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March 4 :scientists, students, and society
Scientists debate the role of scientific research in the military-industrial complex and consider the complicity of academic science in American wars. On March 4, 1969, MIT faculty and students joined together for an extraordinary day of protest. Growing out of the MIT community's anguish over the Vietnam War and concern over the perceived complicity of academic science with the American war ma…
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- 9780262351843
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- 1 online resource (200 pages).
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Data feminism
A new way of thinking about data science and data ethics that is informed by the ideas of intersectional feminism. Today, data science is a form of power. It has been used to expose injustice, improve health outcomes, and topple governments. But it has also been used to discriminate, police, and surveil. This potential for good, on the one hand, and harm, on the other, makes it essential to ask…
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- 9780262358521
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- 1 online resource (328 pages).
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Fire, ice, and physics :the science of Game of thrones
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- 9780262355292
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- 1 online resource (296 pages) :illustrations
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Language in our brain :the origins of a uniquely human capacity
A comprehensive account of the neurobiological basis of language, arguing that species-specific brain differences may be at the root of the human capacity for language.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262342964
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Teaching computational thinking :an integrative approach for middle and high …
"This book provides a model for teaching computational thinking to middle and high school students across a broad range of school subjects"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262366142
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Making and doing :activating STS through knowledge expression and travel
"Focused on engaging with and communicating to audiences outside the STS academy through the "making and doing" movement"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262366053
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True enough
The development of an epistemology that explains how science and art embody and convey understanding.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262341370
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- 1 online resource (xi, 337 pages)
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Frankenstein, or, The modern Prometheus :annotated for scientists, engineers,…
This new critical edition of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein was developed by leading scholars for aspiring scientists, engineers, and medical professionals. This unique framing will make this a core text in promoting and enhancing interdisciplinary dialogue on the nature, roles, and responsibilities of scientists and engineers in society. To be published in time for the 2018 bicentennial of its or…
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- 9780262340267
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Information and society
We live in an information society, or so we are often told. But what does that mean? This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series offers a concise, informal account of the ways in which information and society are related and of our ever-increasing dependence on a complex multiplicity of messages, records, documents, and data. Using information in its everyday, nonspecialized sense, …
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- 9780262339544
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 217 pages) :illustrations.
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Geometry of meaning :semantics based on conceptual spaces
In The Geometry of Meaning, Peter G?ardenfors proposes a theory of semantics that bridges cognitive science and linguistics and shows how theories of cognitive processes, in particular concept formation, can be exploited in a general semantic model. He argues that our minds organize the information involved in communicative acts in a format that can be modeled in geometric or topological terms …
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- 0262319586
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- 1 online resource (xii, 343 pages) :illustrations
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