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  • adjective marked by humanistic values and devotion to human welfare

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  • The eight threads are: Modeling and simulation; Devices (embedded in the physical world); Theory; Information internetworks; Intelligence; Media (use of computers for more creative expression); People (human-centred design); and Platforms (computer architectures, etc).

    Reinventing Computer Science | Serendipity 2009

  • What would we prefer, after all, in a judge with awesome power over others: abstract, other-worldly theorizing, or human-centred legal reasoning that breathes a vital spirit into the letter of the law?

    Archive 2009-05-01 2009

  • The eight threads are: Modeling and simulation; Devices (embedded in the physical world); Theory; Information internetworks; Intelligence; Media (use of computers for more creative expression); People (human-centred design); and Platforms (computer architectures, etc).

    2009 April 13 | Serendipity 2009

  • The eight threads are: Modeling and simulation; Devices (embedded in the physical world); Theory; Information internetworks; Intelligence; Media (use of computers for more creative expression); People (human-centred design); and Platforms (computer architectures, etc).

    2009 April | Serendipity 2009

  • What would we prefer, after all, in a judge with awesome power over others: abstract, other-worldly theorizing, or human-centred legal reasoning that breathes a vital spirit into the letter of the law?

    Sonia Sotomayor and "identity politics" 2009

  • Their concerns were motivated by a combination of ethical and aesthetic responses to nature as well as a rejection of crudely economic approaches to the value of natural objects (a historical survey of the confrontation between Muir's reverentialism and the human-centred conservationism of Gifford Pinchot (one of the major influences on the development of the US Forest Service) is provided in Norton 1991; also see Cohen 1984 and Nash (ed) 1990).

    Environmental Ethics Brennan, Andrew 2008

  • It aimed to consolidate peace, human-centred development and poverty reduction through economic development, by, among other things, boosting growth, achieving the millennium development goals, consolidation of peace and democratisation, and addressing environmental issues and climate change.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2008

  • That seems like such a human-centred universe, requiring that imaginary old guy to have his imaginary fingers on every wonder.

    No Two SnowFlakes Are The Same 2006

  • However one key consideration was if the outcomes of the policy conference and congress would lay a foundation for human-centred development.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2007

  • This should make our contributions human-centred and clearly owned by our peoples.

    ANC Today 2007

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