The Mit Press imprint: 939 books
by Daniel P. Friedman, William E. Byrd, Oleg Kiselyov
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
A new edition of a book, written in a humorous question-and-answer style, that shows how to implement and use an elegant little programming language for logic programming.
The goal of this book is to show the beauty and elegance of relational programming, which captures the essence of logic...
Liberalism in Practice
The Psychology and Pedagogy of Public Reason
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2015
An argument that draws on empirical findings in psychology to offer a blueprint for cultivating a widespread commitment to public reason.
At the core of liberal theory is the idea—found in thinkers from Hobbes to Rawls—that the consent of the governed is key to establishing political legitimacy....
Hacking Life
Systematized Living and Its Discontents
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2019
In an effort to keep up with a world of too much, life hackers sometimes risk going too far.
Life hackers track and analyze the food they eat, the hours they sleep, the money they spend, and how they're feeling on any given day. They share tips on the most efficient ways to tie shoelaces and...
We Used to Wait
Music Videos and Creative Literacy
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
An investigation of music videos as a form, a practice, and a literacy.
Music videos were once something broadcast by MTV and received on our TV screens. Today, music videos are searched for, downloaded, and viewed on our computer screens—or produced in our living rooms and uploaded to social...
The Monumental Challenge of Preservation
The Past in a Volatile World
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
The enormous task of preserving the world's heritage in the face of war, natural disaster, vandalism, neglect, and technical obsolescence.
The monuments—movable, immovable, tangible, and intangible—of the world's shared cultural heritage are at risk. War, terrorism, natural disaster, vandalism,...
The Not-Two
Logic and God in Lacan
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
A philosophical examination of the treatment of logic and God in Lacan's later psychoanalytic theory.
In The Not-Two, Lorenzo Chiesa examines the treatment of logic and God in Lacan's later work. Chiesa draws for the most part from Lacan's Seminars of the early 1970s, as they revolve around...
Sharing the Work
What My Family and Career Taught Me about Breaking Through (and Holding the Door Open for Others)
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
The tumultuous life and career of a woman who fought gender bias on multiple fronts—in theory and in practice, for herself and for us all.
“Myra Strober's Sharing the Work is the memoir of a woman who has learned that 'having it all' is only possible by 'sharing it all,' from finding a...
by Chris Bernhardt
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2019
An accessible introduction to an exciting new area in computation, explaining such topics as qubits, entanglement, and quantum teleportation for the general reader.
Quantum computing is a beautiful fusion of quantum physics and computer science, incorporating some of the most stunning ideas...
Something for Nothing
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2011
A young economic professor's adventures in his quest for a tenure-track position and a well-balanced life.
David Fox (Ph.D. Economics, Columbia, Visiting Assistant Professor at Kester College, Knittersville, New York) is having a stressful year. He has a temporary position at a small college...
Weaving the Dark Web
Legitimacy on Freenet, Tor, and I2P
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2018
An exploration of the Dark Web—websites accessible only with special routing software—that examines the history of three anonymizing networks, Freenet, Tor, and I2P.
The term “Dark Web” conjures up drug markets, unregulated gun sales, stolen credit cards. But, as Robert Gehl points...
by Edmund M. Clarke Jr., Orna Grumberg, Daniel Kroening
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2018
An expanded and updated edition of a comprehensive presentation of the theory and practice of model checking, a technology that automates the analysis of complex systems.
Model checking is a verification technology that provides an algorithmic means of determining whether an abstract model—representing,...
Search Foundations
Toward a Science of Technology-Mediated Experience
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2019
A call to redirect the intellectual focus of information retrieval and science (IR&S) toward the phenomenon of technology-mediated experience.
In this book, Sachi Arafat and Elham Ashoori issue a call to reorient the intellectual focus of information retrieval and science (IR&S) away from search...
The Genius Checklist
Nine Paradoxical Tips on How You Can Become a Creative Genius
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2018
What it takes to be a genius: nine essential and contradictory ingredients.
What does it take to be a genius? A high score on an IQ test? Brilliant physicist Richard Feynman's IQ was too low for membership in Mensa. Suffering from varying degrees of mental illness? Creativity is often considered...
A Natural History of Natural Theology
The Cognitive Science of Theology and Philosophy of Religion
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2014
An examination of the cognitive foundations of intuitions about the existence and attributes of God.
Questions about the existence and attributes of God form the subject matter of natural theology, which seeks to gain knowledge of the divine by relying on reason and experience of the world....