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Michael J. O'Brien

Bio

Michael J. O'Brien is Provost and Professor of History at Texas A&M University–San Antonio and the coauthor of I'll Have What She's Having: Mapping Social Behavior and The Acceleration of Cultural Change: From Ancestors to Algorithms (both published by the MIT Press).

R. Alexander Bentley is Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Tennessee and coauthor of I'll Have What She's Having: Mapping Social Behavior and The Acceleration of Cultural Change: From Ancestors to Algorithms (both published by the MIT Press).

William A. Brock is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Research Professor at the University of Missouri, and a member of the National Academy of Science.

An internationally recognized leader at the intersection of design and technology, John Maeda is Executive Vice President/Chief Experience Officer at Publicis Sapient. He was the 16th President of the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). He is the author of Design by Numbers, The Laws of Simplicity, and Redesigning Leadership, all published by The MIT Press.

Michael J. O'Brien Books

Shutting Doors book cover

Shutting Doors

Leslie O'Brien Sanders
The Importance of Small Decisions book cover

The Importance of Small Decisions

Michael J. O'Brien
Convergent Evolution in Stone-Tool Technology book cover

Convergent Evolution in Stone-Tool Technology

Michael J. O'Brien
The Acceleration of Cultural Change book cover

The Acceleration of Cultural Change

R. Alexander Bentley
I Want More! book cover

I Want More!

Michael J. O'Brien
Love Is Stronger Than Pain book cover

Love Is Stronger Than Pain

Michael J. O’Brien
I'll Have What She's Having book cover

I'll Have What She's Having

R. Alexander Bentley
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