Silicon Valley technology is transforming the way we work, and Uber is leading the charge. An American startup that promised to deliver entrepreneurship for the masses through its technology, Uber instead built a new template for employment using algorithms and Internet platforms. Upending our understanding of work in the digital age, Uberland paints a future where any of us might be managed by a faceless boss. The neutral language of technology masks the powerful influence algorithms have a...
WINNER OF THE FT & McKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2021 The instant New York Times bestseller A Financial Times and The Times Book of the Year 'A terrifying expose' The Times 'Part John le Carre . . . Spellbinding' New Yorker We plug in anything we can to the internet. We can control our entire lives, economy and grid via a remote web control. But over the past decade, as this transformation took place, we never paused to think that we were also creating the world's largest attack su...
How to Get a Job and Succeed as a Investment Banker
by Janie Morrison
Since the 1980s, the United States has regressed to a level of economic inequality not seen since the Gilded Age in the late nineteenth century. At the same time, technological innovation has transformed society, and a core priority of public policy has been promoting innovation. What is the relationship between economic inequality and technological change? Mordecai Kurz develops a comprehensive integrated theory of the dynamics of market power and income inequality. He shows that technological...
Based on unprecedented access to the corporation's archives, The Intel Trinity is the first full history of Intel Corporation--the essential company of the digital age-- told through the lives of the three most important figures in the company's history: Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove.Often hailed the "most important company in the world," Intel remains, more than four decades after its inception, a defining company of the global digital economy. The legendary inventors of the microp...
Leading in a Technology-Driven WorldThe relationship of humans to technology is a ubiquitous theme in today's world of mobile devices, 24/7 internet access, and omnipresent digital business tools. The essays in this collection don't focus on a specific technology but on the challenges technology creates for management. In them Peter F. Drucker explores how managers can harness technology to enable workers to be more productive. In this collection he offers insights on: how technology affects the...
How to Get a Job and Succeed as a Management Consultant
by Janie Morrison
The adoption of multilayer analysis techniques is rapidly expanding across all areas of knowledge, from social sciences (the first facing the complexity of such structures, decades ago) to computer science, from biology to engineering. However, until now, no book has dealt exclusively with the analysis and visualization of multilayer networks. Multilayer Networks: Analysis and Visualization provides a guided introduction to one of the most complete computational frameworks, named muxViz, with in...
Discover the essential building blocks of the most common forms of deep belief networks. At each step this book provides intuitive motivation, a summary of the most important equations relevant to the topic, and concludes with highly commented code for threaded computation on modern CPUs as well as massive parallel processing on computers with CUDA-capable video display cards. The first of three in a series on C++ and CUDA C deep learning and belief nets, Deep Belief Nets in C++ and CUDA C: Vol...
This valuable collection includes 18 scholarly titles combined to create awareness among academicians and practitioners on the use of decision-making support systems, environments, theories, as well as decision aids for business ethics and how ethics and business combine and react. This collection offers an invaluable resource for librarians, researchers, academics, and practitioners.
Mcsd Visual C++ 6 Distributed Applications Study Guide (Certification Press S.)
Mastering Information Technology (Palgrave Masters Series (Computing))
by William Buchanan
Information Technology is one of the fastest growing industries, ever, and is an area which has an effect on all of us. This book discusses the technological backbone, which provides these services, and also discusses the business and social impacts of the information technology revolution. "Mastering Information Technology" uses a readable style, and the structure of the text is well balanced, with a rich mix of illustrations, Web links and multiple-choice questions.
Development of the Information Society
Harmful Content on the Internet and in Video Games (HC, Session 2007-08, 353-I)
Information Consultancy (Looking forward in librarianship)
by John Gurnsey and Martin S White
Business Knowledge for IT in Manufacturing