The Mit Press: 939 books
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....
March 4
Scientists, Students, and Society
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2019
Scientists debate the role of scientific research in the military-industrial complex and consider the complicity of academic science in American wars.
On March 4, 1969, MIT faculty and students joined together for an extraordinary day of protest. Growing out of the MIT community's anguish over...
by Nick Montfort
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
How the future has been imagined and made, through the work of writers, artists, inventors, and designers.
The future is like an unwritten book. It is not something we see in a crystal ball, or can only hope to predict, like the weather. In this volume of the MIT Press's Essential Knowledge...
The Technology Fallacy
How People Are the Real Key to Digital Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2019
Why an organization's response to digital disruption should focus on people and processes and not necessarily on technology.
Digital technologies are disrupting organizations of every size and shape, leaving managers scrambling to find a technology fix that will help their organizations compete....
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 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...
by Kerry Emanuel
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
A renowned climatologist—and political conservative—assesses current scientific understanding of climate change and sounds a call to action.
The vast majority of scientists agree that human activity has significantly increased greenhouse gases in the atmosphere—most dramatically since...