Résultats pour "A" dans Sciences et technologies

Part autobiography, part manifesto: Timnit Gebru is one of the fiercest critics of silicon valley's current dominance of Artificial Intelligence. As a true insider who has worked for some of the major players in the field, as co-lead on the Ethics in AI team at Google, she exposed the racism...

This book aims to make the everyday life of a particle physicist working on one small part of one of the biggest experiments in the world—CERN's Large Hadron Collider—accessible to the general public: how does it work, why is it so difficult, and how do they manage to make it work anyway?...

Long before the world began seeking STEM - science, technology, engineering, and mathematics - education for girls, American Maria Mitchell proved that women were capable of achieving worldwide acclaim for brilliant reasoning and discoveries. Born to a Quaker family in 1818 Nantucket, Mitchell had opportunities unavailable to other girls of the time. The Quakers believed boys and girls should be educated, so Maria attended public schools. She also had the benefit of her father's tutelage. At an early age, she loved to perform the complex navigational computations requested by sailors.

In gripping prose, one of the world's leading cardiac surgeons lays bare both the wonder and the horror of a life spent a heartbeat away from death When Stephen Westaby witnessed a patient die on the table during open-heart surgery for the first time, he was struck by the quiet, determined way...