“…Along the way, Bell also shows how the public responded to these technologies and asks whether talking machines are even good for us. Using a wide range of intriguing examples, Vox Ex Machina is embedded in a wider story about people -- describing responses to voice synthesis technologies that often challenged prevailing ideas about computation and automation promoted by boosters of the Information Age. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Part 2 Confronting institutions -- 6 Performance in the museum: Shifting roles in performance art stewardship -- 7 Reviving culture: Puawai Cairns's vision for dynamic museums and performance conservation -- 8 Valinda Carroll, Kayla Henry-Griffin, Nylah Byrd, and Ariana Makau of Black Art Conservators on Black objects, performance, and the future of conservation -- 9 Brandie Macdonald: Conserving "Us": Caring for living heritage, oral tradition, and Indigenous knowledge -- 10 Copyright implications of the preservation of performance art -- Part 3 Conservation through artistic and embodied practice -- 11 Davide-Christelle Sanvee's La performance des performances as critical conservation -- 12 Rosanna Raymond on Conser.Vā.Tion -- 13 Urmimala Sarkar Munsi: Dance, embodied preservation, and unlearning in India -- 14 RYXPER1126AE, 2018 -- 15 Gisela Hochuli: In Strange Hands -- 16 Joanna Leśnierowska: Performance conservation as a political act -- 17 Towards conservative performance: A manifesto -- Index…”

“…Kurien draws on multi-site research in the US and India to provide a global perspective on religion by demonstrating the variety of ways that transnational processes affect religious organisations and the lives of members, both in the place of destination and of origin…”

“…Consequently, we need analytical frameworks that help us to make sense of this ever-changing phenomenon. …”

“…This book compares substantive and procedural aspects of compensation for wrongful convictions in European countries and the US, as well as the standard derived from the case law of the European Court of Human Rights. …”

“…The authors explore the potential of a maternal sensibility to move us towards maternal action that is explicitly political, ethical, and in relation to our others. …”

“…With a long historic perspective, this book goes through the modern history of western powers practicing economic statecraft since 1500, and presents three case studies, the US, the EU and China, the three biggest users of economic statecraft in contemporary world. …”

“…"In this updated 2nd edition, esteemed television executive and Harvard lecturer Ken Basin offers a comprehensive overview of the business, financial, and legal structure of the U.S. television industry, as well as its deal-making norms. …”

“…Much more than a how-to guide, the roadmaps, prompts, inner directed questions, and self-assessment tools will help you discover what most excites you professionally, how to set worthwhile career goals, find purpose in your career, achieve success, lead with compassion, find fulfillment, secure mentors and sponsors, and enhance your creative thinking to best compete in a global marketplace. Most of us don't spend adequate time thinking about what ignites our souls and makes careers roar-well enough to forge a fruitful and satisfying career path. …”

“…Six papers by researchers from Asia, US, and Europe were accepted for presentation at DroNet '19. …”

“…Our ability to develop models that can recognize objects on a given image has improved tremendously in the last decade, allowing us to monitor a region to detect flooding, or forest fires using high resolution imagery and videos collected by UAVs. …”

“…The digitization of large quantities of analogue data and the massive production of born-digital documents for many years now provide us with large volumes of varied multimedia data (images, maps, text, video, multisensor data, etc.), an important feature of which is that they are cross-domain. …”

“…AFIPS continues the tradition of the former Western Joint Computer Conferences by bringing together from all parts of the country men of talent who can provoke and inspire us to meet the challenges which face our industry today. …”

“…Our theme for 2020 is Future Bodies, Future Technologies. The theme invites us to speculate on a vision of how technologies could interact and interweave with our future bodies. …”

“…The National Computer Conference is an institution of the U.S. computer industry. Each year at the NCC, thousands representing companies, government agencies, and universities gather, and a forum is provided for hundreds of them. …”

“…We therefore introduce three new features in the history of KDD: Firstly, KDD 2021 accommodates both Singapore Time and US Time by allocating events and sessions to time slots best fit for authors and organizers within a full 24-hour time window for each conference day. …”

“…Well, then, I believe that many of us are here because of a continued enthusiasm in the possibilities of the computer. …”