The Computer from Pascal In 1942, Lt. Herman H. Goldstine, a former mathematics professor, was stationed at the Moore School of Electrical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. It was there that he assisted in the …
Computers and Intractability A This book’s introduction features a humorous story of a man with a line of people behind him, who explains to his boss, “I can’t find an efficient algorithm, but neither can all these famous …
Testing Computer Software 2nd A recruiter suggested I read this book when I mentioned that the only software testing experience I had was testing my own work. I aced the interview, got the job and have been in the software …
Great Jobs for Computer This book is all right but if you want a really good resource for finding a job right out of college I would go to [...] and take a look around. They are the best at getting plugged into the job …
Programming Abstractions in C Haven’t worked through the whole book yet, but I will say that I have other C or imperative-paradigm data structures book. The topics are very meaningful: thorough emphasis on recursion (usually …
The Science of Programming This is the very first book to discuss the theory and principles of computer programming on the basis of the idea that a proof of correctness and a program should be developed hand in hand. It is …
Level Set Methods and I bought this book with the intent of understanding the level set method AND be able to implement it in code. The book fails on the later. He gives you some basic formulas/algorithms to start …
Dealers of Lightning Xerox Perhaps because of Xerox’ s phenomenal growth in the 1960s, a number of habits became entrenched in the company’s culture. The Xerox management hierarchy became one of rigid top-down control, which …
Neural Networks and Analog This book provides a systematic overview of a beautiful theoretical apparatus that the author and collaborators have developed for describing the computational power of neural networks. It addresses …
Research Methods in Human Continual technological evolution has led to an explosion of new techniques in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) research. Research Methods in Human-Computer Interaction is a thoroughly comprehensive …