Erik Brynjolfsson
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Erik Brynjolfsson is an American academic. He is a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, Director of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy, Director of the MIT Center for Digital Business and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
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Marvin Minsky -- one of the fathers of computer science and cofounder of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT -- gives a revolutionary answer to the age-old question: "How does the mind work?" Minsky brilliantly portrays the mind as a "society" of tiny components that are themselves mindless. Mirroring his theory, Minsky boldly casts The S...
Erik Brynjolfsson
2021-05-08T14:51:38.000Z
The Hype Machine
How Social Media Disrupts Our Elections, Our Economy, and Our Health--and How We Must Adapt
A landmark insider's tour of how social media affects our decision-making and shapes our world in ways both useful and dangerous, with critical insights into the social media trends of the 2020 election and beyond"The most important book of the year . . . a lively, engaging masterpiece."--Erik Brynjolfsson, bestselling co-author of The Second Machi...
Erik Brynjolfsson
2020-09-11T05:35:29.000Z
Two leaders in the field offer a compelling analysis of the current state of the art and reveal the steps we must take to achieve a truly robust AI. Despite the hype surrounding AI, creating an intelligence that rivals or exceeds human levels is far more complicated than we are led to believe. Professors Gary Marcus and Ernest Davis have spent thei...
Erik Brynjolfsson
2019-09-12T20:16:33.000Z
The Worldly Philosophers
The Lives, Times And Ideas Of The Great Economic Thinkers
The Worldly Philosophers not only enables us to see more deeply into our history but helps us better understand our own times. In this seventh edition, Robert L. Heilbroner provides a new theme that connects thinkers as diverse as Adam Smith and Karl Marx. The theme is the common focus of their highly varied ideasnamely, the search to understand ho...
Erik Brynjolfsson
2019-04-14T18:38:39.000Z
Dr. Kai-Fu Lee—one of the world’s most respected experts on AI and China—reveals that China has suddenly caught up to the US at an astonishingly rapid and unexpected pace. In AI Superpowers, Kai-fu Lee argues powerfully that because of these unprecedented developments in AI, dramatic changes will be happening much sooner than many of us expected. I...
Erik Brynjolfsson
2019-01-14T05:47:13.000Z
This book (intended for beginning analysts, students, and the people training them) bridges general business problem solving and mathematics for improved effectiveness in work and life. Full of tools for solving real-world problems, this new edition is an ideal training manual for those who are intimidated by quantitative analysis and an excellent ...
Erik Brynjolfsson
2017-10-13T18:32:25.000Z
Streaming, Sharing, Stealing
Big Data and the Future of Entertainment (The MIT Press)
Traditional network television programming has always followed the same script: executives approve a pilot, order a trial number of episodes, and broadcast them, expecting viewers to watch a given show on their television sets at the same time every week. But then came Netflix's "House of Cards." Netflix gauged the show's potential from data it had...
Erik Brynjolfsson
2016-08-22T01:14:49.000Z