The Language of New Media
Author(s): Manovich, Lev Abstract: In this book Lev Manovich offers the first systematic and rigorous theory of new media. He places new media within the histories of visual and media cultures of the last few centuries. He discusses new media's reliance on conventions...
Learning to forget: Continual prediction with LSTM
Author(s): Gers, Felix A. Schmidhuber, Jürgen Cummins, Fred Abstract: Long short-term memory (LSTM; Hochreiter & Schmidhuber, 1997) can solve numerous tasks not solvable by previous learning algorithms for recurrent neural networks (RNNs). We identify a weakness...
Psychology, idea technology, and ideology
Author: Schwartz, Barry Abstract: Scientific development leads to a technology of ideas–idea technology–no less than it leads to a technology of objects But idea technology can have insidious effects that the technology of objects does not First, ideas can suffuse...
Self-control of traffic lights and vehicle flows in urban road networks
Author(s): Lämmer, StefanHelbing, Dirk Abstract: Based on fluid-dynamic and many-particle (car-following) simulations of traffic flows in (urban) networks, we study the problem of coordinating incompatible traffic flows at intersections. Inspired by the observation of...
The Satisfaction With Life Scale
Author(s): Diener, EdEmmons, Robert A.Larsen, Randy JGriffin, Sharon Abstract: This article reports the development and validation of a scale to measure global life satisfaction, the Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS). Among the various components of subjective...