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	Reviewers have found these items notable and have self-selected them for review.   Options: All Media Types Journals Proceedings Div Books Whole Books Other Date Reviewed Title Author Published Date Descending Ascending     1-10 of 7597 results Date Reviewed     An analysis of the math requirements of 199 CS BS/BA degrees at 158 U.S. universities Brodley C., Quam M., Weiss M. Communications of the ACM 67(8): 122-131, 2024.  Type: Article The mathematics requirements for computer science (CS) students have been debated for decades. I began teaching in a CS program in 1983, and I recall similar discussions at that time. The debate has continued in one form or another since then. Thi... Oct 9 2024     Mastering digitally controlled machines: laser cutters, 3D printers, CNC mills, and vinyl cutters to make almost anything Molenaar J., Ingrassia D., Apress, New York, NY, 2024. 316 pp.  Type: Book (9781484298480) Mastering digitally controlled machines offers an in-depth and practical guide to using and building computer-controlled tools such as laser cutters, 3D printers, computer numerical control (CNC) mills, and vinyl cutters. This book is an es... Oct 7 2024     Nexus: a brief history of information networks from the Stone Age to AI Harari Y., Random House Inc., New York, NY, 2024. 528 pp.  Type: Book (9780593734223), Reviews: (2 of 2) Yuval Noah Harari offers a sweeping narrative on how information networks have shaped human history. From the early formation of societies, religious texts, and political propaganda to modern artificial intelligence (AI)-driven networks, Harari ma... Sep 30 2024     Rendering history: the women of ACM-W Townsend G., ACM Books, New York, NY, 2024. 478 pp.  Type: Book (9798400717727) Rendering history: the women of ACM-W, edited by Gloria Childress Townsend, celebrates the 30-year history of ACM-W, the Association for Computing Machinery’s Committee on Women in Computing. This book offers an inspiring narrative of... Sep 23 2024      50 years of queries Chamberlin D. Communications of the ACM 67(8): 110-121, 2024.  Type: Article The relational model is probably the one innovation that brought computers to the mainstream for business users. This article by Donald Chamberlin, creator of one of the first query languages (that evolved into the ubiquitous SQL), presents its hi... Sep 20 2024     Calculus for the natural sciences Helfgott M., SIAM, New York, NY, 2023. 456 pp.  Type: Book (9781611977684) Calculus is “a part of the name of some branches of mathematics dealing with rules for the computation of and operation with objects of a definite type” [1]. More commonly, it refers to the branch of mathematics that is concerned with ... Sep 13 2024     Build autonomous mobile robot from scratch using ROS: simulation and hardware Subramanian R., Apress, New York, NY, 2023. 563 pp.  Type: Book (9781484296448) Subramanian’s Build autonomous mobile robot from scratch using ROS is a comprehensive guide to creating customized autonomous mobile robots. Part of the “Maker Innovations” series, the book covers a wide array of topics, f... Sep 9 2024     Free and open source software and other market failures Kamp P. Communications of the ACM 67(8): 106-108, 2024.  Type: Article Understanding the free and open-source software (FOSS) movement has, since its beginning, implied crossing many disciplinary boundaries. This article describes FOSS’s history, explaining its undeniable success throughout the 1990s, and why t... Sep 2 2024     Remote sensing land surface changes: the 1981-2020 intensive global warming Kogan F., Springer International Publishing, Cham, Switzerland, 2024. 462 pp.  Type: Book (9783030968090) The subject of the book is global warming and its impact on human life. Kogan analyzes various technical aspects of this subject, and readers interested in various data analysis reports will find the book very useful. The book also serves as a sur... Aug 19 2024     The Internet of batteryless things Ahmed S., Islam B., Yıldırım K., Zimmerling M., Pawełczak P., Alizai M., Lucia B., Mottola L., Sorber J. Communications of the ACM 67(3): 64-73, 2024.  Type: Article The world is moving toward a future of very small, Internet-connected intelligent devices, that is, the Internet of Things (IoT). However, at present, providing power to these devices is a problem--the inconvenient, expensive, and environment... Aug 16 2024         Display 510152550100 per page
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