Computer Science Books

If you want a really good book to understand DSP using Matlab , there is no other book that even comes close to this. Lucidly written, with plenty of examples, this book brings you the utter joy of learning DSP by using it.

It is really fortunate that DSP has such a good stream of books form the likes of Richard Lyons to the venerable Oppenheim to the practical Proakis.

This is the one book that has really earned its price.

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The only way to really understand DSP is having a book like this at hand.It's plenty of clear explanations of almost every topic in Digital Signal Processing.

I originally purchased this book because the topics list had a lot of common items with the Praxis test list (for high school math teachers). Although I recognize this is a class textbook somewhere I did not take it in a class and simply used it for self-study. I found it to be one of the best math textbooks I've ever used for self-study. Although probably very few people checking out these reviews will be taking the Math Praxis test (WEST-E in Washington state), if you are then I highly recommend this text to study/review.

The text covers a wide range of topics, and in that sense it truly is good for students considering technology or computer programming. It is also good in many parts for people who work with databases and are interested in learning more about the mathematics behind databases. It also has an interesting and reasonably well developed chapter on graph theory which can appeal to a wide range of fields - in some ways the introductory level approach to this field is perfect as it can easily be explored by people not wildly interested in mathematics and yet they can find find relevance in almost any field.

Topics covered include functions, set theory, graph theory and some basic combinatorics. This book provides a good foundation for each area, but understandably specializing in the mathematics of any particular field requires additional specialized texts.

One of the best specifics and strengths of the text is a multi-page multi-example review of injective/surjective/bijective functions. Usually these terms are described in a terse sentence or two each - this text gives pages of examples,pictures, etc.

This book is accessible to students whom have successfully completed a strong algebra/geometry sequence... precalculus will help but is not absolutely necessary.

This book is clear,had a lot of very good examples and easy to understand.

...for cleaning up Johnsonbaugh's mess. I bought this as a supplemental text for a DM course using Johnsonbaugh's book. Thank god I bought this book!

An excellent overview of all areas of DSL engineering and deployment. The last section with it's photo tour of the telephone "plant" is unique and especially informative.
Highly recommended for anyone needing a deep technical knowledge of the current state of DSL

These guys wrote the book on DSL by creating the products, standards, processes, and applications for broadband in the copper loop. As active participants in the DSL Forum and other standards bodies, Starr, Sorbara, Cioffi, and Silverman have been there, done that. They know their stuff, and it shows in this detailed work on the state of the art of DSL in 2003. While not being shameful to get down into the nitty gritty of "Iterative Water-Filling" or "Duplex clear-down sequences", there is good coverage of the business side of DSL and simple questions like "What is Voice over DSL?" For marketers like me, there are great pictures and diagrams throughout the book about all of the stuff they are talking about! Overall, there's something in here for everyone, just don't feel bad if there's a section or twenty that you don't understand -- these guys are the geniuses who thought it all up!

This book describes the state of the art by the folks defining it. Cioffi of Stanford developed much of the original technology, Sorbara and Starr have led the industry's key technical committee, and Silverman's been a leader in the DSL Forum. A good book by pros for pros, that goes far deeper than anything else published. 01/05/02

Here is a book that can help e-business generalists understand the techies - it goes through all major areas on a level that is challenging, but not overly technical.

This is abosolutely the very best book I have read on e-business. The authors takes you by the hand on every step; from learning about software and hardware to security. In a Time when e-business springs a lot of fakes this is the book that will make anyone confortable with this facinating facet of doing business.

This book explains with real world examples, all the technical aspects of Ebusiness such as catalogues,security and payments. It also guides through the overlooked areas of integration such as legacy systems and supply chain automation.Although the chapter on Trust and Security could have been more expanded.Anyone wishes to setup an online ebusiness store should read this book to avoid the basic pitfall.

Holmes's Book represent a clear vision of the paper of government's to deliver social services through technology infrastructure and confirm how government's processes have to modify its sense to deliver major benefits to more citizens. It is highly recommended.

I was given this book as a gift, one of the best gifts I have received. I also had the pleasure of meeting the author in person. Even though it was very entertaining to read, the best value is that it served as a guide.

I truly recommend this book to all the people that want to create changes in government.

This informative, well-researched and brightly written overview of government e-business will fill you in on how far governments worldwide have come in offering services via the Internet, and what more they have to do to make the most of what the technology has to offer. It's a fascinating read that highlights the Internet's incredible power in bringing people, causes and issues together in the name of social activism, politics and democracy. We from getAbstract recommend this book to all readers with an interest in better - or at least more efficient -government.

Now in a newly updated and expanded second edition, Electronic Democracy: Using The Internet To Transform American Politics by Graeme Browning (Editorial Director, Internet Policy Institute and Associate Editor for "Federal Computer Week", a key publication for technology news in the federal government) is a fascinating, authoritative, and informative guide to politics on the Internet. The issues and topics covered range from using the World Wide Web for grassroots organization to making one's email to Congress count, to the history and future of online voting and polling, to online campaign resources and projections for the future. Electronic Democracy is a compelling and very highly recommended read for motivated political citizens who want to better understand the profound impacts that the technology of today and tomorrow has upon our nation's government of, by, and for the people!

The Internet has taken on many important roles in recent years as a powerful communications and information medium. Apart from online marketing of businesses, perhaps no other part of our lives has been more influenced by the Internet than that of discussing politics and spiritual matters and making our particular points of view seen and heard by others.

Electronic Democracy (2nd Edition, 2002) written by Graeme Browning offers readers amazing insight of the powerful role that the Internet has played in transforming American politics. At no other time in American history have so many people been able to discuss issues that matter to them the most and actually been able to do something about changing the course of the American political landscape.

Throughout the book readers are presented with actual events - names, dates, places, and circumstances that led other people to take action. Readers will learn about political parties, special interest groups, and common everyday folks who took action to express their points of view and to seek change. The book describes in vivid detail the roles that numerous Websites, discussion groups, and e-mail campaigns had in electing politicians, removing certain politicians from office, changing laws, and affecting other matters of public policy.

The book serves as an excellent guide for becoming politically active in the American political scene - or for that matter, in any country around the world. Readers will learn how to mount their own grassroots campaigns - right from home. They will learn how to organize campaigns, raise funds, present issues, contact people, influence legislation, and to get the word out about their own particular causes - responsibly. They will also learn about the dark side of online activism - the abuses that have taken place to disrupt American culture. As they will read, dirty tricks are still very much a part of politics.

This is one book I couldn't put down easily. It's highly informative, gripping, thought-provoking, and will surely motivate people of all backgrounds and persuasions to become more involved in shaping the direction America will head in. It's must reading for anyone desiring to become an agent of change in American society. This book will help you get started today!

Browning's book should be the first stop for on-line activists. There are so many authors out there proclaiming the internet to be the salvation of democracy that Browning is a voice of moderation. I would recommend this book as your starting point for internet activism.

For those interested in computer arithmetics this is the right book to start with...Excelent references to the state of the art and related work.

The book clearly explains the most important algorithms used by computers to compute many mathematical functions, with plenty of actual examples.
It is not a list of algorithms and tables, but rather a recipe book; actual computation of values and tables is left to the reader, better equipped with some numerical analysis package.
Despite the title, the methods can be applied (with some effort) to a broad set of functions (including many that are not usually considered "elementary", like Bessel or Gudermannian functions).
An extensive bibliography is included.
A must for those who are involved in designing and implementing such functions for a computer, but also an enjoyable reading for those who wonder how some functions can be computed.

Most people use floating point arithmetic in a fairly cavalier way. They treat double precision numbers as exact. And, although people use commercial libraries for transcendentals and the like, they seem unconcerned when they need to implement an offbeat function or approximation. Everyone knows the Taylor series for exp(x), for example, so how hard could it be to code that up? (Answer: easy to code, and equally easy to do very badly.)

In fact, IEEE standard arithmetic can not even represent 1/3 exactly. (If that's news to you, or if you think the difference doesn't matter, you should back off and find some introductory material before attacking this book). Also, orthogonal polynomials will give better accuracy and more controllable error than Taylor series, for polynomial approximations of given degree - over a decimal digit more accuracy, in a project I worked on recently. The first three chapters go over those basics, then get into the book's real content.

The next chapters address table-based methods - and tables appear at one point or another in many implementations.Then the author presents iterative techniques for square roots (and 1/sqrt, which is often more convenient), logs exponentials, and trig functions. Although accuracy is paramount, these algorithms also emphasize fast convergence using inexpensive operations. The next section, on shift-and-add algorithms, presents advanced, accurate, efficient algorithms including CORDIC. This section requires close attention, since this book is about principles rather than cut-and-paste coding, so people without immediate implementation needs might come back to it to give it the effort it requires. The book's last section deals with range reduction, i.e. converting the problem to a more tightly bounded one, where the algorithm's behavior can be better undestood and controlled. It also deals with rounding and other quirky cases in floating point arithmetic.

This book isn't for everyone - in fact, not many people these days need to implement "library" functions on their own. As a result, knowledge of implementing them well is increasingly scarce. If you end up in the unusual position of having to implement them yourself, possibly using an exotic computing technology, then this book will help you get the last possible bit of accuracy, and to get it as fast as possible.

-- wiredweird

Even if you've been graphing for decades or are a scientific or statistical sophisticate, this book is more valuable than you'd guess. You may know some stuff to help make your graphing better, but I bet there are many more principles, features, and techniques you simply never thought of. This book has these. But for even more incisive visualizations, you should get also Cleveland's "Visualizing Data". You'll need both books really. (There's not much overlap.) Even though making use of graphical perception principles increases the power of your graphs (the main topic of "Elements of Graphing Data"), there are even more incisive graph types you need to learn about; only a couple of these are in "Elements"; the others are in "Visualizing Data". After digesting Cleveland's two books, you will be a master data-behaviour elucidator. Once in a great while you may need the old statistical inference paradigm (test-statistics & p-values), but much more often you will be so glad you have the power of Cleveland's visualization paradigm to use instead. But again, you will need both "Elements of Graphing Data" and "Visualizing Data". Start with "Elements" though. The book reads easily, is interesting and has a bonus for those into perceptual psychology. A neato tidbit: the author's research results on graphical perception were given in part as graphs -- leading to the nifty "the medium is the message" thing. No matter what aspect of "Elements" you look at, it is simply marvelous -- all substance, and several points (not just a single point for a whole book like Tufte did in his book).

William Cleveland clearly describes how data can be presented to great effect. His description of visual perception spell out the "how to's" of graphing data. While many graphing programs are available in today's high technology environment, Cleveland's descriptions of how data can be presented into graphical format is enlightening. The book provides great examples of both superior and poor graphing presentation, focusing on how to encode graphs to allow for straightforward data analysis.

"The Elements of Graphiing Data" is a must for those who graph scientific data.

Tufte shows you why it's important to do graphs well. Cleveland shows you _how_.

The last quarter of the book details experiments in human visual perception that rank how well we detect certain things: relative angles not on a common baseline (i.e. pie charts) justly come out at the bottom of the list.

One of a only handful of books I've labelled "JXH ONLY". If I loan you my copy, know that you are special.

This was absolutely great! I received the book quickly and the condition it was in was fine. Thank you for an amazing experience!

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.

Ken Stroud's book is the first book one needs when beginning serious study of applied mathematics. It is also the book which stays with the newly qualified engineer, the growing engineer and even the experienced engineer, and in fact must be one of the most important volumes available to any engineer today; for reference or for study, this book is a must!

This book teaches you as if you were in class room and having a one on one studying session, it has an excelent organization and uses simple language to explain each topic. It is a very good reference for professionals and students alike. This is a must have book.

The author explains a concept very clearly, then gives some worked examples, followed by problems. The reader is then encouraged to work through these problems on his/her own and the complete working is then provided so that mistakes can be detected. The best book for self-study in engineering mathematics (besides the author's other book: Further Engineering Mathematics) that I have come across.