MIT Press
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| Type | Publishing House |
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| Founded | 1926 |
| Headquarters | Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA |
| Website | mitpress.mit.edu |
The MIT Press is a university press affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA).
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[edit] History
The MIT Press was created in 1932 as an imprint called Technology Press. It became an independent publishing house and acquired its modern name in 1962. In 1981, The MIT Press published its first book, Brainstorms: Philosophical Essays on Mind and Psychology by Daniel C. Dennett, under the Bradford Books imprint.
[edit] Business
MIT Press primarily publishes academic titles in the fields of Art & Architecture, the Cognitive Sciences, Computational Biology, Computer Science, Economics, Environmental Science, Neuroscience, New Media, and Science, Technology, & Society. The Press has published more than 8,000 books throughout its history, and publishes about 200 books and 40 journals every year. Their colophon, or logo, was designed by Muriel Cooper in the early sixties.
The MIT Press is a distributor for such publishers as Zone Books and Semiotext(e). The MIT Press also operates the MIT Press Bookstore showcasing both its front and backlist titles, along with complementary works from other academic and trade publishers. The store is located next to the inbound Kendall Square station of the MBTA Red Line in Cambridge. In 2000, the MIT Press created CogNet, an online resource for the study of the brain and the cognitive sciences.
[edit] List of Journals Published by the MIT Press
- African Arts
- Artificial Life
- Asian Economic Papers
- Biological Theory
- Computational Linguistics
- Computer Music Journal
- Daedalus
- Design Issues
- Education Finance and Policy
- Evolutionary Computation
- Global Environmental Politics
- Grey Room
- Information Technologies and International Development
- Innovations
- International Security
- Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
- Journal of Cold War Studies
- Journal of the European Economic Association
- Journal of Interdisciplinary History
- Leonardo
- Leonardo Music Journal
- Linguistic Inquiry
- Neural Computation
- The New England Quarterly
- October
- PAJ (Performing Arts Journal)
- Perspectives on Science
- Presence: Teleoperators & Virtual Environments
- Quarterly Journal of Economics
- The Review of Economics and Statistics
- TDR (The Drama Review)
- The Washington Quarterly
- World Policy Journal
