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Imperfect Oracle: What AI Can and Cannot Do

October 12, 2026 01:37 PM
In Imperfect Oracle, bestselling author Cass R. Sunstein examines the promise and limits of artificial intelligence. AI can improve human judgment by reducing bias and inconsistency, helping institutions make better decisions and enabling consumers and investors to avoid costly mistakes. However, Sunstein emphasizes that AI cannot predict everything, highlighting the importance of uncertainty and the limits of knowledge in an unpredictable world.

Uploaded October 2026

Human Spatial Computing

October 12, 2026 01:33 PM
Spatial computing integrates digital experiences with the physical world through technologies such as virtual and augmented reality, natural interfaces, and haptic feedback. Human Spatial Computing explores the technology’s history, applications, and social impact, emphasizing privacy, safety, ethics, inclusivity, and accessibility. Through practical activities and reflection questions, the book guides students and professionals in designing spatial experiences that prioritize human needs and responsibility.

Uploaded October 2026

Coding Capitalism: Computers and the Remaking of the Postwar US Economy

October 12, 2026 01:29 PM
Long before Google, Amazon, or Microsoft, computers were reshaping American capitalism, transforming labor, business, and financial markets. In Virtual Capital: Computing Power in the US Economy, 1947–1987, historian Devin Kennedy traces how computing evolved alongside the interests of major industrial firms and financial institutions, from workplace automation and corporate consolidation to the acceleration of global capital flows. Drawing on extensive archival research, Kennedy shows how computing helped managers counter labor power, enabled corporate expansion, and laid the foundations for the market-oriented global economy, placing the history of technology at the center of postwar American capitalism.

Uploaded October 2026

AI First: The Playbook for a Future-Proof Business and Brand

October 12, 2026 01:23 PM
AI is poised to transform brand strategy and marketing. In this book, Adam Brotman and Andy Sack explore what AI’s rapid advancement means for brands and businesses over the next five years. Drawing on conversations with tech leaders including Sam Altman, Bill Gates, and Reid Hoffman, alongside insights from businesses experimenting with AI, they examine how marketing, creativity, and customer expectations are changing. The authors, founders of the strategic consultancy Forum3, offer guidance on becoming an AI-first organization, from redesigning jobs and developing new skills to building customer relationships and gaining a competitive edge. This book provides a roadmap for navigating the opportunities and challenges of a changing marketing landscape.

Uploaded October 2026

Value Sensitive Design: Shaping Technology with Moral Imagination

July 22, 2026 01:53 PM
In Value Sensitive Design, Batya Friedman and David Hendry describe how both moral and technical imagination can be brought to bear on the design of technology. With value sensitive design, under development for more than two decades, Friedman and Hendry bring together theory, methods, and applications for a design process that engages human values at every stage.

Uploaded July 2026

The History of the Future: Oculus, Facebook, and the Revolution That Swept Virtual Reality

July 22, 2026 01:51 PM
Drawing on over a hundred interviews with the key players driving this revolution, The History of the Future weaves together a rich, cinematic narrative that captures the breakthroughs, breakdowns, and human drama of trying to change the world. The result is a supremely entertaining look at the birth of a game-changing new industry.

Uploaded July 2026

Reshaping the Video Game Landscape with AI and GenAI

July 22, 2026 01:50 PM
Reshaping the Video Game Landscape With AI and GenAI explores how AI and GenAI have affected the video gaming world. This book demonstrates how AI and GenAI can improve development workflows, create new player experiences, and support inclusive and ethical design.

Uploaded July 2026

Research and Scholarly Publishing in an AI-Powered Academy

July 22, 2026 01:49 PM
Research and Scholarly Publishing in an AI-Powered Academy advances ethical and transparent AI use by providing clear standards for output verification, documentation practices, authorship attribution, and data management. The book addresses common vulnerabilities in AI assisted research by outlining repeatable, high quality control workflows.

Uploaded July 2026

Quantum Computing: Foundations and Practice

July 22, 2026 01:47 PM
This textbook explores the incredible, but somewhat subtle, power of quantum computation, starting with a thorough in-depth exposition of quantum physics.

Uploaded July 2026

Problem Solving with Python: Using Computational Thinking in Everyday Life

July 22, 2026 01:45 PM
This innovative textbook provides a highly engaging alternative approach. Problem Solving with Python is a hands-on introduction to computational thinking, useful computer science concepts, and the art of computer programming, where skills and ideas are introduced in service of solving an interesting problem.

Uploaded July 2026

Dan Broadbent

Physical & Computer Sciences Librarian
dan_broadbent@byu.edu