Mit Press: 1072 books
by Michael Buckland
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
A short, informal account of our ever-increasing dependence on a complex multiplicity of messages, records, documents, and data.
We live in an information society, or so we are often told. But what does that mean? This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series offers a concise, informal...
What the Digital Future Holds
20 Groundbreaking Essays on How Technology Is Reshaping the Practice of Management
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
The relationship between management and digital technology: experts present a new agenda for the practice of management.
Digital technology has profoundly affected the ways that businesses design and produce goods, manage internal communication, and connect with customers. But the next phase...
by Thierry Poibeau
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
A concise, nontechnical overview of the development of machine translation, including the different approaches, evaluation issues, and major players in the industry.
The dream of a universal translation device goes back many decades, long before Douglas Adams's fictional Babel fish provided...
The Subject's Matter
Self-Consciousness and the Body
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2017
An interdisciplinary and comprehensive treatment of bodily self-consciousness, considering representation of the body, the sense of bodily ownership, and representation of the self.
The body may be the object we know the best. It is the only object from which we constantly receive a flow of...
Who Wins in a Digital World?
Strategies to Make Your Organization Fit for the Future
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2019
How organizations can adapt to a constantly changing business environment by being flexible but focused, embracing change, and moving fast.
In the new digital world, the unknowns are never-ending. Our ability to embrace the demands of change has become a prerequisite for success. It's not easy....
The Vanishing Middle Class
Prejudice and Power in a Dual Economy
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2017
Why the United States has developed an economy divided between rich and poor and how racism helped bring this about.
The United States is becoming a nation of rich and poor, with few families in the middle. In this book, MIT economist Peter Temin offers an illuminating way to look at the vanishing...
by W. Edwards Deming
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2000
"Long-term commitment to new learning and new philosophy is required of any management that seeks transformation. The timid and the fainthearted, and the people that expect quick results, are doomed to disappointment."According to W. Edwards Deming, American companies require nothing less...
by Timothy P. Hubbard, Harry J. Paarsch
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
How auctions work, in theory and practice, with clear explanations and real-world examples that range from government procurement to eBay.
Although it is among the oldest of market institutions, the auction is ubiquitous in today's economy, used for everything from government procurement to...
by John Maeda, Rebecca J Bermont
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2011
When designer and computer scientist John Maeda was tapped to be president of the celebrated Rhode Island School of Design in 2008, he had to learn how to be a leader quickly. He had to transform himself from a tenured professor--with a love of argument for argument's sake and the freedom to experiment--into...
Reforming the Unreformable
Lessons from Nigeria
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2012
A report on development economics in action, by a crucial player in Nigeria's recent reforms.
Corrupt, mismanaged, and seemingly hopeless: that's how the international community viewed Nigeria in the early 2000s. Then Nigeria implemented a sweeping set of economic and political changes and...
Logistics Clusters
Delivering Value and Driving Growth
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
How logistics clusters can create jobs while providing companies with competitive advantage.
Why is Memphis home to hundreds of motor carrier terminals and distribution centers? Why does the tiny island-nation of Singapore handle a fifth of the world's maritime containers and half the world's...
The AI Advantage
How to Put the Artificial Intelligence Revolution to Work
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2018
Cutting through the hype, a practical guide to using artificial intelligence for business benefits and competitive advantage.
In The AI Advantage, Thomas Davenport offers a guide to using artificial intelligence in business. He describes what technologies are available and how companies can...
Revolution in Higher Education
How a Small Band of Innovators Will Make College Accessible and Affordable
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
A report from the front lines of higher education and technology that chronicles efforts to transform teaching, learning, and opportunity.
Colleges and universities have become increasingly costly, and, except for a handful of highly selective, elite institutions, unresponsive to twenty-first-century...
Collision Course
Endless Growth on a Finite Planet
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2014
The story behind the reckless promotion of economic growth despite its disastrous consequences for life on the planet.
The notion of ever-expanding economic growth has been promoted so relentlessly that “growth” is now entrenched as the natural objective of collective human effort. The...