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3) Data science
Author
Publisher
The MIT Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A concise introduction to the emerging field of data science, explaining its evolution, relation to machine learning, current uses, data infrastructure issues, and ethical challenges. The goal of data science is to improve decision making through the analysis of data. Today data science determines the ads we see online, the books and movies that are recommended to us online, which emails are filtered into our spam folders, and even how much we pay...
4) The book
Author
Publisher
The MIT Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"The Book tracks the ways the book's physical form and artistic content have historically inspired one another's evolution. Borsuk shows that in order to see where books might be going, we must think of them as objects whose physical shape has experienced a long history of experimentation and play. Rather than bemoaning the death of books or creating a dichotomy between print and digital media, Borsuk points to their continuities, positioning the...
Author
Publisher
The MIT Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Humans are hard-wired for collaboration, and new technologies of communication act as a super-amplifier of our natural collaborative mindset. This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series examines the emergence of a new kind of social collaboration enabled by networked technologies. This new collaborative society might be characterized as a series of services and startups that enable peer-to-peer exchanges and interactions though technology....
Author
Publisher
The MIT Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The beginning of the modern contraceptive era began in 1882, when Dr. Aletta Jacobs opened the first birth control clinic in Amsterdam. The founding of this facility, and the clinical provision of contraception that it enabled, marked the moment when physicians started to take the prevention of pregnancy seriously as a medical concern. In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Donna Drucker traces the history of modern contraception,...
Author
Publisher
The MIT Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Critical thinking is regularly cited as an essential twenty-first century skill, the key to success in school and work. Given our propensity to believe fake news, draw incorrect conclusions, and make decisions based on emotion rather than reason, it might even be said that critical thinking is vital to the survival of a democratic society. But what, exactly, is critical thinking? In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Jonathan...
8) Cynicism
Author
Publisher
MIT Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
In this volume of the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Ansgar Allen charts the long history of cynicism, from the "fearless speech" of Greek Cynics in the fourth century BCE to the contemporary cynic's lack of social and political convictions. Allen describes ancient Cynicism as an improvised philosophy and a way of life disposed to scandalize contemporaries, subjecting their cultural commitments to derision. He chronicles the subsequent "purification"...
9) fMRI
Author
Publisher
The MIT Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The discovery of functional MRI (fMRI) methodology in 1991 was a breakthrough in neuroscience research. This non-invasive, relatively high-speed, and high sensitivity method of mapping human brain activity enabled observation of subtle localized changes in blood flow associated with brain activity. Thousands of scientists around the world have not only embraced fMRI as a new and powerful method that complemented their ongoing studies but have also...
10) Hate speech
Author
Publisher
The MIT Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"An investigation of hate speech: legal appraches, current controversies, and suggestions for limiting its spread"--Page 4 of cover.
"An Essential Knowledge book on hate speech"--
11) Ketamine
Author
Publisher
The MIT Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A complete and authoritative guide to the science of ketamine, the controversial yet current drug of choice for treating depression, a drug whose efficacy and impact is not yet well-established"--
12) Phenomenology
Author
Publisher
The MIT Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series offers a concise and accessible introduction to phenomenology, a philosophical movement that investigates the experience of experience. Founded by Edmund Husserl (1859-1938) and expounded by Max Scheler, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and others, phenomenology ventures forth into the field of experience so that truth might be met in the flesh. It investigates everything as experienced....
Author
Publisher
The MIT Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The purpose of this book is to empower readers to deeply understand how quantum-entangled particles violate common-sense assumptions and constraints. This book focuses on what quantum physics is not and investigates seemingly plausible theories that cannot account for experimental results"--
Author
Publisher
The MIT Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"How does Netflix know just what to suggest you watch next? How does Amazon determine what a "customer like you" has also purchased? The answer is recommender systems, the technological concept that lies at the heart of most of the successful companies in the digital economy. Michael Schrage starts with the origins of recommender systems, which go back further than you think (see: the Oracle at Delphi for one of history's earliest recommenders), and...
15) Science fiction
Author
Publisher
The MIT Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"An overview of how science fiction has grappled with the ways that science and technology shape and change human lives, emphasizing the challenges of the 21st century"--
16) Smart cities
Author
Publisher
The MIT Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Over the past ten years, urban planners, technology companies, and governments have promoted smart cities with a somewhat utopian vision of urban life made knowable and manageable through data collection and analysis. Are smart cities optimized, sustainable, digitally networked solutions to urban problems? Or are they neoliberal, corporate-controlled, undemocratic non-places? This volume offers a concise introduction to smart cities, presenting key...
17) Robot ethics
Author
Publisher
The MIT Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A concise overview of the ethical issues that are likely to emerge as robots become more social and more integrated into human life"--
18) Placebos
Author
Publisher
The MIT Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"How the underlying biology of the "placebo effect" works and how could this change the way we think about modern and future medicine"--
19) Supernova
Author
Publisher
The MIT Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A brief introduction to the physics of supernovae--explosions of dying stars that yield heavy chemical elements and spark the birth of new stars--and to past, present, and future research directions"--
20) Memory
Author
Publisher
The MIT Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Short, accessible primer on human memory, written by two leading psychological researchers"--
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