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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. -- Read our Q&A with Shrisha Rao here. |
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 Unlocking data to improve public policy
Hastings J., Howison M., Lawless T., Ucles J., White P. Communications of the ACM 62(10): 48-53, 2019. Type: Article
Data-driven decision-making is all the rage these days. Government and public sector organizations, as well as industry and private enterprise, are keen to leverage the flood of data available in the Information Age to make better deci...
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Nov 20 2020 |
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Social practices and dynamic non-humans: nature, materials and technologies
Maller C., Strengers Y., Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, Switzerland, 2019. 264 pp. Type: Book (978-3-319921-88-4)
In the contemporary world, there is perhaps an implicit, or even explicit, presumption that human experience matters above all--human society and actions seek to quash, or at least subjugate to the extreme, all nonhuman actors...
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Jul 20 2020 |
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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...
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Feb 4 2020 |
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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...
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Nov 27 2018 |
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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...
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Jul 13 2018 |
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Heat transfer modeling: an inductive approach
Sidebotham G., Springer International Publishing, New York, NY, 2015. 516 pp. Type: Book (978-3-319145-13-6)
This is a textbook that would be mainstream for thermal physics or perhaps chemical or mechanical engineering, but much less so for computer science. However, it is certain that the topic of heat transfer is of much contemporary releva...
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Jun 1 2016 |
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Granular computing and decision-making: interactive and iterative approaches
Pedrycz W., Chen S., Springer Publishing Company, Incorporated, New York, NY, 2015. 368 pp. Type: Book (978-3-319168-28-9)
Decision theory is concerned with the descriptive and prescriptive analyses of human decision making. Such decision making is of course very difficult given partial or inaccurate information, but it is also difficult to model and predi...
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Nov 5 2015 |
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The green computing book: tackling energy efficiency at large scale
Feng W., CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 2014. 353 pp. Type: Book (978-1-439819-87-6), Reviews: (2 of 2)
Traditionally, computer science (CS) curricula have done little to teach practical aspects of the discipline of computing. More specifically, CS education does precious little to make students aware of the resource costs of their work,...
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Aug 24 2015 |
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Introduction to machine learning (3rd ed.)
Alpaydin E., The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2014. 640 pp. Type: Book (978-0-262028-18-9), Reviews: (1 of 2)
It is well known that the amount of data available and needing to be processed is increasing worldwide as a result of the widespread use of networked computers in all aspects of society and also the coming of age of new technologies su...
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Apr 1 2015 |
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Statistics, data mining, and machine learning in astronomy: a practical Python guide for the analysis of survey data
Ivezic Z., Connolly A., VanderPlas J., Gray A., PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS, Princeton, NJ, 2014. 560 pp. Type: Book (978-0-691151-68-7)
Astronomy is universally known to be a subject of very old standing. Advances in astronomical knowledge made in recent decades, due to sophisticated space-based and terrestrial systems, are also well known. What is perhaps not as widel...
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Dec 16 2014 |
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