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Algorithms by Panos Louridas
Category: Science | Series: The\MIT Press Essential Knowledge Ser.
Digital technology runs on algorithms, sets of instructions that describe how to do something efficiently. Application areas range from search engines to tournament scheduling, DNA sequencing, and machine learning. Arguing that every educated person today needs to have some understanding of algorithms a ...Show more
Annotation by Remi H. Kalir; Antero Garcia
Category: Languages and Reference | Series: The\MIT Press Essential Knowledge Ser.
An introduction to annotation as a genre-a synthesis of reading, thinking, writing, and communication-and its significance in scholarship and everyday life. Book jacket.
Anticorruption by Robert I. Rotberg
Category: History | Series: The\MIT Press Essential Knowledge Ser.
Winning the anticorruption battle: a guide for citizens and politicians. The phenomenon of corruption has existed since antiquity; from ancient Mesopotamia to our modern-day high-level ethical morass, people have sought a leg up, a shortcut, or an end run to power and influence. In this volume in the M ...Show more
Auctions by Timothy P. Hubbard; Harry J. Paarsch
Category: Health and Wellbeing | Series: The\MIT Press Essential Knowledge Ser.
How auctions work, in theory and practice, with clear explanations and real-world examples that range from government procurement to eBay.Although it is among the oldest of market institutions, the auction is ubiquitous in today's economy, used for everything from government procurement to selling adver ...Show more
Cloud Computing by Nayan B. Ruparelia
Category: Business | Series: The MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
Most of the information available on cloud computing is either highly technical, with details that are irrelevant to non-technologists, or pure marketing hype, in which the cloud is simply a selling point. This book, however, explains the cloud from the user's viewpoint -- the business user's in particu ...Show more
Computing: A Concise History by Paul E. Ceruzzi
Category: Health and Wellbeing | Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
The history of computing could be told as the story of hardware and software, or the story of the Internet, or the story of "smart" hand-held devices, with subplots involving IBM, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, and Twitter. In this concise and accessible account of the invention and development of digital ...Show more
Cybersecurity by Duane C. Wilson
Category: Politics | Series: The\MIT Press Essential Knowledge Ser.
An accessible guide to cybersecurity for the everyday user, covering cryptography and public key infrastructure, malware, blockchain, and other topics. It seems that everything we touch is connected to the internet, from mobile phones and wearable technology to home appliances and cyber assistants. The ...Show more
Death and Dying by Nicole Piemonte; Shawn Abreu
Category: Self-Help | Series: The\MIT Press Essential Knowledge Ser.
An examination of the contemporary medicalization of death and dying that calls us to acknowledge instead death's existential and emotional realities. Death is a natural, inevitable, and deeply human process, and yet Western medicine tends to view it as a medical failure. In their zeal to prevent death ...Show more
Extremism by J. M. Berger
Category: Reference | Series: The\MIT Press Essential Knowledge Ser.
What extremism is, how extremist ideologies are constructed, and why extremism can escalate into violence.A rising tide of extremist movements threaten to destabilize civil societies around the globe. It has never been more important to understand extremism, yet the dictionary definition--a logical star ...Show more
Free Will by Mark Balaguer
Category: Health and Wellbeing | Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
In our daily life, it really seems as though we have free will, that what we do from moment to moment is determined by conscious decisions that we freely make. You get up from the couch, you go for a walk, you eat chocolate ice cream. It seems that we're in control of actions like these; if we are, then ...Show more
Gender(s) by Kathryn Bond Stockton
Category: Sexual Health | Series: The\MIT Press Essential Knowledge Ser.
Why gender is strange, even when it's played straight, and how race and money are two of its most dramatic ingredients. In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Kathryn Bond Stockton explores the fascinating, fraught, intimate, morphing matter of gender. Stockton argues for gender's ...Show more
Gps by Paul E. Ceruzzi
Category: Science & Natural History | Series: The\MIT Press Essential Knowledge Ser.
A concise history of GPS, from its military origins to its commercial applications and ubiquity in everyday life. GPS is ubiquitous in everyday life. GPS mapping is standard equipment in many new cars and geolocation services are embedded in smart phones. GPS makes Uber and Lyft possible; driverless ca ...Show more