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

• 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): Michel M. Benarie • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Environmental - GeneralThis book brings together the methods, models and formulae used for estimating air pollution concentrations in urban areas. From ...

• Author(s): Hartmut Berghoff • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: Walter de Gruyter • BISAC: Corporate & Business History - GeneralFrom the Back CoverUnternehmen sind historisch gewachsene Bausteine der modernen Welt. Ihre Lei...

• Author(s): D. J. Williams • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Industrial EngineeringIntented as a primer' in manufacturing systems, this book concentrates primarily on the technology that is applied on the shop floor t...

• Author(s): Gordon F. Bloom • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Management - GeneralThis timely resources appears during a period when rising food prices are a subject of public concern and the entire food distribution...

• Author(s): Larry Hirschhorn • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Management ScienceOne critical change in how people work, argues Larry Hirschhorn, is that they are expected to bring more of themselves psychologically ...

• Author(s): Ralph E. Gomory | William J. Baumol • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralRalph Gomory and William Baumol adapt classical trade models to the modern world economy. In this boo...

• Author(s): S. Joshi • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Industrial EngineeringWith the approach of the 21st century, and the current trends in manufacturing, the role of computer-controlled flexible manufacturing an int...

• Author(s): Larry Hirschhorn • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Industries - GeneralHuman skill and judgment are needed now more than ever to effectively run today's complex computerized production systems. In this th...

• Author(s): Karin Bijsterveld • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: HistoryTracing efforts to control unwanted sound--the noise of industry, city traffic, gramophones and radios, and aircraft--from the late nineteenth to...

• Author(s): W. H. G. Armytage • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Social AspectsHow social and economic conditions have precipitated advances in engineering. A Social History of Engineering shows how social and economi...

• Author(s): Michel A. Amsalem • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Development - Economic DevelopmentA developing country's choice of an appropriate technology from among those available for use in a particular industry...

• Author(s): Thierry Meyer • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: Walter de Gruyter • BISAC: Chemical & BiochemicalThe book presents risk management from an engineering perspective. Both a systemic and analytic viewpoint are impo...

• Author(s): J. L. Anderson • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: United States - State & Local - Midwest(IA,IL,IN,KS,MI,MN,MOFrom the late 1940s to the early 1970s, f...

• Author(s): Christophe Lecuyer • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Corporate & Business History - GeneralIn Making Silicon Valley, Christophe Lécuyer shows that the explosive growth of the personal computer industr...

• 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): Richard B. Freeman | Peter Boxall | Peter Haynes • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial Relations - GeneralThis book brings together research in the United States, Canada, the United Kin...

• 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): Carliss Y. Baldwin | Kim B. Clark • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Management - GeneralWe live in a dynamic economic and commerical world, surrounded by objects of remarkable complexity and power. In man...

• Author(s): Tom Forester • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: GeneralA guide to the silicon chip revolution and its impact on society.The Microelectronics Revolution is a comprehensive guide to the silicon chip revoluti...

• 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): Virginia Doellgast • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Industrial ManagementThe shift from manufacturing- to service-based economies has often been accompanied by the expansion of low-wage and insecure empl...

• Author(s): Michael Z. Newman • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Video & ElectronicThe cultural contradictions of early video games: a medium for family fun (but mainly for middle-class boys), an improvement over ...

• Author(s): James J. Flink • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralIn this sweeping cultural history, James Flink provides a fascinating account of the creation of the world's first automobile culture. H...

• Author(s): Charles B. Osburn • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Emotions, feelings and morality play a critical role in our daily decision-making. With the rapid advance of industr...

• Author(s): Judy Rosenblith | Edward M. Kennedy • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Science & TechnologyHow Jerry Wiesner, presidential science adviser and president of MIT, worked to make a better and safer world,...