Author: Thierry Bardini Publisher: Stanford University Press ISBN: 9780804738712 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 326
Book Description
This tells the story of Douglas Engelbart's revolutionary vision, reaching beyond conventional histories of Silicon Valley to probe the ideology that shaped some of the basic ingredients of contemporary life.
Author: Thierry Bardini Publisher: Stanford University Press ISBN: 1503618366 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 326
Book Description
Bootstrapping analyzes the genesis of personal computing from both technological and social perspectives, through a close study of the pathbreaking work of one researcher, Douglas Engelbart. In his lab at the Stanford Research Institute in the 1960s, Engelbart, along with a small team of researchers, developed some of the cornerstones of personal computing as we know it, including the mouse, the windowed user interface, and hypertext. Today, all these technologies are well known, even taken for granted, but the assumptions and motivations behind their invention are not. Bootstrapping establishes Douglas Engelbart's contribution through a detailed history of both the material and the symbolic constitution of his system's human-computer interface in the context of the computer research community in the United States in the 1960s and 1970s. Engelbart felt that the complexity of many of the world's problems was becoming overwhelming, and the time for solving these problems was becoming shorter and shorter. What was needed, he determined, was a system that would augment human intelligence, co-transforming or co-evolving both humans and the machines they use. He sought a systematic way to think and organize this coevolution in an effort to discover a path on which a radical technological improvement could lead to a radical improvement in how to make people work effectively. What was involved in Engelbart's project was not just the invention of a computerized system that would enable humans, acting together, to manage complexity, but the invention of a new kind of human, "the user." What he ultimately envisioned was a "bootstrapping" process by which those who actually invented the hardware and software of this new system would simultaneously reinvent the human in a new form. The book also offers a careful narrative of the collapse of Engelbart's laboratory at Stanford Research Institute, and the further translation of Engelbart's vision. It shows that Engelbart's ultimate goal of coevolution came to be translated in terms of technological progress and human adaptation to supposedly user-friendly technologies. At a time of the massive diffusion of the World Wide Web, Bootstrapping recalls the early experiments and original ideals that led to today's "information revolution."
Author: Christopher Z. Mooney Publisher: SAGE ISBN: 9780803953819 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 84
Book Description
"This book is. . . clear and well-written. . . anyone with any interest in the basis of quantitative analysis simply must read this book. . . . well-written, with a wealth of explanation. . ." --Dougal Hutchison in Educational Research Using real data examples, this volume shows how to apply bootstrapping when the underlying sampling distribution of a statistic cannot be assumed normal, as well as when the sampling distribution has no analytic solution. In addition, it discusses the advantages and limitations of four bootstrap confidence interval methods--normal approximation, percentile, bias-corrected percentile, and percentile-t. The book concludes with a convenient summary of how to apply this computer-intensive methodology using various available software packages.
Author: Jürgen Weissenborn Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing ISBN: 9789027224910 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 328
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Volume 1 of Approaches to Bootstrapping focuses on early word learning and syntactic development with special emphasis on the bootstrapping mechanisms by which the child using properties of the speech input enters the native linguistic system. Topics discussed in the area of lexical acquisition are: cues and mechanisms for isolating words in the input; special features of motherese and their role for early word learning; the determination of first word meanings; memory and related processing capacities in early word learning and understanding; and lexical representation and lexical access in early language production. The papers on syntactic development deal with the acquisition of grammatical prosodic features for learning language specific syntactic regularities.Volume 2 of Approaches to Bootstrapping focuses on the interaction between the development of prosodic and morphosyntactic knowledge as evidenced in the early speech of Dutch, English, German, Portugese, Spanish, Danish, Islandic, and Swedish children sheding new light on the relation between universal and language specific aspects of language acquisition. Another section of this volume deals with new approaches to language acquisition using ERP- techniques. The papers discuss in detail the relation between the development of language skills and changes in neurophysiological aspects of the brain. The potentials of these techniques for the development of new tools for an early diagnosis of children who are at risque for developmental language disorders are also pointed out. The closing section contains a synopsis of interactionist approaches to language acquisition, a discussion of the genetic and experiential origin of primitive linguistic elements in acquisition, and a discussion of structural and developmental aspects of bird song in comparison to human language. The two volumes making up Approaches to Bootstrapping present a state-of-the art interdisciplinary and cross-linguistic overview of recent developments in first language acquisition research.
Author: Felix Bittmann Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG ISBN: 3110693348 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 128
Book Description
Bootstrapping is a conceptually simple statistical technique to increase the quality of estimates, conduct robustness checks and compute standard errors for virtually any statistic. This book provides an intelligible and compact introduction for students, scientists and practitioners. It not only gives a clear explanation of the underlying concepts but also demonstrates the application of bootstrapping using Python and Stata.
Author: Greg Gianforte Publisher: Booksurge Publishing ISBN: 9781419669552 Category : New business enterprises Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
Greg Gianforte, the nation's top Bootstrapper, shows you the advantages of Bootstrapping vs. traditionally financed start-ups. You'll also learn how the unconventional Bootstrapping mindset-inventive, pioneering, and skeptical of conventional wisdom-applies to you and your business. With Bootstrapping Your Business at your side, you'll gain the advantage you need to outperform the competition-and succeed in today's take-no-prisoners marketplace.
Author: Matthew W. Rutherford Publisher: Business Expert Press ISBN: 1606496999 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 118
Book Description
Strategic Bootstrapping is about helping entrepreneurs sift through the “noise” regarding bootstrapping a start-up. The cold-hard facts on bootstrapping are presented. Practically speaking, most entrepreneurs should avoid bootstrapping, realistically, most entrepreneurs will need to engage in some form of bootstrapping. The argument then shifts to how should one bootstrap? In this era of lean start-ups, effectuation, and bricolage, bootstrapping is oft romanticized but seldom analyzed. This book is different from other bootstrapping books in two key ways. First, it draws on evidence from scienti c study to offer best practices. Second, it utilizes this evidence to help en- trepreneurs thrive—not just survive.
Author: Bob Reiss Publisher: ISBN: 9780578024134 Category : Entrepreneurship Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
Written for existing and future small business owners, this book provides proven, practical tips requiring little or no money on how to grow a business. It also explains where and how to get free assistance and quality advice.
Author: Dagmar Bittner Publisher: Walter de Gruyter ISBN: 311030869X Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 276
Book Description
The internal bootstrapps for establishing the grammatical system of a human language build an essential topic in language acquisition research. The discussion of the last 20 years came up with the Lexical Bootstrapping Hypothesis which assigns lexical development the role of the central bootstrapping process. The volume presents work from different theoretical perspectives evaluating the strength and weaknesses of this hypothesis.
Author: Rupert Evill Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 1119874912 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 246
Book Description
Practical, cost-effective tools for personal and organizational risk mitigation In Bootstrapping Ethics: Integrity Risk Management for Real-World Application, accomplished fraud investigator and risk advisor Rupert Evill delivers a smart, simple, and hands-on guide to managing risk and ethics in your organization. You’ll learn to protect yourself, your organization, and your stakeholders from regulatory and other risks with frontline-tested strategies and frameworks designed to achieve both quick wins and long-term risk mitigation. In the book, the author shows you how to create tangible economic returns by reducing organizational exposure to common—and not-so-common—risks by promoting the right values, managing conflict, prioritizing the communities you serve, and preventing discrimination and harassment against your employees. You’ll also: Learn to manage external stakeholders and their expectations Keep your risk mitigation strategies cost-effective and straightforward so you can scale them throughout your organization Get on top of your diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts and make sure they’re getting results A can’t-miss resource for purpose-driven changemakers looking to maximize their impact at the organizations they serve and in the world, Bootstrapping Ethics is also the tactical and practical antidote to the seemingly endless stream of new regulations and oversight facing many modern firms.
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