Jane Margolis and Allan Fisher’s 2003 book Unlocking the Clubhouse, is a seminal work in the study of women and computing. In order to understand familial, educational, and institutional influences on…

The MIT Press will sponsor the American Literature and Culture program at the 2019 Oxford Literary Festival, marking the first time a university press sponsor has partnered with the festival in this…

The Society for the Neurobiology of Language and the MIT Press are pleased to announce the launch of Neurobiology of Language. This open access journal will publish interdisciplinary articles…

Kim naprawdę była Mileva Marić? Miłością Einsteina? Jego kucharką? Współautorką ogólnej teorii względności? Zwiastun tekstu Karola Jałochowskiego…

Kim naprawdę była Mileva Marić? Miłością Einsteina? Jego kucharką? Współautorką ogólnej teorii względności?

New biomedical technologies—from prenatal testing to gene-editing techniques—raise questions about who counts as human, what it means to belong, and how far we should go in retooling the human genome.…

In October of 1900, a young Serbian woman named Mileva Marić was at her family home in southern Hungary when a letter arrived from her lover—a former classmate at the Zurich Polytechnic named Albert Einstein. “I’m so lucky to have found you,” he wrote,

In her new book, “Food Routes: Growing Bananas in Iceland and Other Tales from the Logistics of Eating,” Metcalfe takes a detailed look at how food is grown, processed, transported, and consumed.

Anyone who has spent a day at a beach or on a boat probably has wondered at the power and mechanics of the ocean. Years ago, as I sat on a…

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Each month, the bookstore hosts an informal gathering to discuss a different title from the wide-ranging MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series. March 21, at 6:00, our in-store book club discusses Waves…

An exploration of the emergence of a new psychedelic spirituality in the work of Philip K. Dick, Terence McKenna, and Robert Anton Wilson. A study of the spiritual provocations to be found in the work…

You’ve published poetry, a memoir, creative nonfiction and more. What made you decide to write Fables and Futures, and how did your experience writing it compare to that with your other work?

We're on the way to making machines that appear and act human, and can think for themselves. So how will they react to our behaviour towards them, especially the bad behaviour?

My wife and I are pro-choice, and believe in the right to choose. We chose our child.

Picturing Science and Engineering Felice Frankel Research Scientist (MIT) and Science Photographer Graphics, images and figures — visual representations of scientific data and concepts — are critical…

The Institute for People and Technology (IPaT) is excited to host a celebration of the forthcoming book All Data Are Local: Thinking Critically in a Data-Driven Society (MIT Press, 2019) by Yanni…

Looking at a scientist’s FBI file.

Co-editor discusses new book on FBI documents about spying on researchers.

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Informations et inscription sur http://www.usievents.com Billions in our world are connected, but to what? A few companies have emerged as the intermediaries...

A double header of poetry with Malcolm Friend presenting Our Bruises Kept Singing Purple and S. Brook Corfman presenting Luxury, Blue Lace.In Our Bruises Kept Singing Purple, Afro-Jamaican-Boricua…

Can 13 authors, from the USA, Germany, Australia, China and South Africa, many previously unknown to one another, get together and, from scratch, write a 150-page book –– on a topic none of them has…