books by The MIT Press     books:       Machine Learning: A Probabilistic Perspective (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning series) Kevin P. Murphy The MIT Press, 2012 Today's Web-enabled deluge of electronic data calls for automated methods of data analysis. Machine learning provides these, developing methods that can automatically detect patterns in data and then use the uncovered patterns to predict future data. This textbook offers a comprehensive and self-contained introduction to the field of machine learning, based on a unified, probabilistic approach. The coverage combines breadth and depth, offering ...             Introduction to Algorithms Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, ... The MIT Press, 2009 Some books on algorithms are rigorous but incomplete; others cover masses of material but lack rigor. Introduction to Algorithms uniquely combines rigor and comprehensiveness. The book covers a broad range of algorithms in depth, yet makes their design and analysis accessible to all levels of readers. Each chapter is relatively self-contained and can be used as a unit of study. The algorithms are described in English and in a pseudocode designed ...             101 Things I Learned in Architecture School Matthew Frederick The MIT Press, 2007 101 THINGS I LEARNED IN ARCHITECTURE SCHOOL is a book that students of architecture will want to keep in the design studio and in their backpacks. It is also a book they may want to keep out of view of their professors, for it expresses in clear and simple language the things they tend to make murky and abstruse. These 101 concise lessons in design, drawing, the creative process, and presentation--from the basics of how to draw a line to the ...             Algorithms Unlocked Thomas H. Cormen The MIT Press, 2013 Have you ever wondered how your GPS can find the fastest way to your destination, selecting one route from seemingly countless possibilities in mere seconds? How your credit card account number is protected when you make a purchase over the Internet? The answer is algorithms. And how do these mathematical formulations translate themselves into your GPS, your laptop, or your smart phone? This book offers an engagingly written guide to the basics ...             Probabilistic Graphical Models: Principles and Techniques (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning series) Daphne Koller, Nir Friedman The MIT Press, 2009 Most tasks require a person or an automated system to reason--to reach conclusions based on available information. The framework of probabilistic graphical models, presented in this book, provides a general approach for this task. The approach is model-based, allowing interpretable models to be constructed and then manipulated by reasoning algorithms. These models can also be learned automatically from data, allowing the approach to be used in ...             Financial Modeling Simon Benninga The MIT Press, 2008 Too often, finance courses stop short of making a connection between textbook finance and the problems of real-world business. Financial Modeling bridges this gap between theory and practice by providing a nuts-and-bolts guide to solving common financial models with spreadsheets. Simon Benninga takes the reader step by step through each model, showing how it can be solved using Microsoft Excel. The long-awaited third edition of this standard ...             Introduction to Computation and Programming Using Python John V. Guttag The MIT Press, 2013 This book introduces students with little or no prior programming experience to the art of computational problem solving using Python and various Python libraries, including PyLab. It provides students with skills that will enable them to make productive use of computational techniques, including some of the tools and techniques of "data science" for using computation to model and interpret data. The book is based on an MIT course (which became ...             Lee Kuan Yew: The Grand Master's Insights on China, the United States, and the World (Belfer Center Studies ... Graham Allison, Robert D. Blackwill, ... The MIT Press, 2013 When Lee Kuan Yew speaks, presidents, prime ministers, diplomats, and CEOs listen. Lee, the founding father of modern Singapore and its prime minister from 1959 to 1990, has honed his wisdom during more than fifty years on the world stage. Almost single-handedly responsible for transforming Singapore into a Western-style economic success, he offers a unique perspective on the geopolitics of East and West. American presidents from Richard Nixon ...             Theoretical Neuroscience: Computational and Mathematical Modeling of Neural Systems (Computational ... Peter Dayan, Laurence F. Abbott The MIT Press, 2005 Theoretical neuroscience provides a quantitative basis for describing what nervous systems do, determining how they function, and uncovering the general principles by which they operate. This text introduces the basic mathematical and computational methods of theoretical neuroscience and presents applications in a variety of areas including vision, sensory-motor integration, development, learning, and memory.The book is divided into three parts. ...             Learning at Not-School: A Review of Study, Theory, and Advocacy for Education in Non-Formal Settings (The ... The MIT Press, 2013 A review of research on “not-school” learning that investigates what is distinctive in the quality of learning in these settings.             Econometric Analysis of Cross Section and Panel Data Jeffrey M Wooldridge The MIT Press, 2010 The second edition of this acclaimed graduate text provides a unified treatment of two methods used in contemporary econometric research, cross section and data panel methods. By focusing on assumptions that can be given behavioral content, the book maintains an appropriate level of rigor while emphasizing intuitive thinking. The analysis covers both linear and nonlinear models, including models with dynamics and/or individual heterogeneity. In ...             Out of the Crisis W. Edwards Deming The MIT Press, 2000 "Long-term commitment to new learning and new philosophy is required of any management that seeks transformation. The timid and the fainthearted, and the people that expect quick results, are doomed to disappointment."According to W. Edwards Deming, American companies require nothing less than a transformation of management style and of governmental relations with industry. In Out of the Crisis, originally published in 1982, Deming offers a ...             The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles Noam Nisan, Shimon Schocken The MIT Press, 2005 In the early days of computer science, the interactions of hardware, software, compilers, and operating system were simple enough to allow students to see an overall picture of how computers worked. With the increasing complexity of computer technology and the resulting specialization of knowledge, such clarity is often lost. Unlike other texts that cover only one aspect of the field, The Elements of Computing Systems gives students an ...             Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions Gary Klein The MIT Press, 1999 Anyone who watches the television news has seen images of firefighters rescuing people from burning buildings and paramedics treating bombing victims. How do these individuals make the split-second decisions that save lives? Most studies of decision making, based on artificial tasks assigned in laboratory settings, view people as biased and unskilled. Gary Klein is one of the developers of the naturalistic decision making approach, which views ...             101 Things to Learn in Art School Kit White The MIT Press, 2011 What is the first thing to learn in art school? "Art can be anything." The second thing? "Learn to draw." With 101 Things to Learn in Art School, artist and teacher Kit White delivers and develops such lessons, striking an instructive balance between technical advice and sage concepts. These 101 maxims, meditations, and demonstrations offer both a toolkit of ideas for the art student and a set of guiding principles for the artist. Complementing ...             Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man Marshall McLuhan, Lewis H. Lapham The MIT Press, 1994 with a new introduction by Lewis H. Lapham This reissue of Understanding Media marks the thirtieth anniversary (1964-1994) of Marshall McLuhan's classic expose on the state of the then emerging phenomenon of mass media. Terms and phrases such as "the global village" and "the medium is the message" are now part of the lexicon, and McLuhan's theories continue to challenge our sensibilities and our assumptions about how and what we ...             A Handbook of California Design, 1930-1965: Craftspeople, Designers, Manufacturers The MIT Press, 2013 Mid-twentieth-century California offered fertile ground for design innovations. The state's reputation as a land of unlimited opportunity, its many institutions of higher learning, and its perpetually booming population created conditions that allowed designers and craftspeople to flourish. They found an eager market among educated and newly affluent Californians, and their products shaped the material culture of the entire nation. This book, a ...             VARIOUS SMALL BOOKS: Referencing Various Small Books by Ed Ruscha The MIT Press, 2013 In the 1960s and 1970s, the artist Ed Ruscha created a series of small photo-conceptual artist's books, among them Twentysix Gas Stations, Various Small Fires, Every Building on the Sunset Strip, Thirtyfour Parking Lots, Real Estate Opportunities , and A Few Palm Trees . Featuring mundane subjects photographed prosaically, with idiosyncratically deadpan titles, these "small books" were sought after, collected, and loved by Ruscha's fans and ...             The Image of the City (Harvard-MIT Joint Center for Urban Studies Series) Kevin Lynch The MIT Press, 1960 What does the city's form actually mean to the people who live there? What can the city planner do to make the city's image more vivid and memorable to the city dweller? To answer these questions, Mr. Lynch, supported by studies of Los Angeles, Boston, and Jersey City, formulates a new criterion--imageability--and shows its potential value as a guide for the building and rebuilding of cities.The wide scope of this study leads to an original and ...             Robot Futures Illah Reza Nourbakhsh The MIT Press, 2013 With robots, we are inventing a new species that is part material and part digital. The ambition of modern robotics goes beyond copying humans, beyond the effort to make walking, talking androids that are indistinguishable from people. Future robots will have superhuman abilities in both the physical and digital realms. They will be embedded in our physical spaces, with the ability to go where we cannot, and will have minds of their own, thanks ...              search for books algorithms, architecture, california, catherine, computation, computational, computing, craftspeople, decisions, econometric, education, extensions, foundation, harvard-mit, international, introduction, macarthur, manufacturers, mathematical, neuroscience, non-formal, not-school, perspective, principles, probabilistic, programming, referencing, techniques, theoretical, understanding books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen book: De Vsv Nvmismatvm In Historia Germaniae Antiqva Commentatvr: Et ... Ad ... home  impressum - about us