Abelard to Apple : the fate of American colleges and universities / / Richard A. DeMillo |
Autore | DeMillo Richard A |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (339 p.) |
Disciplina | 378.73 |
Soggetto topico |
Universities and colleges - United States
Education, Higher - Aims and objectives - United States Educational change - United States |
Soggetto non controllato |
EDUCATION/General
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/General COMPUTER SCIENCE/General |
ISBN |
1-283-30278-0
9786613302786 0-262-29850-3 0-262-29761-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | ; I. Great visions to lure them on -- ; 1. Are you teaching this summer? -- ; 2. A world of subjective judgments -- ; 3. The smartest kid in class -- ; 4. The twenty-first century -- ; II. An abundance of choices -- ; 5. It takes a lot to get us excited -- ; 6. The computer in the cathedral -- ; 7. Do no harm -- ; 8. The factory -- ; 9. Disruption -- ; III. A better means of expressing their goals -- ; 10. The value of a university -- ; 11. Of majors and memes -- ; 12. Threads -- ; IV. Abelard to Apple -- ; 13. The stardom of Leonard Susskind -- ; 14. Unkept technological promises -- ; 15. A substitute for deep reflection -- ; 16. The process-centered university -- ; 17. Hacking degrees -- ; V. The long view -- ; 18. The laws of innovation -- ; 19. Just change my title to "architect" -- ; 20. Rules for the twenty-first century. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781872303321 |
DeMillo Richard A
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America identified : biometric technology and society / / Lisa S. Nelson |
Autore | Nelson Lisa S (Lisa Sue) |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (267 p.) |
Disciplina | 303.48/3 |
Soggetto topico |
Technological innovations - Social aspects
Biometric identification Privacy, Right of Social interaction - Technological innovations |
Soggetto non controllato |
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/General
SOCIAL SCIENCES/Political Science/Public Policy & Law |
ISBN |
0-262-28875-3
1-282-97847-0 9786612978470 0-262-28968-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Modern identification -- September 11 -- Privacy and biometric technology -- Anonymity -- Trust and confidence -- Paternalism -- Conclusion. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910791658703321 |
Nelson Lisa S (Lisa Sue)
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American hegemony and the postwar reconstruction of science in Europe / / John Krige |
Autore | Krige John |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2006 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (389 p.) |
Disciplina | 509.4/09045 |
Collana | Transformations |
Soggetto topico |
Science - Europe - History - 20th century
Technology - Europe - History - 20th century |
Soggetto non controllato |
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/History of Science
HUMANITIES/History SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/General |
ISBN |
1-282-09709-1
9786612097096 0-262-27763-8 1-4294-7759-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910777796803321 |
Krige John
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American illuminations : urban lighting, 1800-1920 / / David E. Nye |
Autore | Nye David E. <1946-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2018] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (x, 280 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 388.3/12 |
Collana | MIT Press scholarship online |
Soggetto topico |
Street lighting - Social aspects - United States - History - 19th century
Street lighting - Social aspects - United States - History - 20th century City and town life - United States - History - 19th century City and town life - United States - History - 20th century |
Soggetto non controllato |
HISTORY / United States / 19th Century
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / History SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/History of Technology URBANISM/General SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/General |
ISBN | 0-262-34478-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Illuminations -- Energy transitions -- The United States and Europe -- Moonlight towers -- Spectacles and expositions -- Commercial landscape -- City beautiful -- Light as a political spectacle -- Mutliple blindings. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910793442303321 |
Nye David E. <1946->
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Arguments that count : physics, computing, and missile defense, 1949-2012 / / Rebecca Slayton |
Autore | Slayton Rebecca <1974-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Massachusetts, : The MIT Press, [2013] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (338 p.) |
Disciplina | 358.1/740973 |
Collana | Inside technology |
Soggetto topico |
National security - United States - History - 20th century
National security - United States - History - 21st century Ballistic missile defenses - United States - History Physicists - Political activity - United States - History Computer scientists - Political activity - United States - History Physics - Political aspects - United States - History Computer science - Political aspects - United States - History Technological complexity - Political aspects - United States - History Software engineering - Political aspects - United States - History |
Soggetto non controllato |
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/General
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/History of Technology |
ISBN |
0-262-31654-4
0-262-31653-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Software and the Race against Surprise Attack -- Framing an "Appallingly Complex" System -- Complexity and the "Art or Evolving Science" of Software -- "No Technological Solution" -- What Crisis? Software in the "Safeguard" Debate -- The Politics of Complex Technology -- The Political Economy of Software Engineering -- Nature and Technology in the Star Wars Debate -- Conclusion: Complexity Unbound -- Unpublished Sources and Notations. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790567403321 |
Slayton Rebecca <1974->
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Cambridge, Massachusetts, : The MIT Press, [2013] | ||
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Assembling policy : Transantiago, human devices, and the dream of a world-class society / / Sebastián Ureta |
Autore | Ureta Sebastián |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Massachusetts ; ; London, England : , : The MIT Press, , [2015] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (219 p.) |
Disciplina | 388.483 |
Collana | Infrastructures series |
Soggetto topico |
Infrastructure (Economics) - Chile - Santiago
Local transit - Chile - Santiago Urban transportation - Planning Urban transportation - Citizen participation |
Soggetto non controllato |
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/General
URBANISM/Transportation SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/History of Technology |
ISBN |
0-262-33096-2
0-262-33095-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Crisis; 2 Infrastructuration I: Active Citizens; 3 Infrastructuration II: Modeling Consumers; 4 Disruption; 5 Reactions; 6 Normalization; Conclusions; Appendix; Notes; References; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910797823003321 |
Ureta Sebastián
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Cambridge, Massachusetts ; ; London, England : , : The MIT Press, , [2015] | ||
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Between reason and experience : essays in technology and modernity / / Andrew Feenberg ; foreword by Brian Wynne ; afterword by Michel Callon |
Autore | Feenberg Andrew |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2010 |
Descrizione fisica | xxv, 257 p. : ill |
Disciplina | 601 |
Collana | Inside technology |
Soggetto topico |
Technology - Philosophy
Technology - Social aspects Civilization, Modern |
Soggetto non controllato | SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/General |
ISBN |
0-262-26565-6
0-262-27644-5 1-282-63824-6 9786612638244 0-262-26595-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910791355103321 |
Feenberg Andrew
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Beyond imported magic : essays on science, technology, and society in Latin America / / edited by Eden Medina, Ivan da Costa Marques, and Christina Holmes ; with a foreword by Marcos Cueto |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2014] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (411 p.) |
Disciplina | 338.98/06 |
Collana | Inside technology |
Soggetto topico |
Technology transfer - Latin America
Science - Latin America Technology - Social aspects - Latin America |
Soggetto non controllato | SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/General |
ISBN |
0-262-32551-9
0-262-02745-3 0-262-32550-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Foreword; Preface; 1 Introduction: Beyond Imported Magic; Part I: Latin American Perspectives on Science, Technology, and Society; 2 Who Invented Brazil?; 3 Innovation and Inclusive Development in the South: A Critical Perspective; 4 Working with Care: Narratives of Invisible Women Scientists Practicing Forensic Genetics in Colombia; 5 Ontological Politics and Latin American Local Knowledges; 6 Technology in an Expanded Field: A Review of History of Technology Scholarship on Latin America in Selected English-Language Journals; Part II: Local and Global Networks of Innovation
7 South Atlantic Crossings: Fingerprints, Science, and the State in Turn-of-the-Twentieth-Century Argentina8 Tropical Assemblage: The Soviet Large Panel in Cuba; 9 Balancing Design: OLPC Engineers and ICT Translations at the Periphery; 10 Translating Magic: The Charisma of One Laptop per Child's XO Laptop in Paraguay; 11 Nanoscience and Nanotechnology: How an Emerging Area on the Scientific Agenda of the Core Countries Has Been Adopted and Transformed in Latin America; 12 Latin America as Laboratory: The Camera and the Yale Peruvian Expeditions Part III: Science, Technology, and Latin American Politics13 Bottling Atomic Energy: Technology, Politics, and the State in Peronist Argentina; 14 Peaceful Atoms in Mexico; 15 Neoliberalism as Political Technology: Expertise, Energy, and Democracy in Chile; 16 Creole Interferences: A Conflict over Biodiversity and Ownership in the South of Brazil; 17 The Juridical Hospital: Patient-Citizen-Consumers Claiming the Right to Health in Brazilian Courts; Contributors; Index |
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Beyond the big ditch : politics, ecology, and infrastructure at the Panama Canal / / Ashley Carse |
Autore | Carse Ashley <1977-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2014] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (315 p.) |
Disciplina | 972.87/505 |
Collana | Infrastructures series |
Soggetto non controllato |
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/General
ENVIRONMENT/General |
ISBN |
0-262-32047-9
0-262-32046-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | The machete and the freighter -- Monte -- Making the Panama Canal Watershed -- Frank Robinson's map -- Life along the river (Miocene-1903) -- Hydropolitics, territory, and canal construction -- Pueblos perdidos or how the lake ate the river -- Banana republic? The agricultural possibilities of the Canal Zone -- Getting across and getting around -- The highway : the world united, Panama divided -- Conquest of the jungle : the moral economy of rural infrastructure -- Weeds -- A demanding environment. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910788077003321 |
Carse Ashley <1977->
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Building genetic medicine : breast cancer, technology, and the comparative politics of health care / / Shobita Parthasarathy |
Autore | Parthasarathy Shobita |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2007] |
Descrizione fisica | x, 271 p. : ill |
Disciplina | 362.196/04207 |
Collana | Inside technology |
Soggetto topico |
BRCA genes - Diagnostic use - United States
BRCA genes - Diagnostic use - Great Britain Genetic screening - Social aspects - United States Genetic screening - Social aspects - Great Britain Breast - Cancer - Diagnosis - Social aspects - United States Breast - Cancer - Diagnosis - Social aspects - Great Britain |
Soggetto non controllato |
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/General
BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES/General |
ISBN |
1-282-10044-0
9786612100444 0-262-28128-7 1-4294-6094-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Toolkits for genetic testing -- Comparative architectures of genetic testing -- Eliminating the competition and ensuring success -- Defining a good health outcome -- Myriad, Britain, and culture clash. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910777782403321 |
Parthasarathy Shobita
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2007] | ||
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