Mit Press imprint: 940 books
by Chris Bernhardt
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2019
An accessible introduction to an exciting new area in computation, explaining such topics as qubits, entanglement, and quantum teleportation for the general reader.
Quantum computing is a beautiful fusion of quantum physics and computer science, incorporating some of the most stunning ideas...
Something for Nothing
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2011
A young economic professor's adventures in his quest for a tenure-track position and a well-balanced life.
David Fox (Ph.D. Economics, Columbia, Visiting Assistant Professor at Kester College, Knittersville, New York) is having a stressful year. He has a temporary position at a small college...
Weaving the Dark Web
Legitimacy on Freenet, Tor, and I2P
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2018
An exploration of the Dark Web—websites accessible only with special routing software—that examines the history of three anonymizing networks, Freenet, Tor, and I2P.
The term “Dark Web” conjures up drug markets, unregulated gun sales, stolen credit cards. But, as Robert Gehl points...
by Edmund M. Clarke Jr., Orna Grumberg, Daniel Kroening
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2018
An expanded and updated edition of a comprehensive presentation of the theory and practice of model checking, a technology that automates the analysis of complex systems.
Model checking is a verification technology that provides an algorithmic means of determining whether an abstract model—representing,...
Search Foundations
Toward a Science of Technology-Mediated Experience
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2019
A call to redirect the intellectual focus of information retrieval and science (IR&S) toward the phenomenon of technology-mediated experience.
In this book, Sachi Arafat and Elham Ashoori issue a call to reorient the intellectual focus of information retrieval and science (IR&S) away from search...
The Genius Checklist
Nine Paradoxical Tips on How You Can Become a Creative Genius
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2018
What it takes to be a genius: nine essential and contradictory ingredients.
What does it take to be a genius? A high score on an IQ test? Brilliant physicist Richard Feynman's IQ was too low for membership in Mensa. Suffering from varying degrees of mental illness? Creativity is often considered...
A Natural History of Natural Theology
The Cognitive Science of Theology and Philosophy of Religion
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2014
An examination of the cognitive foundations of intuitions about the existence and attributes of God.
Questions about the existence and attributes of God form the subject matter of natural theology, which seeks to gain knowledge of the divine by relying on reason and experience of the world....
Numbered Lives
Life and Death in Quantum Media
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
A feminist media history of quantification, uncovering the stories behind the tools and technologies we use to count, measure, and weigh our lives and realities.
Anglo-American culture has used media to measure and quantify lives for centuries. Historical journal entries map the details of...
International Relations in the Cyber Age
The Co-Evolution Dilemma
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
A foundational analysis of the co-evolution of the internet and international relations, examining resultant challenges for individuals, organizations, firms, and states.
In our increasingly digital world, data flows define the international landscape as much as the flow of materials and people....
by Daniel P. Ahn
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
A rigorous but practical introduction to the economic, financial, and political principles underlying commodity markets.
Commodities have become one of the fastest growing asset classes of the last decade and the object of increasing attention from investors, scholars, and policy makers. Yet...
Features of Person
From the Inventory of Persons to Their Morphological Realization
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2018
A proposal that person features do not have inherent content but are used to navigate a “person space” at the heart of every pronominal expression.
This book offers a significant reconceptualization of the person system in natural language. The authors, leading scholars in syntax and its...
'And'
Conjunction Reduction Redux
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
A bold argument that “and” always means “&,” the truth-functional sentential connective.
In this book, Barry Schein argues that “and” is always the sentential logical connective with the same, one, meaning. “And” always means “&,” across the varied constructions in which...
Zen-Brain Horizons
Toward a Living Zen
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2014
A neurologist and Zen practitioner clarifies the benefits of meditative training, drawing on classical Buddhist literature and modern brain research.
In Zen-Brain Horizons, James Austin draws on his decades of experience as a neurologist and Zen practitioner to clarify the benefits of meditative...
by James H. Austin, MD
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2018
Three books on Zen and the brain by the celebrated Zen practitioner-neurologist James Austin.
This compilation in digital form of three books by the celebrated Zen practitioner-neurologist James Austin offers concrete advice about various methods of meditation, provides timeless wisdom of Zen...