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...James E. Dobson Abstract Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are a key technology powering the automated technologies of seeing known as computer vision. CNNs have been especially successful in systems that perform object recognition from visual data. This article examines the persistence of a mid...

... funding was credit reporting industry, perhaps the most intensive site for compiling and distributing information about individuals, did not incorporate comput- provided by ers until 1965, when TRW Credit Data Corporation began computerized operations in Los Angeles.27 TRW, and the credit...

... (who does?) — and he certainly doesn’t like to write while someone else may watch the emergence of my words before I’ve had time to brush teeth, wash face, zip up pants, and suck in gut — usually in that order. In the city, he locks their door. On my computer, they have a firewall. I don’t say...

... his vision of the future, Marinetti implicitly evoked a subjectivity that was decidedly male, young, and carved out in relation to the past and the “feminine.” While neocriticism’s take on identity tended more toward the glorifi...

... d’Intelligence Artificielle Perceptive — a nonprofit semi- Social Text 96 • Fall 2008 8 7 private institute that researches automatic speech, speaker recognition, computer vision, and machine learning) announced...

... scholarly treatises on the intersections of technology and culture bears out this troubling future vision, although in the last year or so blacks have become increasingly prominent as consumer-users of computer products in both television commercials and print advertisements. Nonetheless, in the wake...

... tale of the development of the IBM System/360, The Mythical Man-­Month.12 Its publication in 1975 provided an influential explication of the nascent field of software engineering, drawn from the heart of what was the most powerful computer company in the world. Brooks’s argument about...

..., enclosure, and control. 31 This depiction, resonating with films like Dr. Strangelove and 2001: A Space Odyssey , made computers out to be cold, frightening, bureaucratic machines. 32 This impression, however, was directly challenged by the techno-utopian visions of New Communalist...

... in a possibly futile attempt to reckon visuality beyond all reckoning and thus glimpse its incorrigible capture of nearly All. Copyright © 2018 Duke University Press 2018 visuality image immateriality Sight, the king of the senses, the line of vision down the barrel of a gun. Pleasure or torture...

... beautiful: A cultural history of aesthetic surgery . Princeton,N.J.: Princeton University Press. Gould, Stephen Jay. 1996 . The mismeasure of man . New York: Norton. Haraway. 1989 . Primate visions: Gender, race,and nature in the world of science . New York: Routledge. Herrnstein, Richard J...

...Vincent Brown Creative historical scholarship demonstrates that archives are not just the records bequeathed by earlier times. Archives also consist of the tools we use to explore the past, the vision that allows us to read its signs, and the design decisions that communicate our sense of history's...

... Believe on one of those windows. Maybe they wanted to show how even from the crucial point of view of the ninety-first floor, vision is not a natural and neutral sense—rather, it requires believing. Note This work formed part...

... Sousveillance refers to people using digital tools to observe the observer, or at least to take control of their data. By using various computing devices and visual strategies, individuals can access their data and see who is watching them, effectively holding up a mirror to institutions of power. 10...

..., with data stored in different places around that platter. When your computer writes data to your drive, it does so in ‘blocks’ that are ordered sequentially from one side of the drive’s platter to the other. Fragmentation happens when those files get split between blocks that are far away from each other...

.../ . Davidov Dmitry , Rappoport Ari , and Tsur Oren . “ Enhanced Sentiment Learning Using Twitter Hashtags and Smileys .” Paper presented at COLING 2010, 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics , the Hebrew University, Beijing , August 2010 . www.aclweb.org/anthology/C10...

... to imagine alternatives. Before entering “ALIVE,” it is instructive to begin by recovering some of the origins, aspirations, and tactics of Nuit Debout, itself all but forgotten in France today. 8 More specifically, in retracing how the movement drew on a utopian vision of self-management and made...

... is the author of African Fractals: Modern Computing and Indigenous Design (Rutgers University Press, 1999). His anthology Appropriating Technology: Vernacular Science and Social Power is forthcoming from the University of Minnesota Press. His educational software for culturally based mathematics learning...

... Middle East region? Operation Urban Resolve 2015, the largest computer modeling and simulation exer- cise ever undertaken by the Department of Defense (DoD), played out this and hundreds of other scenarios similar to the power station attack in a series of virtual war games conducted...

... that music and the development of modern computer technology, from Babbage to Herman Hollerith to Napster, have long been intertwined. In the end, both Gaddis’s and Nancarrow’s visions of the player- piano have been borne out in notable...

...Claudio Saunt The spatial and cartographic turn in the humanities invites experimentation with new modes of historical storytelling. Those modes—interactive, participatory, and ever evolving—may redefine our vision of scholarship by creating innovative ways to distribute and create historical...