Finally, we are learning that simplicity equals sanity. We're rebelling against technology that's too complicated, against DVD players with too many menus, and software accompanied by 75-megabyte "read me" manuals. The iPod's clean gadgetry has made simplicity hip. But sometimes we find ourselves caught up in the simplicity paradox: we want something that's simple and easy to u...(展开全部)

Finally, we are learning that simplicity equals sanity. We're rebelling against technology that's too complicated, against DVD players with too many menus, and software accompanied by 75-megabyte "read me" manuals. The iPod's clean gadgetry has made simplicity hip. But sometimes we find ourselves caught up in the simplicity paradox: we want something that's simple and easy to u...(展开全部)

We usually associate a sense of elegance with art or fashion design, poetry or dance, but the idea of elegance is surprisingly important in science as well. The use of the term is most apparent in the "elegant proofs" of mathematics--which Bertrand Russell once described as "capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show"--but as Ian Glynn reveals in this ...(展开全部)

作者简介 休•昂纳（Hugh Honour）：英国当代著名的艺术史家，1927年9月26日生于英格兰南部苏塞克斯郡海岸城镇伊斯特本，毕业于剑桥大学圣凯萨琳学院（St Catherine's College）。他与自己的终生合作伙伴约翰•弗莱明（John Fleming）合著的《世界艺术史》（A World History of Art, 1982）早已为许多中国读者所熟悉，该书以人类的文明发展为纵轴阐述艺术史的演变，被国际学术界认为是资料最新、阐述最为完整的艺术史通史。1972年，休•昂纳被推选为英国皇家文学院院士。

作者简介 休•昂纳（Hugh Honour）：英国当代著名的艺术史家，1927年9月26日生于英格兰南部苏塞克斯郡海岸城镇伊斯特本，毕业于剑桥大学圣凯萨琳学院（St Catherine's College）。他与自己的终生合作伙伴约翰•弗莱明（John Fleming）合著的《世界艺术史》（A World History of Art, 1982）早已为许多中国读者所熟悉，该书以人类的文明发展为纵轴阐述艺术史的演变，被国际学术界认为是资料最新、阐述最为完整的艺术史通史。1972年，休•昂纳被推选为英国皇家文学院院士。

Today’s most advanced neural networks and sophisticated image-analysis methods come from 1950s and ’60s Cold War culture—and many biases and ways of understanding the world from that era persist along with them. Aerial surveillance and reconnaissance shaped all of the technologies that we now refer to as computer vision, including facial recognition. The Birth of Computer Visio...(展开全部)

作者简介 休•昂纳（Hugh Honour）：英国当代著名的艺术史家，1927年9月26日生于英格兰南部苏塞克斯郡海岸城镇伊斯特本，毕业于剑桥大学圣凯萨琳学院（St Catherine's College）。他与自己的终生合作伙伴约翰•弗莱明（John Fleming）合著的《世界艺术史》（A World History of Art, 1982）早已为许多中国读者所熟悉，该书以人类的文明发展为纵轴阐述艺术史的演变，被国际学术界认为是资料最新、阐述最为完整的艺术史通史。1972年，休•昂纳被推选为英国皇家文学院院士。