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| science made stupid: Science Made Stupid , 1985 A humorous takeoff on science texts and lab manuals. |
| science made stupid: Stupid Science Leland Gregory, 2009-06-15 Consider these cases of misdirected human activity, each in the name of science: The Illinois Department of Conservation spent $180,000 to study the contents of owl vomit. Georgia State University psychology professor James Dabbs discovered in 1988 that trial lawyers have about 30 percent more testosterone in their bodies than normal people (regardless of gender). Dabbs stated in the Journal of Applied Social Psychology that high testosterone levels are often linked to aggressiveness and antisocial behavior. We all knew that lawyers were full of something—now we know it's testosterone. What do stinky cheese and unclean feet have in common? They both attract mosquitoes according to a November 8, 1996 article from Reuters. |
| science made stupid: Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics Tom Rogers, 2007-11-01 In this fascinating and humorous guide, author Tom Rogers examines the real science behind stunts, plots, and special effects without ruining the fun of your favorite, universe-breaking action movies. Building on the work of the Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics website (http://www.intuitor.com/moviephysics/), this book questions classic 80s and 90s movies on 20 different topics, including: Can you ignite gasoline with the flick of a cigarette? What would shrinking the kids actually require? Would an explosion in space look like a scene from Star Wars? An informative romp through classic movies, Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics reveals the basic laws of physics and how Hollywood breaks them all—perfect for armchair Einsteins, movie buffs, or engaging lessons in the science classroom. |
| science made stupid: Science on the Web Edward J. Jr. Renehan, 2013-06-29 The World Wide Web is loaded with science and science-related material. For everyone who wants to learn more about this amazing resource, Ed Renehan has compiled this fun and informative guide to what's out there, what's interesting, what's new and who's doing it. Whether your interest is in artificial intelligence, Hubble Space Telescope images, or the latest dinosaur findings, the best sources and how to reach them are right here. |
| science made stupid: Science Made Easy Twining, 1876 |
| science made stupid: The Book of Stupid Questions Tom Weller, 1988-05-01 |
| science made stupid: Culture Made Stupid , 1987 With its mercifully short summaries of tricky ideas, handy tables and exhaustive trendy buzzwords and impressive concepts, this single volume can provide the cultural background of a prestigious university in only minutes! |
| science made stupid: Science Made Easy Thomas Twining, 1876 |
| science made stupid: The Year's Best Science Fiction Gardner Dozois, 1987-04 A collection of the best stories published in 1986. |
| science made stupid: The Science of Middle Earth Lehoucq, Mangin, Steyer, 2021-04-06 The surprising and illuminating look at how Tolkien's love of science and natural history shaped the creation of his Middle Earth, from its flora and fauna to its landscapes. The world J.R.R. Tolkien created is one of the most beloved in all of literature, and continues to capture hearts and imaginations around the world. From Oxford to ComiCon, the Middle Earth is analyzed and interpreted through a multitude of perspectives. But one essential facet of Tolkien and his Middle Earth has been overlooked: science. This great writer, creator of worlds and unforgettable character, and inventor of language was also a scientific autodidact, with an innate interest and grasp of botany, paleontologist and geologist, with additional passions for archeology and chemistry. Tolkien was an acute observer of flora and fauna and mined the minds of his scientific friends about ocean currents and volcanoes. It is these layers science that give his imaginary universe—and the creatures and characters that inhabit it—such concreteness. Within this gorgeously illustrated edition, a range of scientists—from astrophysicists to physicians, botanists to volcanologists—explore Tolkien’s novels, poems, and letters to reveal their fascinating scientific roots. A rewarding combination of literary exploration and scientific discovery, The Science of Middle Earth reveals the hidden meaning of the Ring’s corruption, why Hobbits have big feet, the origins of the Dwarves, the animals which inspired the dragons, and even whether or not an Ent is possible. Enhanced by superb original drawings, this transportive work will delight both Tolkien fans and science lovers and inspire us to view both Middle Earth—and our own world—with fresh eyes. |
| science made stupid: How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe (Enhanced Edition) Charles Yu, 2010-09-07 This enhanced eBook includes video, audio, photographic, and linked content, as well as a bonus short story. Hear TAMMY talk. Learn the origins of Minor Universe 31. See the TM-31. Take a trip in it. Photos and illustrations appear as hyperlinked endnotes. Video and audio are embedded directly in text. *Video and audio may not play on all readers. Check your user manual for details. National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Award winner Charles Yu delivers his debut novel, a razor-sharp, ridiculously funny, and utterly touching story of a son searching for his father . . . through quantum space–time. Minor Universe 31 is a vast story-space on the outskirts of fiction, where paradox fluctuates like the stock market, lonely sexbots beckon failed protagonists, and time travel is serious business. Every day, people get into time machines and try to do the one thing they should never do: change the past. That’s where Charles Yu, time travel technician—part counselor, part gadget repair man—steps in. He helps save people from themselves. Literally. When he’s not taking client calls or consoling his boss, Phil, who could really use an upgrade, Yu visits his mother (stuck in a one-hour cycle of time, she makes dinner over and over and over) and searches for his father, who invented time travel and then vanished. Accompanied by TAMMY, an operating system with low self-esteem, and Ed, a nonexistent but ontologically valid dog, Yu sets out, and back, and beyond, in order to find the one day where he and his father can meet in memory. He learns that the key may be found in a book he got from his future self. It’s called How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, and he’s the author. And somewhere inside it is the information that could help him—in fact it may even save his life. Wildly new and adventurous, Yu’s debut is certain to send shock waves of wonder through literary space–time. |
| science made stupid: You Are Not Stupid Jack C. Stanley, Erik Gross, 2020-06-11 This book defines all modern tech terms and explains how the machines and devices that saturate our everyday life work exactly. But here's the important part: the explanations in this book are written simply and in a way that the average person can understand. With over 100 chapters, you'll remove the confusions associated with modern-day technology, and gain answers to questions you may not even know you had. |
| science made stupid: The Annotated Build-It-Yourself Science Laboratory Windell Oskay, Raymond Barrett, 2015-04-30 Raymond E. Barrett's Build-It-Yourself Science Laboratory is a classic book that took on an audacious task: to show young readers in the 1960s how to build a complete working science lab for chemistry, biology, and physics--and how to perform experiments with those tools. The experiments in this book are fearless and bold by today's standards--any number of the experiments might never be mentioned in a modern book for young readers! Yet, many from previous generations fondly remember how we as a society used to embrace scientific learning. This new version of Barrett's book has been updated for today's world with annotations and updates from Windell Oskay of Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories, including extensive notes about modern safety practices, suggestions on where to find the parts you need, and tips for building upon Barrett's ideas with modern technology. With this book, you'll be ready to take on your own scientific explorations at school, work, or home. |
| science made stupid: Ignorance Stuart Firestein, 2012-04-23 Contrary to the popular view of science as a mountainous accumulation of facts and data, Stuart Firestein takes the novel perspective that ignorance is the main product and driving force of science, and that this is the best way to understand the process of scientific discovery. |
| science made stupid: Complexity M. Mitchell Waldrop, 2019-10-01 “If you liked Chaos, you’ll love Complexity. Waldrop creates the most exciting intellectual adventure story of the year” (The Washington Post). In a rarified world of scientific research, a revolution has been brewing. Its activists are not anarchists, but rather Nobel Laureates in physics and economics and pony-tailed graduates, mathematicians, and computer scientists from all over the world. They have formed an iconoclastic think-tank and their radical idea is to create a new science: complexity. They want to know how a primordial soup of simple molecules managed to turn itself into the first living cell—and what the origin of life some four billion years ago can tell us about the process of technological innovation today. This book is their story—the story of how they have tried to forge what they like to call the science of the twenty-first century. “Lucidly shows physicists, biologists, computer scientists and economists swapping metaphors and reveling in the sense that epochal discoveries are just around the corner . . . [Waldrop] has a special talent for relaying the exhilaration of moments of intellectual insight.” —The New York Times Book Review “Where I enjoyed the book was when it dove into the actual question of complexity, talking about complex systems in economics, biology, genetics, computer modeling, and so on. Snippets of rare beauty here and there almost took your breath away.” —Medium “[Waldrop] provides a good grounding of what may indeed be the first flowering of a new science.” —Publishers Weekly |
| science made stupid: The Year's Best Science Fiction: Third Annual Collection Gardner Dozois, 1986-04-15 The best gets better and bigger. The two-time Nebula Award winning author and recently named editor of Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine has compiled an awesome collection of science fiction from 1985. It includes eleven current Nebula Award Finalists, and works by such best-selling and award-winning authors as Orson Scott Card, John Crowley, Avram Davidson, William Gibson, Joe Haldeman, R.A. Lafferty, George R.R. Martin, Frederik Pohl, Kim Stanley Robinson, Robert Silverberg, James Tiptree, Jr., and Howard Waldrop. The finest new writers in the field are also represented, including recent Hugo and Nebula Award nominees such as James P. Blaylock, James Patrick Kelly, Nancy Kress, Lucius Shepard, Lewis Shiner, Bruce Sterling, Michael Swanwick, and Walter Jon Williams. More than ever, this massive and satisfying book is the best buy in science fiction. |
| science made stupid: Endless Forms Most Beautiful Sean B. Carroll, 2005 As described in this fascinating book, Evo Devo is evolutionary development biology, the third revolution in the science, which shows how the endless forms of animals--butterflies and zebras, trilobites and dinosaurs, apes and humans--were made and evolved. |
| science made stupid: Why People Believe Weird Things Michael Shermer, 2002-09-01 This sparkling book romps over the range of science and anti-science. --Jared Diamond, author of Guns, Germs, and Steel Revised and Expanded Edition. In this age of supposed scientific enlightenment, many people still believe in mind reading, past-life regression theory, New Age hokum, and alien abduction. A no-holds-barred assault on popular superstitions and prejudices, with more than 80,000 copies in print, Why People Believe Weird Things debunks these nonsensical claims and explores the very human reasons people find otherworldly phenomena, conspiracy theories, and cults so appealing. In an entirely new chapter, Why Smart People Believe in Weird Things, Michael Shermer takes on science luminaries like physicist Frank Tippler and others, who hide their spiritual beliefs behind the trappings of science. Shermer, science historian and true crusader, also reveals the more dangerous side of such illogical thinking, including Holocaust denial, the recovered-memory movement, the satanic ritual abuse scare, and other modern crazes. Why People Believe Strange Things is an eye-opening resource for the most gullible among us and those who want to protect them. |
| science made stupid: Science John Michels (Journalist), 1918 Vols. for 1911-13 contain the Proceedings of the Helminothological Society of Washington, ISSN 0018-0120, 1st-15th meeting. |
| science made stupid: The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern Science Michael Strevens, 2020-10-13 A paradigm-shifting, widely acclaimed work for our generation, The Knowledge Machine revolutionizes our understanding of the origins and structure of science. Michael Strevens’s “provocative and fascinating” (Jennifer Szalai, New York Times) investigation of science asks two fundamental questions: Why is science so powerful? And why did it take so long for the human race to start using science to learn the secrets of nature? The Knowledge Machine’s radical answer is that science, by nature, calls on its practitioners to do the irrational. By willfully ignoring religion, theoretical beauty, and especially philosophy, scientists embrace an unnaturally narrow method of inquiry, channeling unprecedented energy into observation and experimentation. Rich with vivid historical examples and widely acclaimed, Knowledge Machine overturns many of our most basic assumptions about scientific discovery. |
| science made stupid: Brilliant Blunders Mario Livio, 2014-05-27 Drawing on the lives of five great scientists -- Charles Darwin, William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), Linus Pauling, Fred Hoyle and Albert Einstein -- scientist/author Mario Livio shows how even the greatest scientists made major mistakes and how science built on these errors to achieve breakthroughs, especially into the evolution of life and the universe-- |
| science made stupid: The Three Failures of Creationism Walter Fitch, 2012-03-05 Walter M. Fitch, a pioneer in the study of molecular evolution, has written this cogent overview of why creationism fails with respect to all the fundamentals of scientific inquiry. He explains the basics of logic and rhetoric at the heart of scientific thinking, shows what a logical syllogism is, and tells how one can detect that an argument is logically fallacious, and therefore invalid, or even duplicitous. Fitch takes his readers through the arguments used by creationists to question the science of evolution. He clearly delineates the fallacies in logic that characterize creationist thinking, and explores the basic statistics that creationists tend to ignore, including elementary genetics, the age of the Earth, and fossil dating. His book gives readers the tools they need for detecting and disassembling the ideas most frequently repeated by creationists. |
| science made stupid: The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifth Annual Collection Gardner Dozois, 1988-05-15 This new volume of The Year's Best Science Fiction carries on the proud tradition, with stories by Pat Murphy, Bruce McAllister, Bruce Sterling, Kate Wilhelm, Alexander Jablokov, Walter Job Williams, Paul J. McAuley, Neal Barrett, Jr., Ursula K. Le Guin, Robert Silverberg, James Patrick Kelly, Octavia E. Butler, Howard Waldrop, Pat Cadigan, Lucius Shepard, Karen Joy Fowler, Joseph Manzione, Ian Watson, Susan Palwick, Michael Flynn, Dean Whitlock, R. Garcia y Robertson, Gene Wolfe, Michael McDowell, Orson Scott Card, Michael Bishop, Kim Stanley Robinson. More than ever, this anthology truly is the best science fiction of the year--the one volume no SF fan can be without. |
| science made stupid: Public Philosophy and Political Science E. Robert Statham, 2002-01-01 The crisis of western civilization is a crisis of public philosophy. This is the charge of Public Philosophy and Political Science, a stunning new collection of essays edited by E. Robert Statham Jr. Vividly cataloging the decay of the moral and intellectual foundations of civic liberty, the book portrays a generation of Americans alienated from institutions built on public philosophy. The work exposes the failure of America's political scientists to acknowledge and understand this alarming crisis in the American body politic. The distinguished contributors examine the evolution of public philosophy; the inextricable relationship between politics and philosophy; and the interplay between public philosophy, the constitution, natural law, and government. They reveal the dire threat to deliberative democracy and the fundamental order of constitutional society posed by public philosophy's waning power to refine, cultivate, and civilize. The work is an indictment of a society which has discarded a way of life rooted in natural law, democracy and the traditions of civility; and is a denunciation of an educated elite that has divorced itself from the standards upon which public philosophy rests. It is essential reading for philosophers and political and social scientists seeking to resurrect the standards of American public life. |
| science made stupid: Forbidden Archeology's Impact Michael A. Cremo, 1998 Examines the impact of the author's controversial 1993 book Forbidden Archaeology on the scientific community. |
| science made stupid: Bored, Lonely, Angry, Stupid Luke Fernandez, Susan J. Matt, 2020-07-07 An Entrepreneur Best Book of the Year Facebook makes us lonely. Selfies breed narcissism. On Twitter, hostility reigns. Pundits and psychologists warn that digital technologies substantially alter our emotional states, but in this lively investigation of changing feelings about technology, we learn that the gadgets we use don’t just affect how we feel—they can profoundly change our sense of self. When we say we’re bored, we don’t mean the same thing as a Victorian dandy. Could it be that political punditry has helped shape a new kind of anger? Luke Fernandez and Susan Matt take us back in time to consider how our feelings of loneliness, boredom, vanity, and anger have evolved in tandem with new technologies. “Technologies have been shaping [our] emotional culture for more than a century, argue computer scientist Luke Fernandez and historian Susan Matt in this original study. Marshalling archival sources and interviews, they trace how norms (say, around loneliness) have shifted with technological change.” —Nature “A powerful story of how new forms of technology are continually integrated into the human experience.” —Publishers Weekly |
| science made stupid: Not Born Yesterday Hugo Mercier, 2022-03-22 Why people are not as gullible as we think Not Born Yesterday explains how we decide who we can trust and what we should believe—and argues that we're pretty good at making these decisions. In this lively and provocative book, Hugo Mercier demonstrates how virtually all attempts at mass persuasion—whether by religious leaders, politicians, or advertisers—fail miserably. Drawing on recent findings from political science and other fields ranging from history to anthropology, Mercier shows that the narrative of widespread gullibility, in which a credulous public is easily misled by demagogues and charlatans, is simply wrong. Why is mass persuasion so difficult? Mercier uses the latest findings from experimental psychology to show how each of us is endowed with sophisticated cognitive mechanisms of open vigilance. Computing a variety of cues, these mechanisms enable us to be on guard against harmful beliefs, while being open enough to change our minds when presented with the right evidence. Even failures—when we accept false confessions, spread wild rumors, or fall for quack medicine—are better explained as bugs in otherwise well-functioning cognitive mechanisms than as symptoms of general gullibility. Not Born Yesterday shows how we filter the flow of information that surrounds us, argues that we do it well, and explains how we can do it better still. |
| science made stupid: Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art , 1863 |
| science made stupid: The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art , 1858 |
| science made stupid: The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, Art, and Finance , 1863 |
| science made stupid: Theory and Reality Peter Godfrey-Smith, 2021-07-16 How does science work? Does it tell us what the world is “really” like? What makes it different from other ways of understanding the universe? In Theory and Reality, Peter Godfrey-Smith addresses these questions by taking the reader on a grand tour of more than a hundred years of debate about science. The result is a completely accessible introduction to the main themes of the philosophy of science. Examples and asides engage the beginning student, a glossary of terms explains key concepts, and suggestions for further reading are included at the end of each chapter. Like no other text in this field, Theory and Reality combines a survey of recent history of the philosophy of science with current key debates that any beginning scholar or critical reader can follow. The second edition is thoroughly updated and expanded by the author with a new chapter on truth, simplicity, and models in science. |
| science made stupid: On the Relation Between Science and Religion George Combe, 1857 |
| science made stupid: On the relation between religion and science George Combe, 1857 |
| science made stupid: On the Relation between Science and Religion George Combe, 2023-06-14 Reprint of the original, first published in 1857. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost. |
| science made stupid: Lubek's Threelogy, the Sweet Science 2: Jan Lubek aka J.P.L Lubek aka Ljupce, 2013-12-04 Welcome To The 2013 Award Winning, Most Unique Booksite By Most Unique Award Winning Author J.P.L. Lubek!!! archive.is/YhQYx = educalingo.com/en/dic-pl/lubek “strong>Cena Mówi o Jakoci> LUBEK'S LEGACY: THE CHESS CASTLE 2000/0000 MOVE: archive.is/c2TdS, archive.is/949sw In My First Book: Rocky Marciano & Classic Boxing & Boxers are discussed, also comparison to new era boxers are mentioned. Me & my Dearest Grandma, the ever-wise Venerabilis Wanda Wladyslawa Nida (PTASZYNA ZLOCISTA) mother of Golden-Heart Grazyna Maria Nida, daughter of decorated mining engineer Tadeusz Nida, son of Postmaster Rudolf Nida) (encyclopediasupreme.org/Babcia, encyclopediasupreme.org/Philosophy/Warpeace.txt Wanda's Eternal Words of Wisdom) introduced the idea to the promise breaking WBC/Sulaiman family: archive.is/eVoto to erect Rocky Marciano statue in Brockton who owes us huge gratitude. You will find out lots of information on Rocky (and on many other topics, especially classic boxing) you never knew before. Special attention is given to Rocky's exhibitions in Asia (especially in Japan) & Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. Archie Moore was not the last fighter Rocky faced in the ring in front of a live audience because it happened in Brazil in March of 1956 against 3 opponents. The last fight was for real!!! November 2022 Update: Rocky fought 2 rounds each against: Nelson Andrade, Antônio Cândido (replaced Francisco de Assis) & Waldemar Adao: 1956 & 1957 Brazilian heavyweight champion. There is lots of information on 'The Super Fight' film Rocky had with Muhamed Ali shortly before he died as if God waited for this fight to happen. Discover Rocky's many weird business ventures & his care-free investments, his life during & after boxing. Find out why Rocky's only logical opponent 'Big' Bob Baker 45-5 (special chapter is dedicated to him, also to Rocky's Amateur 10-4 (8KOs) record) was supposed to be Rocky's opponent on February 3 1956? Why was Sonny Liston (Rocky almost became his manager in 1961) not included in the elimination tournament to choose Rocky's 1956 Fall Opponent? Did Rocky avoid Floyd Patterson, Bob Satterfield, John Holman, Johnny Summerlin, and undefeated Eddie Machen for the 1957 New Year's fight? In My Second Book: George 'Superman' Reeves & Paul Bern (among others) are covered. Find out who might have murdered them. Were Toni & Eddie Mannix behind 'foul play'? Did they play a key role in his death? Toni bombarded George with harassing calls even when he changed phone numbers. Find out who stole George's pet dog. Find out about George's wish to be a pro boxer & a pro wrestler. Find out about the Luger gun that killed George. Was it possible to play Russian roulette with it? Read about how Jack Larson almost filmed 13 episodes of 'Superman's Pal' but refused because it was morbid to him. In My Third Book: History of Reproducing Piano Rolls, I describe in details (especially from technical aspects) different companies who made piano rolls for piano players, player pianos (Pianolas) & reproducing pianos at the turn of the 20th century. I cover piano rolls making companies such as Duo-Art, Welte-Mignon (Welte & Sons from Freiburg, Germany), Ampico A & B & many others. I cover the story of the first Piano Player Vorsetzer, an original machine with wooden fingers which played the piano, reproducing the sounds of great masters like Paderewski, Leshetizky, Saint-Saens, Scriabin, Lhevinne, Hofmann & many others. Even if they are no longer with us their spirit lives on in these (reproducing) piano rolls. Genius Never Dies Venerable Wanda Nida always said In Latin: Dignum Laude Virum, Musa Vetat Mori!!! Sooner or later we all have to go but memories of our names live on. There is life in memories. As long as one is regularly remembered he/she never dies!!! encyclopediasupreme.org/Time MARCHES ON, IT SHOWS MERCY TO NO ONE!!! ~J.P.L. LUBEK~ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PUBLIC AWARENESS MESSAGE: CONFIRMED TRUE & ESSENTIAL INFO ON WIKIMEGALOMANIAC WIKIBASTARD JIMMY DONAL WALES' (KING NOTHING, GLOBALLY, INFINITELY BLOCK ED WIKI LOSER, WIFE CHEATING PORN KING: encyclopediadramatica.online/User:Jimbo_Wales just like his umbrella for wikiterrorism: encyclopediadramatica.online/User:WMFOffice) WIKIPEDIA (WIKI-PEDO-IA) WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION (WMF = THE INTELLECTUAL TRAGEDY OF THE 21ST CENTURY) DISINFORMATION/MISINFORMATION; WIKIPEDIA-WATCH RESURRECTED: archive.vn/CsyKa & archive.vn/Y0BB WIKIPEEDOIA BLOG: archive.is/k1iQk TRUE SIMILAR, CRITICAL COMMENTS, ETERNAL WIKISHAME ON FOREVER & EVER UNFORGIVEN WIKISCUM ETERNAL: archive.is/tg5A7 THEY WILL NEVER CREMATE!!! WHY NEVER, EVER SUPPORT WMF: xahlee.info/w/do_not_donate_to_Wikipedia.html IN ANY WAY, SHAPE OR FORM!?! IT'S CENSORED SATANIC ENCYCLOPEDIA WHERE ANYTHING GOES; ONE CAN'T GET MORE WIKISTUPID THAN ON WIKI-PEDO-IA WHERE UTMOST WIKISTUPIDITY & WMF BS MUST HAPPEN 24/7. YOU WILL BE BLOCKED FOR ANY REASON (encyclopediadramatica.online/User:Bbb23 WIKIRACIST ASSHOLE SUPREME IS BEST AT IT: archive.is/TyMT3, youtube.com/watch?v=bSQYxGkOvXA) WIKISHIT HAS TO GROW EXPONENTIALLY EVERY DAY!!! |
| science made stupid: The Art and Science of Homeopathic Medicine James Tyler Kent, 2002-01-01 Classic text by a distinguished physician summarizes, interprets, and systematizes the traditions of homeopathy; describes how to take a case history and study it; and explains how to interpret the many reactions to therapy and achieve a scientific understanding of a cure. Unabridged reprint of the classic 1900 edition. |
| science made stupid: Impirical Foundations of Information and Software Science Jagdish C. Agrawal, 2012-12-06 The purpose of the Second Symposium on Empirical Foundations of Informa tion and Software Science (EFISS) was, in essence, the same as that of the First Symposium in this series, i. e. to explore subjects and methods of sci entific inquiry which are of fundamental and common interest to information and software sciences, and to map directions of research that will benefit from the mutual interaction of these two fields. In fact, one of the most important results of the First EFISS Symposium was the conclusion that the commonality of these two sciences is much more than just the commonality of their objects of study, namely, the study of informative and prescriptive properties of texts in all kinds of sign sys tems (such as natural or artificial languages). Rather, the most challeng ing problems appear to be in the areas in which both these sciences overlap, such as, for instance, the problem of trade-offs between informative and prescriptive uses of texts. This problem can be formulated in generic terms as follows: given a certain kind of action or activity which has been pre scribed to some agent, i. e. which is required to be implemented or carried out, what kind of information should be provided to the agent, in what form, and how should it be distributed over the contextual structure of the pre scriptive text to enable the agent to carry out the action or activity most effectively and efficiently. |
| science made stupid: The World's Cyclopedia of Science , 1883 |
| science made stupid: Report of the Department of Science and Art of the Committee of Council on Education , 1896 |
| science made stupid: Library of Universal History and Popular Science ... Israel Smith Clare, 1910 |
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