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   Diversity in visualization
Metoyer R., Gaither K., Ebert D., Morgan&Claypool Publishers, San Rafael, CA, 2019. 128 pp.  Type: Book (978-1-681734-93-4)

Diversity in visualization is a small book, spanning 88 pages (nine chapters plus references and editor/author bios). Yet it is very surprising, in a very good sense. The book is the result of “observations ... based o...

Feb 26 2021
  F. A. Hayek: economics, political economy and social philosophy
Boettke P., Palgrave Macmillan, London, UK, 2019. 323 pp.  Type: Book (978-1-137411-59-4)

Understanding and modeling complex phenomena, including businesses, requires abstraction: “the process of suppressing irrelevant detail to establish a simplified model, or the result of that process” [1]. As noted b...

Jul 13 2020
  Value sensitive design: shaping technology with moral imagination
Friedman B., Hendry D., The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2019. 256 pp.  Type: Book (978-0-262039-53-6)

Design is an important aspect in the systems engineering life cycle, as well as a field of study in its own right. Design is an important consideration in the pragmatic sense, addressing the need to craft artifacts and systems that mee...

Feb 4 2020
   Computational artifacts: towards a philosophy of computer science
Turner R., Springer International Publishing, New York, NY, 2018. 255 pp.  Type: Book (978-3-662555-64-4)

The philosophy of any discipline must account for the goals, methodology, and subject matter of the discipline [1]. There is a well-developed body of scholarship on the philosophy of mathematics and of science, especially physics and b...

Jul 15 2019
   New light through old windows: exploring contemporary science through 12 classic science fiction tales
Webb S., Springer International Publishing, New York, NY, 2019. 320 pp.  Type: Book (978-3-030031-94-7)

Science fiction has often been prophetic--sometimes wrongly so, sometimes very much on point....

Jun 28 2019
  Advances in computers: volume 108
Memon A., Academic Press, Inc., Cambridge, MA, 2018. 364 pp.  Type: Book (978-0-128151-19-8)

The Advances in Computers series started in 1960 [1]. Each year, several volumes are printed; each volume contains four to seven chapters, with each chapter written by leading researchers who summarize the state of the art in th...

Dec 18 2018
   Harmonies of disorder: Norbert Wiener: a mathematician-philosopher of our time
Montagnini L., Springer International Publishing, New York, NY, 2017. 307 pp.  Type: Book (978-3-319506-56-2)

Norbert Wiener was one of the great geniuses of the 20th century. Harmonies of disorder is a brilliant biography that carefully details every aspect of Wiener’s background and contributions without using any equations, making...

Jan 3 2018
  Bibliometrics and research evaluation: uses and abuses
Gingras Y., The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2016. 136 pp.  Type: Book (978-0-262035-12-5)

The field of bibliometrics has undergone tremendous development; quantitative scientometrics indicators, the main outcome, are used to measure practically every aspect of scientific production. Even promotion and funding decisions are ...

May 10 2017
   Lauren Ipsum: a story about computer science and other improbable things
Bueno C., No Starch Press, San Francisco, CA, 2015. 192 pp.  Type: Book (978-1-593275-74-7)

Those among us who have line printed the jargon dictionary on greenbar fanfold will love this book. But what of the target audience, girls and young women who may be on the verge of attraction to computer science? Amazon rankings are s...

May 25 2016
  I, Steve: Steve Jobs in his own words
Beahm G., Agate, Chicago, IL, 2011. 160 pp.  Type: Book (978-1-932841-66-4)

Approximately 150 brief quotations from Steve Jobs--ranging from “Anxiety before the iPad debut” to “Zen”--are contained in this three-decade collection....

Apr 26 2012
 
 
 
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