Computers & Technology

Gathers various concepts, design, architecture, and standard specifications of Business Process Management (BPM), and offers examples that illustrate BPM's approach to process notation, execution, administration and monitoring. This book demonstrates standard ways to code processes that are centerpieces of a service-oriented architecture (SOA).

A timely and sensible challenge to the prevalent notion that computers necessarily enhance mental development and learning and a warning that computers might hinder a child's social development.

How can we live well when our time and data is being stolen; our relationships damaged and our sense of self warped - all by technology? For every stage of our lives, a leading psychologist and tech expert shows us how

Jaron Lanier, `the father of Virtual Reality ... a high-tech genius' (Sunday Times), tells the extraordinary story of how in just over three decades Virtual Reality went from being a dream to a reality - and how its power to turn dreams into realities will transform us and our world.

Futurists are certain that humanlike AI is on the horizon, but in fact engineers have no idea how to program human reasoning. AI reasons from statistical correlations across data sets, while common sense is based heavily on conjecture. Erik Larson argues that hyping existing methods will only hold us back from developing truly humanlike AI.

An urgent and eye-opening examination of how technology is leaving society open to myriad catastrophic threats.