Mit Press imprint: 940 books
Minding the Weather
How Expert Forecasters Think
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
A detailed study of research on the psychology of expertise in weather forecasting, drawing on findings in cognitive science, meteorology, and computer science.
This book argues that the human cognition system is the least understood, yet probably most important, component of forecasting accuracy....
Aesthetic Animism
Digital Poetry's Ontological Implications
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
A poetics appropriate to the digital era that connects digital poetry to traditional poetry's concerns with being.
This book offers a decoder for some of the new forms of poetry enabled by digital technology. Examining many of the strange technological vectors converging on language, it proposes...
by Nicolas Brunel, John Rinzel, Jonathan Rubin
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
A comprehensive, integrated, and accessible textbook presenting core neuroscientific topics from a computational perspective, tracing a path from cells and circuits to behavior and cognition.
This textbook presents a wide range of subjects in neuroscience from a computational perspective. It...
The Evolving Animal Orchestra
In Search of What Makes Us Musical
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2019
A music researcher's quest to discover other musical species.
Even those of us who can't play a musical instrument or lack a sense of rhythm can perceive and enjoy music. Research shows that all humans possess the trait of musicality. We are a musical species—but are we the only musical species?...
by Andrew Goffey, Matthew Fuller
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2012
A philosophical manual of media power for the network age.
Evil Media develops a philosophy of media power that extends the concept of media beyond its tried and trusted use in the games of meaning, symbolism, and truth. It addresses the gray zones in which media exist as corporate work systems,...
Truly Human Enhancement
A Philosophical Defense of Limits
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
A nuanced discussion of human enhancement that argues for enhancement that does not significantly exceed what is currently possible for human beings.
The transformative potential of genetic and cybernetic technologies to enhance human capabilities is most often either rejected on moral and...
Advanced Manufacturing
The New American Innovation Policies
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2018
How to rethink innovation and revitalize America's declining manufacturing sector by encouraging advanced manufacturing, bringing innovative technologies into the production process.
The United States lost almost one-third of its manufacturing jobs between 2000 and 2010. As higher-paying manufacturing...
Water Resource Economics
The Analysis of Scarcity, Policies, and Projects
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
Updated edition of a comprehensive introduction to the economics of water management, with self-contained treatment of all necessary economic concepts.
Economics brings powerful insights to water management, but most water professionals receive limited training in it. The second edition of...
The Stuff of Bits
An Essay on the Materialities of Information
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
An argument that the material arrangements of information—how it is represented and interpreted—matter significantly for our experience of information and information systems.
Virtual entities that populate our digital experience, like e-books, virtual worlds, and online stores, are backed...
Titans of the Climate
Explaining Policy Process in the United States and China
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2019
How the planet's two largest greenhouse gas emitters navigate climate policy.
The United States and China together account for a disproportionate 45 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions. In 2014, then-President Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping announced complementary efforts to...
Iterate
Ten Lessons in Design and Failure
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2019
How to confront, embrace, and learn from the unavoidable failures of creative practice; with case studies that range from winemaking to animation.
Failure is an inevitable part of any creative practice. As game designers, John Sharp and Colleen Macklin have grappled with crises of creativity,...
Off-Track and Online
The Networked Spaces of Horse Racing
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
How horse racing's pioneering use of communication and information networks helped shape the modern media, information, and leisure environment.
The horse racing industry has been a pioneer in interactive media, information networks, and their deployment. The race track and the off-track betting...
Mismatch
How Inclusion Shapes Design
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2018
How inclusive methods can build elegant design solutions that work for all.
Sometimes designed objects reject their users: a computer mouse that doesn't work for left-handed people, for example, or a touchscreen payment system that only works for people who read English phrases, have 20/20...
Disrupted Economic Relationships
Disasters, Sanctions, Dissolutions
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2019
Empirical studies and theoretical analyses examine the causes and consequences of disruptions in cross-border economic relationships, including political conflict, economic sanctions, and institutional collapse.
Cross-border economic relationships gradually strengthened in the decades after...