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Randomness through computation: some answers, more questions
I couldn’t put this book down. Its presentation of a computational approach to randomness, with its strong focus on applications, is the best I have read. It is carefully edited and comprises several... more
General (F.2.0) | Feb 22 12
Expert PL/SQL practices: for Oracle developers and DBAs
This book introduces some best practices and advanced techniques in the field of procedural language/structured query language (PL/SQL) programming. A team of experts wrote it for advanced Oracle developers... more
DB (Persistent) Prog. Lang. (H.2.3...) | Feb 22 12
Grid and cloud database management
In the last 20 years, cloud and grid computing have become paradigms for accessing and managing geographically distributed content across a network. While these paradigms are very relevant, they bring a series of new challenges to security... more
Distributed Databases (H.2.4...) | Feb 22 12
Hadoop: the definitive guide (2nd ed.)
MapReduce is a programming model for dealing with large-scale data volumes. The model is a two-phased approach in which data distribution phases (map operations) are succeeded by integration phases... more
Distributed Databases (H.2.4...) | Feb 21 12
Algorithms in structural molecular biology
It is hardly news to any scientifically literate person--especially in the computing sciences--that there is a lot of interest in the use of computers for molecular biology. The successful sequencing of the human genome during the previous decade, largely... more
Biology & Genetics (J.3...) | Feb 21 12
The garbage collection handbook: the art of automatic memory management
This book is an excellent review of the state of the art in garbage collection, which--in the two decades ending in 2009--has moved from a linguistic oddity to a near-essential component of computer... more
Memory Mgmt. (Garbage Coll.) (D.3.4...) | Feb 21 12
Engineering a compiler
This is a book of impressive size on a highly interesting subject. With an introductory and a summary section comprising historical notes and exercises for each chapter, a generous page layout with plenty of room for marginal notes, and an... more
Compilers (D.3.4...) | Feb 21 12
Understanding sponsored search: core elements of keyword advertising
Sponsored search occurs when advertisers pay to have their ads appear on a search engine results page in response to a search query. Essentially, businesses pay search firms to direct or encourage traffic to their... more
Info. Search & Retrieval (H.3.3) | Feb 17 12
A first course in machine learning
This relatively short book (less than 300 pages) for such a topic is in fact the best available introduction to machine learning. Its main virtue is that it presents a deeply mathematical engineering discipline in simple but not simplistic terms. It may cause... more
Learning (I.2.6) | Feb 17 12
Eliminating “us and them”: making IT and the business one
Information technology (IT) governance means different things to different people. However, it is basically a set of policies and processes to ensure that IT use within an organization is directed in... more
Business (J.1...) | Feb 17 12
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