links may not follow wikipedia s policies or guidelines . please improve this article by removing excessive or inappropriate external links and converting useful links where appropriate into footnote references . july 2015 learn how and when to remove this template message mit press parent company massachusetts institute of technology founded 1932 ; 84 years ago 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 2008 conference booth the mit press is a university press affiliated with the massachusetts institute of technology mit in cambridge massachusetts united states . contents 1 history 2 business 3 logo 4 list of journals published by the mit press 5 references 6 external links history edit 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 . 1 a european marketing office was opened in 1969 and a journals division was added in 1972 . in the late 1970s responding to changing economic conditions the publisher narrowed the focus of their catalog to a few key areas initially architecture computer science and artificial intelligence economics and cognitive science . other areas such as technology and design have been added since . the latest addition is environmental science . 1 in january 2010 the mit press published its 9000th title 1 and published about 200 books and 30 journals . in 2012 the press celebrated its 50th anniversary including publishing a commemorative booklet on paper and online . 2 business edit mit press primarily publishes academic titles in the fields of art & architecture visual & cultural studies cognitive science philosophy linguistics computer science economics finance & business environmental science political science life sciences neuroscience new media and science technology & society . 3 the mit press is a distributor for such publishers as zone books and semiotext e . in 2000 the mit press created cognet an online resource for the study of the brain and the cognitive sciences . 4 the mit press also operates the mit press bookstore 5 showcasing both its front and backlist titles along with a large selection of complementary works from other academic and trade publishers . the retail storefront is located next to the inbound kendall square station of the mbta red line subway in cambridge massachusetts . the bookstore offers customized selections from the mit press at many conferences and symposia in the boston area and sponsors occasional lectures and book signings at mit . citation needed 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 . logo edit the press uses a logo designed by its longtime art director muriel cooper in 1962 . 6 the design is based on a highly abstracted version of the lower case letters mitp with the ascender of the t at the fifth stripe and the descender of the p at the sixth stripe the only differentiation . 7 it later served as an important reference point for the 2015 redesign of the mit media lab logo by pentagram . 6 list of journals published by the mit press edit main category mit press academic journals the arts & humanities african arts artmargins the baffler computer music journal daedalus design issues grey room international journal of learning and media leonardo leonardo music journal the new england quarterly october paj a journal of performance and art tdr the drama review economics american journal of health economics asian development review asian economic papers education finance and policy the review of economics and statistics international affairs history & political science global environmental politics innovations international security journal of cold war studies journal of interdisciplinary history perspectives on science science & technology artificial life computational linguistics evolutionary computation journal of cognitive neuroscience linguistic inquiry neural computation presence teleoperators & virtual environments references edit a b c history the mit press . retrieved 2012 11 17 . 50 years of influential books and journal articles the mit press . mit press catalogs . cognet faq . the mit press bookstore a b http www.wired.com 2014 10 mit media lab gets transforming logo courtesy pentagram http www.aiga.org medalist murielcooper aiga profile of muriel cooper external links edit official website mit press journals homepage the mit presslog news blog for the mit press v t e massachusetts institute of technology academics academics school of architecture and planning school of engineering school of humanities arts and social sciences school of science mit sloan school of management division of health sciences and technology opencourseware mathematics department mit sutd collaboration research broad institute center for information systems research center for theoretical physics computer science and artificial intelligence laboratory koch institute laboratory for electromagnetic and electronic systems laboratory for information and decision systems mit libraries mit lincoln laboratory mcgovern institute media laboratory picower institute plasma science and fusion center research laboratory of electronics mit senseable city lab mit nuclear reactor lab whitehead institute mit center for international studies center for bits and atoms institute for medical engineering and science people alumni faculty presidents institute professors william barton rogers culture history list visual arts center traditions and activities mit in popular culture mit press mit technology review athena brass rat hacks mit science fiction society mitsfs the tech student information processing board tech model railroad club tech squares mit 100k mystery hunt smoot lemelson mit prize campus campus building 20 chapel fraternities and sororities graduate residences green building infinite corridor kresge auditorium libraries mit museum police stata center undergraduate residences wiesner building athletics engineers authority control worldcat 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