Computer Science Books

This book is what engineering is really all about- actually designing machinery and mechanical components to fill a need. I know that is why I got into the game several decades ago. Yet with all the management, scheduling, quoting, and clerical chores that are piled on engineers and engineering departments these days, it is easy to lose sight of why you chose this career in the first place. In fact, that's the only thanks you ever get in a largely thankless profession- the joy of occationally getting to design something that works.

This book is a rarity, it works as both an introductory text, as a design text, and as a life long reference book. I've taken mine along on many an assignment long after I had discarded lesser texts and references to save weight.

You get the fundamentals of how to produce a useful, working, engineering drawing that the shop can actually use to produce a part (you would be amazed at how many CAD "experts" cannot do this.) Then you get detailed information on industrial processes and materials (casting, forging, cold heading, powder metallurgy, extruding, roll forming, electroforming, welding, plastic injection, etc.) Plus you get a good intro to standard design components like all types of fasteners, bearing, seals, couplings, clutches, speed reducers, etc.) Then, you also get excellent basics in speciality areas like sheet metal development, piping, jig and fixture design, fluid power, and structural drafting. The sections on beam equations, trusses, and strength of materials are quite clearly written and requires only a working knowlege of trig. You top it off with an appendix that covers everything from conversions and fastener specs to fit types and geometric tolerancing.

Whenever I get disgusted and start to question why I am still doing this after so many others have gotten out, I pick up this text and flip through it. It reminds me that America used to be known as the land of engineers- real engineers.

Having started in engineering as a draftsman more than 40 years ago, I have seen them all ... and in my humble opinion this is the best book of its kind ever written. The authors, Jensen and Helsel, have bypassed most of the fluff, like how to sharpen your pencil, and go directly to the heart of the matter. They have packed more pertinent, practical how-to information and technical reference data in this book than you will find in any other five books of its size. The book is easy to read, and to find specifically what you need. Proper and in-depth coverage is given to the very latest in drafting standards in both metric and inch systems; including limits and fits, geometric tolerancing, shop practices, and also standard parts.

I started using this first edition of this book more than 20 years ago, and have found no other to compare with it, or any of the succeeding editions. If I had only one book to take with me to the job, it would be this one.

This is an excellent college level text.I particularly like the detailed "real world" drafting problems for the students. Also it has a very good apppendix. It is comprehensive enough that we use it in three different courses here at Vincennes University.

I have had this book in my drafting library for some time now. I am always using it and recommending it. The book is laid out so that you can go from beginning drafting up through advanced. It not only says what the standards are, but walks you through drafting technology so that you understand why they are like they are. I believe that anyone that is going to be doing drafting should have this in their library.

English - Russian Dictionary of Computer Science (Computers, Multimedia, Networks, Internet, Telecommunications, Windows).
Edited by M. L.Gootkin
ISBN 5864550132
Release date: 2002
Published by: ETS
About 28000 terms.
Soft cover, 14x21 centimeters
496 pages.
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This dictionary contains around 28,000 terms, covering the main topics of computer science: computers, multimedia, networking, Internet, telecommunication and Windows. Some new terms has brief description.

Creating and renewing the dictionary was supporting up to printing. Publisher and authors thanks E. M Proidakov, L. A. Teplitsky (PC Week/RE) and Translation office "ILS-Rusin" (Director B. Zaitsik) for providing many newest computer terms and E. G. Kovalenko for the great methodology help.

For users of different levels.

I think is the most modern and full English-Russian dictionary on computer sciences. It is the unique modern English-Russian dictionary, which one is constructed on a classic dictionary system with enlarged vocabulary entries. All remaining dictionaries are constructed simply as the lists of the words with translation (For me at home and on work is 7 miscellaneous English-Russian dictionaries on computer science. I can compare.) The dictionary system with enlarged vocabulary entries is very convenient for search of word collocations and typical phrases. I also have purchased this dictionary as electronic dictionary Polyglossum. It even more conveniently also is more robust, as I have received for the same money also possibilities of the Russian-English dictionary on computer science.

This book gives a very good overview of Enterprise Application Integration(EAI) and about the methods and the techniques for approaching EAI successfully. The main thing is about the role of CORBA as an EAI-enabling technology and the domains where EAI needs. The later chapters explains the latest additions in the evolving CORBA technology apart from some precious real world examples towards its goal. It is a very useful book for those who are to use CORBA as a viable integrating technology.

Excellent! Worth every penny. I especially liked the chapter on security...

Real world IT managers are usually faced with a mish-mash of new and old systems, tight budgets, and demanding customers. "Rip and replace" solutions are often neither possible nor desirable.

JP's work provides an easily digestible roadmap that shows how IT decision makers can leverage existing corporate information assets in building surprisingly new and powerful functionality. Starting with the importance of understanding data, Enterprise Information Integration provides useful insights into how emerging technologies and practices such as SOA can build "composite" applications merging what-already-works with what-is-needed.

The book is well organized and written. It's also a useful communications tool that IT managers can use to explain these concepts to senior corporate executives.

Dan Grosz
Director of Technology
VIP Parts, Tires, & Service

This book bridges the gap between management summary/overviews and tutorial/how-to books. It starts out with an introduction to the basic concepts and differences between EAI, EII and ETL. The book later explores issues associated with the "single view of the customer" problem and metdata management. The book includes several case studies and ends with a step-by-step review of how a model driven approach could be utilized to address a classical EII problem. Highly recommended.

This manual is full of real examples and practical information (including a ton of statistical citations), and the detail and quality of the explanations are excellent. I have found it immensely useful, both for using the software and for providing suggestions and descriptions of statistical methods.

This is the best-written software user's manual I have ever seen

People today jumping writing OO code without understanding what is an OO methodology. A must read if you want to understand what is OO and its root. A must read for programmers who claim suddenly that one programming language is purer than other OO language(without knowing what is OO itself.) If you really want to achieve a "nirvana" or "wisdom", please read it.

I've used the ideas presented in this book with great success across a wide range of products from embedded applications to OS design. My company has dramatically reduced development time and bug counts as a direct result of implementing object oriented principles across all languages -- not just C++. Read this book, use it as a reference, and use it to teach the Jr. Engineers as they get hired. No other book makes the whole concept of "Object Oriented" more clear and more useable.

Computers have revolutionized the workplace in many industries. However, healthcare is just beginning to grapple with the many opportunities that integrated computer systems can provide. With the quickening pace of computer innovation, many clinical healthcare workers cannot and do not have the time to sift through all the various aspects of how computers and medicine interact. Essentials of Computers for Nurses provides a strong foundation for busy professionals, researchers, and administrators in health care organizaitons. I found the book fascinating with each individual contributing author having insightful comments valuable information in their area of expertise. The overview of how medical informatics is used throughout the world was particulary helpful where we are and where we are going. The last chapter was especially welcome and has enhanced my view of how computers will impact the every day delivery of healthcare. Overall, Essentials of Computers for Nurses is an excellent book and should be a part of a professional library for not only nurses but also informatics specialists throughout the healthcare industry.

The third and latest edition of Saba and McCormick's text is almost completely unrecognisable to those familiar with the second edition, published only five years previously, and perhaps rightly so. This reflects, at least in part, the advances within nursing informatics over that time, one aspect of which is the increasing difficulty of any one or two individuals being able to cover, with the necessary degree of detail and expertise, all of the field. If any two people could cover the whole of the field, it is probably the editors of this volume, but they have adopted a sensible and pragmatic approach and brought in additional contributors to provide address many of the specialist subsets within the domain that is nursing informatics.

With over 500 pages, and 46 contributing authors, the contents page reads like a veritable who's who of nursing informatics, or at least, of US interpretations of nursing informatics. The book does, however, as befits the international involvement of the editors, draw on expertise from around the world, and includes contributions from all parts of the world, particularly in addressing the international perspectives.

The book is divided into 11 sections, and begins with an overview of the development of nurses' use of computers and of nursing informatics. It then covers informatics theory, practice, administrative, research and educational applications, as well as some of the international perspectives and emerging areas such as consumer health informatics.

I would recommend this book to all who have an interest in nursing informatics. It provides a valuable introduction to the field as a whole, and to specific applications, and good references to further reading.

This is a practical book that teaches the "how-to" on device reliability. Before reading this book, I thought "Applied Reliability" by Tobias and Trindade was the best introductory book in this field. Similar to Tobias and Trindade, this book is short and straight-forward. There are absolutely no fillers and it provides a lot of original concepts (e.g. AT&T Tech J vol64), industrial practice (e.g. chap 8 device qualification), and intuitive thinking that are hard to find in other similar books. Books like "statistical methods for reliability data" by Meeker and Escobar or "Accelerated Testing: Statistical Models, Test Plans, and Data Analyses" by Nelson tend to be dry and contain too much information that may confuse readers. Reading Nash first may help clarify the confusion and reinforce the fundamentals before exploring other alternatives.

I also find this book supplements well with "Reliability and degradation of semiconductor lasers and LEDs" by Fukuda and "Reliability and Degradation of III-V Optical Devices" by Ueda. The only shortcomings of this book is its expensive price.

Most reliability books end up being very dry, and filled with equations with little explanation of WHY each of the distributions are used, or how you can go wrong. This book is very different. The author brings up concrete examples of mistakes which are routinely made by inexperienced engineers. He explains clearly which distribution is reasonable for various types of applications. The book is interesting to read, for the most part. (Okay, it still has a few boring chapters at the start, which I recommend skipping.) He even uses the example of human mortality to clearly illustrate concepts of "failure rate" in a way which gets rid of confusion. Finally, the book concludes with a case study for qualifying a high-reliability laser for use in undersea fiber optic communication links. While Franklin Nash's short course is the best I've ever taken, short of seeing him in person, reading this book is the next best thing. (In fact, I'd recommend the book even if you were going to attend the short course.) I've read it several different times in my job as a reliability engineer, and have obtained an understanding of the field that I haven't seen explained as well anywhere else. I give this book my strongest recommendation.

This is a not too technical book, introducing you to evolutionary robotics. It covers a lot of interesting work done in the field over the last few years.

Using genetic algorithms it is possible to construct the brain of a robot ( Neural network ), and even (though harder) the hardware itself. The book gives an introduction to genetic algortihms & artificial neural networks, but the reader should still be somewhat familiar with these concepts before buying this book.

After reading this book, I did one of the experiments mentioned in the book. While I only did this with a freeware Kephara robot simulator, it was still fun.

This is a not too technical book, introducing you to evolutionary robotics. It covers a lot of interesting work done in the field over the last few years.

Using genetic algorithms it is possible to construct the brain of a robot ( Neural network ), and even (though harder) the hardware itself. The book gives an introduction to genetic algortihms & artificial neural networks, but the reader should still be somewhat familiar with these concepts before buying this book.

After reading this book, I did one of the experiments mentioned in the book. While I only did this with a freeware Kephara robot simulator, it was still fun.