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   Crypto dictionary: 500 tasty tidbits for the curious cryptographer
Aumasson J., No Starch Press, San Francisco, CA, 2021. 160 pp.  Type: Book (978-1-718501-40-9)

Why do we need a dictionary when we have the Internet?...

Aug 25 2021
  A survey on gait recognition
Wan C., Wang L., Phoha V. ACM Computing Surveys 51(5): 1-35, 2018.  Type: Article

Gait recognition is a biometric method that uses sensor data to recognize people based on body shape and walking styles. Gait data is acquired from video images, inertial sensors, or sensors in the environment. The possible uses are di...

Jun 8 2021
  A survey of tool-supported assurance case assessment techniques
Maksimov M., Kokaly S., Chechik M. ACM Computing Surveys 52(5): 1-34, 2019.  Type: Article

Assurance case assessment techniques find application in the study of complex system reliability and safety, for example, nuclear reactors, energy systems, aircraft, and so on....

Mar 1 2021
   Diversity in visualization
Metoyer R., Gaither K., Ebert D., Morgan&Claypool Publishers, San Rafael, CA, 2019. 128 pp.  Type: Book (978-1-681734-93-4)

Diversity in visualization is a small book, spanning 88 pages (nine chapters plus references and editor/author bios). Yet it is very surprising, in a very good sense. The book is the result of “observations ... based o...

Feb 26 2021
  F. A. Hayek: economics, political economy and social philosophy
Boettke P., Palgrave Macmillan, London, UK, 2019. 323 pp.  Type: Book (978-1-137411-59-4)

Understanding and modeling complex phenomena, including businesses, requires abstraction: “the process of suppressing irrelevant detail to establish a simplified model, or the result of that process” [1]. As noted b...

Jul 13 2020
  Value sensitive design: shaping technology with moral imagination
Friedman B., Hendry D., The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2019. 256 pp.  Type: Book (978-0-262039-53-6)

Design is an important aspect in the systems engineering life cycle, as well as a field of study in its own right. Design is an important consideration in the pragmatic sense, addressing the need to craft artifacts and systems that mee...

Feb 4 2020
   Computational artifacts: towards a philosophy of computer science
Turner R., Springer International Publishing, New York, NY, 2018. 255 pp.  Type: Book (978-3-662555-64-4)

The philosophy of any discipline must account for the goals, methodology, and subject matter of the discipline [1]. There is a well-developed body of scholarship on the philosophy of mathematics and of science, especially physics and b...

Jul 15 2019
   New light through old windows: exploring contemporary science through 12 classic science fiction tales
Webb S., Springer International Publishing, New York, NY, 2019. 320 pp.  Type: Book (978-3-030031-94-7)

Science fiction has often been prophetic--sometimes wrongly so, sometimes very much on point....

Jun 28 2019
  Multimedia big data analytics: a survey
Pouyanfar S., Yang Y., Chen S., Shyu M., Iyengar S. ACM Computing Surveys 51(1): 1-34, 2018.  Type: Article

Big data continues to grow exponentially. One source of that growth--multimedia data--has not received comprehensive study. The authors correct this deficit by presenting the results of a broad multidimensional survey...

Jan 16 2019
  Advances in computers: volume 108
Memon A., Academic Press, Inc., Cambridge, MA, 2018. 364 pp.  Type: Book (978-0-128151-19-8)

The Advances in Computers series started in 1960 [1]. Each year, several volumes are printed; each volume contains four to seven chapters, with each chapter written by leading researchers who summarize the state of the art in th...

Dec 18 2018
 
 
 
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