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A Mentor-Based Robotics Program that Inspires Innovation!
(1st-12th Grade)
Saturdays; Jan. 6, Jan. 20, Feb. 3, Feb. 17, Mar. 2, Mar. 16, Apr. 13, Apr. 27, May 4, May 25;
2:30 p.m. at John and Judy Gay Library (JJGL)
63) Timelines
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
Description
Three girls die before their 21st birthdays. Kaileigh, 19, a victim in a fatal car accident; Amber, 16, bullied into taking her own life; and Jenna, 20, lost a fight with a rare disease. Soon after, their stories go viral and the world is given access to their lives and deaths. Kayleigh wrote a bucket list that was shared the world over after her death, inspiring thousands of strangers to live her dreams. Amber seemed to have it all, her suicide sent...
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Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Using personal stories, cutting edge research, and anecdotes from youth, parents, and professionals, Dodgen-Magee highlights the brain changes that result from excessive technology use and offers a mindful approach to assessing current technology use, breaking bad habits, setting new norms, and re-engaging with life with renewed richness and awareness.
67) Crypto Decoded
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
From Bitcoin to NFTs, crypto is making headlines, but what exactly is it, and how does it work? Experts go beyond the hype and skepticism to unravel the social and technological underpinnings of crypto--exploring how it came to be and why this new technology may change more than just money.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The good news is that the systems keeping personal, business, and government data safe are more advanced than they have ever been. The bad news is that the hackers trying to break into these institutions are also more advanced than they have ever been. This Bloomberg QuickTake delves into the complex world of cybersecurity in the 21st century.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The world’s largest live-fire cyber defense exercise is helping NATO members prepare for cyber warfare. Over the last eight years, 22 NATO and E.U. countries have been practicing the scenario of a cyber attack in Locked Shields, a war game run by the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence. NewsHour Weekend Special Correspondent Christopher Livesay reports.
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
When OpenAI, a company founded by Microsoft pioneer Bill Gates, unveiled ChatGPT in November 2022, it marked the biggest advance in artificial intelligence (AI) in years. The revolutionary new tool can take questions from users and produce human-like responses. ChatGPT and similar chatbots developed soon after can produce coherent essays, compose music, answer test questions—and perhaps even think. "Until now, artificial intelligence could read...
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Today 1.6 million people live according to the rhythm of the sun, for they have no access to electricity. Their lifestyle is minimalist, ritualized; each individual keeps to his or her role. But people are struggling to change this situation. This film tells the story of the arrival of electricity in Hathine, a tiny, isolated village in the forbidden mountains of northern Laos—one of the last Communist countries in the world—on the borders of...
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Artificial intelligence (AI) has made great advances in recent years and become more a part of our everyday lives. Many argue that AI will help solve major problems like climate change and world hunger. It will also help improve the economy and make it more efficient, they contend, by eliminating dangerous and mundane jobs. But critics warn that AI's current trajectory is a dangerous one, which will likely concentrate power, increase unemployment,...
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Description
When a robot kills a human, who takes the blame? The Truth About Killer Robots explores this question, as well as many other practical and ethical matters that humans face as we become more dependent on robots than ever before. An eerie, eye-opening work of science nonfiction, this 83-minute documentary from director Maxim Pozdorovkin (Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer) charts incidents in which robots caused the deaths of humans—in an automated Volkswagen...
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Massive open online courses, or MOOCs, that anyone can take from anywhere in the world are the future of higher education or the vehicle of its demise, depending on your perspective. Hari Sreenivasan talks with the man who first created the MOOC, professors who say they undermine the goals of a college education and others who see a way the college classroom and the new online format can be blended.
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Since the creation of Bitcoin, the first open-source, digital currency, in 2008, the use of cryptocurrency has skyrocketed in use. Unlike traditional money, which is minted and regulated by a national government, cryptocurrency, or crypto, is unregulated and free of government oversight. Digital currency has become so popular that central banks in more than 80 countries have begun the process of gearing their monetary systems in that direction. Supporters...
78) Time Bomb Y2K
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
As the clock counts down to the the 21st century, the world faces the largest potential technological disaster to ever threaten humanity. The problem is comically simple yet incredibly complex – a bug that could cause computers to misinterpret the year 2000 as 1900, sowing chaos throughout the world as electronic systems failed. Crafted entirely from archival footage and featuring first-hand accounts from computer experts, survivalists, scholars,...
79) The World Awaits
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Arguing for the abolition of nuclear weapons, this documentary catalogs the recent close calls humankind has had since the first use of nuclear weapons in August of 1945.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Description
There are monsters all around us, monsters that we made. Mankind has always manipulated nature, but in last century, frightening technologies have warped the animal kingdom, turning cockroaches, cats, dolphins, and even sharks into spies and weapons of war.
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