Books by "John William Gibson"

12 books found

Geology of the British Isles

Geology of the British Isles

by Percy George Hamnall Boswell, Grenville Arthur James Cole, Arthur Morley Davies, Charles Davison, John Walter Gregory, Alfred Harker, Owen Thomas Jones, Percy Fry Kendall, Linsdall Richardson, William Whitehead Watts, Harold J. Osborne White

1917

Old English Catholic Missions

Old English Catholic Missions

by John Orlebar Payne

1889

Benjamin Gregory D.D.

Benjamin Gregory D.D.

by John Robinson Gregory

1903

Notes from My Journal when Speaker of the House of Commons

Notes from My Journal when Speaker of the House of Commons

by John Evelyn Denison Ossington (Viscount)

1899

Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Judicature of the State of Indiana

Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Judicature of the State of Indiana

by Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy

1889

"With tables of the cases and principal matters" (varies).

Machines of Loving Grace

Machines of Loving Grace

by John Markoff

2015 · HarperCollins

Robots are poised to transform today's society as completely as the Internet did twenty years ago. Pulitzer prize-winning New York Times science writer John Markoff argues that we must decide to design ourselves into our future, or risk being excluded from it altogether. In the past decade, Google introduced us to driverless cars; Apple debuted Siri, a personal assistant that we keep in our pockets; and an Internet of Things connected the smaller tasks of everyday life to the farthest reaches of the Web. Robots have become an integral part of society on the battlefield and the road; in business, education, and health care. Cheap sensors and powerful computers will ensure that in the coming years, these robots will act on their own. This new era offers the promise of immensely powerful machines, but it also reframes a question first raised more than half a century ago, when the intelligent machine was born. Will we control these systems, or will they control us? In Machines of Loving Grace, John Markoff offers a sweeping history of the complicated and evolving relationship between humans and computers. In recent years, the pace of technological change has accelerated dramatically, posing an ethical quandary. If humans delegate decisions to machines, who will be responsible for the consequences? As Markoff chronicles the history of automation, from the birth of the artificial intelligence and intelligence augmentation communities in the 1950s and 1960s, to the modern-day brain trusts at Google and Apple in Silicon Valley, and on to the expanding robotics economy around Boston, he traces the different ways developers have addressed this fundamental problem and urges them to carefully consider the consequences of their work. We are on the brink of the next stage of the computer revolution, Markoff argues, and robots will profoundly transform modern life. Yet it remains for us to determine whether this new world will be a utopia. Moreover, it is now incumbent upon the designers of these robots to draw a bright line between what is human and what is machine. After nearly forty years covering the tech industry, Markoff offers an unmatched perspective on the most drastic technology-driven societal shifts since the introduction of the Internet. Machines of Loving Grace draws on an extensive array of research and interviews to present an eye-opening history of one of the most pressing questions of our time, and urges us to remember that we still have the opportunity to design ourselves into the future—before it's too late.

A prospectus printed midway through the publication of J.G. Shea's four-volume History of the Catholic Church in the United States.