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Going Big

A Scientist's Guide to Large Projects and Collaborations

by Christopher W. Stubbs

ISBN: 9780262547963

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: February 27, 2024

All the crucial skills scientists need to make a professional transition into large projects and collaborations that require governance and project management.

A Place for Science and Technology Studies

Observation, Intervention, and Collaboration

by Jane Calvert

ISBN: 9780262546942

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: January 9, 2024

An exploration of science and technology studies in eight different places, and the possibilities that arise for observation, intervention, and collaboration.

Model Systems in Biology

History, Philosophy, and Practical Concerns

by Georg Striedter

ISBN: 9780262046947

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: August 2, 2022

How biomedical research using various animal species and in vitro cellular systems has resulted in both major successes and translational failure.

Transmissions

Critical Tactics for Making and Communicating Research

Edited by Kat Jungnickel

ISBN: 9780262043403

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: April 7, 2020

Researchers rethink tactics for inventing and disseminating research, examining the use of such unconventional forms as poetry, performance, catalogs, interactive machines, costume, and digital platforms.

Investing in Science

Social Cost-Benefit Analysis of Research Infrastructures

by Massimo Florio

ISBN: 9780262043199

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: October 15, 2019

A proposal for using cost-benefit analysis to evaluate the socioeconomic impact of public investment in large scientific projects.

Cloud Computing for Science and Engineering

by Ian Foster and Dennis B. Gannon

ISBN: 9780262037242

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: September 29, 2017

A guide to cloud computing for students, scientists, and engineers, with advice and many hands-on examples.

Rational Action

The Sciences of Policy in Britain and America, 1940-1960

by William Thomas

ISBN: 9780262028509

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: April 10, 2015

The evolution of a set of fields—including operations research and systems analysis—intended to improve policymaking and explore the nature of rational decision-making.

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.