This title tells the true story of the Turk, the infamous 18th-century automation. The story links an unlikely cast of historical characters, from Napoleon, Beethoven and Poe to the pioneers of the computer age, and provides an accessible way of examining the complex relationship between magic, man, mind and machine, from the Enlightenment to the computer age.

Part historical detective story, part biography, "The Turk" relates the saga of an unusual 18th-century robot--fashioned from wood to look like a man who was dressed like a Turk and played chess. 25 illustrations.

The Turk - or Mechanical Turk as it was sometimes called - was an ingenious mechanical chess player that defeated Frederick the Great, George III, and Napoleon (whom it caught cheating) and nearly fooled all America. Here, in this short-form book from historian Ernest Wittenberg, is the Turk's surprising and little-told story.

Conducting Online Research on Amazon Mechanical Turk and Beyond, by Leib Litman and Jonathan Robinson, provides researchers with step-by-step technical information on this important research platform. The book gives a broad view of the MTurk ecosystem and customs, hones in on common researcher pitfalls, and provides detailed data on sampling, ethics, and experimentation.

Baron Wolfgang von Kempelen dazzles the public with the "creation" of an automated chess-playing machine that is secretly operated from within by an outcast Italian dwarf, until the mysterious death of a seductive countess places the machine under suspicion.

This book is a guide for workers on how to make money online through the Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk). The book begins by taking you through a short section to help you learn what Amazon Mechanical Turk is. Of course, it is good for you to learn what it is so as to begin earning from it. The next step is a guide for you on how to get started by setting up your Mechanical Turk account. You will be briefly introduced to how to use the Mechanical Turk in this chapter. Next, the book guides you on how to use scripts, and you will learn their importance in Mechanical Turk. The most common scripts for MTurk are discussed. You are guided on how to install them and how to use them. The HIT Scrapper is a good tool and makes it easy and faster for you find HITs (Human Intelligent Tasks) on the Mechanical Turk. This book guides you on how to use this tool so as to make your work easier. It guides you on how to install the tool and use it to find the HITs. The mturk PandA is also a good tool for MTurk workers. It helps them grab HITs more easily, meaning that they will have more work to do and hence more earnings. The book guides you on how to use this tool. In MTurk, repetitive tasks forms majority of the HITs. It calls for you to come up with a way which will help you automate the repetitive tasks. This book guides you on how to do this by use of the AutoHotKey. The following topics are discussed in this book: - What is Mechanical Turk? - Account Setup - The Scripts - The HIT Scrapper - MTurk PandA - AutoHotKey for Turking - Turkmaster - The SearchHITs Operation

Net Works offers an inside look into the process of successfully developing thoughtful, innovative digital media. In many practice-based art texts and classrooms, technology is divorced from the socio-political concerns of those using it. Although there are many resources for media theorists, practice-based students sometimes find it difficult to engage with a text that fails to relate theoretical concerns to the act of creating. Net Works strives to fill that gap. Using websites as case studies, each chapter introduces a different style of web project--from formalist play to social activism to data visualization--and then includes the artists' or entrepreneurs' reflections on the particular challenges and outcomes of developing that web project. Scholarly introductions to each section apply a theoretical frame for the projects. A companion website offers further resources for hands-on learning. Combining practical skills for web authoring with critical perspectives on the web, Net Works is ideal for courses in new media design, art, communication, critical studies, media and technology, or popular digital/internet culture.