World Copyright Day
April 23, 2013
Today is World Copyright Day. Hector Postigo, author of The Digital Rights Movement, weighs in with a Q & A.
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Celebrate National Library Week: Question Authority
April 16, 2013
This year’s National Library Week (April 14-20) theme is “Communities matter @ your library.” In this vein, we’re celebrating with a guest post from R. David Lankes, author of The Atlas of New Librarianship. Here, he explains that the true collection of any library is not on the stacks, but in the community itself.
Leonardo da Vinci’s Birthday
April 15, 2013
Everyone knows April 15th is Tax Day, but did you also know that it is Leonardo da Vinci’s birthday? To help us commemorate this important artist, engineer, and thinker’s birthday, we have thoughts from David Nye, winner of the 2005 Leonardo da Vinci Medal given by The Society of the History of Technology. Nye is the author of several MIT books, including: Electrifying America, When the Lights Went Out, and recently, America’s Assembly Line.
Essential Knowledge
April 11, 2013
We’re almost halfway through National Poetry Month! Stay tuned–we’ve still got a lot of poetry to share with you. Here’s another clever staff haiku:
Progress in Autism Research
To celebrate National Autism Awareness Month, here’s a guest post from Paul H. Patterson, author of Infectious Behavior: Brain-Immune Connections in Autism, Schizophrenia, and Depression. He explains how autism research has changed since the book came out in 2011.
Friz Quadrata
Today’s haiku, about the MIT Press colophon, is from a fan!
National Robotics Week: Mars Exploration Rover
April 10, 2013
Our first post for National Robotics Week was a guest post from the author of Robot Futures, Illah Nourbakhsh. The second post is a Q & A from Working On Mars author William Clancey. This is the first of two posts.
National Robotics Week: Drones
April 8, 2013
April 6th through the 14th is National Robotics Week. The first of three posts comes from Illah Nourbakhsh, author of the recently released, Robot Futures.