Frontiers Of Science And Technology
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Author | : Steve Fuller |
Publisher | : Polity |
Total Pages | : 481 |
Release | : 2007-10 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0745636942 |
Steve Fuller has a reputation for setting the terms of debate within science and technology studies. In his latest book, New Frontiers in Science and Technology Studies he charts the debates likely to be of relevance in the coming years. Should science and technology be treated as separate entities? What impact has globalization had on science and technology? Can science be clearly distinguished from other forms of knowledge? Does the politicization of science really matter? Is there a role for the social regulation of scientific inquiry? Should we be worried about research fraud? These questions are explored by examining an array of historical, philosophical and contemporary sources. Attention is paid, for example, to the Bruno Latour's The Politics of Nature as a model for science policy, as well as the global controversy surrounding Bjorn Lomborg's The Sceptical Environmentalist, which led to the dismantling and re-establishment of the Danish national research ethics board. New Frontiers in Science and Technology Studies will appeal strongly to scholars and advanced undergraduate and graduate students in courses concerned with the social dimensions of science and technology, and anyone who cares about the future of science.
Author | : Rajiv Garg |
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ISBN | : 9788185700007 |
Author | : Jean-Pierre Lasota |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2011-08-05 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9400716583 |
Astronomy is by nature an interdisciplinary activity: it involves mathematics, physics, chemistry and biology. Astronomers use (and often develop) the latest technology, the fastest computers and the most refined software. In this book twenty-two leading scientists from nine countries talk about how astronomy interacts with these other sciences. They describe modern instruments used in astronomy and the relations between astronomy and technology, industry, politics and philosophy. They also discuss what it means to be an astronomer, the history of astronomy, and the place of astronomy in society today.
Author | : Daniel Sarewitz |
Publisher | : Temple University Press |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2010-06-10 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1439903727 |
An incisive argument for fostering stronger links between the interests of society and progress in science.
Author | : Kyle Kirkland |
Publisher | : Infobase Publishing |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Computer science |
ISBN | : 0816074410 |
Investigates the research and discoveries of computer scientists whose efforts have expanded knowledge of the rapidly changing field of computer science.
Author | : Faouzi Derbel |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2017-03-20 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 3110436183 |
Communication & Signal Processing involving topics such as: Communications Theory and Techniques, Communications Protocols and Standards, Telecommunication Systems, Modulation and Signal Design, Coding Compression and Information Theory, Communication Networks, Wireless Communication, Optical Communication, Wireless Sensor Networks, MIMO Systems, MIMO Communications, Signal Processing for Communications e-Learning. Digital Signal Processing, Multiresolution Analysis, Wavelets, Smart Antennas, Adaptive Antennas, Theory and Practice of Signal Processing, Digital Signal Processing, Speech, Image, Video Signal Processing, Person Authentication, Biometry, Medical Imaging, Remote Sensing Analysis, Image Indexation, Image compression, Data Fusion and Pattern Recognition, Parallel Computing, Artificial Intelligence, Information Retrieval.
Author | : Cameron B. Strang |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2018-06-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1469640481 |
Cameron Strang takes American scientific thought and discoveries away from the learned societies, museums, and teaching halls of the Northeast and puts the production of knowledge about the natural world in the context of competing empires and an expanding republic in the Gulf South. People often dismissed by starched northeasterners as nonintellectuals--Indian sages, African slaves, Spanish officials, Irishmen on the make, clearers of land and drivers of men--were also scientific observers, gatherers, organizers, and reporters. Skulls and stems, birds and bugs, rocks and maps, tall tales and fertile hypotheses came from them. They collected, described, and sent the objects that scientists gazed on and interpreted in polite Philadelphia. They made knowledge. Frontiers of Science offers a new framework for approaching American intellectual history, one that transcends political and cultural boundaries and reveals persistence across the colonial and national eras. The pursuit of knowledge in the United States did not cohere around democratic politics or the influence of liberty. It was, as in other empires, divided by multiple loyalties and identities, organized through contested hierarchies of ethnicity and place, and reliant on violence. By discovering the lost intellectual history of one region, Strang shows us how to recover a continent for science.
Author | : Vannevar Bush |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 2021-02-02 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 069120165X |
The classic case for why government must support science—with a new essay by physicist and former congressman Rush Holt on what democracy needs from science today Science, the Endless Frontier is recognized as the landmark argument for the essential role of science in society and government’s responsibility to support scientific endeavors. First issued when Vannevar Bush was the director of the US Office of Scientific Research and Development during the Second World War, this classic remains vital in making the case that scientific progress is necessary to a nation’s health, security, and prosperity. Bush’s vision set the course for US science policy for more than half a century, building the world’s most productive scientific enterprise. Today, amid a changing funding landscape and challenges to science’s very credibility, Science, the Endless Frontier resonates as a powerful reminder that scientific progress and public well-being alike depend on the successful symbiosis between science and government. This timely new edition presents this iconic text alongside a new companion essay from scientist and former congressman Rush Holt, who offers a brief introduction and consideration of what society needs most from science now. Reflecting on the report’s legacy and relevance along with its limitations, Holt contends that the public’s ability to cope with today’s issues—such as public health, the changing climate and environment, and challenging technologies in modern society—requires a more capacious understanding of what science can contribute. Holt considers how scientists should think of their obligation to society and what the public should demand from science, and he calls for a renewed understanding of science’s value for democracy and society at large. A touchstone for concerned citizens, scientists, and policymakers, Science, the Endless Frontier endures as a passionate articulation of the power and potential of science.
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Total Pages | : 636 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Scientists |
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Release | : 1982 |
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ISBN | : 9780716715177 |