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Rao, Shrisha
International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore
Bangalore, India
 
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Shrisha Rao has been a reviewer for Computing Reviews since July 2000, and has over 60 published reviews. He is on the faculty at IIIT-Bangalore (India). His research interests cluster primarily around the theory and practice of distributed computing, where he is particularly interested in distributed fair division and demand-side management. He also works with industry on certain problems with enterprise and large systems.

Rao earned his PhD in computer science from the University of Iowa, after obtaining an MS in logic and computation from Carnegie Mellon University.

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  The theory of quantum information
Watrous J., Cambridge University Press, New York, NY, 2018. 598 pp.  Type: Book (978-1-107180-56-7)

Information theory has its modern origins in the 1948 work [1] of Claude Shannon, who gave results that addressed two key problems: the extent to which information can be compressed without loss, and the rate at which information can b...

Nov 21 2019  
   The book of why: the new science of cause and effect
Pearl J., Mackenzie D., Basic Books, Inc., New York, NY, 2018. 432 pp.  Type: Book (978-0-465097-60-9), Reviews: (1 of 2)

The well-known 20th century scientist J. B. S. Haldane is famouslyquoted as having said, “Teleology is like a mistress to a biologist: he cannot live without her, but he’s unwilling to be seen with her in public.&am...

Nov 27 2018  
   Models of computation
Bruni R., Montanari U., Springer Publishing Company, Incorporated, New York, NY, 2017. 395 pp.  Type: Book (978-3-319428-98-7)

Any formal definition of a language has to clearly specify its syntax (a grammatical specification that in some way fixes the structure of well-formed statements) and semantics (the manner in which meaning is assigned to well-formed st...

Jul 13 2018  
  What algorithms want: imagination in the age of computing
Finn E., MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2017.  Type: Book (9780262035927)

One aspect of the contemporary world is our large reliance on computation in all aspects of personal life and social interaction. We are likely to decide which movie to watch, which book to buy, or which restaurant to visit for a meal ...

Aug 9 2017  
   Regulated grammars and automata
Meduna A., Zemek P., Springer Publishing Company, Incorporated, New York, NY, 2014. 690 pp.  Type: Book (978-1-493903-68-9)

The Chomsky hierarchy, which is the stuff of classical computer science (CS) theory at the advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate levels, classifies formal grammars (and their associated formal languages) into four types: regula...

Nov 25 2014  
   Designing with the mind in mind: simple guide to understanding user interface design guidelines (2nd ed.)
Johnson J., Morgan Kaufmann Publishers Inc., Waltham, MA, 2014. 240 pp.  Type: Book (978-0-124079-14-4)

As is well known, human beings have many inherent frailties and failings. Our eyesight is imperfect, and is subject to shortcomings like sensitivity to contrast but not so much to absolute brightness, blind spots, and possibly color bl...

Aug 28 2014  
   Computability: Turing, Gödel, Church, and beyond
Copeland B., Posy C., Shagrir O., The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2013. 376 pp.  Type: Book (978-0-262018-99-9)

Computability theory is a scholarly field of fine vintage, preceding the rest of what subsequently came to be known as theoretical computer science, and anticipating the advent of electronic computers by decades. The theory allows us t...

Jan 27 2014  
   Algorithms in structural molecular biology
Donald B., The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2011. 464 pp.  Type: Book (978-0-262015-59-2), Reviews: (1 of 3)

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 geno...

Feb 21 2012  
   The description logic handbook: theory, implementation and applications (2nd ed.)
Baader F., Calvanese D., McGuinness D., Nardi D., Patel-Schneider P., Cambridge University Press, New York, NY, 2010. 624 pp.  Type: Book (978-0-521150-11-8)

Description logic (DL) is the name of a family of formal logics that are related to knowledge representation (KR). These have particular applications in connection with the semantic Web and other Web-based systems, as well as some appl...

Sep 16 2011  
  Reading and writing the electronic book
Marshall C., Morgan and Claypool Publishers, San Rafael, CA, 2009. 200 pp.  Type: Book (978-1-598299-05-2)

As the technology of reading and writing using the tools of the digital revolution becomes more and more mainstream, and as we enter a brave new world of digital books, it is natural to wonder what the impact will be. This book is moti...

Mar 22 2011  
 
 
 
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