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Confessions Of A Technophile
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Author :Lewis M. Branscomb Publisher :Springer Science & Business Media ISBN 13 :9781563961182 Total Pages :280 pages Book Rating :4.9/5 (611 download)
Book Synopsis Confessions of a Technophile by : Lewis M. Branscomb
Download or read book Confessions of a Technophile written by Lewis M. Branscomb and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1997-05-07 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this technologically adventurous book, Lewis Branscomb-- distinguished physicist who once headed the National Bureau of Standards and later was IBM's Chief Scientist--explores the "wise and creative" uses of our nation's science, from the boundless faith in science after the Second World War, into the age of technology, which, says Branscomb, "is an expression of the values of the society that creates and uses it." Branscomb examines emerging information technologies--computer software, electronic libraries, video disks, and the information "superhighway"--always exploring the way people are affected. Here readers can share his vision of how we can use both science and politics to improve the prospects for humankind.
Book Synopsis Technology and the Contested Meanings of Sustainability by : Aidan Davison
Download or read book Technology and the Contested Meanings of Sustainability written by Aidan Davison and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2001-04-19 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This discussion responds to the work of Langdon Winner, Albert Borgmann, Charles Taylor, Martin Heidegger, David Abram, and others."--BOOK JACKET.
Book Synopsis Modern Library Technology and Reference Services by : Samuel T. Huang
Download or read book Modern Library Technology and Reference Services written by Samuel T. Huang and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dozen articles suggest a variety of ways for libraries to enhance their daily reference service and the image of librarianship, and to bring in more users. They emphasize the interaction of both the staff and the clients with new technology. Also published as The Reference Librarian, no. 39, 1993. No index. The paper edition has the same ISBN. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Book Synopsis National Science Policy Study, Parts I-VII by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science
Download or read book National Science Policy Study, Parts I-VII written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 1084 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Fundable Knowledge by : A.D. Van Nostrand
Download or read book Fundable Knowledge written by A.D. Van Nostrand and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Knowledge is the basic output of the defense technology establishment in the United States; it is what enables the development of weapon systems. From this premise, this volume explores the process of knowledge production in defense technology from the beginnings of the Cold War to the present time. Produced through the process of research and development (R&D), technical knowledge for defense is an economic commodity. It is "fundable" in the sense of having future value. Like other commodities in the futures market, it is purchased before it is produced. But unlike those other commodities, this knowledge is typically produced through the joint efforts of the customer and the vendor. This study highlights two polar aspects of knowledge production: technology development and technology transfer. It centers on the present, shifting concept of defense conversion that is redefining defense technology policy. The book also includes cited documents pertaining to the transactions that engage customers and vendors in the process of knowledge production. The documents constitute a literature of needs and claims, and they reveal two chief properties: problem formulation and tactical positioning. Apart from the substantive yield of these particular documents, the strategy of evidence in this volume has broad implications for further study, suggesting a means of analyzing knowledge production in other large social systems.
Book Synopsis Investing in Innovation by : Lewis M. Branscomb
Download or read book Investing in Innovation written by Lewis M. Branscomb and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortly after taking office in 1993, President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore called for a shift in American technology policy toward an expansion of public investments in partnerships with private industry. The authors of this volume were invited by the Clinton administration to take a hard, nonpartisan look at how successful the new policies have been and to propose ways to make their programs more effective. The first summary report of the team's recommendations was called the "hottest technology policy property on Capitol Hill."This book, an expansion of that report, offers a new set of technology policy principles. The authors use the principles to evaluate many federal research programs and to make recommendations for change. This volume will set the terms of the debate over the national research and innovation policy for years to come.
Author :United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science. Subcommittee on Environment, Technology, and Standards Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :140 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis The Future of the Advanced Technology Program by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science. Subcommittee on Environment, Technology, and Standards
Download or read book The Future of the Advanced Technology Program written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science. Subcommittee on Environment, Technology, and Standards and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis This Gifted Age by : John C. Gibbons
Download or read book This Gifted Age written by John C. Gibbons and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1997-10-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This welcome collection provides a glimpse of the power of a scientific training combined with a humane outlook in approaching major issues of public policy. Few people have spoken more wisely to the larger issues of science and technology in our national life." Frank T. Rhodes, President Emeritus, Cornell University
Book Synopsis Defending the Nation by : Juan C. Lucena
Download or read book Defending the Nation written by Juan C. Lucena and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2005 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Defending the Nation is a cultural history of science and engineering (S&E) policymaking in the United States from World War II to the post 9/11 era. It examines aspects of S&E policy related to education and industry through both historical and future perspectives. Author Juan Lucena argues that powerful social factors and groups have significantly influenced the education and training of scientists and engineers. This book provides policymakers, scientists, engineers, and educators with a deeper knowledge on which to build their reform agendas for the future.
Book Synopsis A Distant Light by : Henry W. Kendall
Download or read book A Distant Light written by Henry W. Kendall and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-12-23 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays by a Nobel Prize Laureate on a wide range of problems facing the world, and the role of scientists in solving them. Kendall was one of a group of physicists who founded the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) and is currently chairman of its board of directors. UCS is today a voice of authority in US government science policy, particularly with regard to environment issues. Together, these essays represent both the successes and failures of science to impact public policy, and offer practical guidelines for involvement in science policy. They are roughly chronological, organised by subject with introductions, beginning with the controversies on nuclear power safety and Three Mile Island, then followed by sections on national security issues, global environmental and resource problems, and radioactive cleanup. Kendall's Nobel Prize lecture is also included (and is the only really technical material in the book), while the photos are from a 1992 exhibition of his work.
Book Synopsis Converging Infrastructures by : Lewis M. Branscomb
Download or read book Converging Infrastructures written by Lewis M. Branscomb and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection explores the opportunities for and possible implications of coordination between two of the major pieces of emerging infrastructure in the United States: Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) and the National Information Infrastructure (NII). This collection explores the opportunities for and possible implications of coordination between two of the major pieces of emerging infrastructure in the United States: Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) and the National Information Infrastructure (NII). Based on a recent workshop that was sponsored by the U.S. Department of Transportation, MIT, and Harvard, Converging Infrastructures frames the programmatic, organizational, and technical issues involved.
Book Synopsis Bright Galaxies, Dark Matters by : Vera Rubin
Download or read book Bright Galaxies, Dark Matters written by Vera Rubin and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1996-11-22 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1965, Vera Rubin was the first woman permitted to observe at Palomar Observatory. In the intervening years, she has become one of the world's finest and most respected astronomers. This particular collection of essays is compiled from work written over the past 15 years and deals with a variety of subjects in astronomy and astrophysics, specifically galaxies and dark matter. The book also contains biographical sketches of astronomers who have been colleagues and friends, providing a stimulating view of a woman in science. About the Author Since 1965 Vera Rubin has been a staff member at the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. Dr. Rubin has authored nearly 200 papers on the structure of our galaxy, motions within other galaxies, and large scale motions in the universe. She has been a distinguished visiting astronomer at the Cerro Tololo Inter American Observatory in Chile; a Chancellor's Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Berkeley; a President's Distinguished Visitor at Vassar College; and a Beatrice Tinsley visiting professor at the University of Texas, Austin.
Download or read book Of One Mind written by John Ziman and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1997-05-08 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This superb collection by the eminent physicist and critic John Ziman, opens with an album of portraits of scientists--Albert Einstein, Freeman Dyson, Lev Landau, Mark Azbel, Andrei Sakharov. Ziman takes readers into the world of the contemporary scientist, showing how discoveries are made and how claims are tested. He then travels into the minds of scientists as they are drawn into competing directions. Here Ziman exposes the path of discovery, which is strewn with complex human needs, governmental restrictions, the desire for profits, and the exercise of technical virtuosity.
Author :Vitaliĭ Iosifovich Golʹdanskiĭ Publisher :Springer Science & Business Media ISBN 13 :9781563964541 Total Pages :332 pages Book Rating :4.9/5 (645 download)
Book Synopsis Essays of a Soviet Scientists by : Vitaliĭ Iosifovich Golʹdanskiĭ
Download or read book Essays of a Soviet Scientists written by Vitaliĭ Iosifovich Golʹdanskiĭ and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1997 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays, articles, and interviews that make up Essays of a Soviet Scientist offer a revealing portrait of Vitalii Gol'danskii and his generation. Here are Gol'danskii's reminiscences of his extraordinary scientific mentors and colleagues, his reflections on science's obligations to humanity, his writings on the arts and the media, his courageous and passionate arguments against nuclear weapons, and his warnings about the resurgence of anti-Semitism in today's Russia. Through the compassionate, authoritative perspective of Vitalii Gol'danskii, we find in the life of a man and a nation many lessons for us all. The role of science and the scientist in society...the oppressive influence of authoritarianism on a nation's intelligentsia...scientific integrity versus political expedience...the endurance of a people riding the great emotional pendulum of history...Essays of a Soviet Scientist has much to say about these and other crucial matters.
Book Synopsis Handbook of Research on Literacy in Technology at the K-12 Level by : Tan Wee Hin, Leo
Download or read book Handbook of Research on Literacy in Technology at the K-12 Level written by Tan Wee Hin, Leo and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2005-12-31 with total page 665 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book focuses on issues in literacy and technology at the K-12 level in a holistic manner so that the needs of teachers and researchers can be addressed through the use of state-of-the-art perspectives"--Provided by publisher.
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Book Synopsis Informed Legislatures by : Megan Jones
Download or read book Informed Legislatures written by Megan Jones and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Informed Legislatures offers the first comprehensive examination of technical information and decisionmaking in state legislatures and recommends ways to improve science and technology support to legislatures through staff, state universities, and other groups. Megan Jones, David H. Guston, and Lewis M. Branscomb report on fieldwork from eleven state legislatures. While partisan analysis is necessary in the legislative process, non-partisan sources are vital to help legislatures triangulate among special interests. The book argues that maintaining internal expertise is effective in the ongoing struggle of state legislatures to be independent of governors and lobbyists. Practioners interested in state legislatures, professionals in state and local government, lobbyists, state legislators and staff, public university administratives and faculty, and scholars who focus on the role of scientific and technical information in political institutions will find Informed Legislatures to be an invaluable resource. Co-published with the Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University.
