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The Cognitive Life of Maps
ISBN: 9780262547086
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: May 14, 2024
The “mapness of maps”—how maps live in interaction with their users, and what this tells us about what they are and how they work.
Measurements-Based Radar Signature Modeling
An Analysis Framework
ISBN: 9780262048118
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: May 14, 2024
A high-level text that synthesizes diverse research areas for characterizing objects (targets) from radar data and establishes a novel analysis framework for a class of signal processing techniques useful for high-resolution radar signature modeling.
Weapons in Space
Technology, Politics, and the Rise and Fall of the Strategic Defense Initiative
ISBN: 9780262547369
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: May 7, 2024
A new and provocative take on the formerly classified history of accelerating superpower military competition in space in the late Cold War and beyond.
Prior Art
Patents and the Nature of Invention in Architecture
ISBN: 9780262048958
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: May 7, 2024
A groundbreaking text on the history of the use of patents in architecture.
The Secret Life of Data
Navigating Hype and Uncertainty in the Age of Algorithmic Surveillance
ISBN: 9780262048811
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 16, 2024
How data surveillance, digital forensics, and generative AI pose new long-term threats and opportunities—and how we can use them to make better decisions in the face of technological uncertainty.
Tor
From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy
ISBN: 9780262548182
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 16, 2024
A biography of Tor—a cultural and technological history of power, privacy, and global politics at the internet's core.
Gaia's Web
How Digital Environmentalism Can Combat Climate Change, Restore Biodiversity, Cultivate Empathy, and Regenerate the Earth
ISBN: 9780262048750
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 9, 2024
A riveting exploration of one of the most important dilemmas of our time: will digital technology accelerate environmental degradation, or could it play a role in ecological regeneration?
More than a Glitch
Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech
ISBN: 9780262548328
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 2, 2024
When technology reinforces inequality, it's not just a glitch—it's a signal that we need to redesign our systems to create a more equitable world.
Craft Weed
Family Farming and the Future of the Marijuana Industry
ISBN: 9780262548663
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 2, 2024
How the future of post-legalization marijuana farming can be sustainable, local, and artisanal.What will the marijuana industry look like as legalization spreads? Will corporations sweep in and create...
The Cognitive Life of Maps
ISBN: 9780262547086
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: May 14, 2024
The “mapness of maps”—how maps live in interaction with their users, and what this tells us about what they are and how they work.
Measurements-Based Radar Signature Modeling
An Analysis Framework
ISBN: 9780262048118
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: May 14, 2024
A high-level text that synthesizes diverse research areas for characterizing objects (targets) from radar data and establishes a novel analysis framework for a class of signal processing techniques useful for high-resolution radar signature modeling.
Weapons in Space
Technology, Politics, and the Rise and Fall of the Strategic Defense Initiative
ISBN: 9780262547369
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: May 7, 2024
A new and provocative take on the formerly classified history of accelerating superpower military competition in space in the late Cold War and beyond.
Prior Art
Patents and the Nature of Invention in Architecture
ISBN: 9780262048958
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: May 7, 2024
A groundbreaking text on the history of the use of patents in architecture.
The Secret Life of Data
Navigating Hype and Uncertainty in the Age of Algorithmic Surveillance
ISBN: 9780262048811
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 16, 2024
How data surveillance, digital forensics, and generative AI pose new long-term threats and opportunities—and how we can use them to make better decisions in the face of technological uncertainty.
Tor
From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy
ISBN: 9780262548182
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 16, 2024
A biography of Tor—a cultural and technological history of power, privacy, and global politics at the internet's core.
Gaia's Web
How Digital Environmentalism Can Combat Climate Change, Restore Biodiversity, Cultivate Empathy, and Regenerate the Earth
ISBN: 9780262048750
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 9, 2024
A riveting exploration of one of the most important dilemmas of our time: will digital technology accelerate environmental degradation, or could it play a role in ecological regeneration?
More than a Glitch
Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech
ISBN: 9780262548328
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 2, 2024
When technology reinforces inequality, it's not just a glitch—it's a signal that we need to redesign our systems to create a more equitable world.
Craft Weed
Family Farming and the Future of the Marijuana Industry
ISBN: 9780262548663
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 2, 2024
How the future of post-legalization marijuana farming can be sustainable, local, and artisanal.What will the marijuana industry look like as legalization spreads? Will corporations sweep in and create...