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Social Issues, Equality, and Technology
Lin Zou
This book explores social equality and justice issues in the political and economic life of the United States, in the creation and consumption of technology, and in the construction of identity. The book specifically examines structural inequality in the judicial system and the capitalist market system in the U.S. It also investigates social equality and justice concerns in the development of modern and emerging technologies, especially the internet, social media, AI and intelligent systems, nanotechnology, geoengineering, neurotechnology, and genetic engineering. Inequality issues are also analyzed in relation to the concepts of gender, racial, and national identity.
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HCI for Cybersecurity, Privacy and Trust: 6th International Conference, HCI-CPT 2024, Held as Part of the 26th HCI International Conference, HCII 2024, Washington, DC, USA, June 29 – July 4, 2024, Proceedings, Part I
Abbas Moallem
This proceedings, HCI-CPT 2024, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Cybersecurity, Privacy and Trust, held as Part of the 26th International Conference, HCI International 2024, which took place from June 29 - July 4, 2024 in Washington DC, USA.Two volumes of the HCII 2024 proceedings are dedicated to this year’s edition of the HCI-CPT Conference. The first focuses on topics related to Cyber Hygiene, User Behavior and Security Awareness, and User Privacy and Security Acceptance. The second focuses on topics related to Cybersecurity Education and Training, and Threat Assessment and Protection.
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The Band
Christine Ma-Kellams
A Korean boy band at the apex of global dominion suddenly finds one of its members cancelled after a controversial solo drudges up ancient ethnic rivalries, but when he escapes by hiding out in the McMansion of a married therapist with an illustrious history of falling for the very men she wants to save, the solution to the crisis turns out to be as disruptive as the problem. In its indicting portrayal of mental health and public obsession, fandom and cancel culture, THE BAND considers how old tribal allegiances based on ethnicity or history can disrupt modern-day celebrity and the many ways in which love devolves into something far more sinister when its demands are unmet.
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Tectonic Tongues / Lenguas Tectónicas
Stephanie Sherman
“Tectonic Tongues / Lenguas Tectónicas is a series of tender, deeply- felt, intimate poems in English, Spanish, and Spanglish that resist literary categorization. They cross multiple borders: between languages and identities, poetry and choreography, writing and visual art; and between Ecuador, Mexico, San Francisco, and Boston… [Stephanie’s] poems are full of sensual, visceral, kinesthetic and erotic metaphors… They [are] considered body-based poetry: a poetic/critical scholarship, where words and politicized bodies meet in tense queer intercultural feminist manifestos in movement. It is a must-read for feminists, border- crossers, dancers, romantics, nostalgics, city-lovers, and activists across the Américas.” (Guillermo Gómez Peña)
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The Playboy of the Western World—A New Version
Matthew Spangler
Bisi Adigun and Roddy Doyle’s adaption of J.M. Synge’s classic play "The Playboy of the Western World" (1907) had a sold-out run in Ireland’s National Theatre in 2007. The adaptation relocates the story from rural Ireland and places it in a contemporary Dublin pub with the central character recast as a Nigerian asylum-seeker. Under the co-authorship of Adigun – artistic director of Ireland’s first African theatre company – and best-selling, Booker Prize author Doyle, "The New Playboy" represented an exciting intercultural collaboration, and to date, remains the most commercially successful theatre production on the themes of race and immigration in contemporary Ireland.
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Religion, Science and Technology in North America: An Introduction
Lisa Stenmark
An introduction to the study of religion, science and technology in a North American context, providing the global and historical context needed to understand this field of study. Provides a history of what we call “religion” in relation to what we define as “science,” followed by chapters exploring key topics such as race, religion and science; secularism; religion and Covid-19; Indigenous communities and colonization; and gender and sexuality.
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Translating the Language of Patents
Françoise Herrmann
This book examines patent rules and regulations with linguistic impact, in view of understanding patents and preventing costly translation errors. Written by an experienced patent translator, teacher, and author of the blog Patents on the Soles of Your Shoes, this is a rigorously researched compendium for professional patent translators, and for students and translators in legal translation.
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Listening to Mars
Sally Ashton
Sally Ashton brings to readers what she heard as time and space had their way with us during the early years of the pandemic. In these poems, she creates Einsteinian thought experiments, tools for understanding and enduring the grief and beauty of a world where ‘nothing stands still.’ Loss and wonder, dread and awe gyrate throughout the book, spinning like heavenly bodies, the poet equally rigorous and tender in her search for ‘words that make the world look like what it feels like.’ Ashton reveres the mysterious movement of the world and offers it as a comfort.
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Transformative AI: Responsible, Transparent, and Trustworthy AI Systems
Ahmed Banafa
Transformative Artificial Intelligence provides a comprehensive overview of the latest trends, challenges, applications, and opportunities in the field of Artificial Intelligence. The book covers the state of the art in AI research, including machine learning, natural language processing, computer vision, and robotics, and explores how these technologies are transforming various industries and domains, such as healthcare, finance, education, and entertainment.
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Klinische und psychologische Perspektiven der Feststellung von Fremdverschulden
Stephen Morewitz
German translation of the English edition of Clinical and Psychological Perspectives on Foul Play. AI was used for the translation. The work examines a wide range of factors that can influence how police determine foul play in possible homicide cases and in other possible crimes. It develops a new theory of uncertainty at micro, meso, and macro levels to explain how law professionals arrive at this decision.
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The Pregnancy Police: Conceiving Crime, Arresting Personhood
Grace E. Howard
Decades before the overturning of Roe v. Wade, pregnant people faced arrest and prosecution for crimes against the pregnancies they gestated. The Pregnancy Police investigates the legal arguments undergirding these prosecutions and sheds light on the networks of health-care providers, social workers, and legal personnel participating in the surveillance and punishment of pregnant people. Drawing on analyses of legislation, statements from prosecutors and law enforcement, and records from over 1,000 arrest cases, Howard traces the history of state attempts to regulate and control pregnant people—from the early twentieth century's white supremacist eugenics to the end of Roe.
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Night Music, for Reed Quintet and Electronics
Christopher Luna-Mega
2022 composition performed by the San Francisco Conservatory of Music in 2024. All the musical materials in "Night Music" are derived from direct transcriptions and arrangements of recordings of the summer dusk and night sounds of insects and other creatures in a Virginia forest. Every movement in the piece is a fragment taken from a 35-minute recording of dusk. The striking increase in density and loudness as dusk becomes night is the guiding formal principle of the piece. The recordings, featured in the electronics, were made with five simultaneous microphones in a pentagonal formation, at a distance of ~30 meters between each mic. Each of the five microphone analyses and transcriptions was assigned to an instrument (mic 1 to ob.; mic 2 to cl., etc.), rotating the pairings in each movement. The multi-channel recording sought an expanded listening field resulting from the different microphone responses and placings. Among the various features of the night sounds, one particularly caught my ears: constantly microtonally morphing triads and their aggregates resulting from the superimposition of the multitude of crickets.
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Dust & Grooves: Volume 2
David Ma
Renowned photographer and publisher Eilon Paz returns after the successful release of Dust & Grooves: Adventures In Record Collecting. For Volume Two, Paz highlights the planet’s biggest proponents of vinyl collecting, bridging stunning images with extensive interviews, revealing the motives and backstories behind the global vinyl community. Ten years after the first release, with vinyl sales skyrocketing and a booming popularity among Gen-Zs, Volume Two digs deeper than its predecessor, underscoring gorgeous collections from astute everyday enthusiasts to venerated DJs, musicians, and producers. Veteran journalist and editor David Ma handles the editorial end to this sequel, writing and editing the entire written component of the book, making Volume Two a cultural leader in the field, expertly accentuating the world’s unifying devotion to vinyl.
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Introduction to Analysis, Theorems and Examples
Hidefumi Katsuura
This book focuses on the theoretical aspects of calculus. The book begins with a chapter on set theory before thoroughly discussing real numbers, then moves onto sequences, series, and their convergence. The author explains why an understanding of real numbers is essential in order to create a foundation for studying analysis. Since the Cantor set is elusive to many, a section is devoted to binary/ternary numbers and the Cantor set. The book then moves on to continuous functions, differentiations, integrations, and uniform convergence of sequences of functions. An example of a nontrivial uniformly Cauchy sequence of functions is given. The author defines each topic, identifies important theorems, and includes many examples throughout each chapter. The book also provides introductory instruction on proof writing, with an emphasis on how to execute a precise writing style
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Blooming in the Ruins: How Mexican Philosophy Can Guide Toward the Good Life
Carlos Alberto Sánchez
This book showcases the practical applications of Mexican philosophy. Now, when we think of philosophy that can guide us in our everyday lives, we are more likely to think of Ancient Greece or Rome than we are 20th-century Mexico. But Mexican philosophy is a rich and wide-ranging tradition with much to offer readers today. Emerging in defiance of the Western philosophy bound up with colonial power, it boasts a range of powerful ideas and advice for modern-day life. A tradition deeply tied to Mexico's history of colonization, revolution, resistance, and persistence through hardship, this philosophy has much to teach us.
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Weight of Dreams
Irene Carvajal
Inspired by Carvajal’s own immigrant journey and objects found in her family home back in Costa Rica, the Weight of Dreams is a site specific kinetic installation comprised of cast porcelain bells and laser cut objects suspended and interconnected by monofilament. The sounds and fragmented images created by the installation serve as a metaphor to the memories and echos of an immigrant’s past. One of 42 art installations selected to be part of THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT exhibition (September-October 2023) in Athens, Greece. Curated by Kostas Prapoglou.
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Specialty Crops for Climate Change Adaptation: Strategies for Enhanced Food Security by Using Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
Chandrasekar Vuppalapati
Specialty crops are defined as fruits and vegetables, tree nuts, dried fruits, horticulture, and nursery crops including floriculture. The value of specialty crop production in the United States accounted for 18.44 % of the $433.569 billion in agriculture cash receipts collected in 2021. In 2020, that ratio was 21.47% of the $363.464 billion. Specialty crops are gaining increasing attention across nation as demonstrated in the 2018 farm bill (Agricultural Act of the 2018 Farm Bill (P.L. 115-334)) with the increased number of provisions addressing specialty crop issues, reflecting their growing role in the global economy. The cultivation of Specialty crops, nevertheless, has its own challenges. Specialty crops are generally more sensitive to climatic stressors and require more comprehensive management compared to traditional row crops. Specialty crops face significant financial risks threatening US$1.6 Trillion global market due to their higher water demand. The mission of the book is to prepare current and future software engineering teams, agriculture students, economists, macroeconomists with the skills and tools to fully utilize advanced data science, artificial intelligence, climate patterns, and economic models to develop software capabilities that help to achieve Specialty crops and economic sustainability, through improved productivity for years to come and ensure enough food for the future of the planet and generations to come!
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Spatializing Language Studies: Pedagogical Approaches in the Linguistics Landscape
David Malinowski
This open access volume offers valuable new perspectives on the question of how mobility, locatedness and immersion in the physical world can enhance second language teaching and learning. It does so through a diverse array of empirical studies of language, literacy, and culture learning in the linguistic landscape of visible and audible public discourse. Written from conceptually rich and disciplinarily varied perspectives, its ten chapters address methodological and practical problems of relating language learning to the lived and rapidly changing places of the late modern world.
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Scenic Design for "Steel Magnolias"
Andrea Bechert
I was the Scenic Designer for the production of "Steel Magnolias" at the TheatreWorks which opened at the Mountain View Center for Performing Arts June 7, 2023. As the Scenic Designer, I oversee the design and visual aspects in three departments, and work directly with the people in those departments. These areas are Scenery (the architectural aspects of the setting), Scenic Art & Paints (the textures, painting, and finish of the scenery), and Properties (anything that you would move in or out of your house in a moving van including all décor). I can provide a ¼”=1’-0” scale color model, paint elevations, and drafting.
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Scenic design for "Fannie - The Music and Life of Fannie Lou Hamer"
Andrea Bechert
I was the Scenic Designer for the production of "Fannie - The Music and Life of Fannie Lou Hamer" at the TheatreWorks which opened at the Lucie Stern Theatre in Palo Alto on March 8, 2023. As the Scenic Designer, I oversee the design and visual aspects in three departments, and work directly with the people in those departments. These areas are Scenery (the architectural aspects of the setting), Scenic Art & Paints (the textures, painting, and finish of the scenery), and Properties (anything that you would move in or out of your house in a moving van including all décor). I can provide a ¼”=1’-0” scale color model, paint elevations, and drafting.
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San Jose.STL
Yoon Chung Han
San José.STL is the culmination of a San José State University-based project that included two creative learning workshops intended to introduce community members to the technology and creative potential of 3D printing. Offered in partnership with Chopsticks Alley Art and the San José Museum of Art, the first workshop took place at the Olinder Community Center in March 2023, and was led by artist Behnaz Farahi. The second workshop, led by UK-based artist Michael Eden, was held at the San José Museum of Art a month later. The free workshops were organized by SJSU Professor Yoon Chung Han, and served a broad cross section of San José’s diverse community. The exhibition is not only a celebration of the outcome, but of curiosity and creativity, community connections, and the power of collaboration.
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Public Obsceneties
Sukanya Chakrabarti
When Choton returns to Kolkata on a research trip with his Black American boyfriend Raheem, his grandfather’s photograph stares down at him from the walls of his family home. Choton loves being the translator, toggling nimbly between Bangla and English, interviewing queer locals, showing Raheem his world. But through the lens of Choton’s grandfather’s old camera, Raheem begins to notice things Choton can’t. 'Public Obscenities' is a bilingual play about the things we see, the things we miss, and the things that turn us on.
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Public Art as Resistance in San Jose
Katherine D. Harris, Kerri J. Malloy, and Alena Sauzade
Public Art as Resistance in San José, an ongoing project with a series of activities that investigates the history of resistance embedded in downtown San José public art. The research required to create a walking tour, panel of art experts, and community exhibit each act as sites of community dialogue and engagement that can afford agency through art. The primary resulting activity, a guided walking tour, begins on the urban campus of San José State University and continues through downtown San José, highlighting a history of resistance and community empowerment through twelve unique works of public art. While the art works that make up this tour are among the many murals, monuments, sculptures and ephemeral pieces of pieces of public art in this area and in the city at large, this particular walking tour takes a singular approach by considering how San José’s communities actively challenge narrow and exclusionary interpretations of local history through public art creation. The digital footprint for this project as a static website and a self-guided tour using a free mobile app, will be amplified with proposed funding requests to the National Endowment for the Humanities to create an augmented reality version in a unique mobile app that will create a sustainable digital representation of this tour and all of its collaborative partnerships. We continue to add works of art (and unfortunately retire some due to demolition of murals on buildings) with each successful funding. The activities inherent to building this project may become one of the future HonorsX courses and continue the tradition of our SJSU students becoming tour guides and experts about the social justice of public art.
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