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The Deep Learning Revolution: Machine Intelligence Meets Human Intelligence
(MIT Press, 2018)How deep learning--from Google Translate to driverless cars to personal cognitive assistants--is changing our lives and transforming every sector of the economy.The deep learning revolution has brought us driverless cars, ... -
Architecting the Future Enterprise
(MIT Press, 2015)Every enterprise evolves continuously, driven by changing needs or new opportunities. Most often this happens gradually, with small adjustments to strategy, organization, processes, or infrastructure. But sometimes enterprises ... -
Frame Innovation: Create New Thinking by Design
(MIT Press, 2015)When organizations apply old methods of problem-solving to new kinds of problems, they may accomplish only temporary fixes or some ineffectual tinkering around the edges. Today's problems are a new breed -- open, complex, ... -
Quantified: Biosensing Technologies in Everyday Life
(MIT Press, 2016)What is at stake socially, culturally, politically, and economically when we routinely use technology to gather information about our bodies and environments? Today anyone can purchase technology that can track, quantify, ... -
Philosophy of Language: The Classics Explained
(MIT Press, 2015)Many beginning students in philosophy of language find themselves grappling with dense and difficult texts not easily understood by someone new to the field. This book offers an introduction to philosophy of language by ... -
From Neuron to Cognition via Computational Neuroscience
(MIT Press, 2016)Computational neuroscience is an approach to understanding the development and function of nervous systems at many different structural scales, including the biophysical, the circuit, and the systems levels. Methods include ... -
Turing’s Vision: The Birth of Computer Science
(MIT Press, 2016)Turing's fascinating and remarkable theory, which now forms the basis of computer science, explained for the general reader. In 1936, when he was just twenty-four years old, Alan Turing wrote a remarkable paper in which ... -
Building and Interpreting Possession Sentences
(MIT Press, 2016)A wide-ranging generative analysis of the typology of possession sentences, solving long-standing puzzles in their syntax and semantics. A major question for linguistic theory concerns how the structure of sentences relates ... -
The World Trade System: Trends and Challenges
(MIT Press, 2016)When the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) metamorphosed into the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 1994, it seemed that the third pillar of the international economic superstructure was finally in place. And ... -
Case Studies in Neural Data Analysis: A Guide for the Practicing Neuroscientist
(MIT Press, 2016)As neural data becomes increasingly complex, neuroscientists now require skills in computer programming, statistics, and data analysis. This book teaches practical neural data analysis techniques by presenting example ... -
Changing minds changing tools : from learning theory to language acquisition to language change
(MIT Press, 2018)By the time you were just a year old, you had learned which sound distinctions matter and which do not. From the constant streams of acoustic and visual input, you had extracted a few acoustic forms and linked them to ... -
System: The Shaping of Modern Knowledge
(MIT Press, 2016)The role that "system" has played in the shaping and reshaping of modern knowledge, from Galileo and Newton to our own "computational universe." A system can describe what we see (the solar system), operate a computer ... -
Productivity and Reuse in Language : A Theory of Linguistic Computation and Storage
(MIT Press, 2016)Language allows us to express and comprehend an unbounded number of thoughts. This fundamental and much-celebrated property is made possible by a division of labour between a large inventory of stored items (e.g. affixes, ... -
Computational Models of Referring: A Study in Cognitive Science
(MIT Press, 2016)To communicate, speakers need to make it clear what they are talking about. The act of referring, which anchors words to things, is a fundamental aspect of language. In this book, Kees van Deemter shows that computational ... -
Open MIND : philosophy and the mind sciences in the 21st century
(MIT Press, 2016)This is an edited collection of 39 original papers and as many commentaries and replies. The target papers and replies were written by senior members of the MIND Group, while all commentaries were written by junior group ... -
The Rationality Quotient: Toward a Test of Rational Thinking
(MIT Press, 2016)Why are we surprised when smart people act foolishly? Smart people do foolish things all the time. Misjudgments and bad decisions by highly educated bankers and money managers, for example, brought us the financial crisis ... -
The Distracted Mind: Ancient Brains in a High-Tech World
(MIT Press, 2016)Most of us will freely admit that we are obsessed with our devices. We pride ourselves on our ability to multitask -- read work email, reply to a text, check Facebook, watch a video clip. Talk on the phone, send a text, ... -
Impossible Languages
(MIT Press, 2016)Can there be such a thing as an impossible human language? A biologist could describe an impossible animal as one that goes against the physical laws of nature (entropy, for example, or gravity). Are there any such laws ... -
Macroeconomics in Times of Liquidity Crises: Searching for Economic Essentials
(MIT Press, 2016)Since the subprime mortgage crisis that began in 2007, advanced economies have felt a nagging sense of insecurity. In parallel, the profession has witnessed phenomena that are alien to mainstream macroeconomic models. ... -
Multicellularity: Origins and Evolution
(MIT Press, 2016)The evolution of multicellularity raises questions regarding genomic and developmental commonalities and discordances, selective advantages and disadvantages, physical determinants of development, and the origins of ...
