Artificial intelligence (AI) and people's interactions with it—through virtual agents, socialbots,
and language-generation software—do not fit neatly into paradigms of communication …

ABSTRACT “Big Data” and “artificial intelligence” have captured the public imagination and
are profoundly shaping social, economic, and political spheres. Through an interrogation of …

In a digitally empowered business world, a growing number of family businesses are
leveraging the use of chatbots in an attempt to improve customer experience. This research …

A thousand years before Isaac Asimov set down his Three Laws of Robotics, real and
imagined automata appeared in European courts, liturgies, and literary texts. Medieval …

In human-machine communication, people interact with a communication partner that is of a
different ontological nature from themselves. This study examines how people conceptualize …

How transatlantic thinkers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries promoted the
unification of Britain and the United States Between the late nineteenth century and the First …

Since the mid 1960s, researchers in computer science have famously referred to chess as
the 'drosophila'of artificial intelligence (AI). What they seem to mean by this is that chess, like …

We are in the midst of a transition from a computer culture to a robotic culture in which
technologies are increasingly occupying more intimate social spaces in our lives and minds …

The era of the Scientific Revolution has long been epitomized by Galileo. Yet many women
were at its vanguard, deeply invested in empirical culture. They experimented with medicine …

How engineers and agricultural scientists became key actors in Franco's regime and Spain's
forced modernization. In this book, Lino Camprubí argues that science and technology were …