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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: 201920182017201620152014201320122011201020092008200720062005200420032002 1-10 of 25 results Date Millions, billions, zillions: defending yourself in a world of too many numbers Kernighan B.,  PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS, Princeton, NJ, 2018. 176 pp. Type: Book (978-0-691182-77-3) This book is simultaneously entertaining, instructive (one might say educational), and worrying. After an (important) opening chapter, the author analyzes a statement from Newsweek that the US should tap into the Strategic Petroleum Reserve... Jun 17 2019 Human-centered VR design: five essentials every engineer needs to know Jerald J.  IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications 38(2): 15-21, 2018. Type: Article When virtual reality (VR) is not pleasing to see and/or hear, users will remove their headsets or glasses. One main reason is that engineers don’t consider all human aspects of the VR experience when developing VR systems and applications. T... Jun 10 2019 Searching for global employability: can students capitalize on enabling learning environments? Isomöttönen V., Daniels M., Cajander Å., Pears A., Mcdermott R.  ACM Transactions on Computing Education (TOCE) 19(2): 1-29, 2019. Type: Article, Reviews: (2 of 2) Today’s higher education systems need to produce graduates with global employability that exhibits creativity and innovation, that is, the ability to solve open-ended problems in different cultural settings, but also domain-specific skill se... Jun 3 2019 How testing helps to diagnose proof failures Petiot G., Kosmatov N., Botella B., Giorgetti A., Julliand J.  Formal Aspects of Computing 30(6): 629-657, 2018. Type: Article Petiot et al. present testing software components that help optimize the effort of “applying deductive verification to formally prove that a [computer] program respects its formal specification.”... May 28 2019 The discrete charm of the machine: why the world became digital Steiglitz K.,  PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS, Princeton, NJ, 2019. 256 pp. Type: Book (978-0-691179-43-8) Digital computers have found their way into every aspect of modern life. They are now essential for work and ubiquitous in leisure, and used from childhood to retirement age, through every stage of adult life. Although the number of digital comput... May 20 2019 The human infrastructure of El Paquete, Cuba’s offline Internet Dye M., Nemer D., Mangiameli J., Bruckman A., Kumar N.  interactions 26(1): 58-62, 2019. Type: Article Cubans do not have online access to the Internet, nor instantaneous communication with people outside of Cuba. Even cellphone technology inside Cuba is limited. Responding to that void, an informal network of information workers has cobbled togeth... May 13 2019 A game theoretic model for the formation of navigable small-world networks--the tradeoff between distance and reciprocity Yang Z., Chen W.  ACM Transactions on Internet Technology 18(4): 1-38, 2018. Type: Article The concept of small-world networks has been developed to help explain how real whole-world social networks manage to be “navigable.” By navigable I mean the ease with which any two people can be connected with seemingly few intermedia... May 6 2019 Networks Newman M.,  Oxford University Press, Inc., New York, NY, 2018. 800 pp. Type: Book (978-0-198805-09-0) In this revised and expanded edition of his 2010 seminal work [1,2], Newman updates the content to reflect developments in the field. The book is very comprehensive and consists of 18 chapters. It is divided into four distinct parts: “The Em... Apr 29 2019 Dense 3D-convolutional neural network for person re-identification in videos Liu J., Zha Z., Chen X., Wang Z., Zhang Y.  ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications 15(1s): 1-19, 2019. Type: Article It is well known that the current types of neural networks perform quite well in identifying faces in (still) images. But what about re-identifying moving pedestrians in non-overlapping video sequences taken from different cameras?... Apr 22 2019 Software development from A to Z: a deep dive into all the roles involved in the creation of software Filipova O., Vilão R.,  Apress, New York, NY, 2018. 308 pp. Type: Book (978-1-484239-44-5) Initially I didn’t much like this book. Here’s why:... Apr 15 2019   Display 510152550100 per page
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