A Compendium of Technological Leaps, Groundbreaking Discoveries, and Scientific Breakthroughs
This eclectic compendium will inform, inspire and fascinate anyone to know more about the moments of genius that gave shaped our lives today. An extraordinary guide to the greatest feats of ingenuity and innovation.
Once called the Yankee Da Vinci, Rufus Porter was an itinerant portrait painter and muralist, a publisher and author, an inventor of mechanical improvements, and an impresario who engineered an airship that promised to fly gold rush prospectors from New York to California in three days.
Techne's Paradox - a frequent theme in science fiction - is the commonplace belief that technology has both the potential to annihilate humanity and to preserve it. Advocating Weapons, War, and Terrorism looks at how this paradox applies to some of the most dangerous of technologies: population bombs, dynamite bombs, ......
Engineers build the foundation for solid and secure systems that we all use every day. The number of facts needed for those calculations is staggering and just one mistake can wreak havoc. This must-have reference to the core fundamentals of electronics is perfect for any student or professional. Concisely written so you can have more answers in 6 ......
Engineers build the foundation for solid and secure systems that we all use every day. The number of facts needed for those calculations is staggering and just one mistake can wreak havoc. This must-have reference to the core fundamentals of electronics is perfect for any student or professional. Concisely written so you can have more answers in 6 ......
Managing Agile Development for Competitive Advantage
Agile methodologies have become a popular and widely accepted method for managing software development. However, despite this success, managing agile methods has proven to be a real challenge for most companies, particularly those with complex products such as IoT devices and large development environments. Many companies have been forced to adopt ......
The Story Behind the Man Who Helped Launch 5 A.I. Companies Worth $25 Billion
On the Eve of the AI era, it is perfect timing to read an AI expert's autobiography, to learn about Dr. Kai-Fu Lee, the author of "AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley & the New World," also available on Amazon. This is the first and only authorized English version of Dr. Lee's autobiography. The original Chinese version of the sold 1.2 million ......
The laser--a milestone invention of the mid-twentieth century--quickly captured the imagination of the Pentagon as the key to the ultimate weapon. Veteran science writer Jeff Hecht tells the inside story of the adventures and misadventures of scientists and military strategists as they exerted Herculean though often futile efforts to adapt the ......
The Story Behind the Man Who Helped Launch 5 A.I. Companies Worth $25 Billion
On the Eve of the AI era, it is perfect timing to read an AI expert's autobiography, to learn about Dr. Kai-Fu Lee, the author of "AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley & the New World," also available on Amazon. This is the first and only authorized English version of Dr. Lee's autobiography. The original Chinese version of the sold 1.2 million ......
