Computer Science & Software Engineering: New Books 2023-24

Offers an unprecedented look at the people, the industry, and the money that built the microcomputing milieu--and why so much of it converged around the Apple II.

Companies across the world are using AI and personal data to develop technologies that infer and interact with emotions to simulate empathy. This book explores the applications and ethics of using automated empathy.

Whether you're creating new software or improving legacy code, Grimm will help you get more value from the Core Guidelines' most useful rules, as you write code that's safer, clearer, more efficient, and easier to maintain.

Explores more deeply the bit-by-bit and gate-by-gate construction of the heart of every smart device, the central processing unit that combines the simplest of basic operations to perform the most complex of feats.

Co-founder of Google's pioneering AI company DeepMind, Suleyman warns that we must maintain control over powerful, fast-proliferating AI technologies which will create immense prosperity but also threaten global order

Four experts explore the exciting promise of data science while providing frameworks for critically evaluating the ethical considerations of its applications

Draws on internet histories and interviews with founders of digital afterlife startups to show how platforms and people work together to care for the digital remains of people who die leaving data online.

Explores policy considerations in tackling inequalities and threats with gendered implications in cyber space and moving towards digital spaces that are safe and equal.

The bizarre and captivating story of Hank Asher as he careened from drug-running pilot to alleged CIA asset, only to be reborn as the pioneering computer programmer known as the father of data fusion.

Explores the design and analysis of broad range of algorithms in depth, Includes matchings in bipartite graphs, online algorithms, ,machine learning, recurrence equations, hash tables, potential functions, and suffix arrays

When technology reinforces inequality, it's not just a glitch-it's a signal that we need to redesign our systems and algortithms to create a more equitable world.

Focuses on three concepts fundamental to OS construction: virtualization (of CPU and memory), concurrency (locks and condition variables), and persistence (disks, RAIDS, and file systems).

A practical guide to the use of LLMs in NLP that includes key concepts, optimization techniques, and advanced topics such as fine-tuning and alignment

Explores the design decisions, aesthetic preferences, and the material conditions that shaped the work of Shigeru Miyamoto, the game designer who created Super Mario Bros., The Legend of Zelda, and Donkey Kong.

Argues that we must go beyond conventional theorizing of AI ethics to wrestle with fundamental moral and political questions about how the governance of technology can support the flourishing of democracy.

Cuts through the technical jargon and marketing hype, to explain what cloud computing is, when to use it, how to select a cloud service, how to integrate it with other technologies, and the best practices for its adoption.

Develops the thesis that AI is an unprecedented divorce between agency and intelligence and investigates the consequences, showing that AI as a new form of agency can be harnessed ethically and unethically

An in-depth overview of an emerging field that brings together high-performance computing, big data processing, and deep lLearning.

Teaches Git in a simple, visual, and tangible manner so that you can build a solid mental model of how Git version control works and apply it with confidence..

Calls for a new era of public interest oversight that leaves behind industrial era regulatory ideas to embrace a new process of agile, supervised and enforced code setting that protects consumers and competition.

Addresses CI in Manufacturing, Engineering, and Industry; CI in Recognition and Processing; CI in Robotics and Automation; CI in Communications ; CI in Transporation; CI in Smart Cities and Smart Energy Systems; and CI in Business and Education

Brings together a diverse group of researchers from all over the world with the intent of fostering collaboration and dissemination of the innovations in computing technologies

Provides detailed explanations of the Health and Medical Informatics concepts, reinforced by applications, practical examples and a road map of future trends.

Includes recent research on Data Science, IoT, Smart Cities and Smart Energy, Health Informatics, and Network Security

Compiles cutting-edge academic and industry work on key computer and network security, smart cities, smart energy, IoT, health informatics, biomedical imaging, data science and computer science and engineering education topics.