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Crypto Anarchy, Cyberstates, and Pirate Utopias

MIT Press, 2001

In Crypto Anarchy, Cyberstates, and Pirate Utopias, Peter Ludlow extends the approach he used so successfully in High Noon on the Electronic Frontier, offering a collection of writings that reflects the eclectic nature of the online world, as well as its tremendous energy and creativity. This time the subject is the emergence...

3D Shape: Its Unique Place in Visual Perception

MIT Press, 2008

The uniqueness of shape as a perceptual property lies in the fact that it is both complex and structured. Shapes are perceived veridically—perceived as they really are in the physical world, regardless of the orientation from which they are viewed. The constancy of the shape percept is the sine qua non of shape perception; you are...

Access Denied: The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering (Information Revolution and Global Politics)

MIT Press, 2008

This book is a testament to collaboration. About five years ago, it became clear to several of us—at the University of Cambridge, Harvard Law School, and the University of Toronto—that we might accomplish more by working together, across institutions and continents, than we could by going it alone. Since that time, the Oxford Internet...

Bio-Inspired Artificial Intelligence: Theories, Methods, and Technologies (Intelligent Robotics and Autonomous Agents)

MIT Press, 2008

New approaches to artificial intelligence spring from the idea that intelligence emerges as much from cells, bodies, and societies as it does from evolution, development, and learning. Traditionally, artificial intelligence has been concerned with reproducing the abilities of human brains; newer approaches take inspiration from a wider range of...

Software Studies: A Lexicon (Leonardo Books)

MIT Press, 2008

This collection of short expository, critical, and speculative texts offers a field guide to the cultural, political, social, and aesthetic impact of software. Computing and digital media are essential to the way we work and live, and much has been said about their influence. But the very material of software has often been left invisible. In...

At a Distance: Precursors to Art and Activism on the Internet (Leonardo Books)

MIT Press, 2005

"The book is an exhilarating, eye-opening read that restores the body to the virtual and pulls the virtual out of the digital and back into lived and produced social relations." - Patricia R. Zimmermann, Department of Cinema and Photography, Ithaca College"

Networked collaborations of artists did not begin on the Internet....

Game Sound: An Introduction to the History, Theory, and Practice of Video Game Music and Sound Design

MIT Press, 2008

"Collins has written a truly encyclopedic work that wonderfully complements books on sound design in film, helping anyone in the audiovisual industry who desires to expand more confidently into teaching, designing, and producing audio in the gaming world. This book provides fascinating insights about how game audio can enhance player...

Quantum Computing without Magic: Devices (Scientific and Engineering Computation)

MIT Press, 2008

"Quantum Computing without Magic gives a refreshing and down to earth approach to quantum information as well as quantum devices which will have a fundamental impact on the technology of the 21st century."
—Raymond Laflamme, Canada Research Chair in Quantum Information, and Director, Institute for...

From Embryology to Evo-Devo: A History of Developmental Evolution

MIT Press, 2007

Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2007.

Although we now know that ontogeny (individual development) does not actually recapitulate phylogeny (evolutionary transformation), contrary to Ernst Haeckel's famous dictum, the relationship between embryological development and evolution remains the subject of intense...

Web Campaigning (Acting with Technology)

MIT Press, 2006

Winner, 2008 Doris Graber Outstanding Book Award presented by the Political Communication Section of the American Political Science Association.

The use of the Web in U.S. political campaigns has developed dramatically over the course of the last several election seasons. In Web Campaigning, Kirsten Foot and...

Conceptual Spaces: The Geometry of Thought

MIT Press, 2000

"This is a fearless book that casts a wide net around key issues in cognitive science. It offers the kind of coherent, unified view that the field badly needs." - Steven Sloman, Associate Professor, Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences, Brown University"

Within cognitive science, two approaches currently dominate...

Proof, Language, and Interaction: Essays in Honour of Robin Milner (Foundations of Computing)

MIT Press, 2000

This volume is a Festschrift to honour the scientilfiifce and achievemento f Robin Milner. Robin’s contributions have been both profound and varied, ovneorw ,a o pfs eormioed , thirty years. They range througthhe semantic foundationso f programming languages, computerassisted theorem-proving, programming language design, andth e theory of...

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