AIS is the revolution in marine navigation With an AIS receiver any yachtsman can identify any AIS equipped vessel within VHF range. The vessels name is displayed with vessel details such as course speed and turning rate. Previously AIS equipment cost more than £100. Now with this book an AIS receiver can be made from a low cost VHF receiver. The modification is simple and for the first time AIS for less than £30.00 is a real possibility.
AIS is the revolution in marine navigation With an AIS receiver any yachtsman can identify any AIS equipped vessel within VHF range. The vessels name is displayed with vessel details such as course speed and turning rate. Previously AIS equipment cost more than £100. Now with this book an AIS receiver can be made from a low cost VHF receiver. The modification is simple and for the first time AIS for less than £30.00 is a real possibility.
SeaClear has been the favorite of yachtsmen worldwide for the past 15 years. It features all the bells and whistles of major chartplotters and navigation systems at a very low cost, in fact at no cost, as it is free to download and use from www.sping.com. Its major shortcoming has been the limited documentation supplied. SeaClear Unleashed brings you in depth information on using SeaClear in real life navigation situations. The unique tutorial led style written by a yachtman for yachtsmen unleashes the full potential of SeaClear.
The technology and application of artificial intelligence (AI) throughout society continues to grow at unprecedented rates, which raises numerous legal questions that to date have been largely unexamined. Although AI now plays a role in almost all areas of society, the need for a better understanding of its impact, from legal and ethical perspectives, is pressing, and regulatory proposals are urgently needed. This book responds to these needs, identifying the issues raised by AI and providing practical recommendations for regulatory, technical, and theoretical frameworks aimed at making AI compatible with existing legal rules, principles, and democratic values. An international roster of authors including professors of specialized areas of law, technologists, and practitioners bring their expertise to the interdisciplinary nature of AI.
We live in disruptive times. The world is changing faster than ever before, leaving people dazed, businesses struggling, economies floundering and societies fracturing. But why? Transition Point is the result of over five years of research to establish the answer; a breathtaking tale of freedom, unintended consequences and disruptive technologies that starts 1000 years ago and ends up in the second half of the 21st Century. Starting with an examination into the drivers of technological change and the social, economic and political factors that both enable or suppress it, Transition Point explains why industrialisation happened where and when it did, why progress comes in waves, and why the technologies in the current wave, such as robotics, blockchain and AI, are likely to be the most disruptive of all. It then addresses the million-dollar question: what’s next? What impact will this wave have on our businesses, our economies and most importantly, on our society? Culey explores how our current trajectory could result in a new golden age, but also how it is just as likely to result in a digital dictatorship of compliance and constant surveillance. Finally, he explains why we may soon see Homo sapiens’ role as the dominant species come to an end. As Klaus Schwab, founder of the World Economic Forum, stated; "We stand on the brink of a technological revolution that will fundamentally alter the way we live, work, and relate to one another. In its scale, scope, and complexity, the transformation will be unlike anything humankind has experienced before." Transition Point explains why this is happening, what it means, and why the decisions we make now will prove to be critical.
Generative AI in Teaching and Learning delves into the revolutionary field of generative artificial intelligence and its impact on education. This comprehensive guide explores the multifaceted applications of generative AI in both formal and informal learning environments, shedding light on the ethical considerations and immense opportunities that arise from its implementation. From the early approaches of utilizing generative AI in teaching to its integration into various facets of learning, this book offers a profound analysis of its potential. Teachers, researchers, instructional designers, developers, data analysts, programmers, and learners alike will find valuable insights into harnessing the power of generative AI for educational purposes.
As we program machines to be more like humans, how will they know what we value, if we don't know ourselves? The notion of robots gaining consciousness is beginning to become a reality, but the future of human happiness is dependent on our ability to teach machines what we value the most today. Featuring pragmatic solutions drawing on economics, emerging technologies, and positive psychology, Heartificial Intelligence provides a road map to help readers embrace the present and better define their future. Using fictional vignettes to help readers relate to larger concepts, this book paints a vivid portrait of how our lives might look in either a dystopia of robot dominance or a utopia where we use technology to enhance our natural abilities and evolve into a long-lived, super-intelligent, and caring species.
Giving readers a solid understanding of all key features, methodologies, and real world applications of Oracle8, this title covers the long-awaited new version of Oracle's RDBMS. The book also explores hot topics such as Sedona, deploying on the Web, data warehousing, business objects, and integrating multimedia, HTML, Java apps, and unstructured text in databases. The CD-ROM includes source code and development and administration tools.
Our socio–economic innovation ecosystem is riddled with ever-increasing complexity, as we are faced with more frequent and intense shocks, such as COVID-19. Unfortunately, addressing complexity requires a different kind of economic governance. There is increasing pressure on economics to not only going beyond its traditional mainstream boundaries but also to tackle real-world problems, such as fostering structural change, enhancing sustained growth, promoting inclusive development in the era of the digital economy, and boosting green growth, while addressing the divide between the financial sector and the real economy. This book demonstrates how to apply complexity science to economics in an effective and instructive way, in the interest of life-enhancing policies. The book revolves around the non-negligible problem of why economics, to date, seems to be inadequate in guiding economic governance to navigate through real and ever-intensifying complex socio–economic and environmental challenges. With its interdisciplinary approach, the book scans the nuanced nexus between complexity and economics by incorporating, as well as transcending, the state-of-the-art literature. It identifies ways to trigger opportunities for behavioural change in the economic profession with respect to how and what to teach, introducing and developing further complexity economics taking into account the configuration of its main principles and outlining the silhouette of next-generation economic governance. The book deciphers recommendations for economic theory, practice, education and economic governance. It will be of interest to students, scholars, academics, think-tank researchers and economic policy practitioners at the national and/or supranational levels.
