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 Introduction to compiler design
Mogensen T., Springer Publishing Company, Incorporated, New York, NY, 2011. 225 pp. Type: Book (978-0-857298-28-7)
Drawn from the author’s lecture notes on his long-standing, introductory compiler course, this textbook is dense. In around 200 pages, the author does just what the title promises: introduces his readers to compiler design. N...
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Cloud computing: Web-based dynamic IT services
Baun C., Kunze M., Nimis J., Tai S., Springer Publishing Company, Incorporated, New York, NY, 2011. 109 pp. Type: Book (978-3-642209-16-1)
The authors’ closing words express their intent with this book--an intent that is fulfilled: “We hope that, with this little compendium, we succeeded in giving you a short and concise overview of the curren...
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Feb 13 2012 |
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Construction and analysis of augmented time compactors
Gizdarski E. Journal of Electronic Testing: Theory and Applications 27(2): 109-122, 2011. Type: Article
Test response compaction has been an active field of study in the semiconductor industry for decades. This paper is a recent addition to the research. Gizdarski extends Mazumder’s intrinsically 2D notion of the augmented prod...
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Nov 29 2011 |
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Magic for the masses: safer high-level low-level programming through customizable static analyses
Mitschke R., Sewe A., Mezini M. MISS 2011 (Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Modularity in Systems Software, Porto de Galinhas, Brazil, Mar 22, 2011) 13-17, 2011. Type: Proceedings
Readers of this paper may experience a certain sense of incompleteness on coming to its end without finding one of the claims in its introduction satisfied; to wit, “We show that the resulting specifications can be used to au...
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Jul 11 2011 |
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Binary perfect and extended perfect codes of lengths 15 and 16 and of ranks 13 and 14
Zinoviev V., Zinoviev D. Problems of Information Transmission 46(1): 17-21, 2010. Type: Article
Followers of the Zinovievs’ work on binary perfect codes in the last few years will appreciate this paper, which corrects counting errors in some of their earlier publications. In addition--as if to justify the corre...
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Oct 5 2010 |
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Beginning Scala
Pollak D., Apress, Berkeley, CA, 2009. 350 pp. Type: Book (9781430219897), Reviews: (2 of 2)
Can a book intended as a gateway drug to a programming language that took the author over 18 months to master achieve its goal? In this case, I fear not. If you are beginning Scala and are one of the “folks with some programm...
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Aug 25 2010 |
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Coordinating team players within a noisy iterated prisoner’s dilemma tournament
Rogers A., Dash R., Ramchurn S., Vytelingum P., Jennings N. Theoretical Computer Science 377(1-3): 243-259, 2007. Type: Article
In the 1980s, Robert Axelrod organized two computer tournaments in which programs implementing different strategies for playing the game called “Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma” competed against one another in...
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Nov 14 2007 |
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JDBC metadata, MySQL, and Oracle recipes: a problem-solution approach (Expert’s Voice in Java)
Parsian M., Apress, Berkeley, CA, 2006. 504 pp. Type: Book (9781590596371), Reviews: (2 of 2)
It is perhaps unfair to use the phrase “a mile wide and an inch deep” to characterize a book that, after all, styles itself as a collection of “recipes” for using database and result set metadata...
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Aug 28 2007 |
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A parallel Viterbi decoder for block cyclic and convolution codes
Reeve J., Amarasinghe K. Signal Processing 86(2): 273-278, 2006. Type: Article
In an earlier work [1], one of the authors of this paper presented a parallel algorithm for Viterbi decoding. This work generalizes the parallelization to decoding all block cyclic codes and convolution codes. Driven by a novel method ...
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Aug 7 2006 |
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Eclipse rich client platform: designing, coding, and packaging Java applications
McAffer J., Lemieux J., Addison-Wesley Professional, Boston, MA, 2005. 552 pp. Type: Book (9780321334619)
I badly wanted to like this book. Its goals are noble, and its authors are knowledgeable and well intentioned. But the vastness of its scope, coupled with the intrinsic difficulty of effectively presenting a cumulative tutorial, lead t...
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Jun 30 2006 |
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