Mit Press: 1072 books
Concrete and Clay: Reworking Nature in New York City
Reworking Nature in New York City
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2002
An interdisciplinary account of the environmental history and changing landscape of New York City.
Spaces Speak, Are You Listening?
Experiencing Aural Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2009
How we experience space by listening: the concepts of aural architecture, with examples ranging from Gothic cathedrals to surround sound home theater.
We experience spaces not only by seeing but also by listening. We can navigate a room in the dark, and "hear" the emptiness of a house...
Design, When Everybody Designs
An Introduction to Design for Social Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2015
The role of design, both expert and nonexpert, in the ongoing wave of social innovation toward sustainability.
In a changing world everyone designs: each individual person and each collective subject, from enterprises to institutions, from communities to cities and regions, must define and...
In the Bubble
Designing in a Complex World
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2006
How to design a world in which we rely less on stuff, and more on people.
We're filling up the world with technology and devices, but we've lost sight of an important question: What is this stuff for? What value does it add to our lives? So asks author John Thackara in his new book, In the...
by Sean Gerrish
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2018
Everything you've always wanted to know about self-driving cars, Netflix recommendations, IBM's Watson, and video game-playing computer programs.
The future is here: Self-driving cars are on the streets, an algorithm gives you movie and TV recommendations, IBM's Watson triumphed on Jeopardy...
The Future Was Here: The Commodore Amiga
The Commodore Amiga
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Exploring the often-overlooked history and technological innovations of the worlds first true multimedia computer.
This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things
Mapping the Relationship between Online Trolling and Mainstream Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2015
Why the troll problem is actually a culture problem: how online trolling fits comfortably within today's media landscape.
Internet trolls live to upset as many people as possible, using all the technical and psychological tools at their disposal. They gleefully whip the media into a frenzy...
Rules of Play
Game Design Fundamentals
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2003
As pop culture, games are as important as film or television--but game design has yet to develop a theoretical framework or critical vocabulary. In Rules of Play Katie Salen and Eric Zimmerman present a much-needed primer for this emerging field. They offer a unified model for looking at all kinds...
Obfuscation
A User's Guide for Privacy and Protest
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2015
How we can evade, protest, and sabotage today's pervasive digital surveillance by deploying more data, not less—and why we should.
With Obfuscation, Finn Brunton and Helen Nissenbaum mean to start a revolution. They are calling us not to the barricades but to our computers, offering us ways...
The Game Design Reader
A Rules of Play Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2005
Classic and cutting-edge writings on games, spanning nearly 50 years of game analysis and criticism, by game designers, game journalists, game fans, folklorists, sociologists, and media theorists.
Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System
The Atari Video Computer System
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2009
A study of the relationship between platform and creative expression in the Atari VCS.
by Leonard Talmy
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
A proposal that a single linguistic/cognitive system, “targeting,” underlies two domains of reference, anaphora (speech-internal) and deixis (speech-external).
In this book, Leonard Talmy proposes that a single linguistic/cognitive system, targeting, underlies two domains of linguistic...
by Nick Montfort
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
A book for anyone who wants to learn programming to explore and create, with exercises and projects to help the reader learn by doing.
This book introduces programming to readers with a background in the arts and humanities; there are no prerequisites, and no knowledge of computation is assumed....
by Mark Balaguer
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2014
A philosopher considers whether the scientific and philosophical arguments against free will are reason enough to give up our belief in it.
In our daily life, it really seems as though we have free will, that what we do from moment to moment is determined by conscious decisions that we freely...