Books for computing practitioners, researchers, educators, and students that span the spectrum of computer science subject matter.
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Follow @TitusWinters , Senior Staff Software Engineer at @Google , to think about some big meaty questions about software engineering. Full #TechTalk available here: bit.ly/3uB7i1P
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New title from ACM Books: Theories of Programming: The Life and Works of Tony Hoare, by Cliff B. Jones & Jayadev Misra, present the essence of the #ACMTuringAward laureate's various work in his own words and as told by leading experts in the field. bit.ly/3C23n02
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New from ACM Books - Software: A Technical History by Kim W. Tracy examines such areas as fundamentals, operating systems, programming languages, programming environments, networking, and databases, from their earliest beginnings to their modern variants. bit.ly/3mixeea
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New title from ACM Books: Event Mining for Explanatory Modeling, by Laleh Jalali & Ramesh Jain, introduces the concept of "event mining" for building explanatory models from analyses of correlated data. Such models can be used as the basis for predictions and corrective actions.
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Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist: Effective Modeling for Linked Data, RDFS and OWL (3rd Ed.), by James Hendler (@jahendler), Dean Allemang & Fabien Gandon (@fabien_gandon) discusses the capabilities of linked-data & #SemanticWeb modeling languages: bit.ly/2XuT0Ql
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Call for Papers -- ACM Digital Threats: Research and Practice (DTRAP): Special Issue on Insider Threats
Submission Deadline: September 30, 2020
For the complete list of topics covered and submission information, please visit: bit.ly/3dF0E0G
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This new title by Michael J. Halvorson is a popular history of computing that explores the experiences of novice computer users, tinkerers, hackers, and power users, as well as the ideals and aspirations of leading computer scientists and engineers: bit.ly/3dESNiX
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"Non-line-of-sight Imaging with Partial Occluders and Surface Normals," by Felix Heide, Matthew O’Toole, Kai Zang, David B. Lindell, Steven Diamond, and Gordon Wetzstein, in ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG): bit.ly/2ntoTKh
In this title, @ivarjacobson, Harold “Bud” Lawson, @PanWeiNg, @PaulEMcMahon and Michael Goedicke provide an in-depth introduction to software engineering that uses a systematic, universal kernel to teach its essential elements: bit.ly/2TKUWAW
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Data quality is one of the most important problems in data management, since dirty data often leads to inaccurate data analytics. In Data Cleaning, Ihab Ilyas and Xu Chu provide an overview of the end-to-end data cleaning process: bit.ly/2Z7p1Mx
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In the last decade, the Nash equilibrium first presented in 1951, has found itself the subject of renewed debate. "Hardness of Approximation Between P and NP," by Aviad Rubenstein, explores fresh questions at the heart of this thorny subject: bit.ly/2Z7p1Mx
New Published Title: "Making Databases Work: The Pragmatic Wisdom of Michael Stonebraker," by Michael Brodie. The first in a new sub-series called the ACM A.M. Turing Book Series, this work explores the Turing Award winner's 40-year pioneering career in modern database systems.
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Newly announced title in development: "Logic and Computational Complexity: Works of Stephen A. Cook," by Bruce Kapron. This work will explore Turing Award winner Professor Cook's contributions to the understanding of NP-completeness, and its applications to computing and beyond.
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New forthcoming title announced: "Code Nation: Personal Computing and the Learn to Program Movement in America, 1970-1995" @mjhalvorson; a popular history of programming and software culture from early personal computing to the beginning of the commercial Internet.
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Newly published: "Declarative Logic Programming," by Michael Kifer and Yanhong Annie Liu, provides state of the art surveys by top experts in the resurgent area of Logic Programming. Accessible to graduate students, practitioners and researchers. bit.ly/2zRGdvL
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Thinking about publishing a book? @ACMBooks, the most prestigious name in computer science publishing, will be at #SIGGRAPH2018 booth 742. Come say hello or direct message us!
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Teaching courses in virtual reality; whether in computer science, visual arts, or even game design? The VR Book is quickly becoming THE choice of academia to fulfill the needs of both instructors and students. bit.ly/2mlyMDA @_jasonjerald @ACMBooks
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ACM Publications will be at #SIGGRAPH2018 booth 742, displaying titles in the @ACMBooks library and providing information on how you can become an ACM Books author or propose a new ACM journal
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Hardness of Approximation Between P and NP, Available Soon from ACM Books. The book provides tools for analyzing problems that lie at the at the frontier of computational intractability.
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