一场机器人革命正在进行。目前，工厂里有创纪录的310万台机器人在工作，从组装电脑到包装货物，再到监测空气质量和性能，无所不包。更多的智能机器以无数其他方式影响着我们的生活——提高外科医生的精准度、清洁我们的房屋、拓展我们与遥远世界的联系——而且，我们正处于更多激动人心的机遇的风口浪尖。 在《心脏与芯片》一书中，机器人学家丹妮拉·鲁斯和科普作家格雷戈里·莫内概述了机器人技术、人工智能和机器学习等相互关联的领域，并重新定义了我们对智能机器的思考方式，同时权衡了它们在社会中扮演的角色所带来的道德和伦理后果。机器人不会抢走我们的工作：它们会让我们更有能力、更高效、更精准。 罗斯和莫内既乐观又务实，他们设想了一个这样的世界：这些技术能够增强和提升我们作为个体和物种的技能和才能——一个机器人的普及让我们所有人都能变得更像人类的世界。 There is a rob...(展开全部)

Daniela Rus, a leading roboticist and computer scientist, explores how we can use a new generation of smart machines to help humankind. There is a robotics revolution underway. A record 3.1 million robots are working in factories right now, doing everything from assembling computers to packing goods and monitoring air quality and performance. A far greater number of smart machi...(展开全部)

The phenomenal bestseller, with more than 500,000 copies sold worldwide, now with a new epilogue from the author-- The Chalice and the Blade has inspired a generation of women and men to envision a truly egalitarian society by exploring the legacy of the peaceful, goddess-worshipping cultures from our prehistoric past.

拜伦．瑞希（Byron Reese） 热门技术科普作家，美国知名技术咨询公司GIGAOM的CEO。 他于 2013 年出版的书籍《无止的进程》（Infinite Progress）被史蒂芬•平克称为"给暗淡未来的解药"。彭博商业周刊称赞他"不动声色地开拓了新型媒体产业"。 他还是两个人工智能播客节目的主播，致力于在世界各地普及人工智能领域相关知识，听众超过100 000人，收获好评无数。

Three of the world’s most accomplished and deep thinkers come together to explore Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the way it is transforming human society—and what this technology means for us all. An AI learned to win chess by making moves human grand masters had never conceived. Another AI discovered a new antibiotic by analyzing molecular properties human scientists did not...(展开全部)

Three of the world’s most accomplished and deep thinkers come together to explore Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the way it is transforming human society—and what this technology means for us all. An AI learned to win chess by making moves human grand masters had never conceived. Another AI discovered a new antibiotic by analyzing molecular properties human scientists did not...(展开全部)

There is a wonder and magic to childhood. We don’t realize it at the time, of course . . . yet the adults in our lives do. They encourage us to see things in the stars, to find joy in colors and laughter as we play. But what happens when that special someone who encourages such wonder and magic is no longer around? We can hide, we can place our heart in a bottle and grow up . ...(展开全部)

Award-winning picture book star Oliver Jeffers explores themes of love and loss in this life-affirming, uplifting tale, due to be featured in a major motion picture. Once there was a girl who was full of wonderment at how the world worked. She shared all her dreams and excitement with her father, who always had the answer to every question. That is until one day when his chair ...(展开全部)

埃里克·格雷滕斯出生在美国密苏里州，高中毕业后获得杜克奖学金并进入杜克大学学习，其后又获得杜鲁门奖学金和罗德奖学金，进入牛津大学学习，获得博士学位。在牛津就读期间，格雷滕斯还曾获得英国大学体育联合会拳击冠军。为了进行相关研究，格雷滕斯曾赴卢旺达、阿尔巴尼亚、墨西哥、印度、克罗地亚、玻利维亚和柬埔寨从事人道主义工作。 2001年，格雷滕斯加入美国海军海豹突击队，并成为一名高级军官，曾多次赴海外执行作战和指挥任务，并获紫心勋章和铜星奖章。在伊拉克和阿富汗完成秘密作战任务回国后，格雷滕斯创建了“任务继续”组织，帮助伤残军人重新站起来，再次为国家服务。