The Mit Press imprint: 939 books
The Heart of the Brain
The Hypothalamus and Its Hormones
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2018
How hormonal signals in one small structure of the brain—the hypothalamus—govern our physiology and behavior.
As human beings, we prefer to think of ourselves as reasonable. But how much of what we do is really governed by reason? In this book, Gareth Leng considers the extent to which...
Feeling Extended
Sociality as Extended Body-Becoming-Mind
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2013
A new view of the extended mind thesis argues that a stark binary opposition between really extending and seeming to extend oversimplifies the issue.
The extended-mind thesis (EMT), usually attributed to Andy Clark and David Chalmers, proposes that in specific kinds of mind-body-world interaction...
Turing's Vision
The Birth of Computer Science
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Turing's fascinating and remarkable theory, which now forms the basis of computer science, explained for the general reader.
In 1936, when he was just twenty-four years old, Alan Turing wrote a remarkable paper in which he outlined the theory of computation, laying out the ideas that underlie...
Subversion, Conversion, Development
Cross-Cultural Knowledge Exchange and the Politics of Design
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2014
Explorations of design, use, and reuse of information technology in diverse historical and cultural contexts.
This book explores alternative cultural encounters with and around information technologies. These encounters are alternative because they counter dominant, Western-oriented notions...
Being Amoral
Psychopathy and Moral Incapacity
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2014
Investigations of specific moral dysfunctions or deficits that shed light on the capacities required for moral agency.
Psychopathy has been the subject of investigations in both philosophy and psychiatry and yet the conceptual issues remain largely unresolved. This volume approaches psychopathy...
Anxiety and the Equation
Understanding Boltzmann's Entropy
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2018
A man and his equation: the anxiety-plagued nineteenth-century physicist who contributed significantly to our understanding of the second law of thermodynamics.
Ludwig Boltzmann's grave in Vienna's Central Cemetery bears a cryptic epitaph: S = k log W. This equation was Boltzmann's great discovery,...
by Ofer Bergman, Steve Whittaker
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
Why we organize our personal digital data the way we do and how design of new PIM systems can help us manage our information more efficiently.
Each of us has an ever-growing collection of personal digital data: documents, photographs, PowerPoint presentations, videos, music, emails and texts...
Minitel
Welcome to the Internet
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2017
The first scholarly book in English on Minitel, the pioneering French computer network, offers a history of a technical system and a cultural phenomenon.
A decade before the Internet became a medium for the masses in the United States, tens of millions of users in France had access to a network...
Communicating Moral Concern
An Ethics of Critical Responsiveness
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
A novel reframing of moral agency, emphasizing the responsive habits and skills by which we engage one another's attention to moral concerns.
Modern moral theories have crystallized around the logic of individual choices, abstracted from social and historical context. Yet most action, including...
Sport 2.0
Transforming Sports for a Digital World
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Ramifications of the convergence of sports and digital technology, from athlete and spectator experience to the role of media innovation at the Olympics.
Digital technology is changing everything about modern sports. Athletes and coaches rely on digital data to monitor and enhance performance....
Fundamentals of Machine Learning for Predictive Data Analytics
Algorithms, Worked Examples, and Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
A comprehensive introduction to the most important machine learning approaches used in predictive data analytics, covering both theoretical concepts and practical applications.
Machine learning is often used to build predictive models by extracting patterns from large datasets. These models...
Coding Literacy
How Computer Programming Is Changing Writing
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
How the theoretical tools of literacy help us understand programming in its historical, social and conceptual contexts.
The message from educators, the tech community, and even politicians is clear: everyone should learn to code. To emphasize the universality and importance of computer programming,...
Giving Voice
Mobile Communication, Disability, and Inequality
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
How communication technologies meant to empower people with speech disorders—to give voice to the voiceless—are still subject to disempowering structural inequalities.
Mobile technologies are often hailed as a way to “give voice to the voiceless.” Behind the praise, though, are beliefs...
Critical Fabulations
Reworking the Methods and Margins of Design
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2018
A proposal to redefine design in a way that not only challenges the field's dominant paradigms but also changes the practice of design itself.
In Critical Fabulations, Daniela Rosner proposes redefining design as investigative and activist, personal and culturally situated, responsive and responsible....