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): 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): 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): Ofer Bergman | Steve Whittaker • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • Subject: Computer Science and Information Technology • BISAC: Library & Information Science - GeneralAbout the Book Why we organize our person...

• Author(s): Thomas S. Mullaney • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: HistoryTechnology scholars declare an emergency: attention must be paid to the inequality, marginalization, and biases woven into our technological sys...

• Author(s): Noam Nisan • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Computer ScienceA new and extensively revised edition of a popular textbook used in universities, coding boot camps, hacker clubs, and online courses. The best...

• Author(s): Seb Franklin • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Social AspectsAn examination of digitality not simply as a technical substrate but also as the logical basis for reshaped concepts of labor, subjectivity, an...

• Author(s): Raymond S. Nickerson • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Interactive & MultimediaIndustry veteran Raymond Nickerson provides an extensive introduction to the information technology revolution that is tr...

• Author(s): Thomas Haigh • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Social AspectsHow the computer became universal. Over the past fifty years, the computer has been transformed from a hulking scientific supertool and data pr...

• Author(s): Paul E. Ceruzzi • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: History

• 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): Nathan W. Fisk • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • Subject: Computer Science and Information Technology • BISAC: Security - Online Safety & PrivacyAn examination of youth Internet safety as a technology of gov...

• 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): Arlindo Oliveira • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Intelligence (AI) & SemanticsHow developments in science and technology may enable the emergence of purely digital minds--intelligent machines equal ...

• Author(s): Nathan L. Ensmenger • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: HistoryThe contentious history of the computer programmers who developed the software that made the computer revolution possible.This is a book about ...

• Author(s): Thomas S. Mullaney • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: HistoryThe fascinating, untold story of how the Chinese language overcame unparalleled challenges and revolutionized the world of computing. A standard...

• Author(s): Simon J. D. Prince • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • Subject: Computer Science and Information Technology • BISAC: Data Science - Machine LearningAn authoritative, accessible, and up-to-date treatment of deep le...

• Author(s): Jeffrey S. Herd • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Computer ScienceThe definitive volume of recent innovations in antenna technology developed for a wide variety of system applications at MIT Lincoln Labor...

• Author(s): Elisabeth B. Reynolds | Simon Johnson • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Industrial TechnologyHow to build innovation and industrial ecosystems in the US that support global leadership in priority technolo...

• Author(s): Gerald J. Popek • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Computer ScienceLOCUS, a distributed version of the popular operating system Unix, provides an excellent solution. It makes a collection of computers, whe...

• Author(s): Benjamin H. Bratton • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Technology StudiesWhy The Stack--an accidental megastructure--is both a technological apparatus and the geopolitical model of our times. A tenth anniv...

• 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): Jerry L. Potter | Dennis B. Gannon • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Computer ScienceThe development of parallel processing, with the attendant technology of advanced software engineering, VLSI circuits, ...

• 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): Adam Gaffin • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • Subject: Computer Science and Information Technology

• 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): Michael Batty • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: HistoryHow computers simulate cities and how they are also being embedded in cities, changing our behavior and the way in which cities evolve. At every stag...

• 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...

• Author(s): Amrit Tiwana • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Internet - GeneralAn accessible journey through the seam that connects the digital world of the Internet to our physical world. The stack--the conduit betwee...

• Author(s): Thomas Sterling • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Programming Languages - GeneralComprehensive guides to the latest Beowulf tools and methodologies. Beowulf clusters, which exploit mass-market PC hardware...