1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910791560703321

Autore

Vaidhyanathan Siva

Titolo

The Googlization of everything [[electronic resource] ] : (and why we should worry) / / Siva Vaidhyanathan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2011

ISBN

1-283-27781-6

9786613277817

0-520-94869-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (281 p.)

Disciplina

338.7/6102504

Soggetti

Internet industry - Social aspects

Internet - Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: the gospel of Google -- "Render unto Caesar": how Google came to rule the web -- Google's ways and means: faith in aptitude and technology -- The Googlization of us: universal surveillance and infrastructural imperialism -- The Googlization of the world: prospects for a global public sphere -- The Googlization of the library: the future of books -- The Googlization of memory: filters and the fracturing of knowledge -- Conclusion: the human knowledge project.

Sommario/riassunto

In the beginning, the World Wide Web was exciting and open to the point of anarchy, a vast and intimidating repository of unindexed confusion. Into this creative chaos came Google with its dazzling mission-"To organize the world's information and make it universally accessible"-and its much-"ed motto, "Don't be evil." In this provocative book, Siva Vaidhyanathan examines the ways we have used and embraced Google-and the growing resistance to its expansion across the globe. He exposes the dark side of our Google fantasies, raising red flags about issues of intellectual property and the much-touted Google Book Search. He assesses Google's global impact, particularly in China, and explains the insidious effect of Googlization on the way we think. Finally, Vaidhyanathan proposes the construction of an Internet



ecosystem designed to benefit the whole world and keep one brilliant and powerful company from falling into the "evil" it pledged to avoid.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910965961603321

Autore

Roach G. F (Gary Francis)

Titolo

Mathematical analysis of deterministic and stochastic problems in complex media electromagnetics / / G.F. Roach, I.G. Stratis, A.N. Yannacopoulos

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Princeton, : Princeton University Press, 2012

ISBN

1-68015-903-8

1-283-43978-6

9786613439789

1-4008-4265-4

Edizione

[Course Book]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (400 p.)

Collana

Princeton series in applied mathematics

Altri autori (Persone)

StratisI. G <1955-> (Ioannis G.)

YannacopoulosA. N <1968-> (Athanasios N.)

Disciplina

537.01/519

Soggetti

Electromagnetism - Mathematics

Stochastic control theory

Mathematical analysis

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Modelling and mathematical preliminaries -- pt. 2. Time-harmonic deterministic problems -- pt. 3. Time-dependent deterministic problems -- pt. 4. Stochastic problems -- pt. 5. Appendices.

Sommario/riassunto

Electromagnetic complex media are artificial materials that affect the propagation of electromagnetic waves in surprising ways not usually seen in nature. Because of their wide range of important applications, these materials have been intensely studied over the past twenty-five years, mainly from the perspectives of physics and engineering. But a body of rigorous mathematical theory has also gradually developed, and this is the first book to present that theory. Designed for researchers and advanced graduate students in applied mathematics,



electrical engineering, and physics, this book introduces the electromagnetics of complex media through a systematic, state-of-the-art account of their mathematical theory. The book combines the study of well posedness, homogenization, and controllability of Maxwell equations complemented with constitutive relations describing complex media. The book treats deterministic and stochastic problems both in the frequency and time domains. It also covers computational aspects and scattering problems, among other important topics. Detailed appendices make the book self-contained in terms of mathematical prerequisites, and accessible to engineers and physicists as well as mathematicians.