A mind is a terrible thing to replace. Ten masters of speculative fiction explore the future of computerized intellect, and how humanity will interact with machines that can outthink them--and are learning to outsmart them. Computers were designed to think faster than the human mind. But solving mathematical equations and retaining dizzying amounts of information are minor achievements compared to the processing technology of tomorrow's artificial intelligences...machines capable of thinking independently without human input - and evolving into self-maintaining sentient beings. Ride the brainwaves of mechanical intellect with some of today's masters of speculative fiction, as a woman tries to outsmart a runaway A.I. and save the lives of her children...scientists lose control of a supercomputer with the power and omnipotence of a god...and a sentient starship falls in love with its pilot. These and seven more stories of man and machine await you in... A.I.s _AntibodiesÓ by Charles Stross _Trojan HorseÓ by Michael Stanwick _Birth DayÓ by Robert Reed _The Hydrogen WallÓ by Gregory Benford _The Turing TestÓ by Chris Beckett _Dante DreamsÓ by Stephen Baxter _The Names of all the SpiritsÓ by J.R. Dunn _From the Corner of My EyeÓ by Alexander Glass _HalfjackÓ by Roger Zelazny _Computer VirusÓ by Nancy Kress At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

"This manual establishes the policies, procedures, roles, and responsibilities governing the initiation, definition, design, development, deployment, operation, maintenance, management, and retirement of Automated Information Systems (AIS) within the United States Patent and Trademark Office"--Executive summary.

AIS is the revolution in marine navigation With an AIS receiver any yachtsman can identify any AIS equipped vessel within VHF range. The vessels name is displayed with vessel details such as course speed and turning rate. Previously AIS equipment cost more than £100. Now with this book an AIS receiver can be made from a low cost VHF receiver. The modification is simple and for the first time AIS for less than £30.00 is a real possibility.

This report describes an instrument, the Arizona Imager/Spectrograph (AIS), developed for the Geophysics Laboratory by the University of Arizona for use on the space shuttle. The instrument is a combination of spectrographs and imagers intended for the study of optical emissions in the vicinity of spacecraft. It includes nine spectrographs, which cover the spectral range from 115 to 1100 nm, with spectral resolutions ranging from 0.5 nm at short wavelengths to 1.3 nm at long wavelengths, and twelve imagers which ahve narrow, medium, and wide fields of view and optical bandpass filters to select particular wavelengths. The images and spectra are focused onto intensified CCD's. The design of this instrument is discussed and examples of test data are presented. Keywords: Spectrographs; Imagers; Space shuttles; Space flight. (RH).

AIS is the revolution in marine navigation With an AIS receiver any yachtsman can identify any AIS equipped vessel within VHF range. The vessels name is displayed with vessel details such as course speed and turning rate. Previously AIS equipment cost more than £100. Now with this book an AIS receiver can be made from a low cost VHF receiver. The modification is simple and for the first time AIS for less than £30.00 is a real possibility.