Technology

The Rightful Place of Science

The Rightful Place of Science

Subtitle
Future Conflict & Emerging Technologies

Braden R. Allenby

The newest book in The Rightful Place of Science series from Arizona State University's Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes, Future Conflict & Emerging Technologies…

Cover for the edited volume "Visions, Ventures, Escape Velocities: A Collection of Space Futures," depicting the inside of a futuristic space station.

Visions, Ventures, Escape Velocities

Subtitle
A Collection of Space Futures

Edited by Joey Eschrich and Ed Finn

Why should we go to space? To learn more about the universe and our place in it? To extract resources and conduct commerce? To demonstrate national primacy and technological prowess? To…

Cover image for "Frankenstein: Annotated for Scientists, Engineers, and Creators of All Kinds," featuring a black background and orange stylized text.

Frankenstein

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Annotated for Scientists, Engineers, and Creators of All Kinds

Mary Shelley

Edited by Jason Scott Robert, Ed Finn and David H. Guston

Mary Shelley’s "Frankenstein" has endured in the popular imagination for two hundred years. Begun as a ghost story by an intellectually and socially precocious eighteen-year-old author…

The book cover for What Algorithms Want, showing a distorted image of a city skyline in black and white.

What Algorithms Want

Subtitle
Imagination in the Age of Computing

Ed Finn

We depend on—we believe in—algorithms to help us get a ride, choose which book to buy, execute a mathematical proof. It’s as if we think of code as a magic spell, an incantation to…

Limited by Design: R&D Laboratories in the U.S. National Innovation System cover

Limited by Design

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R&D Laboratories in the U.S. National Innovation System

Michael M. Crow and Barry Bozeman

"Limited by Design" is the first comprehensive study of the varying roles played by the more than 16,000 research and development laboratories in the U.S. national innovation system…

"Synthetic Fuel Technology Development in the United States: A Retrospective Assessment" cover

Synthetic Fuel Technology Development in the United States

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A Retrospective Assessment

R. F. “Rick” Shangraw Jr., Michael M. Crow and Barry Bozeman

Direct coal liquefaction, a synthetic liquid fuel process, is one of the major developmental alternatives for meeting the anticipated fuel demands for the twenty-first century. This work…

"Strategic Management of Industrial R&D" cover

Strategic Management of Industrial R&D

Edited by Michael M. Crow and Barry Bozeman

Creativity, Technology & Education: Exploring their Convergence

Punya Mishra and Danah Henriksen

What is creativity? Why is it important? What does it look like across different disciplines and contexts? What role does technology play, if any, in the creative process? And finally,…

Cover of Bureaucracy: A Love Story edited by Gabriel Cervantes, Dahlia Porter, Ryan Skinnell, and Kelly Wisecup

Bureaucracy

Subtitle
A Love Story

Edited by Ryan Skinnell, Kelly Wisecup, Gabriel Cervantes and Dahlia Porter

Bureaucracy usually only becomes visible when it stops working — when a system fails, when an event gets off schedule, when someone points to a problem or glitch in a carefully…

Riemannian Computing in Computer Vision book cover

Riemannian Computing in Computer Vision

Edited by Pavan Turaga and Anuj Srivastava

This book presents a comprehensive treatise on Riemannian geometric computations and related statistical inferences in several computer vision problems. This edited volume includes…