Young Adult / High School (16–18 years)
Filters
Contagious Architecture: Computation, Aesthetics, and Space
Luciana Parisi
Paperback
• Author(s): Luciana Parisi • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Media StudiesA proposal that algorithms are not simply instructions to be performed but thinking entities that construct digital spatio-temporalities. In C...
View full detailsThe Guidance of an Enterprise Economy
Martin Shubik, Eric Smith
Paperback
• Author(s): Martin Shubik | Eric Smith • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Economics - MacroeconomicsA rigorous theory of money, credit, and bankruptcy in the context of a mixed economy, uniting Walrasian general equil...
View full detailsArchitectural Intelligence: How Designers and Architects Created the Digital Landscape
Molly Wright Steenson
Paperback
• Author(s): Molly Wright Steenson • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: CriticismArchitects who engaged with cybernetics, artificial intelligence, and other technologies poured the foundation for digital interactivity. I...
View full detailsMoral Judgments as Educated Intuitions
Hanno Sauer
Paperback
• Author(s): Hanno Sauer • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Ethics & Moral PhilosophyAn argument that moral reasoning plays a crucial role in moral judgment through episodes of rational reflection that have establi...
View full detailsEfficient Cognition: The Evolution of Representational Decision Making
Armin W. Schulz
Paperback
• Author(s): Armin W. Schulz • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Cognitive Psychology & CognitionAn argument that representational decision making is more cognitively efficient, allowing an organism to adjust more e...
View full detailsStatistical Methods for Speech Recognition
Frederick Jelinek
Paperback
• Author(s): Frederick Jelinek • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Natural Language Processing This book reflects decades of important research on the mathematical foundations of speech recognition. It focuses on underl...
View full detailsRe-Collection: Art, New Media, and Social Memory
Richard Rinehart, Jon Ippolito
Paperback
• Author(s): Richard Rinehart | Jon Ippolito • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: DigitalThe first book on the philosophy and aesthetics of digital preservation examines the challenge posed by new media to our long-term ...
View full detailsModels of a Man: Essays in Memory of Herbert A. Simon
Mie Augier, James G. March
Paperback
• Author(s): Mie Augier | James G. March • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Economic HistoryEssays that pay tribute to the wide-ranging influence of the late Herbert Simon, by friends and colleagues. Herbert Simon (191...
View full detailsGirls Coming to Tech!: A History of American Engineering Education for Women
Amy Sue Bix
Paperback
• Author(s): Amy Sue Bix • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Engineering (General)How women coped with both formal barriers and informal opposition to their entry into the traditionally masculine field of engineering in...
View full detailsConnectedness and Contagion: Protecting the Financial System from Panics
Hal S. Scott
Paperback
• Author(s): Hal S. Scott • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Economic PolicyAn argument that contagion is the most significant risk facing the financial system and that Dodd¬Frank has reduced the govern...
View full detailsNeural Control Engineering: The Emerging Intersection Between Control Theory and Neuroscience
Steven J. Schiff
Paperback
• Author(s): Steven J. Schiff • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: NeuroscienceHow powerful new methods in nonlinear control engineering can be applied to neuroscience, from fundamental model formulation to advanced medi...
View full detailsComputational Psychiatry: New Perspectives on Mental Illness
A. David Redish, Joshua a. Gordon
Paperback
• Author(s): A. David Redish | Joshua a. Gordon • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - NeurosciencePsychiatrists and neuroscientists discuss the potential of computational approaches to address problems in ...
View full detailsHoward Hiatt: How This Extraordinary Mentor Transformed Health with Science and Compassion
Mark Rosenberg, Michelle A. Williams
Paperback
• Author(s): Mark Rosenberg | Michelle A. Williams • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Public HealthThe seven-decade career of Howard Hiatt, a pioneer in public health, advocate for global health and health equity, a me...
View full detailsLearning Kernel Classifiers: Theory and Algorithms
Ralf Herbrich
Paperback
• Author(s): Ralf Herbrich • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Artificial Intelligence - GeneralAn overview of the theory and application of kernel classification methods. Linear classifiers in kernel spaces have emerge...
View full detailsPerforming Mixed Reality
Steve Benford, Gabriella Giannachi
Paperback
• Author(s): Steve Benford | Gabriella Giannachi • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: History - GeneralA computer scientist and a performance and new media theorist define and document the emerging field of mixed reality...
View full detailsOf Remixology: Ethics and Aesthetics After Remix
David J. Gunkel
Paperback
• Author(s): David J. Gunkel • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Ethics & Moral PhilosophyA new theory of moral and aesthetic value for the age of remix, going beyond the usual debates over originality and appropria...
View full detailsThe Stuff of Bits: An Essay on the Materialities of Information
Paul Dourish
Paperback
• Author(s): Paul Dourish • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Social Aspects - Human-Computer InteractionAn argument that the material arrangements of information--how it is represented and interpreted--matter significa...
View full detailsAmerican Illuminations: Urban Lighting, 1800-1920
David E. Nye
Paperback
• Author(s): David E. Nye • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: United States - 19th CenturyHow Americans adapted European royal illuminations for patriotic celebrations, spectacular expositions, and intensely bright comm...
View full detailsAnxiety and the Equation: Understanding Boltzmann's Entropy
Eric Johnson
Paperback
• Author(s): Eric Johnson • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Physics - GeneralA man and his equation: the anxiety-plagued nineteenth-century physicist who contributed significantly to our understanding of the second la...
View full detailsEthics in Everyday Places: Mapping Moral Stress, Distress, and Injury
Tom Koch
Paperback
• Author(s): Tom Koch • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: EthicsAn exploration of moral stress, distress, and injuries inherent in modern society through the maps that pervade academic and public communications worlds. ...
View full detailsNew Tendencies: Art at the Threshold of the Information Revolution (19611978)
Armin Medosch
Paperback
• Author(s): Armin Medosch • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: History - 20th & 21st CenturyAn account of a major international art movement originating in the former Yugoslavia in the 1960s, which anticipated key a...
View full detailsThe Damnation of Theron Ware
Harold Frederic
Paperback
• Author(s): Harold Frederic • Publisher: Legare Street Press • Publisher Imprint: Legare Street Press • BISAC: Christian Theology - GeneralThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base o...
View full detailsThe Damnation of Theron Ware
Harold Frederic
Hardcover
• Author(s): Harold Frederic • Publisher: Legare Street Press • Publisher Imprint: Legare Street Press • BISAC: Christian Theology - GeneralThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base o...
View full detailsOracles & Miracles & Zombies
Stevan Eldred-Grigg, Helen Mae Innes
Paperback
• Author(s): Stevan Eldred-Grigg | Helen Mae Innes • Publisher: Piwaiwaka Press • Publisher Imprint: Piwaiwaka Press • BISAC: ZombiesThe best-selling novel about twin girls growing up in New Zealand is back - with zombies!We all know about the zo...
View full detailsIdyls of the King
Alfred Tennyson
Hardcover
• Author(s): Alfred Tennyson • Publisher: Legare Street Press • Publisher Imprint: Legare Street Press • BISAC: GeneralThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we ...
View full detailsNumerical Methods in Economics
Kenneth L. Judd
Paperback
• Author(s): Kenneth L. Judd • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Economics - General To harness the full power of computer technology, economists need to use a broad range of mathematical techniques. In this book, Kenne...
View full detailsOil, Illiberalism, and War: An Analysis of Energy and Us Foreign Policy
Andrew T. Price-Smith
Paperback
• Author(s): Andrew T. Price-Smith • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Environmental PolicyAn argument that America's addiction to crude oil has driven a foreign policy of intervention and exploitation h...
View full detailsBio-Inspired Artificial Intelligence: Theories, Methods, and Technologies
Dario Floreano, Claudio Mattiussi
Paperback
• Author(s): Dario Floreano | Claudio Mattiussi • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Artificial Intelligence - GeneralA comprehensive introduction to new approaches in artificial intelligence and robotics that are inspir...
View full detailsProcessing Inaccurate Information: Theoretical and Applied Perspectives from Cognitive Science and the Educational Sciences
David N. Rapp, Jason L. G. Braasch
Paperback
• Author(s): David N. Rapp | Jason L. G. Braasch • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Cognitive Psychology & CognitionInterdisciplinary approaches to identifying, understanding, and remediating people's reliance on i...
View full detailsDesigning an Internet
David D. Clark
Paperback
• Author(s): David D. Clark • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Internet - GeneralWhy the Internet was designed to be the way it is, and how it could be different, now and in the future. How do you design an internet? T...
View full detailsKnowledge Machines: Digital Transformations of the Sciences and Humanities
Eric T. Meyer, Ralph Schroeder
Paperback
• Author(s): Eric T. Meyer | Ralph Schroeder • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Library & Information Science - Digital & Online ResourcesAn examination of the ways that digital and networked technologies have ...
View full detailsDynamic Economics: Quantitative Methods and Applications
Jerome Adda, Russell W. Cooper
Paperback
• Author(s): Jerome Adda | Russell W. Cooper • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: EconometricsAn integrated approach to the empirical application of dynamic optimization programming models, for students and researchers. ...
View full detailsModeling and Analysis of Communicating Systems
Jan Friso Groote, Mohammad Reza Mousavi
Paperback
• Author(s): Jan Friso Groote | Mohammad Reza Mousavi • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Computer EngineeringRigorous theory and real-world applications for modeling and analysis of the behavior of complex communicatin...
View full detailsLinguistic Bodies: The Continuity Between Life and Language
Ezequiel A. Di Paolo, Elena Clare Cuffari, Hanne de Jaegher
Paperback
• Author(s): Ezequiel A. Di Paolo | Elena Clare Cuffari | Hanne de Jaegher • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Cognitive Psychology & CognitionA novel theoretical framework for an embodied, non-representational appr...
View full detailsMachine Learning for Data Streams: With Practical Examples in Moa
Albert Bifet, Ricard Gavalda, Geoffrey Holmes
Paperback
• Author(s): Albert Bifet | Ricard Gavalda | Geoffrey Holmes • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Artificial Intelligence - GeneralA hands-on approach to tasks and techniques in data stream mining and real-time analytics...
View full detailsInteractive Visualization: Insight Through Inquiry
Bill Ferster, Ben Shneiderman
Paperback
• Author(s): Bill Ferster | Ben Shneiderman • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Graphic Arts - GeneralA guide to fundamental issues in designing interactive visualizations, exploring ideas of inquiry, design, structured...
View full detailsThe Alpha's Secret Diamond
Ar McBride
Paperback
• Author(s): Ar McBride • Publisher: Riverbay Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Riverbay Publishing • BISAC: Werewolves & ShiftersOlive has been kept under the radar for her whole life. On her eighteenth birthday life as she knows it changes. O...
View full detailsThe Sound of Innovation: Stanford and the Computer Music Revolution
Andrew J. Nelson
Paperback
• Author(s): Andrew J. Nelson • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: HistoryHow a team of musicians, engineers, computer scientists, and psychologists developed computer music as an academic field and ushered in the era of...
View full detailsDissolve Into Comprehension: Writings and Interviews, 1964-2004
Jack Burnham, Melissa Ragain, Hans Haacke
Paperback
• Author(s): Jack Burnham | Melissa Ragain | Hans Haacke • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Criticism & TheoryInfluential writings by the legendary art critic and theorist Jack Burnham--a pioneer in new media syste...
View full detailsPeripheral Vision: Bell Labs, the S-C 4020, and the Origins of Computer Art
Zabet Patterson
Paperback
• Author(s): Zabet Patterson • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: HistoryHow the S-C 4020--a mainframe peripheral intended to produce scientific visualizations--shaped a series of early computer art projects that emerged...
View full detailsApplied State Estimation and Association
Chaw-Bing Chang, Keh-Ping Dunn
Paperback
• Author(s): Chaw-Bing Chang | Keh-Ping Dunn • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: ElectricalA rigorous introduction to the theory and applications of state estimation and association, an important area in aerospace, elec...
View full detailsLiquid Power: Contested Hydro-Modernities in Twentieth-Century Spain
Erik Swyngedouw
Paperback
• Author(s): Erik Swyngedouw • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Environmental PolicyAn examination of the central role of water politics and engineering in Spain's modernization, illustrating water's pa...
View full detailsThe Knowledge Capital of Nations: Education and the Economics of Growth
Eric A. Hanushek, Ludger Woessmann
Paperback
• Author(s): Eric A. Hanushek | Ludger Woessmann • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Knowledge CapitalA rigorous, pathbreaking analysis demonstrating that a country's prosperity is directly related in the long run to th...
View full detailsThe Politics of Invisibility: Public Knowledge about Radiation Health Effects after Chernobyl
Olga Kuchinskaya
Paperback
• Author(s): Olga Kuchinskaya • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Safety & Security - General (See Also House & Home - SafetyLessons from the massive Chernobyl nuclear accident about how we deal with modern haza...
View full detailsThe Rhythmic Event: Art, Media, and the Sonic
Eleni Ikoniadou
Paperback
• Author(s): Eleni Ikoniadou • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Media StudiesAn investigation into the affective modes of perception, temporality, and experience enabled by experimental new media sonic art. The sonic h...
View full detailsDendritic Spines
Rafael Yuste
Paperback
• Author(s): Rafael Yuste • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: ImmunologyA leading neurobiologist explores the fundamental function of dendritic spines in neural circuits by analyzing different aspects of their biology, ...
View full detailsMachineries of Oil: An Infrastructural History of BP in Iran
Katayoun Shafiee
Paperback
• Author(s): Katayoun Shafiee • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: HistoryThe emergence of the international oil corporation as a political actor in the twentieth century, seen in BP's infrastructure and information arra...
View full detailsBiopolitical Screens: Image, Power, and the Neoliberal Brain
Pasi Valiaho
Paperback
• Author(s): Pasi Valiaho • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Popular CultureAn investigation of the aesthetics and politics of new visual media under twenty-first-century capitalism, from console games to virtual reali...
View full detailsThe Monumental Challenge of Preservation: The Past in a Volatile World
Michele Valerie Cloonan
Paperback
• Author(s): Michele Valerie Cloonan • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Library & Information Science - GeneralThe enormous task of preserving the world's heritage in the face of war, natural disaster, vandalism, n...
View full detailsMinding the Weather: How Expert Forecasters Think
Robert R. Hoffman, Daphne S. Ladue, H. Michael Mogil
Paperback
• Author(s): Robert R. Hoffman | Daphne S. Ladue | H. Michael Mogil • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Cognitive ScienceA detailed study of research on the psychology of expertise in weather forecasting, drawing on fin...
View full detailsLiterary Gaming
Astrid Ensslin
Paperback
• Author(s): Astrid Ensslin • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Media StudiesA new analytical framework for understanding literary videogames, the literary-ludic spectrum, illustrated by close readings of selected works...
View full detailsRegulating Code: Good Governance and Better Regulation in the Information Age
Ian Brown, Christopher T. Marsden
Paperback
• Author(s): Ian Brown | Christopher T. Marsden • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Economic PolicyThe case for a smarter "prosumer law" approach to Internet regulation that would better protect online i...
View full detailsSystemic Risk, Crises, and Macroprudential Regulation
Xavier Freixas, Luc Laeven, Jose-Luis Peydro
Paperback
• Author(s): Xavier Freixas | Luc Laeven | Jose-Luis Peydro • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Economics - MacroeconomicsA framework for macroprudential regulation that defines systemic risk and macroprudential policy,...
View full detailsSelfish Routing and the Price of Anarchy
Tim Roughgarden
Paperback
• Author(s): Tim Roughgarden • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Networking - HardwareAn analysis of the loss in performance caused by selfish, uncoordinated behavior in networks. Most of us prefer to commute by the sho...
View full detailsTruly Human Enhancement: A Philosophical Defense of Limits
Nicholas Agar
Paperback
• Author(s): Nicholas Agar • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: EthicsA nuanced discussion of human enhancement that argues for enhancement that does not significantly exceed what is currently possible for human beings. ...
View full detailsThe Self-Organizing Social Mind
John Bolender, Alan Page Fiske
Paperback
• Author(s): John Bolender | Alan Page Fiske • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralA proposal that the basic mental models used to structure social interaction result from self-organization in brain act...
View full detailsImpossible Languages
Andrea Moro
Paperback
• Author(s): Andrea Moro • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralAn investigation into the possibility of impossible languages, searching for the indelible "fingerprint" of human language. Can there be ...
View full detailsArchive Everything: Mapping the Everyday
Gabriella Giannachi
Paperback
• Author(s): Gabriella Giannachi • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Conservation & PreservationHow the archive evolved to include new technologies, practices, and media, and how it became the apparatus through whic...
View full detailsGaming the Iron Curtain: How Teenagers and Amateurs in Communist Czechoslovakia Claimed the Medium of Computer Games
Jaroslav Svelch
Paperback
• Author(s): Jaroslav Svelch • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Video & MobileHow amateur programmers in 1980s Czechoslovakia discovered games as a medium, using them not only for entertainment but also as a means ...
View full detailsThe Making of Grand Paris: Metropolitan Urbanism in the Twenty-First Century
Theresa Enright
Paperback
• Author(s): Theresa Enright • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Public Policy - City Planning & Urban DevelopmentA critical examination of metropolitan planning in Paris--the "Grand Paris" initiative--and the build...
View full details