PDF-[EBOOK]-Spaceflight: A Concise History (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series)

A concise history of spaceflight from military rocketry through Sputnik Apollo robots in space space culture and human spaceflight todaySpaceflight is one of the greatest human achievements of the twentieth century The Soviets launched Sputnik the first satellite in 1957 less than twelve years later the American Apollo astronauts landed on the Moon In this volume of the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series Michael Neufeld offers a concise history of spaceflight mapping the full spectrum of activities that humans have developed in spaceNeufeld explains that the space program should not be equated only with human spaceflight Since the 1960s unmanned military and commercial spacecraft have been orbiting near the Earth and robotic deepspace explorers have sent back stunning images of faraway planets Neufeld begins with the origins of space ideas and the discovery that rocketry could be used for spaceflight He then discusses the SovietUS Cold War space race and reminds us that NASA resisted adding female astronauts even after the Soviets sent the first female cosmonaut into orbit He analyzes the two rationales for the Apollo program prestige and scientific discovery this last something of an afterthought He describes the internationalization and privatization of human spaceflight after the Cold War the cultural influence of space science fiction including Star Trek and Star Wars space tourism for the ultrarich and the popular desire to go into space Whether we become a multiplanet species as some predict or continue to call Earth home this book offers a useful primer. edu Abstract We consider the sparse Fourier transform problem given a complex vector of length and a parameter estimate the largest in magnitude coe64259cients of the Fourier transform of The problem is of key interest in several areas including s Duane Theobald. dtheobal@westga.edu. . 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In this visual environment, everything we see--color, the moon, a skyscraper, a stop sign, a political poster, rising sea levels, a photograph of Kim Kardashian West--somehow becomes legible, normalized, accessible. How does this happen? How do we live and move in our visual environments? This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series offers a guide for navigating the complexities of visual culture, outlining strategies for thinking about what it means to look and see--and what is at stake in doing so.Visual culture has always been inscribed by the dominant and by domination. This book suggests how we might weaponize the visual for positive, unifying change. Drawing on both historical and contemporary examples--from Judy Chicago\'s The Dinner Party and Beyonc? and Jay-Z at the Louvre to the first images of a black hole--Alexis Boylan considers how we engage with and are manipulated by what we see. 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In Digital Apollo, engineer-historian David Mindell takes this famous moment as a starting point for an exploration of the relationship between humans and computers in the Apollo program. In each of the six Apollo landings, the astronaut in command seized control from the computer and landed with his hand on the stick. Mindell recounts the story of astronauts\' desire to control their spacecraft in parallel with the history of the Apollo Guidance Computer. From the early days of aviation through the birth of spaceflight, test pilots and astronauts sought to be more than spam in a can despite the automatic controls, digital computers, and software developed by engineers.Digital Apollo examines the design and execution of each of the six Apollo moon landings, drawing on transcripts and data telemetry from the flights, astronaut interviews, and NASA\'s extensive archives. 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Ceruzzi\'s account traces the world-changing evolution of the computer from a room-size ensemble of machinery to a minicomputer to a desktop computer to a pocket-sized smart phone. He describes the development of the silicon chip, which could store ever-increasing amounts of data and enabled ever-decreasing device size. He visits that hotbed of innovation, Silicon Valley, and brings the story up to the present with the Internet, the World Wide Web, and social networking. Today, machine learning underlies a range of applications we use every day, from product recommendations to voice recognition--as well as some we don\'t yet use everyday, including driverless cars. It is the basis of the new approach in computing where we do not write programs but collect data the idea is to learn the algorithms for the tasks automatically from data. As computing devices grow more ubiquitous, a larger part of our lives and work is recorded digitally, and as Big Data has gotten bigger, the theory of machine learning--the foundation of efforts to process that data into knowledge--has also advanced. In this book, machine learning expert Ethem Alpaydin offers a concise overview of the subject for the general reader, describing its evolution, explaining important learning algorithms, and presenting example applications. Alpaydin offers an account of how digital technology advanced from number-crunching mainframes to mobile devices, putting today\'s machine learning boom in context. He describes the basics of machine learning and some applications the use of machine learning algorithms for pattern recognition artificial neural networks inspired by the human brain algorithms that learn associations between instances, with such applications as customer segmentation and learning recommendations and reinforcement learning, when an autonomous agent learns act so as to maximize reward and minimize penalty. Alpaydin then considers some future directions for machine learning and the new field of data science, and discusses the ethical and legal implications for data privacy and security. The incredible story of how human pilots and automated systems worked together to achieve the ultimate achievement in flight--the lunar landings of NASA\'s Apollo programAs Apollo 11\'s Lunar Module descended toward the moon under automatic control, a program alarm in the guidance computer\'s software nearly caused a mission abort. Neil Armstrong responded by switching off the automatic mode and taking direct control. He stopped monitoring the computer and began flying the spacecraft, relying on skill to land it and earning praise for a triumph of human over machine. In Digital Apollo, engineer-historian David Mindell takes this famous moment as a starting point for an exploration of the relationship between humans and computers in the Apollo program. In each of the six Apollo landings, the astronaut in command seized control from the computer and landed with his hand on the stick. Mindell recounts the story of astronauts\' desire to control their spacecraft in parallel with the history of the Apollo Guidance Computer. From the early days of aviation through the birth of spaceflight, test pilots and astronauts sought to be more than spam in a can despite the automatic controls, digital computers, and software developed by engineers.Digital Apollo examines the design and execution of each of the six Apollo moon landings, drawing on transcripts and data telemetry from the flights, astronaut interviews, and NASA\'s extensive archives. Mindell\'s exploration of how human pilots and automated systems worked together to achieve the ultimate in flight--a lunar landing--traces and reframes the debate over the future of humans and automation in space. The results have implications for any venture in which human roles seem threatened by automated systems, whether it is the work at our desktops or the future of exploration. The Benefits of Reading Books,Most people read to read and the benefits of reading are surplus. But what are the benefits of reading. 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