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Planetary Improvement
Cleantech Entrepreneurship and the Contradictions of Green Capitalism
2018 || Hardback || Jesse Goldstein || MIT Press Ltd
An examination of clean technology entrepreneurship finds that "green capitalism" is more capitalist than green. Entrepreneurs and investors in the green economy have encouraged a vision of addressing climate change with new technologies. In Planetary Improvement, Jesse Goldstein examines the cleantech entrepreneurial community in order to understand the limitations of environmental transformation within a capitalist system.
Reporting on a series of investment pitches by cleantech entrepreneu...
Data Science
2018 || Paperback || John D. Kelleher e.a. || MIT Press Ltd
A concise introduction to the emerging field of data science, explaining its evolution, relation to machine learning, current uses, data infrastructure issues, and ethical challenges. The goal of data science is to improve decision making through the analysis of data. Today data science determines the ads we see online, the books and movies that are recommended to us online, which emails are filtered into our spam folders, and even how much we pay for health insurance.
This volume in the MIT ...
How to Design Programs
An Introduction to Programming and Computing
2018 || Paperback || Matthias Felleisen e.a. || MIT Press Ltd
A completely revised edition, offering new design recipes for interactive programs and support for images as plain values, testing, event-driven programming, and even distributed programming. This introduction to programming places computer science at the core of a liberal arts education. Unlike other introductory books, it focuses on the program design process, presenting program design guidelines that show the reader how to analyze a problem statement, how to formulate concise goals, how to...