The Mit Press: 939 books
The Digital Mind
How Science Is Redefining Humanity
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
How developments in science and technology may enable the emergence of purely digital minds—intelligent machines equal to or greater in power than the human brain.
What do computers, cells, and brains have in common? Computers are electronic devices designed by humans; cells are biological...
On Computing
The Fourth Great Scientific Domain
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
A proposal that computing is not merely a form of engineering but a scientific domain on a par with the physical, life, and social sciences.
Computing is not simply about hardware or software, or calculation or applications. Computing, writes Paul Rosenbloom, is an exciting and diverse, yet...
Plato and the Nerd
The Creative Partnership of Humans and Technology
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
How humans and technology evolve together in a creative partnership.
In this book, Edward Ashford Lee makes a bold claim: that the creators of digital technology have an unsurpassed medium for creativity. Technology has advanced to the point where progress seems limited not by physical constraints...
Hello Avatar
Rise of the Networked Generation
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2011
An examination of our many modes of online identity and how we live on the continuum between the virtual and the real.
Hello Avatar! Or, {llSay(0, "Hello, Avatar!"); is a tiny piece of user-friendly code that allows us to program our virtual selves. In Hello Avatar, B. Coleman examines a crucial...
by Astrid Ensslin
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
A new analytical framework for understanding literary videogames, the literary-ludic spectrum, illustrated by close readings of selected works.
In this book, Astrid Ensslin examines literary videogames—hybrid digital artifacts that have elements of both games and literature, combining the...
by Hector J. Levesque
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
What artificial intelligence can tell us about the mind and intelligent behavior.
What can artificial intelligence teach us about the mind? If AI's underlying concept is that thinking is a computational process, then how can computation illuminate thinking? It's a timely question. AI is all...
How to Design Programs
An Introduction to Programming and Computing
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2018
A completely revised edition, offering new design recipes for interactive programs and support for images as plain values, testing, event-driven programming, and even distributed programming.
This introduction to programming places computer science at the core of a liberal arts education. Unlike...
Twitterbots
Making Machines that Make Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2018
The world of Twitterbots, from botdom's greatest hits to bot construction to the place of the bot in the social media universe.
Twitter offers a unique medium for creativity and curiosity for humans and machines. The tweets of Twitterbots, autonomous software systems that send messages of their...
by Nick Montfort, John Bell, Ian Bogost
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2012
A single line of code offers a way to understand the cultural context of computing.
This book takes a single line of code—the extremely concise BASIC program for the Commodore 64 inscribed in the title—and uses it as a lens through which to consider the phenomenon of creative computing...
The Future of Thinking
Learning Institutions in a Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2010
How traditional learning institutions can become as innovative, flexible, robust, and collaborative as the best social networking sites.
Over the past two decades, the way we learn has changed dramatically. We have new sources of information and new ways to exchange and to interact with information....
Contagious Architecture
Computation, Aesthetics, and Space
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2013
A proposal that algorithms are not simply instructions to be performed but thinking entities that construct digital spatio-temporalities.
In Contagious Architecture, Luciana Parisi offers a philosophical inquiry into the status of the algorithm in architectural and interaction design. Her thesis...
by Branden Hookway
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
A cultural theory of the interface as a relation that is both ubiquitous and elusive, drawing on disciplines from cultural theory to architecture.
In this book, Branden Hookway considers the interface not as technology but as a form of relationship with technology. The interface, Hookway proposes,...
by Alicia Kestrell Verlager, E. Cabell Hankinson Gathman, Nicholas A. Knouf
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
Memoir, clinical writings, and ethnography inform new perspectives on the experience of technology; personal stories illuminate how technology enters the inner life.
For more than two decades, in such landmark studies as The Second Self and Life on the Screen, Sherry Turkle has challenged our...
A Play of Bodies
How We Perceive Videogames
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
An investigation of the embodied engagement between the playing body and the videogame: how player and game incorporate each other.
Our bodies engage with videogames in complex and fascinating ways. Through an entanglement of eyes-on-screens, ears-at-speakers, and muscles-against-interfaces,...