The Mit Press: 939 books
Making IT Work
A History of the Computer Services Industry
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
The evolution of the multi-billion-dollar computer services industry, from consulting and programming to data analytics and cloud computing, with case studies of important companies.
The computer services industry has worldwide annual revenues of nearly a trillion dollars and employs millions...
by Paul E. Ceruzzi, Howard Rheingold, Lee Felsenstein
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
First person accounts by pioneers in the field, classic essays, and new scholarship document the collaborative and creative practices of early social media.
Focusing on early social media in the arts and humanities and on the core role of creative computer scientists, artists, and scholars...
Streaming, Sharing, Stealing
Big Data and the Future of Entertainment
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2016
How big data is transforming the creative industries, and how those industries can use lessons from Netflix, Amazon, and Apple to fight back.
“[The authors explain] gently yet firmly exactly how the internet threatens established ways and what can and cannot be done about it. Their book should...
Artificial Unintelligence
How Computers Misunderstand the World
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
A guide to understanding the inner workings and outer limits of technology and why we should never assume that computers always get it right.
In Artificial Unintelligence, Meredith Broussard argues that our collective enthusiasm for applying computer technology to every aspect of life has resulted...
by John M. Jordan
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
An accessible and engaging account of robots, covering the current state of the field, the fantasies of popular culture, and implications for life and work.
Robots are entering the mainstream. Technologies have advanced to the point of mass commercialization—Roomba, for example—and adoption...
Blowout in the Gulf
The BP Oil Spill Disaster and the Future of Energy in America
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
The story of how a chain of failures, missteps, and bad decisions led to America's biggest environmental disaster.
On April 20, 2010, the gigantic drilling rig Deepwater Horizon blew up in the Gulf of Mexico, killing eleven crew members and causing a massive eruption of oil from BP's Macondo...
Escape from Empire
The Developing World's Journey through Heaven and Hell
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2009
A provocative view of economic growth in the Third World argues that the countries that have achieved steady economic growth—including future economic superpowers India and China—have done so because they have resisted the American ideology of free markets.
The American government has been...
Architects' Gravesites
A Serendipitous Guide
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
An illustrated guide to the monumental and non-monumental final resting places of famous architects from Aalto Alvar to Frank Lloyd Wright.
All working architects leave behind a string of monuments to themselves in the form of buildings they have designed. But what about the final spaces that...
Make It New
A History of Silicon Valley Design
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2015
The role of design in the formation of the Silicon Valley ecosystem of innovation.
California's Silicon Valley is home to the greatest concentration of designers in the world: corporate design offices at flagship technology companies and volunteers at nonprofit NGOs; global design consultancies...
by Paul E. Ceruzzi
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2003
From the first digital computer to the dot-com crash—a story of individuals, institutions, and the forces that led to a series of dramatic transformations.
This engaging history covers modern computing from the development of the first electronic digital computer through the dot-com crash....
by Paolo Belardi
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2014
An architect's defense of drawing as a way of thinking, even in an age of electronic media.
Why would an architect reach for a pencil when drawing software and AutoCAD are a click away? Use a ruler when 3D-scanners and GPS devices are close at hand? In Why Architects Still Draw, Paolo Belardi...
by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, William Kentridge, Andreas Huyssen
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
Critical texts and interviews that explore the drawings, animations, and theatrical work of the South African artist William Kentridge.
Since the 1970s, the South African artist William Kentridge has charted the turbulent terrain of his homeland in both personal and political terms. With erudition,...
Parallel Presents
The Art of Pierre Huyghe
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
Over the past two decades, French artist Pierre Huyghe has produced an extraordinary body of work in constant dialogue with temporality. Investigating the possibility of a hypothetical mode of timekeeping--"parallel presents"-- Huyghe has researched the architecture of the incomplete, directed a puppet...
What Is Architecture?
An Essay on Landscapes, Buildings, and Machines
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
British architect and critic Paul Shepheard is a fresh new voice in current postmodern debates about the history and meaning of architecture. In this wonderfully unorthodox quasi-novelistic essay, complete with characters and dialogue (but no plot), Shepheard draws a boundary around the subject of...