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101 Things I Learned In Architecture SchoolAuthor: Matthew FrederickPublisher: The MIT PressPublication Date: Aug 31, 2007Number of Pages: 128 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: HardcoverISBN-10:...

An accessible explanation of the technologies that enable such popular voice-interactive applications as Alexa, Siri, and Google Assistant. Have you talked to a machine lately? Asked Alexa to play a...

An accessible synthesis of ethical issues raised by artificial intelligence that moves beyond hype and nightmare scenarios to address concrete questions. Artificial intelligence powers Google's...

Algorithms (The Mit Press Essential Knowledge Series)Author: Panos LouridasPublisher: The MIT PressPublication Date: Aug 18, 2020Number of Pages: 312 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

The cultural contradictions of early video games: a medium for family fun (but mainly for middle-class boys), an improvement over pinball and television (but possibly harmful). Beginning with the...

Behavioral Insights (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series)Author: Michael Hallsworth, Elspeth KirkmanPublisher: The MIT PressPublication Date: Sep 01, 2020Number of Pages: 248 pagesLanguage:...

How engineered materials and machines powered by living biological cells can tackle technological challenges in medicine, agriculture, and global security. You are a biological machine whose movement...

Book From The Ground: From Point To Point (The Mit Press)Author: Bing XuPublisher: The MIT PressPublication Date: Nov 06, 2018Number of Pages: 128 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

A nontechnical guide to the basic ideas of modern causal inference, with illustrations from health, the economy, and public policy. Which of two antiviral drugs does the most to save people infected...

The story of citizenship as a tale not of liberation, dignity, and nationhood but of complacency, hypocrisy, and domination. The glorification of citizenship is a given in today's world, part of a...

An updated, revised, and comprehensive overview of the concepts related to cloud computing, including recent applications, innovations, and its future evolution. In this Essential Knowledge volume,...

Computational Thinking (The Mit Press Essential Knowledge Series)Author: Peter J. Denning, Matti TedrePublisher: The Mit PressPublication Date: May 14, 2019Number of Pages: 264 pagesLanguage:...

A compact and accessible history, from punch cards and calculators to UNIVAC and ENIAC, the personal computer, Silicon Valley, and the Internet. The history of computing could be told as the story of...

How the concept of critical thinking emerged, how it has been defined, and how critical thinking skills can be taught. Critical thinking is regularly cited as an essential twenty-first century skill,...

An accessible guide to cybersecurity for the everyday user, covering cryptography and public key infrastructure, malware, blockchain, and other topics. It seems that everything we touch is connected...

A short history of cynicism, from the fearless speech of the ancient Greeks to the jaded negativity of the present. Everyone's a cynic, yet few will admit it. Today's cynics excuse themselves...

An examination of the contemporary medicalization of death and dying that calls us to acknowledge instead death's existential and emotional realities. Death is a natural, inevitable, and deeply human...

Practical advice for redesigning "big, old" companies for digital success, with examples from Amazon, BNY Mellon, LEGO, Philips, USAA, and many other global organizations. Most established companies...

Author: Vaclav SmilPublisher: The MIT PressPublication Date: Nov 13, 2018Number of Pages: 562 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0262536161ISBN-13: 9780262536165

A concise introduction to the history and methods of espionage, illustrated by spy stories from antiquity to today?s high-tech world. Espionage is one of the most secret of human activities. It is...

A book that acts both as library and exhibition space, selecting, arranging, and housing texts and images, aligning itself with printed matter in the process. Fantasies of the Library lets readers...

Scientists offer personal accounts of the challenges, struggles, successes, U-turns, and satisfactions encountered in their careers in industry, academia, and government. This insightful book offers...

The original 1818 text of Mary Shelley's classic novel, with annotations and essays highlighting its scientific, ethical, and cautionary aspects. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein has endured in the...

Why gender is strange, even when it's played straight, and how race and money are two of its most dramatic ingredients. In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Kathryn Bond...

A concise and engaging exploration of how we understand happiness. What does it mean to feel happiness? As a state of mind, it?s elusive. As a concept?despite the plethora of pop psychology books on...

An accessible, nontechnical overview of active touch sensing, from sensory receptors in the skin to tactile surfaces on flat screen displays. Haptics, or haptic sensing, refers to the ability to...

Author: Bon Ku, Ellen LuptonPublisher: The MIT PressPublication Date: Feb 22, 2022Number of Pages: 228 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0262543605ISBN-13: 9780262543606

A playful, witty, reflective memoir of childhood by the science fiction master Stanislaw Lem. With Highcastle, Stanislaw Lem offers a memoir of his childhood and youth in prewar Lvov. Reflective,...

Scientists attempt to decode what may be a message from intelligent beings in outer space. By pure chance, scientists detect a signal from space that may be communication from rational beings. How...

Can we change the minds of science deniers? Encounters with flat earthers, anti-vaxxers, coronavirus truthers, and others. "Climate change is a hoax--and so is coronavirus." "Vaccines are bad for you...