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Algorithms by Panos Louridas
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Category: Science & Natural History | Series: The\MIT Press Essential Knowledge Ser.
Digital technology runs on algorithms, sets of instructions that describe how to do something efficiently. Application areas range from search engines to tournament scheduling, DNA sequencing, and machine learning. Arguing that every educated person today needs to have some understanding of algorithms a ...Show more
Anticorruption by Robert I. Rotberg
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Category: Politics | Series: The\MIT Press Essential Knowledge Ser.
Winning the anticorruption battle: a guide for citizens and politicians. The phenomenon of corruption has existed since antiquity; from ancient Mesopotamia to our modern-day high-level ethical morass, people have sought a leg up, a shortcut, or an end run to power and influence. In this volume in the M ...Show more
Gps by Paul E. Ceruzzi
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Category: Science & Natural History | Series: The\MIT Press Essential Knowledge Ser.
A concise history of GPS, from its military origins to its commercial applications and ubiquity in everyday life. GPS is ubiquitous in everyday life. GPS mapping is standard equipment in many new cars and geolocation services are embedded in smart phones. GPS makes Uber and Lyft possible; driverless ca ...Show more
Synesthesia by Richard E. Cytowic
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Category: Science & Natural History | Series: The\MIT Press Essential Knowledge Ser.
An accessible, concise primer on the neurological trait of synesthesia--vividly felt sensory couplings--by a founder of the field. One in twenty-three people carry the genes for the synesthesia. Not a disorder but a neurological trait--like perfect pitch--synesthesia creates vividly felt cross-sensory ...Show more
Visual Culture by Alexis L. Boylan
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Category: Art | Series: The\MIT Press Essential Knowledge Ser.
How to think about what it means to look and see: a guide for navigating the complexities of visual culture. The visual surrounds us, some of it invited, most of it not. In this visual environment, everything we see--color, the moon, a skyscraper, a stop sign, a political poster, rising sea levels, a p ...Show more
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