities (threads, locks, synchronization, communication) of the underlying hardware platform. External Posting Date: August 7, 2012 [Fulltext] Approved for External Publication Interna...
متن کاملPreservation of ebooks: from digitized to born-digital
The scope of digital curation at the BnF covers documents digitized from BnF collections as well as born-digital material bought by the BnF or collected under its legal deposit mandate. It is therefore critical for the library to investigate if common approaches may be adopted for similar document types, whatever their origin may be. This paper proposes to focus on the case of electronic books ...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Against the Grain
سال: 2001
ISSN: 2380-176X
DOI: 10.7771/2380-176x.3640