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Cull, Paul
Oregon State University
Corvallis, Oregon
 
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   What can be computed?: A practical guide to the theory of computation
MacCormick J., PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS, Princeton, NJ, 2018. 408 pp.  Type: Book (978-0-691170-66-4), Reviews: (1 of 2)

What should be in a first course on the theory of computation? For 50 years, there has only been one answer: formal grammars and their corresponding automata. Hopcroft and Ullman’s book has been the standard [1], but there ar...

Feb 21 2019  
   The Turing guide
Copeland J., Bowen J., Sprevak M., Wilson R., Oxford University Press, New York, NY, 2017.  Type: Book (9780198747826 ), Reviews: (1 of 2)

According to a famous dictum, history is written by the victors....

Jun 14 2017  
   The thrilling adventures of Lovelace and Babbage: the (mostly) true story of the first computer
Padua S., Pantheon Books, 2015. 320 pp.  Type: Book (978-0-307908-27-8)

Every field has its heroes. The comics are an ideal medium to present these heroes and their tales. Sydney Padua has taken two of the mythological heroes of computing and placed them in a wonderfully imagined and drawn “pocke...

Dec 1 2015  
   The fascinating world of graph theory
Benjamin A., Chartrand G., Zhang P., Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2015. 344 pp.  Type: Book (978-0-691163-81-9), Reviews: (2 of 2)

What could be simpler than graph theory? While it may be just a bunch of dots connected by some lines, graph theory is also very general because it encompasses all two-place relations. Because of this simplicity and generality, graph t...

Jul 27 2015  
 
 
   
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