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	These reviews have been chosen by the editors to be highlighted. Options: All Media Types Journals Proceedings Div Books Whole Books Other Date Highlighted Date Reviewed Title Author Publisher Published Date Descending Ascending Year: 20212020201920182017201620152014201320122011201020092008200720062005200420032002 1-10 of 14 results Date Kings of crypto: one startup’s quest to take cryptocurrency out of Silicon Valley and onto Wall Street Roberts J.,  Harvard Business Review Press, Boston, MA, 2021. 236 pp. Type: Book (978-1-633698-70-3) Kings of crypto is a fun read about a Bitcoin exchange startup. It begins with a readable exposition of blockchains and cryptocurrencies. Blockchains are basically distributed ledgers that show every pertinent transaction. The ledger is org... Apr 5 2021 Carl Adam Petri: ideas, personality, impact Reisig W., Rozenberg G.,  Springer International Publishing, New York, NY, 2019. 249 pp. Type: Book (978-3-319961-53-8) Every computer scientist studies Petri nets in their early academic years. Petri nets are a powerful yet very intuitive modeling tool for concurrent and distributed systems. Such networks were introduced by Carl Adam Petri (1926-2010) in his PhD t... Mar 29 2021 Natural language processing with Python and spaCy: a practical introduction Vasiliev Y.,  No Starch Press, San Francisco, CA, 2020. 192 pp. Type: Book (978-1-718500-52-5) Having had three Amazon Alexa units in my house for years, I’ve always wondered how my utterances are interpreted and understood by a machine, and how a machine talks back to me and carries out my commands without error (almost!). This book ... Mar 22 2021 Digital health: scaling healthcare to the world Rivas H., Wac K.,  Springer, Switzerland, 2018. 370 pp. Type: Book (978-3-319614-45-8) Digital health generally refers to the application of computer technology to healthcare. This takes several forms, for example, storing electronic health records (EHRs), mobile device applications that provide guidance or reminders, and specialize... Mar 15 2021 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 on the analysis o... Mar 8 2021 The practice of crowdsourcing Alonso O., Marchionini G.,  Morgan&Claypool Publishers, 2019. 150 pp. Type: Book (978-1-681735-23-8) The practice of crowdsourcing provides a very concise, yet very practical, guide to crowdsourcing computing. In computer science, we discuss algorithms, software, hardware, design, and societal issues in computing, among many other topics. ... Mar 1 2021 Quantum techniques in stochastic mechanics Baez J., Biamonte J.,  WORLD SCIENTIFIC, Singapore, Singapore, 2018. 263 pp. Type: Book (978-9-813226-93-7) In an increasingly specialized world, it is a rare pleasure when a book can build compelling and useful connections among widely different disciplines. This volume offers such a treat, merging physics (the mathematics of quantum field theory), com... Feb 22 2021 Foundations of information security: a straightforward introduction Andress J.,  No Starch Press, San Francisco, CA, 2019. 248 pp. Type: Book (978-1-718500-04-4) Like the subtitle suggests, this book is a gentle introduction to the subject of information security. It doesn’t assume any special background from the reader other than an understanding of the basic concepts of information technology (IT),... Feb 15 2021 An introduction to compressed sensing Vidyasagar M.,  SIAM, Philadelphia, PA, 2020. 341 pp. Type: Book (978-1-611976-11-3) Compressed sensing has emerged as a key technology in the signal processing area. This disruptive technique has found applications in many real-life problems. We know from the classical Nyquist-Shannon theorem that a signal can be recovered perfec... Feb 8 2021 Service description languages in cloud computing: state-of-the-art and research issues Nawaz F., Mohsin A., Janjua N.  Service Oriented Computing and Applications 13(2): 109-125, 2019. Type: Article Given the ubiquity of cloud computing on the one hand and the (well-hidden) complexity of providing elastically scaling distributed services on the other, one wonders how cloud architects can describe such scenarios. Remembering the heydays of obj... Feb 1 2021   Display 510152550100 per page
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