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In the research area of computer science, practitioners are
constantly searching for faster platforms with pertinent results.
With analytics that span environmental development to computer
hardware emulation, problem-solving algorithms are in high demand.
Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) is a promising computing
platform that can be significantly faster for some applications and
can be applied to a variety of fields. FPGA Algorithms and
Applications for the Internet of Things provides emerging research
exploring the theoretical and practical aspects of computable
algorithms and applications within robotics and electronics
development. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics such as
neuroscience, bioinformatics, and artificial intelligence, this
book is ideally designed for computer science specialists,
researchers, professors, and students seeking current research on
cognitive analytics and advanced computing.
The rise of the Auntie Sewing Squad, a massive mutual-aid network
of volunteers who provided free masks in the wake of US government
failures during the COVID-19 pandemic. In March 2020, when the US
government failed to provide personal protective gear during the
COVID-19 pandemic, the Auntie Sewing Squad emerged. Founded by
performance artist Kristina Wong, the mutual-aid group sewed face
masks with a bold social justice mission: to protect the most
vulnerable and most neglected. Written and edited by Aunties
themselves, The Auntie Sewing Squad Guide to Mask Making, Radical
Care, and Racial Justice tells a powerful story. As the pandemic
unfolded, hate crimes against Asian Americans spiked. In this
climate of fear and despair, a team of mostly Asian American women
using the familial label "Auntie" formed online, gathered momentum,
and sewed masks at home by the thousands. The Aunties nimbly made
and funneled masks to asylum seekers, Indigenous communities,
incarcerated people, farmworkers, and others disproportionately
impacted by COVID-19. When anti-lockdown agitators descended on
state capitals-and, eventually, the US Capitol-the Aunties dug in.
And as the nation erupted in rebellion over police violence against
Black people, the Aunties supported and supplied Black Lives Matter
protesters and organizations serving Black communities. Providing
hundreds of thousands of homemade masks met an urgent public health
need and expressed solidarity, care, and political action in a
moment of social upheaval. The Auntie Sewing Squad is a quirky,
fast-moving, and adaptive mutual-aid group that showed up to meet a
critical need. Led primarily by women of color, the group includes
some who learned to sew from mothers and grandmothers working for
sweatshops or as a survival skill passed down by refugee relatives.
The Auntie Sewing Squad speaks back to the history of exploited
immigrant labor as it enacts an intersectional commitment to public
health for all. This collection of essays and ephemera is a
community document of the labor and care of the Auntie Sewing
Squad.
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