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        Machine Translation

        Machine Translation

        Machine Translation

        by Thierry Poibeau

        ISBN: 9780262534215

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: September 15, 2017

        A concise, nontechnical overview of the development of machine translation, including the different approaches, evaluation issues, and major players in the industry.
        Cogent Science in Context

        Cogent Science in Context

        Cogent Science in Context

        The Science Wars, Argumentation Theory, and Habermas

        by William Rehg

        ISBN: 9780262516600

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: August 19, 2011

        A proposal for an interdisciplinary, context-sensitive framework for assessing the strength of scientific arguments that melds Jürgen Habermas's discourse theory and sociological contextualism.
        A for Alibi

        A for Alibi

        A for Alibi

        Edited by Marianna Castillo Deball and Irene Kopelman

        ISBN: 9781933128337

        Publisher: Sternberg Press

        Pub Date: September 7, 2007

        How does science transform observations into scientific facts? What is the role of interpretation in the construction of knowledge? How could art re-signify a historical process?Such are some of the...
        Seeing Double

        Seeing Double

        Seeing Double

        Shared Identities in Physics, Philosophy, and Literature

        by Peter Pesic

        ISBN: 9780262661737

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: August 29, 2003

        The unknown history of surveillance in relation to changing systems of representation and visual arts practice.
        The Man Who Tasted Shapes

        The Man Who Tasted Shapes, revised edition

        The Man Who Tasted Shapes

        by Richard E. Cytowic

        Foreword by Jonathan Cole

        ISBN: 9780262532556

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: August 11, 2003

        In this medical detective adventure, Cytowic shows how synesthesia, or "joined sensation," illuminates a wide swath of mental life and leads to a new view of what it means to be human.
        Exploring the Art and Science of Stopping Time

        Exploring the Art and Science of Stopping Time

        Exploring the Art and Science of Stopping Time

        A CD-ROM Based on the Life and Work of Harold E. Edgerton

        by Harold E. Edgerton

        Edited by James Sheldon

        ISBN: 9780262550314

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: November 8, 1999

        Get to know Harold E. Edgerton and poke around among his scientific treasures. A CD-ROM as informative, imaginative, and fun as Edgerton himself was.
        The Architecture of Science

        The Architecture of Science

        The Architecture of Science

        Edited by Peter Galison and Emily Thompson

        ISBN: 9780262526456

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: April 29, 1999

        The Architecture of Science offers a dazzling set of speculations by historians of science, architecture, and art; architectural theorists; and sociologists as well as practicing scientists and architects.
        How Life Learned to Live

        How Life Learned to Live

        How Life Learned to Live

        Adaptation in Nature

        by Helmut Tributsch

        ISBN: 9780262700283

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: April 11, 1985

        Bicycling Science

        Bicycling Science, second edition

        Bicycling Science

        by David Gordon Wilson and Frank Rowland Whitt

        ISBN: 9780262730600

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: August 23, 1982

        The second edition of Bicycling Science includes new information on recent achievements and experiments in human-powered transportation, from the "ultimate human-powered vehicle" (UHPV) in which supine...
        Understanding Scientific Literatures

        Understanding Scientific Literatures

        Understanding Scientific Literatures

        A Bibliometric Approach

        by Joseph C. Donohue

        ISBN: 9780262040396

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: February 15, 1974

        In recent decades, the enormous growth of publication, especially in the sciences, has created critical problems for the users of information and for agencies that provide it. Solutions have been sought...
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