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Rational Accidents
Reckoning with Catastrophic Technologies
ISBN: 9780262546997
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 16, 2024
An unflinching look at the unique challenges posed by complex technologies we cannot afford to let fail—and why the remarkable achievements of civil aviation can help us understand those challenges.
R.U.R. and the Vision of Artificial Life
R.U.R. and the Vision of Artificial Life
ISBN: 9780262544504
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 2, 2024
A new translation of Karel Čapek's play R.U.R.—which famously coined the term “robot”—and a collection of essays reflecting on the play's legacy from scientists and scholars who work in artificial life and robotics.
A Woman's Right to Know
Pregnancy Testing in Twentieth-Century Britain
ISBN: 9780262544399
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 12, 2023
The history of pregnancy testing, and how it transformed from an esoteric laboratory tool to a commonplace of everyday life.
Our Urban Future
An Active Learning Guide to Sustainable Cities
ISBN: 9780262546843
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 12, 2023
A practical, comprehensive textbook that uses active learning techniques to teach about the challenges and opportunities associated with urban sustainability.
Recycling Class
The Contradictions of Inclusion in Urban Sustainability
ISBN: 9780262546973
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 5, 2023
An ethnographic and community-engaged study of the class, caste, and gender politics of environmental mobilizations around Bengaluru, India's discards.
No Heavenly Bodies
A History of Satellite Communications Infrastructure
ISBN: 9780262546904
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 28, 2023
The compelling and little-known history of satellite communications that reveals the Soviet and Eastern European roles in the development of its infrastructure.
Fairness and Machine Learning
Limitations and Opportunities
ISBN: 9780262048613
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 28, 2023
An introduction to the intellectual foundations and practical utility of the recent work on fairness and machine learning.
Dare to Invent the Future
Knowledge in the Service of and through Problem-Solving
ISBN: 9780262546867
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 21, 2023
A rallying manifesto for the innovative problem-solving we need to build a better, more verdant, and sustainable planetary existence.
Machine Decision Is Not Final
China and the History and Future of Artificial Intelligence
ISBN: 9781913029999
Publisher: Urbanomic
Pub Date: November 14, 2023
An interdisciplinary, cross-cultural collection that decenters familiar narratives to provide a fresh perspective on what artificial intelligence is today, and what it might become.
Rational Accidents
Reckoning with Catastrophic Technologies
ISBN: 9780262546997
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 16, 2024
An unflinching look at the unique challenges posed by complex technologies we cannot afford to let fail—and why the remarkable achievements of civil aviation can help us understand those challenges.
R.U.R. and the Vision of Artificial Life
R.U.R. and the Vision of Artificial Life
ISBN: 9780262544504
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 2, 2024
A new translation of Karel Čapek's play R.U.R.—which famously coined the term “robot”—and a collection of essays reflecting on the play's legacy from scientists and scholars who work in artificial life and robotics.
A Woman's Right to Know
Pregnancy Testing in Twentieth-Century Britain
ISBN: 9780262544399
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 12, 2023
The history of pregnancy testing, and how it transformed from an esoteric laboratory tool to a commonplace of everyday life.
Our Urban Future
An Active Learning Guide to Sustainable Cities
ISBN: 9780262546843
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 12, 2023
A practical, comprehensive textbook that uses active learning techniques to teach about the challenges and opportunities associated with urban sustainability.
Recycling Class
The Contradictions of Inclusion in Urban Sustainability
ISBN: 9780262546973
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 5, 2023
An ethnographic and community-engaged study of the class, caste, and gender politics of environmental mobilizations around Bengaluru, India's discards.
No Heavenly Bodies
A History of Satellite Communications Infrastructure
ISBN: 9780262546904
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 28, 2023
The compelling and little-known history of satellite communications that reveals the Soviet and Eastern European roles in the development of its infrastructure.
Fairness and Machine Learning
Limitations and Opportunities
ISBN: 9780262048613
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 28, 2023
An introduction to the intellectual foundations and practical utility of the recent work on fairness and machine learning.
Dare to Invent the Future
Knowledge in the Service of and through Problem-Solving
ISBN: 9780262546867
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 21, 2023
A rallying manifesto for the innovative problem-solving we need to build a better, more verdant, and sustainable planetary existence.
Machine Decision Is Not Final
China and the History and Future of Artificial Intelligence
ISBN: 9781913029999
Publisher: Urbanomic
Pub Date: November 14, 2023
An interdisciplinary, cross-cultural collection that decenters familiar narratives to provide a fresh perspective on what artificial intelligence is today, and what it might become.