Listening In: Cybersecurity in an Insecure Age – Susan Landau
Susan Landau, author of Listening In: Cybersecurity in an Insecure Age, is a leading cybersecurity scholar and former Google privacy analyst. Below, she uncovers…
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Elements of Power: What’s Behind the Screen of your Smartphone?
David Abraham on The Elements of Power Smartphone and tablet packaging doesn’t have an ingredients list. You might think it is easy for high-tech…
Robots in Our Midst: A Conversation with Jerry Kaplan
Jerry Kaplan, author of Humans Need Not Apply, says the robots are coming, but whether they will be working on behalf of society or…
Eureka! The Inventor’s Challenge
How does the ‘eureka moment’ happen? Who are the people that create a ‘eureka moment’ and what are their characteristics? What are the stories…
Eureka! The Gift of Imagination
How does the ‘eureka moment’ happen? Who are the people that create a ‘eureka moment’ and what are their characteristics? What are the stories…
Eureka! Discovering the Modern Inventor
How does the ‘eureka moment’ happen? Who are the people that create a ‘eureka moment’ and what are their characteristics? What are the stories…
Eureka! How Does Invention Happen?
How does the ‘eureka moment’ happen? Who are the people that create a ‘eureka moment’ and what are their characteristics? What are the stories…
Philip Howard Asks: How Big is the Internet of Things?
Should we fear or welcome the internet’s evolution? How big will it get? Philip Howard, leading digital expert and author of Pax Technica: How…
The Myth of Violent Online Extremism
The responsibility of social and digital networks in combatting terrorism has come under particular scrutiny since the Charlie Hebdo attacks of January 2015. Philip…
Need For Speed?
Speed Limits by Mark C. Taylor helps make sense of a world in which everything from fashion to finance has undergone rapid change. Taylor argues…
Yale Tech Books: Highlights
So, we need to talk about tech books. Technology, according to J. G. Ballard, always has unforeseen effects, often contrary to the intended purpose. Last year…
Emotional Robots and Erotic Dolls: Theories of Visual Culture
Using ideas from art history, visual culture, gender and sexuality studies with the medical humanities, Marquard Smith’s The Erotic Doll is the first book to…
The Future of Clean Water
With the planet’s clean water sources strained by over-population and pollution, Yale University Press sat down with Water 4.0 author David Sedlak to talk about the future of…
Yale University Press Digital Report
It’s been a big year for digital projects at Yale University Press. Between the two offices in London and New Haven, three apps have successfully…
Measuring pressure is tricky, just ask Stephen Hales’ horse!
Robert Boyle was fascinated by the world and he spent his life trying to explain why things are as they are. He was a…