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Report to the President for year ended June 30, 2025, The MIT Press
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How Humans Judge Machines
Get PDFHow people judge humans and machines differently, in scenarios involving natural disasters, labor displacement, policing, privacy, algorithmic bias, and more. How would you feel about losing your job to a machine? How about a tsunami alert system that fails? Would you react differently to acts of discrimination depending on whether they were carried out by a machine or by a human? What about public surveillance? How Humans Judge Machines compares people's reactions to actions performed by humans and machines. Using data collected in dozens of experiments, this book reveals the biases that permeate human-machine interactions. Are there conditions in which we judge machines unfairly? Is our judgment of machines affected by the moral dimensions of a scenario? Is our judgment of machine correlated with demographic factors such as education or gender? César Hidalgo and colleagues use hard science to take on these pressing technological questions. Using randomized experiments, they create revealing counterfactuals and build statistical models to explain how people judge artificial intelligence and whether they do it fairly. Through original research, How Humans Judge Machines bring us one step closer to understanding the ethical consequences of AI. Written by César A. Hidalgo, the author of Why Information Grows and coauthor of The Atlas of Economic Complexity (MIT Press), together with a team of social psychologists (Diana Orghian and Filipa de Almeida) and roboticists (Jordi Albo-Canals), How Humans Judge Machines presents a unique perspective on the nexus between artificial intelligence and society. Anyone interested in the future of AI ethics should explore the experiments and theories in How Humans Judge Machines
The Individual in the Animal Kingdom
Get PDFThe groundbreaking first book by a major evolutionary biologist, published in 1912, that anticipated current thinking about organismal complexity. Julian Huxley's The Individual in the Animal Kingdom, published in 1912, is a concise and groundbreaking work that is almost entirely unknown today. In it, Huxley analyzes the evolutionary advances in life's organizational complexity, anticipating many of today's ideas about changes in individuality. Huxley's overarching system of concepts and his coherent logical principles were so far ahead of their time that they remain valid to this day. In part, this is because his explicitly Darwinian approach carefully distinguished between the integrated form and function of hierarchies within organisms and loosely defined, nonorganismal ecological communities. In The Individual in the Animal Kingdom, we meet a youthful Huxley who uses his commanding knowledge of natural history to develop a nonreductionist account of life's complexity that aligns with seminal early insights by Darwin, Wallace, Weismann, and Wheeler. As volume editors Richard Gawne and Jacobus Boomsma point out, this work disappeared into oblivion despite its relevance for contemporary research on organismal complexity and major evolutionary transitions. This MIT Press edition gives Huxley's book a second hearing, offering readers a unique vantage point on the discoveries of evolutionary biology past and present
‘V’Oct(Ritual): the anatomy of an interactive composition' in CYBERNETICS (edited by Lanfranco Aceti)
No full textThis chapter looks at the technical and compositional methodologies used in the
realization of V’Oct(Ritual)(2011) with particular reference to the choices made with
regard to the mapping of sensor elements to various spatialization functions.
Kinaesonics[1] will be discussed in relation to the coding of real-time one-to-one
mapping of sound to gesture and its expression in terms of hardware and software
design.
Composing for kinaesonic interaction is an interdisciplinary activity that is not
confined to music alone. In terms of my own work with the Bodycoder System,
composition extends to the framing of the physicality of the performer: their
kinaesonic gestural control of live sound processing, spatialisation and navigation of a
Max/MSP environment in performance. Other compositional layers include the live
automation of sound diffusion (the physical movement of sound within a multichannel
speaker system), the programming of a range of evolving real-time instances
initiated by the performer and the design of a large palette of sound processing
objects
Analysis of Gene Regulatory Network Motifs in Evolutionary Development of Multicellular Organisms
Get PDFSexual Consent
Get PDFAn introduction to issues of sexual consent, covering key strands of feminist thought, how sexual consent is negotiated in practice, the influence of popular culture, and more. The #MeToo movement has focused public attention on the issue of sexual consent. People of all genders, from all walks of life, have stepped forward to tell their stories of sexual harassment and violation. In a predictable backlash, others have taken to mass media to inquire plaintively if “flirting” is now forbidden. This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series offers a nuanced introduction to sexual consent by a writer who is both a scholar and an activist on this issue. It has become clear from discussions of the recent high-profile cases of Harvey Weinstein, Bill Cosby, and others that there is no clear agreement over what constitutes consent or non-consent and how they are expressed and perceived in sexual situations. This book presents key strands of feminist thought on the subject of sexual consent from across academic and activist communities and covers the history of research on consent in such fields as psychology and feminist legal studies. It discusses how sexual consent is negotiated in practice, from “No means no” to “Yes means yes,” and describes what factors might limit individual agency in such negotiations. It examines how popular culture, including pornography, romance fiction, and sex advice manuals, shapes our ideas of consent; explores the communities at the forefront of consent activism; and considers what meaningful social change in this area might look like. Going beyond the conventional cisgender, heterosexual norm, the book lists additional resources for those seeking to improve their practice of consent, survivors of sexual violence, and readers who want to understand contemporary debates on this issue in more depth
Report to the President for year ended June 30, 2024, Director and Publisher, the MIT Press
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MIT Press Complete Collection. Accés temporal als llibres electrònics. Més de 3.000 títols al vostre abast fins al 30 de juny. (Juny 2020)
No full textImatge utilitzada per fer publicitat de novetats del CRAI de la Universitat de Barcelona - Vitrina Juny 2020.L'editorial Mit Press ofereix accés a la seva col·lecció de més de 3.000 títols electrònics de les àrees temàtiques d'art, arquitectura, ciències biomèdiques, negocis i finances, informàtica, ciències cognitives, disseny, educació, medi ambient, humanitats, ciències de la informació, lingüística, neurociència, filosofia i ciències socials.
La col·lecció està disponible fins al 30 de juny de 2020
How Technical and Scientific Books Get Published
No full textThis paper discusses the dynamics of how books are published. It deals only with scientific and technical books at the professional level and does not discuss the very different types of situations related to textbooks and books for the general public (trade books). The paper presents a guide to prospective authors who want to approach a publisher. It discusses how to choose a publisher for manuscript submittal, how publishers select manuscripts to publish, the publishing contract, the book production process, and the marketing and promotion of books. Project PROCEED, which will be published by the MIT Press in Spring 1982 under the title, MANUALS IN INDUSTRIAL ENERGY CONSERVATION, is discussed in order to illustrate some of the general issues related to the book publishing process
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