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Congrats to Felipe on this amazing honor! You can read his forthcoming @mitpress book with Walter Sinnott-Armstrong this November!
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For the first time in a while, a philosophy professor has been awarded one of the MacArthur genius grants...
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Humans are remarkably good at recognizing other animals from appearance🐾
Our new study in J Cogn Neurosci @MITPress shows this ability is surprisingly resilient to visual information loss, using EEG, behavioral measures, and deep neural networks.
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"Attention, like crude oil, is treated like a scarce natural resource that must be extracted, processed, and refined." thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/w…
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See/believe/create is a formula to improve health for communities and individuals. My book, The Formula for Better Health, available in Kindle and audiobook forms, is now releasing in paperback on October 6. I describe how to apply the formula to save lives and create a healthier world.
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"You don’t have to stare at the shampoo bottle every week. You just get that heat pump one time."
@LeahStokes spoke with the @Torontostar about her new book, "The Carbon Wave," why energy should be cheaper, and the AI versus climate debate.
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RT @sapinker: Since 1948, when MIT Press published Norbert Wiener's Cybernetics, the press has been at the forefront of AI writing. Here is…
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It just became real 😀
I’m beyond excited to announce our MIT Press book on Neuroevolution! An HTML version is now available for free on neuroevolutionbook.com/, with a print edition coming out later in 2026.
Real intelligence is not static; it evolves. For decades, the field of neuroevolution has pursued this necessary adaptability. Our book chronicles its development, from early concepts to its modern integration with deep learning and reinforcement learning, exploring its potential for understanding the origins of intelligence and its real-world applications.
And the companion webpage is more than just a book site! It comes equipped with interactive demos, videos, exercises, and tutorials to allow everyone to experience neuroevolution in action. Check it out and let us know what you think!
It was a pleasure to work on this book over the last 4+ years with David (@hardmaru), Yujin (@yujin_tang), and Risto. We are incredibly proud of the result and look forward to celebrating! We hope to connect with many of you at NeurIPS.
We are very grateful to Melanie Mitchell (@MelMitchell1) who provided a fantastic foreword. To quote her: “The next big thing in AI is coming, and I suspect that neuroevolution will be a major part of it”. We think so too!
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"The fact that bans are failing should not be a cue to double down on enforcement. It is evidence of a misdiagnosis." thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/t…
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"The best way to appreciate our academic freedom is to exercise it." Listen to @Harvard_Law's @ANatapoff on @MrGaryShapiro's @KSQDFM show, @BookshelfFrom, discussing the essay collection AMERICA UNFINISHED: 250 Years of Law and Governance. bit.ly/4hpRveu @mitpress
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The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social retweeted
This week marks one year since “What Is Intelligence?” was published.
It was a really fun book to write. I knew that some of the material would be dated by the time it reached readers. But I hoped that, despite rapid progress in AI, the core ideas about life and intelligence would endure. So far, so good, I think!
Hearing how you have connected with the book has meant so much. Thank you for reading, and an extra big thank you to those of you who have reviewed it, recommended it, or given it to friends.
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Neurologist Richard E. @Cytowic offers compelling evidence that we can change the way we use technology, resist its addictive power, and take back the control we have lost.
"Your Stone Age Brain in the Screen Age" is now available in paperback: mitpress.mit.edu/97802620490…
ALT A copy of "Your Stone Age Brain in the Screen Age: Coping with Digital Distraction and Sensory Overload" by Ricahrd E. Cytowic on a white background. The cover is an image of a rock split with a mobile screen.
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The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social retweeted
What questions must we ask of consciousness?
Eva Jablonka argues that when studying consciousness from a biological angle, we shouldn’t be asking why we perceive things in certain ways, but rather why we perceive things at all.
Jablonka is an evolutionary theorist and geneticist whose work pushes biology beyond a strictly gene-centred view of life.
Tap here for her full interview. iai.tv/video/consciousness-h…
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The Tetris Company says it owns the pieces in Tetris, but there’s one problem: Those geometric forms were described decades before Tetris existed. Julien Mailland details the game’s Kafkaesque journey from Soviet labs to “capitalist copywrongs.” thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/t…
ALT A pixelated game screen that reads "Tengen presents the Soviet Mind Game" Tetris Headline: The Bizarre, Murky History of Soviet-Born Tetris Subheading: Behind the beloved game lies a struggle over mathematical ideas, erased collaborators, offshore millions, and copyright power. By Julien Mailland
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From Carbon Footprint to Carbon Wave: @tricyclemag hosts author @leahstokes on October 7th for a virtual talk on her empowering framework for protecting our planet.
Sign up here: tricycle.org/events/carbon-w…
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The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social retweeted
I'm finalizing the manuscript for "The Différance Engine" @mitpress. And motivated by Lauren Goodlad's (mis)characterization of Derrida in her recent essay for "Representations" and Jill Walker Rettberg's "LLMs are Metaphor Machines," I felt it necessary to provide this endnote.
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The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social retweeted
Very happy that a hard-copy of our book "Computational Intractability: A Guide to Algorithmic Lower Bounds" by MIT press
is NOW available at Amazon a.co/d/050rvEnb and lots of other stores.
🔊 @UofMaryland CS faculty William Gasarch and @MTHajiaghayi, with @MIT's Erik Demaine, co-authored a new book on algorithmic limits and how researchers determine when computational problems cannot be solved more efficiently.
Read more: go.umd.edu/Gasarch-Hajiaghay…
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The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social retweeted
I just finished @leahstokes' new book, The Carbon Wave. I'd planned to read it slowly over weeks, one short chapter each day as a break from other tasks-- to unwind. Ended up reading the entire thing in 24 hours, simply because I couldn't put it down. (1/2)
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"As the court strips away the laws that protect democracy, it is clearing the way for an autocracy to take root."
An essay adapted, in part, by Nikolas Bowie and Daphna Renan's contribution to "America Unfinished" in the @BostonGlobe: bostonglobe.com/2026/09/18/o…
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How did a puzzle game created in a Soviet computer lab cross the Berlin Wall and become a global blockbuster? From its 1980s origins through complex licensing deals, our book of the week traces the rise of Tetris.
By Julien Mailland on @mitpress
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