Michael André Bernstein Bücher

Experts explore the latest research in the rapidly evolving field of collective intelligence, where groups of individuals act in ways that exhibit intelligent behavior. Intelligence emerges not only from individual minds but also from the collaborative actions of groups. Recently, a new form of collective intelligence has developed, linking people and computers to perform tasks ranging from software development to predicting election outcomes. This volume presents cutting-edge research on collective intelligence, highlighting shared challenges across various disciplines and methodologies. Essays by leading researchers in fields such as computer science, biology, economics, and psychology establish a foundation for this multidisciplinary area. Each contribution focuses on collective intelligence within a specific discipline, examining topics like market behavior in economics, emergent behavior in ant colonies in biology, human-computer interaction, artificial intelligence, and the "wisdom of crowds" in cognitive psychology. Additional social science areas discussed include social psychology, organizational theory, law, and communications. This comprehensive collection underscores the diverse applications and implications of collective intelligence in today's interconnected world.

Austria-Hungary, 1913. In the castle of a frontier town, on the border between Europe and the East, the worldly, corrupt Count-Governor Wiladowski watches helplessly while a wave of assassinations sweep the Empire.

Galicia, Austria-Hungary, 1913. In the castle of a frontier town, on the border between Europe and the East, the worldly, corrupt Count-Governor Wiladowski watches helplessly while a wave of assassinations sweeps the empire, and his province. When a member of his own family is murdered, the count gives broad police powers to his spymaster, Jakob Tausk: a brilliant young Jew whose ruthless war on terror extends into every corner of the province and beyond, enlisting union organizers, financiers, aristocrats and their servants, and a young novelist and playwright, newly arrived in the Vienna of Franz Josef and Freud, hungry for literary success. In the wake of new terrorist attacks, a mysterious preacher appears in the provincial capital--one of the so-called "wonder rabbis" from the shtetls of the East-trailing a band of fanatical disciples who proclaim him the messiah. Word of the charismatic leader spreads quickly from the Jewish quarter to the castle itself, and soon Tausk finds himself serving two masters: the count and the richest man in the province, Moritz Rotenburg, who has a private interest in the wonder rabbi and whose only son has returned from university, burning for revolution, to gather disciples of his own. Moving from underground meetings and makeshift synagogues to the bedrooms of country estates and the secret high councils of the ailing thousand-year-old Habsburg Empire, Michael Andre Bernstein's compelling first novel evokes a densely believable world on the edge of collapse, full of the haunting suggestiveness of a fable or nightmare, and the erotic, mystical, and apocalyptic passions of anage.