Proto-algorithmic war: how the Iraq War became a laboratory for algorithmic logics

During the Iraq War, American soldiers were sent to both fight an enemy and to recover a "failed state" in pixelated camouflage uniforms, accompanied by robots, and armed with satellite maps and biometric hand-held scanners. The Iraq War, however, was no digital game: massive-scale physica...

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Main Author: Hristova, Stefka 1977- (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Cham, Switzerland Palgrave Macmillan [2022]
In:Year: 2022
Series/Journal:Social and cultural studies of robots and AI
Further subjects:B Logic, Symbolic and mathematical
B Algorithmes
B 2003-2011
B Algorithms
B Mathematical models
B Logique symbolique et mathématique
B Iraq
B Iraq War, 2003-2011 Mathematical models
B Guerre en Irak, 2003-2011 - Modèles mathématiques
Parallel Edition:Electronic
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Erscheint auch als: 9783031042195

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