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Nightwork: A History of Hacks and Pranks at MIT

MIT Press, 2011

An MIT "hack" is an ingenious, benign, andanonymous prank or practical joke, often requiring engineering or scientificexpertise and often pulled off under cover of darkness -- instances of campus mischief sometimes coinciding withApril Fool's Day, final exams, or commencement. (It should not beconfused with the sometimes...

Famous First Bubbles: The Fundamentals of Early Manias

MIT Press, 2000

The jargon of economics and finance contains numerous colorful terms for market-asset prices at odds with any reasonable economic explanation. Examples include "bubble," "tulipmania," "chain letter," "Ponzi scheme," "panic," "crash," "herding," and "irrational...

Advanced Topics in Types and Programming Languages

MIT Press, 2004

Work in type systems for programming languages now touches many parts
of computer science, from language design and implementation to software
engineering, network security, databases, and analysis of concurrent and distributed
systems. The aim of this book, together with its predecessor, Types
and Programming Languages (Pierce...

At War with the Weather: Managing Large-Scale Risks in a New Era of Catastrophes

MIT Press, 2009

The United States and other nations are facing large-scale risks at an accelerating pace. In 2005, three major hurricanes—Katrina, Rita, and Wilma—made landfall along the U.S. Gulf Coast within an eight-week period. The damage caused by these storms led to insurance reimbursements and federal disaster relief of more than $180...

Vector Models for Data-Parallel Computing (Artificial Intelligence)

MIT Press, 1990

Vector Models for Data-Parallel Computing describes a model of parallelism that extends and formalizes the Data-Parallel model on which the Connection Machine and other supercomputers are based. It presents many algorithms based on the model, ranging from graph algorithms to numerical algorithms, and argues that data-parallel models...

Essentials of Knowledge Management

John Wiley & Sons, 2003

"Managing knowledge has become a critical competency for organizations. Despite its importance, knowledge management is often seen as a complex, diffuse, and difficult-to-understand management practice. In his new book, Essentials of Knowledge Management, Bryan Bergeron continues to display his remarkable ability to thoughtfully,...

The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology

Viking Adult, 2005

Advance Praise For The Singularity is Near

"Ray Kurzweil is the best person I know at predicting the future of artificial intelligence. His intriguing new book envisions a future in which information technologies have advanced so far and fast that they enable humanity to transcend its biological...

Technology Matters: Questions to Live With

MIT Press, 2006

Winner, 2009 Sally Hacker Prize given by the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT). and Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2006

Technology matters, writes David Nye, because it is inseparable from being human. We have used tools for more than 100,000 years, and their central purpose has not always been to...

The TCP/IP Guide: A Comprehensive, Illustrated Internet Protocols Reference

No Starch Press, 2005

The TCP/IP Guide is both an encyclopedic and comprehensible guide to the TCP/IP protocol suite that will appeal to newcomers and the seasoned professional. It details the core protocols that make TCP/IP internetworks function, and the most important classical TCP/IP applications. Its personal, easy-going writing style lets anyone...

Structure and Interpretation of Signals and Systems

Addison Wesley, 2002

This book provides an accessible introduction to signals and systems by beginning with an early introduction to cound and image applications, as opposed to circuits, that motivate readers to learn the theory. The book is accompanied by a robust website with detailed notes and illustrative applets for most every topic. An accessible introduction to...

Logical Foundations of Computer Science: International Symposium, LFCS 2007

Springer, 2007

The Symposium on Logical Foundations of Computer Science series provides a forum for the fast-growing body of work in the logical foundations of computer science, e.g., those areas of fundamental theoretical logic related to computer science. The LFCS series began with “Logic at Botik,” Pereslavl-Zalessky, 1989, which was...

Exploratory Programming for the Arts and Humanities (MIT Press)

MIT Press, 2016

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. In it, Nick Montfort reveals programming to be not merely a technical exercise within given constraints but a tool for sketching, brainstorming, and inquiring about important topics....

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