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Auctions by Timothy P. Hubbard; Harry J. Paarsch
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Category: Mind & Body | Series: The\MIT Press Essential Knowledge Ser.
How auctions work, in theory and practice, with clear explanations and real-world examples that range from government procurement to eBay.Although it is among the oldest of market institutions, the auction is ubiquitous in today's economy, used for everything from government procurement to selling adver ...Show more
Computing: A Concise History by Paul E. Ceruzzi
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Category: Mind & Body | Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
The history of computing could be told as the story of hardware and software, or the story of the Internet, or the story of "smart" hand-held devices, with subplots involving IBM, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, and Twitter. In this concise and accessible account of the invention and development of digital ...Show more
Free Will by Mark Balaguer
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Category: Mind & Body | Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
In our daily life, it really seems as though we have free will, that what we do from moment to moment is determined by conscious decisions that we freely make. You get up from the couch, you go for a walk, you eat chocolate ice cream. It seems that we're in control of actions like these; if we are, then ...Show more
Memes: In Digital Culture by Limor Shifman
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Category: Mind & Body | Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
In December 2012, the exuberant video "Gangnam Style" became the first YouTube clip to be viewed more than one billion times. Thousands of its viewers responded by creating and posting their own variations of the video--"Mitt Romney Style," "NASA Johnson Style," "Egyptian Style," and many others. "Gangn ...Show more
Metadata by Jeffrey Pomerantz
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Category: Mind & Body | Series: The MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
When "metadata" became breaking news, appearing in stories about surveillance by the National Security Agency, many members of the public encountered this once-obscure term from information science for the first time. Should people be reassured that the NSA was "only" collecting metadata about phone cal ...Show more
Paradox by Margaret Cuonzo
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Category: Mind & Body | Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
Thinkers have been fascinated by paradox since long before Aristotle grappled with Zeno's. In this volume in The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Margaret Cuonzo explores paradoxes and the strategies used to solve them. She finds that paradoxes are more than mere puzzles but can prompt new ways of ...Show more
The Conscious Mind by Zoltan Torey
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Category: Mind & Body | Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
How did the human mind emerge from the collection of neurons that makes up the brain? How did the brain acquire self-awareness, functional autonomy, language, and the ability to think, to understand itself and the world? In this volume in the Essential Knowledge series, Zoltan Torey offers an accessible ...Show more
The Technological Singularity by Murray Shanahan
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Category: Mind & Body | Series: The MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
The idea that human history is approaching a "singularity" -- that ordinary humans will someday be overtaken by artificially intelligent machines or cognitively enhanced biological intelligence, or both -- has moved from the realm of science fiction to serious debate. Some singularity theorists predict ...Show more
Understanding Beliefs by Nils J. Nilsson
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Category: Mind & Body | Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
Our beliefs constitute a large part of our knowledge of the world. We have beliefs about objects, about culture, about the past, and about the future. We have beliefs about other people, and we believe that they have beliefs as well. We use beliefs to predict, to explain, to create, to console, to enter ...Show more
Waves by Fredric Raichlen
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Category: Mind & Body | Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
Sitting on the beach on a sunny summer day, we enjoy the steady advance and retreat of the waves. In the water, enthusiastic waders jump and shriek with pleasure when a wave hits them. But where do these waves come from? How are they formed and why do they break on the shore? In Waves, Fredric Raichlen ...Show more
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