Search results for “[Subject: computers-technology]”

• Author(s): Jon Agar • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Computer ScienceAn examination of technology and politics in the evolution of the British "government machine."In The Government Machine, Jon Agar traces the me...

• Author(s): Thierry Poibeau • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • Subject: Computer Science and Information Technology • BISAC: Artificial Intelligence - Natural Language ProcessingA concise, nontechnical overview of the develo...

• Author(s): Donald MacKenzie • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Computer ScienceMost aspects of our private and social lives--our safety, the integrity of the financial system, the functioning of utilities and other s...

• Author(s): Yasmin B. Kafai • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Teaching - Subjects - Science & TechnologyWhy every child needs to learn to code: the shift from “computational thinking” to computational par...

• Author(s): Emerson W. Pugh • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Hardware - Mainframes & MinicomputersIBM's 360 and Early 370 Systems describes the creation of this remarkable system and the developments it ...

• Author(s): Leo Anthony G. Celi • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Public HealthKey concepts, frameworks, examples, and lessons learned in designing and implementing health information and communication techno...

• Author(s): Jonathan Allen | Frank Thomson Leighton • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Logic DesignThe field of VLSI (Very Large Scale Integration) is concerned with the design, production, and use of highly complex i...

• Author(s): Julien Mailland | Kevin Driscoll • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Internet - GeneralThe first scholarly book in English on Minitel, the pioneering French computer network, offers a history of a technical...

• Author(s): Howard Rheingold • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Social AspectsIn a highly engaging style, Rheingold tells the story of what he calls the patriarchs, pioneers, and infonauts of the computer, focusing in...

• Author(s): Robert Ulichney • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Software Development & Engineering - Computer GraphicsDigital Halftoning addresses the problem of developing algorithms that best match the specific p...

• Author(s): Alex Roland | Philip Shiman • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: HistoryThe story of the U.S. Department of Defense's extraordinary effort, in the period from 1983 to 1993, to achieve machine intelligence.Th...

• Author(s): Patrik Svensson | David Theo Goldberg • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Social AspectsScholars from a range of disciplines offer an expansive vision of the intersections between new information technologi...

• Author(s): Rebecca Slayton • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Military ScienceHow differing assessments of risk by physicists and computer scientists have influenced public debate over nuclear defense. In a rapidly c...

• Author(s): Jimmy Maher • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Video & MobileExploring the often-overlooked history and technological innovations of the world's first true multimedia computer.Long ago, in 1985, person...

• Author(s): Lynette Jones • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: GeneralAn accessible, nontechnical overview of active touch sensing, from sensory receptors in the skin to tactile surfaces on flat screen displays....

• Author(s): Federica Frabetti • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Movements - Critical TheoryThis book engages directly in close readings of technical texts and compu...

• Author(s): Sherry Turkle • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Social AspectsMemoir, clinical writings, and ethnography inform new perspectives on the experience of technology; personal stories illuminate how technology...

• Author(s): David Hakken • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialArguing that humans have always been technological as well as cultural beings, David Hakken calls for a fundamental rethi...

• Author(s): Lorenzo Chiesa • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: CriticismThe evolution of the concept of subjectivity in the works of Jacques Lacan.Countering the call by some "pro-Lacanians" for an end to the exegesis ...

• Author(s): Edward Diener | Eunkook M. Suh • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialThe question of what constitutes the good life has been pondered for millennia. Yet only in the...

• 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...