Mit Press imprint: 940 books
The Synthetic Age
Outdesigning Evolution, Resurrecting Species, and Reengineering Our World
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2019
Imagining a future in which humans fundamentally reshape the natural world using nanotechnology, synthetic biology, de-extinction, and climate engineering.
We have all heard that there are no longer any places left on Earth untouched by humans. The significance of this goes beyond statistics...
Indexing It All
The Subject in the Age of Documentation, Information, and Data
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2014
A critical history of the modern tradition of documentation, tracing the representation of individuals and groups in the form of documents, information, and data.
In this book, Ronald Day offers a critical history of the modern tradition of documentation. Focusing on the documentary index (understood...
Divine Games
Game Theory and the Undecidability of a Superior Being
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2018
A game-theoretical analysis of interactions between a human being and an omnipotent and omniscient godlike being highlights the inherent unknowability of the latter's superiority.
In Divine Games, Steven Brams analyzes games that a human being might play with an omnipotent and omniscient godlike...
Mindmade Politics
The Cognitive Roots of International Climate Governance
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
How integrating cognitive theories and international relations scholarship can yield valuable insights into the effectiveness of climate negotiations.
Mindmade Politics takes a novel, interdisciplinary approach to understanding the complex and contentious dynamics of global climate politics....
Modeling and Simulating Software Architectures
The Palladio Approach
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2016
A new, quantitative architecture simulation approach to software design that circumvents costly testing cycles by modeling quality of service in early design states.
Too often, software designers lack an understanding of the effect of design decisions on such quality attributes as performance...
Enlivenment
Toward a Poetics for the Anthropocene
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2019
A new understanding of the Anthropocene that is based on mutual transformation with nature rather than control over nature.
We have been told that we are living in the Anthropocene, a geological era shaped by humans rather than by nature. In Enlivenment, German philosopher Andreas Weber presents...
Planetary Improvement
Cleantech Entrepreneurship and the Contradictions of Green Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
An examination of clean technology entrepreneurship finds that “green capitalism” is more capitalist than green.
Entrepreneurs and investors in the green economy have encouraged a vision of addressing climate change with new technologies. In Planetary Improvement, Jesse Goldstein examines...
by Giosuè Baggio
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2018
An argument that the meaning of written or auditory linguistic signals is not derived from the input but results from the brain's internal construction process.
When we read a text or listen to speech, meaning seems to be given to us instantaneously, as if it were part of the input. In Meaning...
by Jonathan Haber
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2014
Everything you always wanted to know about MOOCs: an account of massive open online courses and what they might mean for the future of higher education.
The New York Times declared 2012 to be “The Year of the MOOC” as millions of students enrolled in massive open online courses (known as...
by Paul Miller
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2018
A textbook for students with limited background in mathematics and computer coding, emphasizing computer tutorials that guide readers in producing models of neural behavior.
This introductory text teaches students to understand, simulate, and analyze the complex behaviors of individual neurons...
Framing Internet Safety
The Governance of Youth Online
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
An examination of youth Internet safety as a technology of governance, seen in panics over online pornography, predators, bullying, and reputation management.
Since the beginning of the Internet era, it has become almost impossible to discuss youth and technology without mentioning online danger—pornography...
by Kai Hwang
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
The first textbook to teach students how to build data analytic solutions on large data sets using cloud-based technologies.
This is the first textbook to teach students how to build data analytic solutions on large data sets (specifically in Internet of Things applications) using cloud-based...
Families at Play
Connecting and Learning through Video Games
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
How family video game play promotes intergenerational communication, connection, and learning.
Video games have a bad reputation in the mainstream media. They are blamed for encouraging social isolation, promoting violence, and creating tensions between parents and children. In this book, Sinem...
How Reform Worked in China
The Transition from Plan to Market
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
A noted Chinese economist examines the mechanisms behind China's economic reforms, arguing that universal principles and specific implementations are equally important.
As China has transformed itself from a centrally planned economy to a market economy, economists have tried to understand...