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Thompson is an expert in the field. I stumbled upon his work a couple years ago in a fairly short Discover magazine article and pursued his website to read his other papers. This work is really interesting and is pioneering a new generation of evolution on a medium other than flesh. Thompson is a professor at the COGS school of Cognitive Sciences at Sussex University at Brighton. Another expert in this field is Inman Harvey. If you are interested in research in this field - buy the book, but if you are just curious to read bits of his papers and get a grasp of what all this is about see Thompson's personal website - http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/users/adrianth/ade.html -Good book, worth the research book bucks if it's a career/research step

This book deals with the tanks, aircraft and ships that were the cutting edge of the armed-forces in this great conflict: it shows how they they were modified s the terrible conflict grew in intensity. The major designs are dealt with nation by nation.

This is the first book I've read on functional verification not to talk about whitebox/blackbox blah blah, but all useful and practical tricks/best practices. I've just finished a systemverilog DV project with Mike. I joined the project half-way. I would say it was so easy for me to pick up the verification code and got up to speed. Lots of the tricks talked in the book were applied to this project, such as the logging output format, irritator, the "dance", directory structure, listener connection... The environment was done in a very neat and adaptable way.

Personally I believe C++ is going to excel in the long run in the DV field. Because there is basicly no limitation on what you can do with C++. You have better control than with the current proprietary and sometimes arcane HVLs.

I highly recommend this book to intermediate to advanced DVer.

There are other couple of SV verification books in the market which teaches more on systemverilog syntax but this is the right book which teaches you the OOP concepts and how they are applied in System Verilog.. I strongly recommend for all verification engineers who want to get max out of SV language. It has very good examples also.

A sample copy of this book arrived in my mailbox at the university (UofM-Dearborn) where I teach. I began reading it to brush up and enhance my understanding of Unix- and Linux- based systems.

I receive several "sample books" every year, and sometimes I give them a once over and shelve them until they may (or may not) be needed in the future. THIS book was an exception. It was written in a very professional, but often humorous fashion.

I have read a lot on Unix, and some on Linux, and I must say that without a doubt, this is the BEST book I've ever read on the subject(s), period. It has a lot of footnote "Computer Nerd" humor.

So whether you're well-versed in computer science and/or related topics, or you are new to the field(s), this book is a must-have. I strongly recommend it.

i think it is v. good but i haven't this. can i have it free????????...

This text contains selected papers from the International Symposium on High Performance Computational Science and Engineering that was help in France on August 27, 2004. This conference is focused on new research in algorithm, computational complexity and essentially problem solving using high-performance systems. Three topics in high-performance computation are covered in this text: distributed computing, numerical computation and computational applications.

The key note that needs to be mentioned is the fact that the papers covered in this text are engineering focused, and thus very applicable. In fact, the last section of this text, computational applications, are case studies from different researchers, each focusing on a specific application: image analysis for biological systems, satellite system optimization problem, optimization technique for Airline reservation and text classification in the World Wide Web using Neural Network. These papers represent real-world problems and applications of where the problems are very complex, and ingenuity is required to come up with an efficient algorithm to solve the problem at hand. The fact that problems are taken from the real world gives the reader a good sense of the overall picture of the text. I read this section on algorithms first, and then I went back to the other chapters of the text; this way I had a better appreciation of what the rest of the authors were talking about.

Distributed computing has been around for sometime now, but there are still complex problems surrounding distributed memory management that hunt the researchers. The first section of this text covers the main problems in distributed computing, and especially problems surrounding distributed shared memory. Another complex problem with distributed systems is the uncertainty of the overall static and dynamic performance of the system. Two papers cover this very complex topic, and given an insight of the available tools and techniques used for simulation and modeling of distributed systems.

Algorithms and related topics are covered in a section titled Numerical Computations. Three papers are selected that focus on optimization of currently in place algorithms such as the Poisson equation, extraction of zeros in large analytic functions and optimizing the sparse Cholesky factorization.

All and all, this text covers two important topics in high-performance computation. The section on applications reels in the topic at hand. The editors did a great job selecting the right papers to be published in this text.

This book is full of practical information for those of you who have found yourselves in a systems management position, responsible for the care and upkeep of any number of workstations. It contains many forms to help you keep track of what you have, and much practical info on how to keep things running smoothly. I first found this book in our local library. Now I'm ordering a copy to keep as reference for the rest of our MIS Dept.

This is my first computer. It was great to find a manual with illustrations especially for me and my computer! I plan to wear it out...

The Palm Zire is the workhorse of PDAs, It comes with two MB of memory amd can display up to fifteen shades of gray; and it is gloriously inexpensive. For many of us the Zire is all that is needed, and then some. (I have a few thousand entries on mine, plus some third-party applications, plus a book of poetry - Billy Collins, "Nine Horses"), and so far have used only about half the available memory.

The Zire is also delightfully simple to use. In order to realize its full capabilities, however, some help is needed; and that is where this book comes in. Written with admirable clarity and refreshing humor, "How to do Everything with your Zire Handheld" is the complete guide to the Zire. It explains the basics and much, much more. I regard it as essential reading for anyone with a Zire. It has helped me immensely. I have no doubt that it will help others.

In short, if you have a Zire, trust me: you need this book. Both informative and entertaining, "How to do Everything with your Zire Handheld"is a superb exploration of the humble Zire's extraordinary abilities. Until I read it, I had no idea that the Zire could do so much so well. It made me realize that the Zire is even more of a bargain that I had thought.