Thinkwork: Working, Learning, and Managing in a Computer-Interactive Society by Fred Young Phillips
This volume explains how advances in computer technology will augment communication in person-to-person, organizational, and educational settings. It describes the convergence of "virtual reality" and group decision support, and how these will serve educational and organizational effectiveness.... Price:$108.95
Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Multi-Agent Systems: AAMAS 2005 International Workshops on Agents, Norms, and Institutions for ... / Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence) by Olivier Boissier
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the International Workshop on Agents, Norms and Institutions for Regulated Multiagent Systems, ANIREM 2005, and the International Workshop on Organizations in Multi-Agent Systems, OOOP 2005, held in Utrecht, The Netherlands in July... Price:$69.95
The Case of the Killer Robot: Stories about the Professional, Ethical, and Societal Dimensions of Computing by Wiley
A unique and entertaining look at the ethical issues in the computer science profession, this book tells the fictional story of a robot programmed to automate an assembly line that ended up taking the life of a worker. Using a variety of materials, from newspaper clippings, interviews, and the... Price:$31.80
Go to: The Story of the Math Majors, Bridge Players, Engineers, Chess Wizards, Scientists and Iconoclasts who were the Hero Programmers of the Software Revolution by Basic Books
The remarkable story of the scientific revolution that made the new economy possible-software-told through the unsung heroes of programming and their achievements. In the 1950s, just before John Backus's team developed the Fortran language that revolutionized the first generation of programming,... Price:$27.50
Engineering Societies in the Agents World: First International Workshop, ESAW 2000, Berlin, Germany, August 21, 2000. Revised Papers (Lecture Notes in ... / Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence) by Andrea Omicini
Proceedings of the First International Workshop, ESAW 2000, held in Berlin, Germany, on August 21, 2000, in conjunction with the 14th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Addressed coordination medial and technologies for engineering agent societies, and other topics of interest.... Price:$59.95
Human Values and the Design of Computer Technology by Batya Friedman
Human values--including accountability, privacy, autonomy, and respect for person--emerge from the computer systems that we build and how we choose to use them. Yet, important questions on human values and system design have remained largely unexplored. If human values are controversial, then on... Price:$28.00
Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager by Apress
Managing Humans is a selection of the best essays from Michael Lopps web site, Rands In Repose. Drawing on Lopp's management experiences at Apple, Netscape, Symantec, and Borland, this book is full of stories based on companies in the Silicon Valley where people have been known to yell at each... Price:$24.99
Social Networking Spaces: From Facebook to Twitter and Everything In Between (Beginning) by Apress
What the heck is Facebook? Twitter? Blogging? This book answers these questions and explains how to use a variety of social networking sites to keep in touch, stay in business, and have fun. This book covers the main social networking “spaces,” and introduces some of the ways people are... Price:$29.99
Practical Rails Social Networking Sites (Expert's Voice) by Apress
Practical Rails Social Networking Sites shows you the complete development cycle of a social networking community web site. The project develops first as a simple content management system, after which author Alan Bradburne progressively adds features in order to build a full Web 2.0�enabled... Price:$44.99
