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Nexus: a brief history of information networks from the Stone Age to AI
Harari Y., Random House Inc., New York, NY, 2024. 528 pp. Type: Book (9780593734223), Reviews: (2 of 2)
Yuval Noah Harari offers a sweeping narrative on how information networks have shaped human history. From the early formation of societies, religious texts, and political propaganda to modern artificial intelligence (AI)-driven networks, Harari ma...
Sep 30 2024
Rendering history: the women of ACM-W
Townsend G., ACM Books, New York, NY, 2024. 478 pp. Type: Book (9798400717727)
Rendering history: the women of ACM-W
, edited by Gloria Childress Townsend, celebrates the 30-year history of ACM-W, the Association for Computing Machinery’s Committee on Women in Computing. This book offers an inspiring narrative of...
Sep 23 2024
50 years of queries
Chamberlin D. Communications of the ACM 67(8): 110-121, 2024. Type: Article
The relational model is probably the one innovation that brought computers to the mainstream for business users. This article by Donald Chamberlin, creator of one of the first query languages (that evolved into the ubiquitous SQL), presents its hi...
Sep 20 2024
Calculus for the natural sciences
Helfgott M., SIAM, New York, NY, 2023. 456 pp. Type: Book (9781611977684)
Calculus is “a part of the name of some branches of mathematics dealing with rules for the computation of and operation with objects of a definite type” [1]. More commonly, it refers to the branch of mathematics that is concerned with ...
Sep 13 2024
Build autonomous mobile robot from scratch using ROS: simulation and hardware
Subramanian R., Apress, New York, NY, 2023. 563 pp. Type: Book (9781484296448)
Subramanian’s
Build autonomous mobile robot from scratch using ROS
is a comprehensive guide to creating customized autonomous mobile robots. Part of the “Maker Innovations” series, the book covers a wide array of topics, f...
Sep 9 2024
Free and open source software and other market failures
Kamp P. Communications of the ACM 67(8): 106-108, 2024. Type: Article
Understanding the free and open-source software (FOSS) movement has, since its beginning, implied crossing many disciplinary boundaries. This article describes FOSS’s history, explaining its undeniable success throughout the 1990s, and why t...
Sep 2 2024
Remote sensing land surface changes: the 1981-2020 intensive global warming
Kogan F., Springer International Publishing, Cham, Switzerland, 2024. 462 pp. Type: Book (9783030968090)
The subject of the book is global warming and its impact on human life. Kogan analyzes various technical aspects of this subject, and readers interested in various data analysis reports will find the book very useful. The book also serves as a sur...
Aug 19 2024
The Internet of batteryless things
Ahmed S., Islam B., Yıldırım K., Zimmerling M., Pawełczak P., Alizai M., Lucia B., Mottola L., Sorber J. Communications of the ACM 67(3): 64-73, 2024. Type: Article
The world is moving toward a future of very small, Internet-connected intelligent devices, that is, the Internet of Things (IoT). However, at present, providing power to these devices is a problem--the inconvenient, expensive, and environment...
Aug 16 2024
A review of semi-supervised learning for text classification
Duarte J., Berton L. Artificial Intelligence Review 56(9): 9401-9469, 2023. Type: Article
Duarte and Berton address the challenges of text classification in the context of big data, emphasizing the difficulties and costs associated with obtaining large labeled datasets. They explore the field of semi-supervised learning (SSL) as a sol...
Aug 14 2024
Beginning Git and GitHub: version control, project management and teamwork for the new developer (2nd ed.)
Tsitoara M., Apress, New York, NY, 2024. 311 pp. Type: Book (9798868802140)
Mariot Tsitoara’s
Beginning Git and GitHub
is a comprehensive guide tailored for new developers who want to master version control through practical, step-by-step tutorials. This updated edition introduces readers to GitHub workflows ...
Aug 7 2024
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