MIT Press
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| Parent company | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Founded | 1932 |
| Founder | James R. Killian, Jr. |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Headquarters location | Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| Publication types | Books, Academic journals |
| Official website | mitpress.mit.edu |
The MIT Press is a university press affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States).
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[edit] History
The MIT Press traces its origins back to 1926 when MIT published under its own name a lecture series entitled Problems of Atomic Dynamics given by the visiting German physicist and later Nobel Prize winner, Max Born. Six years later, MIT's publishing operations were first formally instituted by the creation of an imprint called Technology Press in 1932. This imprint was founded by James R. Killian, Jr., at the time editor of MIT's alumni magazine and later to become MIT president.
Technology Press published eight titles independently, then in 1937 entered into an arrangement with John Wiley & Sons in which Wiley took over marketing and editorial responsibilities. In 1962 the association with Wiley came to an end after a further 125 titles had been published. The press acquired its modern name after this separation, and has since functioned as an independent publishing house.
An academic journals publishing division was added in 1968, and the following year MIT Press opened a marketing and sales office in Europe.
In 1981 the MIT Press published its first book under the Bradford Books imprint, Brainstorms: Philosophical Essays on Mind and Psychology by Daniel C. Dennett.
In August 2006 MIT Press published its 8000th title.
[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 30 journals every year.
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] Logo
The colophon, or logo, was designed by Muriel Cooper in the early 1960s—the logo is based on the lower-case letters "mitp," hence the tall "t" at the fifth stripe and the drop "p" at the sixth-and-seventh stripe. The logo is somewhat remiminiscent of the trigrams of the I Ching.
[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
- Innovations
- International Journal of Learning and Media
- International Security
- Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
- Journal of Cold War Studies
- Journal of Interdisciplinary History
- Leonardo
- Leonardo Music Journal
- Linguistic Inquiry
- Neural Computation
- The New England Quarterly
- October
- PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art
- Perspecta: The Yale Architectural Journal
- Perspectives on Science
- Presence: Teleoperators & Virtual Environments
- TDR: The Drama Review
- The Review of Economics and Statistics
