{"id":868328,"date":"2025-08-27T21:12:03","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T02:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/27\/recent-books-from-the-mit-community\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T21:12:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T02:12:03","slug":"recent-books-from-the-mit-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/27\/recent-books-from-the-mit-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent books from the MIT community"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/743569\/empire-of-ai-by-karen-hao\/\"><strong>Empire of AI<\/strong><\/a><strong>: Dreams and Night\u00admares in Sam Altman\u2019s OpenAI<\/strong><br \/>By Karen Hao \u201915<br \/>PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE, 2025, $32<br \/>\u25b6 Read <em>MIT Technology Review\u2019s<\/em> excerpt <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2025\/05\/19\/1116614\/hao-empire-ai-openai\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mitpress.mit.edu\/9780262552325\/play-it-again-sam\/\"><strong>Play It Again, Sam<\/strong><\/a><strong>: Repetition in the Arts<\/strong><br \/>By Samuel Jay Keyser, HM \u201997, emeritus professor of linguistics<br \/>MIT PRESS, 2025, $30<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/us\/universitypress\/subjects\/computer-science\/knowledge-management-databases-and-data-mining\/data-systems-and-society-harnessing-ai-societal-good?format=PB\"><strong>Data, Systems, and Society<\/strong><\/a><strong>: Harness AI for Societal Good<\/strong><br \/>By Munther A. Dahleh, professor of EECS and founding director of the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society<br \/>CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2025, $27.99<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/672378\/so-very-small-by-thomas-levenson\/\"><strong>So Very Small<\/strong><\/a><strong>: How Humans Discovered the Microcosmos, Defeated Germs<br \/>\u2014and May Still Lose the War Against Infectious Disease<\/strong><br \/>By Thomas Levenson, professor of science writing<br \/>PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE, 2025, $35<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmitpress.mit.edu%2F9780262049603%2Fperspectives-in-antenna-technology%2F&#038;data=05%7C02%7C%7C3b1e9355e4d8415a117a08dd60b922a8%7C961f23f8614c4756bafff1997766a273%7C1%7C0%7C638773070461062291%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&#038;sdata=IhLVSUWzXFyMv9p9WSRsH3X0XIVSX9CgcGEokWKnNIM%3D&#038;reserved=0\"><strong>Perspectives in Antenna Technology<\/strong><\/a><strong>: Recent Advances and Systems Applications\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>By Jeffrey S. Herd, group leader of the RF Technology Group at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, and Alan J. Fenn and M. David Conway, both senior staff in the RF Technology Group<br \/>MIT PRESS, 2025, $125<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cornellpress.cornell.edu\/book\/9781501778742\/misery-beneath-the-miracle-in-east-asia\/\"><strong>Misery Beneath the Miracle in East Asia<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>By Arvid J. Lukauskas and Yumiko T. Shimabukuro, PhD \u201912<br \/>CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2024, $34.95<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Send book news to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/mailto:MI***********@**************ew.com\" data-original-string=\"vy\/OAxCuBbAKRYHhZ9La9g==7f4a+wJ0Twe2dkc86w7Ap\/UaKNiDtEplBtD7d4wResYJWm4nHjgHsxI1RlSfMIarLPP\" title=\"This contact has been encoded by Anti-Spam by CleanTalk. Click to decode. 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To finish the decoding make sure that JavaScript is enabled in your browser.'>MI<span class=\"apbct-blur\">***********<\/span>@<span class=\"apbct-blur\">**************<\/span>ew.com<\/span><\/a> or\u00a0MIT Technology Review, 196 Broadway, 3rd Floor, Cambridge, MA 02139<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2025\/08\/26\/1121024\/recent-books-from-the-mit-community-24\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n MIT Alumni News Staff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Empire of AI : Dreams and Night\u00admares in Sam Altman\u2019s OpenAI By Karen Hao \u201915PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE, 2025, $32\u25b6 Read MIT Technology Review\u2019s excerpt here. Play It Again, Sam : Repetition in the Arts By Samuel Jay Keyser, HM \u201997, emeritus professor of linguisticsMIT PRESS, 2025, $30 Data, Systems, and Society : Harness AI for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":868329,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[349,4121,46],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-868328","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"category-recent","9":"category-technology"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=868328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/868329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}