"The Project" tells the story of a young boy who is struggling with weight and everything that goes along with it, including rejection from other students and low self-esteem. He suggests... More > to his sixth-grade health class that they make healthy weight loss and improved energy the subject of their year long class project. The amazing results of the project give this character and all his classmates a delightfully happy and healthy ending!
This fictional story is not only entertaining and educational for children, but should be read by every teacher, principal or parent who wants to motivate children, make learning more fun, and reduce childhood obesity in their community.< Less
In a not too distant future, it is a world of adept amateur programmers and ultra powerful personal computers. The fear is that one of these amateurs may unleash the first A.I.
A computer security... More > programmer must either prove that A.I. is impossible or must produce a working example of it in order to develop safeguards against it. Her colleagues are all working with power and speed, yet she sees no solution in this. She knows she must attempt to prove that a machine could never think as a human, but in order to prove it she must first understand what consciousness is.
She turns away from technology and focuses on psychology, neurology and philosophy to first understand humans before she diagnoses how a similar form of consciousness could exist in a machine.< Less
