MIT Press opens full list of 2022 monographs via Direct to Open

Eighty scholarly monographs and edited collections partially funded by libraries participating in MIT Press’s Direct to Open model will publish openly this year. | Continue reading


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Content

A concise introduction to content and the content industry, from the early internet to the Instagram egg.From the time we roll out of bed to check overnight updates to our last posts, likes, and views of the previous day, we're consuming and producing content. But what does the t … | Continue reading


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Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction (2nd Edition)

The significantly expanded and updated new edition of a widely used text on reinforcement learning, one of the most active research areas in artificial intelligence.Reinforcement learning, one of the most active research areas in artificial intelligence, is a computational approa … | Continue reading


@mitpress.mit.edu | 2 years ago

Technology of the Oppressed

How Brazilian favela residents engage with and appropriate technologies, both to fight the oppression in their lives and to represent themselves in the world.Brazilian favelas are impoverished settlements usually located on hillsides or the outskirts of a city. In Technology of t … | Continue reading


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"Make It Clear: Speak and Write to Persuade and Inform" by Patrick Henry Winston

The essentials of communication for professionals, educators, students, and entrepreneurs, from organizing your thoughts to inspiring your audience.Do you give presentations at meetings? Do you ever have to explain a complicated subject to audiences unfamiliar with your field? Do … | Continue reading


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Introduction to Algorithms, Fourth Edition – The MIT Press

A comprehensive update of the leading algorithms text, with new material on matchings in bipartite graphs, online algorithms, machine learning, and other topics.Some books on algorithms are rigorous but incomplete; others cover masses of material but lack rigor. Introduction to A … | Continue reading


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Types and Programming Languages (2002)

A comprehensive introduction to type systems and programming languages.A type system is a syntactic method for automatically checking the absence of certain erroneous behaviors by classifying program phrases according to the kinds of values they compute. The study of type systems … | Continue reading


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The Ancient Origins of Consciousness

How consciousness appeared much earlier in evolutionary history than is commonly assumed, and why all vertebrates and perhaps even some invertebrates are conscious.How is consciousness created? When did it first appear on Earth, and how did it evolve? What constitutes consciousne … | Continue reading


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Homebrew Gaming and the Beginnings of Vernacular Digitality

The overlooked history of an early appropriation of digital technology: the creation of games though coding and hardware hacking by microcomputer users. From the late 1970s through the mid-1980s, low-end microcomputers offered many users their first taste of comput … | Continue reading


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SICP – Upcoming JavaScript Edition

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Teaching Machines: the history of personalized learning

How ed tech was born: Twentieth-century teaching machines—from Sidney Pressey's mechanized test-giver to B. F. Skinner's behaviorist bell-ringing box. Contrary to popular belief, ed tech did not begin with videos on the internet. The idea of technology that would a … | Continue reading


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Bird Architecture

An excerpt from Hidden Wonders: The Subtle Dialogue Between Physics and Elegance. | Continue reading


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Global Catastrophes and Trends: The Next Fifty Years

The Next Fifty Years | Continue reading


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The MIT Press launches Direct to Open

The MIT Press launches Direct to Open (D2O), a first-of-its-kind sustainable framework for open access monographs. | Continue reading


@mitpress.mit.edu | 3 years ago

Ideas That Created the Future: Classic Papers of Computer Science

Classic papers by thinkers ranging from Aristotle and Leibniz to Norbert Wiener and Gordon Moore that chart the evolution of computer science. Ideas That Created the Future collects forty-six classic papers in computer science that map the evolu … | Continue reading


@mitpress.mit.edu | 3 years ago

July 2021: Release of 2nd edition of The Elements of Computing Systems

A new and extensively revised edition of a popular textbook used in universities, coding boot camps, hacker clubs, and online courses. The best way to understand how computers work is to build one from scratch, and this textbook leads learners through twelve chapte … | Continue reading


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Software Design for Flexibility

Strategies for building systems that can be adapted for new situations with only minor programming modifications. Time pressures encourage programmers to write code that works well for a narrow purpose, with no room to grow. But the best systems are evolvable; they … | Continue reading


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Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP) Book

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Machine Learning a Probabilistic Perspective by Kevin P. Murphy, Second Edition

The second and expanded edition of a comprehensive introduction to machine learning that uses probabilistic models and inference as a unifying approach. This textbook offers a comprehensive and self-contained introduction to the field of machine learning, including … | Continue reading


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The Charisma Machine (2019)

The Charlotte, North Carolina, man tweeted in protest because he thought the Trump administration’s designation of antifa as a terror group was absurd. | Continue reading


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Red Prometheus (2007)

This analysis of the relationship between science and totalitarian rule in one of the most technically advanced countries in the East bloc examines professional autonomy under dictatorship and the place of technology in Communist ideology. In Cold War-era East Germ … | Continue reading


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Functional Differential Geometry

An explanation of the mathematics needed as a foundation for a deep understanding of general relativity or quantum field theory. Physics is naturally expressed in mathematical language. Students new to the subject must simultaneously learn an idiomatic mathematical … | Continue reading


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Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics

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Programmed Inequality – How Britain Discarded Women Technologists

How Britain lost its early dominance in computing by systematically discriminating against its most qualified workers: women. In 1944, Britain led the world in electronic computing. By 1974, the British computer industry was all but extinct. What happened in the in … | Continue reading


@mitpress.mit.edu | 4 years ago

MIT Press Best Selling Books

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Biological Clocks, Rhythms, and Oscillations: Theory of Biological Timekeeping

An introduction to the mathematical, computational, and analytical techniques used for modeling biological rhythms, presenting tools from many disciplines and example applications. All areas of biology and medicine contain rhythms, and these behaviors are best unde … | Continue reading


@mitpress.mit.edu | 4 years ago

Turtle Geometry: The Computer as a Medium for Exploring Mathematics

Turtle Geometry presents an innovative program of mathematical discovery that demonstrates how the effective use of personal computers can profoundly change the nature of a student's contact with mathematics. Using this book and a few simple computer programs, students can explor … | Continue reading


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The Joy of Search: A Google Insider's Guide to Going Beyond the Basics

How to be a great online searcher, demonstrated with step-by-step searches for answers to a series of intriguing questions (for example, “Is that plant poisonous?”). We all know how to look up something online by typing words into a search engine. We do this so oft … | Continue reading


@mitpress.mit.edu | 4 years ago

The Myth of the Paperless Office

An examination of why paper continues to fill our offices and a proposal for better coordination of the paper and digital worlds. Over the past thirty years, many people have proclaimed the imminent arrival of the paperless office. Yet even the World Wide Web, whic … | Continue reading


@mitpress.mit.edu | 4 years ago

We Can't Have Nice Things

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 whi … | Continue reading


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Algorithms for Optimization (Code Examples in Julia)

A comprehensive introduction to optimization with a focus on practical algorithms for the design of engineering systems. This book offers a comprehensive introduction to optimization with a focus on practical algorithms. The book approaches optimization from an eng … | Continue reading


@mitpress.mit.edu | 4 years ago

Marvin Minsky on Education (With Commentary by Alan Kay and Others)

Six essays by artificial intelligence pioneer Marvin Minsky on how education can foster inventiveness, paired with commentary by Minsky's former colleagues and students. Marvin Minsky was a pioneering researcher in artificial intelligence whose work led to both the … | Continue reading


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Platform Studies, a Book Series Published by MIT Press

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Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

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Street-Fighting Mathematics (2010)

An antidote to mathematical rigor mortis, teaching how to guess answers without needing a proof or an exact calculation. In problem solving, as in street fighting, rules are for fools: do whatever works—don't just stand there! Yet we often fear an unjustified leap … | Continue reading


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The Prime Number Conspiracy (MIT Press)

Quanta Magazine's stories of mathematical explorations show that “inspiration strikes willy-nilly,” revealing surprising solutions and exciting discoveries. These stories from Quanta Magazine map the routes of mathematical exploration, showing readers how cutting-e … | Continue reading


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Culture Is Not Always Popular

A collection of writing about design from the influential, eclectic, and adventurous Design Observer. Founded in 2003, Design Observer inscribes its mission on its homepage: Writings about Design and Culture. Since its inception, the site has consistently embraced … | Continue reading


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Atlas of Poetic Botany

Botanical encounters in the rainforest: trees that walk, a leaf as big as an awning, a plant that dances. This Atlas invites the reader to tour the farthest reaches of the rainforest in search of exotic—poetic—plant life. Guided in these botanical encounters by Fra … | Continue reading


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How Smart Machines Think

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 Wa … | Continue reading


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Art of Prolog 2nd edition in open access

This new edition of The Art of Prolog contains a number of important changes. Most background sections at the end of each chapter have been updated to take account of important recent research results, the references have been greatly expanded, and more advanced exercises have be … | Continue reading


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Robot Rights

A provocative attempt to think about what was previously considered unthinkable: a serious philosophical case for the rights of robots. We are in the midst of a robot invasion, as devices of different configurations and capabilities slowly but surely come to take u … | Continue reading


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A Simulator for Digital Circuits

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Frankenstein – Annotated for Scientists, Engineers, and Creators of All Kinds

The original 1818 text of Mary Shelley's classic novel, with annotations and essays highlighting its scientific, ethical, and cautionary aspects. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein has endured in the popular imagination for two hundred years. Begun as a ghost story by an … | Continue reading


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Alice and Bob Meet the Wall of Fire: The Biggest Ideas in Science from Quanta

Accessible and essential coverage of today's challenging, speculative, cutting-edge science from Quanta Magazine. These stories reveal the latest efforts to untangle the mysteries of the universe. Bringing together the best and most interesting science stories appe … | Continue reading


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Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics

The new edition of a classic text that concentrates on developing general methods for studying the behavior of classical systems, with extensive use of computation. We now know that there is much more to classical mechanics than previously suspected. Derivations of … | Continue reading


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Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics

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The Problem with Software. Why Smart Engineers Write Bad Code

An industry insider explains why there is so much bad software—and why academia doesn't teach programmers what industry wants them to know. Why is software so prone to bugs? So vulnerable to viruses? Why are software products so often delayed, o … | Continue reading


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I Am Error – The Nintendo Family Computer/Entertainment System Platform

The complex material histories of the Nintendo Entertainment System platform, from code to silicon, focusing on its technical constraints and its expressive affordances. In the 1987 Nintendo Entertainment System videogame Zelda II: The Adventur … | Continue reading


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