Bøker av Stephen Baker

Written by Stephen Baker, That Behaviour Book: The simple truth about teaching childrenis an essential book for every teacher, providing an engaging and unique mix of anecdotes, practical strategies and moral imperatives for successful and child-centred behaviour management.

?The place to go if you're really interested in this version of the quest for creating Artificial Intelligence (AI).??Seattle Times For centuries, people have dreamed of creating a machine that thinks like a human. Scientists have made progress: computers can now beat chess grandmasters and help prevent terrorist attacks. Yet we still await a machine that exhibits the rich complexity of human thought?one that doesn't just crunch numbers, or take us to a relevant Web page, but understands us and gives us what we need. With the creation of Watson, IBM's Jeopardy! playing computer, we are one step closer to that goal. But how did we get here? In Final Jeopardy, Stephen Baker traces the arc of Watson's ?life,? from its birth in the IBM labs to its big night on the podium. We meet Hollywood moguls and Jeopardy! masters, genius computer programmers and ambitious scientists, including Watson's eccentric creator, David Ferrucci. We see how a new generation of Watsons could transform medicine, the law, marketing, even science itself, as machines process huge amounts of data at lightning speed, answer our questions, and possibly come up with new hypotheses. As fast and fun as the game itself, Final Jeopardy shows how smart machines will fit into our world?and how they'll disrupt it. ?Like Tracy Kidder's Soul of a New Machine, Baker's book finds us at the dawn of a singularity. It's an excellent case study, and does good double duty as a Philip K. Dick scenario, too.??Kirkus Reviews ?Baker's narrative is both charming and terrifying . . . an entertaining romp through the field of artificial intelligence?and a sobering glimpse of things to come.??Publishers Weekly, starred review

Money impacts every single one of us. Some see it as simply a means to an end, others view creating wealth as the aim of their life. It is even seen as inherently evil by some. Despite where you personally stand, have you ever stopped to deeply explore what the Bible, our true guide in every aspect of life, has to say about this divisive topic?

The author is a huge fan of Alan Bennett's work, having studied Talking Heads at A-level.All the characters in Brief Encounters are fictitious: tales of life changing encounters.

The author is a huge fan of Alan Bennett's work, having studied Talking Heads at A-level.All the characters in Reckoning are fictitious, it tells the story of individuals who find themselves seemingly in an impossible situation, with their backs against the wall. But fate plays its hand and tables are turned.6 monologues: 3 for men and 3 for women, all approximately 10 minutes long

Oh what a night, the last day of July 2019. A night I will always remember. I've been working here for the last two years serving the regulars and newcomers alike. Thought I'd seen everything I did, from impromptu strip shows to drunken brawls. Six for the Road is a collection of 6 sketches set in a pub which can be performed individually or as a whole.

The author is a huge fan of Alan Bennett's work, having studied Talking Heads at A-level. All the characters in Secrets are fictitious, reflecting individuals who are driven by ambition, and the need to be loved. The characters all suffer the consequences of keeping a secret.

The author is a huge fan of Alan Bennett's work, having studied Talking Heads at A-level. All the characters in Twists and Turns are fictitious, reflecting individuals who are driven by ambition, revenge or by the need to be loved. The characters are faced with choices and react accordingly; but find that the outcome is not always what they had planned.

The author is a huge fan of Alan Bennett's work, having studied Talking Heads at A-level. All the characters in Against the Tide are fictitious, reflecting individuals who see situations very differently to mainstream society; and who, due to circumstances, feel isolated and somewhat estranged even from those around them. Politics features in Queen of South Faxby and Moving with the Times, and in a previous work, The Waiting Man. This no doubt is due to 12 years spent in the political arena of local politics. Although light hearted, some of the characters lead quite sad existences.

Bloody Sunday was one of the most controversial events in the history of the Northern Ireland conflict and also one of the most mediated. This book identifies two countervailing impulses in media coverage of Bloody Sunday and its legacy, suggesting a more complex set of representations than a straightforward propaganda analysis might allow for.

Moving from the gas-flares of Teesside, to marine adventures in the South Atlantic, Hemispheres is a salutary and searing debut novel for anyone who enjoyed Kes and The Northern Clemency.

Much in the same way as neuroscientists are mapping our brains, mathematicians are mapping our behaviour - what we do, who we are, how we work, chat, play and shop - everything that makes us individuals.

The Fiction of Postmodernity is a significant and accessible new study of the relation of postmodern fiction to theories of the postmodern.