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The Handbook of Attention
(MIT Press, 2015)Laboratory research on human attention has often been conducted under conditions that bear little resemblance to the complexity of our everyday lives. Although this research has yielded interesting discoveries, few scholars ... -
Intelligence Emerging: Adaptivity and Search in Evolving Neural Systems
(MIT Press, 2015)Emergence -- the formation of global patterns from solely local interactions -- is a frequent and fascinating theme in the scientific literature both popular and academic. In this book, Keith Downing undertakes a systematic ... -
Writing and Unwriting (Media) Art History: Erkki Kurenniemi in 2048
(MIT Press, 2015)Over the past forty years, Finnish artist and technology pioneer Erkki Kurenniemi (b. 1941) has been a composer of electronic music, experimental filmmaker, computer animator, roboticist, inventor, and futurologist. ... -
Pseudoscience : the conspiracy against science
(MIT Press, 2018)In a post-truth, fake news world, we are particularly susceptible to the claims of pseudoscience. When emotions and opinions are more widely disseminated than scientific findings, and self-proclaimed experts get their ... -
The Sound of Innovation: Stanford and the Computer Music Revolution
(MIT Press, 2015)In the 1960s, a team of Stanford musicians, engineers, computer scientists, and psychologists used computing in an entirely novel way: to produce and manipulate sound and create the sonic basis of new musical compositions. ... -
Becoming Fluent: How Cognitive Science Can Help Adults Learn a Foreign Language
(MIT Press, 2015)Adults who want to learn a foreign language are often discouraged because they believe they cannot acquire a language as easily as children. Once they begin to learn a language, adults may be further discouraged when they ... -
Principles of Neural Design
(MIT Press, 2015)Neuroscience research has exploded, with more than fifty thousand neuroscientists applying increasingly advanced methods. A mountain of new facts and mechanisms has emerged. And yet a principled framework to organize this ... -
Design, when everybody designs: an introduction to design for social innovation
(MIT Press, 2015)In a changing world everyone designs: each individual person and each collective subject, from enterprises to institutions, from communities to cities and regions, must define and enhance a life project. Sometimes these ... -
The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress, Book 4: Reason in Art
(MIT Press, 2015)Santayana's Life of Reason, published in five books from 1905 to 1906, ranks as one of the greatest works in modern philosophical naturalism. Acknowledging the natural material bases of human life, Santayana traces the ... -
Decision Making Under Uncertainty: Theory and Application
(MIT Press, 2015)Many important problems involve decision making under uncertainty -- that is, choosing actions based on often imperfect observations, with unknown outcomes. Designers of automated decision support systems must take into ... -
Systemic Risk, Crises, and Macroprudential Regulation
(MIT Press, 2015)The recent financial crisis has shattered all standard approaches to banking regulation. Regulators now recognize that banking regulation cannot be simply based on individual financial institutions' risks. Instead, systemic ... -
The container principle : how a box changes the way we think
(MIT Press, 2015)We live in a world organized around the container. Standardized twenty- and forty-foot shipping containers carry material goods across oceans and over land, provide shelter, office space, and storage capacity, inspire ... -
How to Write a Thesis
(MIT Press, 2015)By the time Umberto Eco published his best-selling novel The Name of the Rose, he was one of Italy's most celebrated intellectuals, a distinguished academic and the author of influential works on semiotics. Some years ... -
The Conceptual Mind: New Directions in the Study of Concepts
(MIT Press, 2015)The study of concepts has advanced dramatically in recent years, with exciting new findings and theoretical developments. Core concepts have been investigated in greater depth and new lines of inquiry have blossomed, with ... -
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 ...
