Harper Perennial, August 2005. Trade Paperback. What is the least we need to achieve the most? With this question in mind, MIT graduate Eric Brende flipped the switch on technology. He and his wife, Mary, ditched their car, electric stove, refrigerator, running water, and everything else motorized or "hooked to.....

Independently published, May 2020. Trade Paperback. Fast Python aggressively rehashes the basics of Python programming in order to dispel myths and misconceptions about how to write fast code. Readers equipped with the lessons from this book will be able to test, diagnose, and optimize out performance bottlenecks in their own.....

W. W. Norton & Company, October 2021. Paperback. Today's "machine-learning" systems, trained by data, are so effective that we've invited them to see and hear for us--and to make decisions on our behalf. But alarm bells are ringing. Recent years have seen an eruption of concern as the field of.....

The MIT Press, April 2020. Paperback. This overview of the ethical issues raised by artificial intelligence moves beyond hype and nightmare scenarios to address concrete questions--offering a compelling, necessary read for our ChatGPT era. Artificial intelligence powers Google's search engine, enables Facebook to target advertising, and allows Alexa and Siri.....

Little, Brown and Company, September 2023. Hardcover. "The most important book to read about the AI boom" (Wired): The "gripping" (New Yorker) true story of the first time machines came for human jobs--and how the Luddite uprising explains the power, threat, and toll of big tech and AI today Named.....

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, September 2023. Hardcover. A finalist for the 2023 National Book Critics Circle Award Winner of the Women's Prize for Nonfiction NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER National Indie Bestseller A New York Times notable book of 2023 Vulture's #1 book of 2023 One of Slate's ten best books.....

University of California Press, March 1994. Paperback.

W. W. Norton & Company, January 2014. Hardcover.

MELVILLE HOUSE PUBLISHING, December 2020. Paperback. ** A New York Times Bestseller ** NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY: Time - The New Yorker - NPR - GQ - Elle - Vulture - Fortune - Boing Boing - The Irish Times - The New York Public.....

Penguin Books, January 2014. Paperback.

INTERSCIENCE PUBLISHERS. Hardcover. Dj lightly worn and faded with a few small tears in mylar jacket 422pp. Dj lightly worn and faded with a few small tears in mylar jacket 422pp.

FSG Originals, December 2014. Paperback. Joshua Davis's Spare Parts--now a major motion picture--is a story about overcoming insurmountable odds and the young men who proved they were among the most patriotic and talented Americans in this country--even as the country tried to kick them out. Four undocumented Mexican American students.....

Columbia University Press, June 2014. Hardcover. In this comprehensive social history of Columbia University's School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS), Robert McCaughey combines archival research with oral testimony and contemporary interviews to build a critical and celebratory portrait of one of the oldest engineering schools in the United States.....