America is addicted to fossil fuels, and the environmental and geopolitical costs aremounting. A public-private program-- at an expanded scale-- to stimulate innovation in energy policyseems essential
America is addicted to fossil fuels, and the environmental and geopolitical costs aremounting. A public-private program-- at an expanded scale-- to stimulate innovation in energy policyseems essential
In his foundational book, The Minimalist Program, published in 1995, Noam Chomsky offered a significant contribution to the generative tradition in linguistics. This twentieth-anniversary edition reis
This volume offers researchers and engineers practical solutions for learning from large-scale datasets, with detailed descriptions of algorithms and experiments carried out on realistically large dat
The Minimalist Program consists of four recent essays, including the previously unpublished "Categories and Transformations," that attempt to situate linguistic theory in the broader cognitive scienc
This book builds a bridge between the recreational world of algorithmic puzzles (puzzles that can be solved by algorithms) and the pragmatic world of computer programming, teaching readers to program
The United States and other nations are facing large-scale risks at an accelerating pace. In 2005, three major hurricanes—Katrina, Rita, and Wilma—made landfall along the U.S. Gulf Coast
This book completes Professor Shrock's full-scale history of MIT's Geology Department. This book completes Professor Shrock's full-scale history of MIT's Geology Department. Volume I, Faculty and Supp
The emergence of ketamine--previously known as a combat anesthetic and club drug--as a treatment for depression.Ketamine, approved in 2019 by the Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of depr
The first general theory of the influence of norms--moral, legal and social--on genocide and mass atrocity.How can we explain--and prevent--such large-scale atrocities as the Holocaust? In Unconsciona
How small-scale drones, satellites, kites, and balloons are used by social movements for the greater good.Drones are famous for doing bad things: weaponized, they implement remote-control war; used fo
Innovating is for doers: you don't need to wait for an earth-shattering idea, but can build one with a hunch and scale it up to impact.Innovation is the subject of countless books and courses, but the
A proposal that immigrants in the United States should be offered a path to legalized status.The Obama administration promises to take on comprehensive immigration reform in 2010, setting policymakers
Progress in micro- and nano-scale science and technology has created a demand for new microsystems for high-impact applications in healthcare, biotechnology, manufacturing, and mobile sensor networks.
The onset of the Anthropocene, an era in which human actions have become major drivers of change on a planetary scale, has increased the complexity of socioecological systems. Complex systems pose nov
The onset of the Anthropocene, an era in which human actions have become major drivers of change on a planetary scale, has increased the complexity of socioecological systems. Complex systems pose nov
In 2008, a group of states in the northeast United States launched an emissions trading program, the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). With RGGI, these states --
In 2008, a group of states in the northeast United States launched an emissions trading program, the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). With RGGI, these states --
Humanity's collective impact on the Earth is vast. The rate and scale of human-driven environmental destruction is quickly outstripping our political and social capacities for managing it. We are in e
Humanity's collective impact on the Earth is vast. The rate and scale of human-driven environmental destruction is quickly outstripping our political and social capacities for managing it. We are in e
What has planetary-scale computation done to our geopolitical realities? In The Stack, Benjamin Bratton proposes that smart grids, cloud computing, mobile software and smart cities, universal addressi
From the romantic, highly detailed realism of his large-scale "Mountain" photographs to multimedia pieces that embrace abstract forms drawn from close observation of nature, Clifford
America is the world leader in innovation, but many of the innovative ideas that are hatched in American start-ups, labs, and companies end up going abroad to reach commercial scale. Apple, the supers
The United States ushered in a new era of small-scale broadcasting in 2000 when itbegan issuing low-power FM (LPFM) licenses for noncommercial radio stations around the country. Overthe next decade, s
Before Fukushima, the most notorious large-scale nuclear accident the world had seenwas Chernobyl in 1986. The fallout from Chernobyl covered vast areas in the Northern Hemisphere,especially in Europe
The technology of mechanized program verification can play a supporting role in manykinds of research projects in computer science, and related tools for formal proof-checking areseeing increasing ado
In an age of global terrorism, can the pursuit of security be reconciled with liberal democratic values and legal principles? During its "global war on terrorism," the Bush administration argued that
One of the most daunting challenges facing the new U.S. administration is health carereform. The size of the system, the number of stakeholders, and ever-rising costs make the problemseem almost intra
In 1882, Thomas Edison and his Edison Electric Light Company unveiled the firstlarge-scale electrical system in the world to light a stretch of offices in a city. This was amonumental achievement, but
"It is a measure of Professor Samuelson's preeminence that the sheer scale ofhis work should be so much taken for granted," a reviewer for the Economist once observed,marking both Paul Samuelson's inf
"It is a measure of Professor Samuelson's preeminence that the sheer scale ofhis work should be so much taken for granted," a reviewer for the Economist once observed,marking both Paul Samuelson's inf
In an age of global terrorism, can the pursuit of security be reconciled with liberal democratic values and legal principles? During its "global war on terrorism," the Bush administration a
The Obama administration promises to take on comprehensive immigration reform in 2010, setting policymakers to work on legislation that might give the approximately eleven million undocumented immigr
Climate change represents a "tragedy of the commons" on a global scale,requiring the cooperation of nations that do not necessarily put the Earth's well-being above theirown national interests. And ye
During the George W. Bush administration, politics and ideology routinely trumped scientific knowledge in making environmental policy. Data were falsified, reports were edited selectively, and scient
Climate change represents a potential "tragedy of the commons" on a global scale, requiring the cooperation of nations that do not necessarily put the Earth's well-being above their own national inter
During the George W. Bush administration, politics and ideology routinely trumped scientific knowledge in making environmental policy. Data were falsified, reports were edited selectively, and scienti
Internet filtering, censorship of Web content, and online surveillance are increasing in scale, scope, and sophistication around the world, in democratic countries as wel
Internet filtering, censorship of Web content, and online surveillance are increasingin scale, scope, and sophistication around the world, in democratic countries as well as inauthoritarian states. Th
