The remarkable progress in algorithms for machine and deep learning have opened the doors to new opportunities, and some dark possibilities. In this book, Professor Ben Shneiderman offers an optimistic realist's guide to how artificial intelligence can be used to augment and enhance humans' lives. This project bridges the gap between ethical considerations and practical realities to offer a road map for successful, reliable systems.

Authored by top scientists in the field, this book sheds light on fundamental aspects of intelligent and smart systems, investigating the role and impact of affective and psychophysiological computing, machine learning, cybersecurity, agent transparency, and human-agent teaming in the shaping of this new interaction paradigm, as well as the human factors involved in their application in critical domains.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the informatics and cybernetics in intelligent systems section of the 10th Computer Science Online Conference 2021 (CSOC 2021), held online in April 2021. Discussion includes cybernetics application in intelligent systems, connecting research and industrial application and discussion of informatics research trends for future.

Bernard Scott's book explains the relevance of cybernetics for the social sciences. He provides a history of cybernetics and its core concepts, with examples of applications of cybernetics in psychology, sociology, and anthropology.

A classic and influential work that laid the theoretical foundations for information theory. Cybernetics, first published in 1948, saw Norbert Wiener lay the theoretical foundations for the multidisciplinary field of cybernetics, the study of controlling the flow of information in systems with feedback loops, be they biological, mechanical, cognitive, or social.