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| | Harry J. Foxwell is an associate professor at George Mason University’s College of Engineering and Computing, where he teaches graduate courses in cloud computing and data analytics. He previously worked for Oracle and Sun Microsystems as a principal systems engineer supporting operating systems and virtualization technologies. He is the coauthor of several technical articles and books, including Slicing and dicing servers: a guide to virtualization and containment technologies and The Sun BluePrints guide to Solaris Containers: virtualization in the Solaris Operating System. He also coauthored Pro OpenSolaris, Oracle Solaris 11 system administration: the complete reference, and Oracle Solaris 11.2 system administration handbook, and recently authored Creating good data. He earned his doctorate in information technology, in 2003, from George Mason University (Fairfax, VA). Harry is a Vietnam veteran; he served as a platoon sergeant in the US Army’s 1st Infantry Division from 1968-1969. He was awarded an Air Medal and a Bronze Star. For additional information about Harry, please visit his home page: http://cs.gmu.edu/~hfoxwell. |
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 The maniac
Labatut B., Penguin Press, Westminster, London, 2023. 368 pp. Type: Book (9780593654477)
At the confluence of physics, mathematics, and computing, in the middle of the 20th century, lived a community of unique and sometimes troubled geniuses whose work created today’s technological marvels and dangers. Einstein, of course, Hilbe...
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Predicting the unknown: the history and future of data science and artificial intelligence
Kampakis S., Apress, New York, NY, 2023. 281 pp. Type: Book (1484295048)
Physicist Niels Bohr observed: “Prediction is very difficult,
especially if it’s about the future!” Despite that warning,
scientists, politicians, journalists, doctors, economists--professionals in
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Nov 29 2023 |
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Zero trust architecture
Green-Ortiz C., Fowler B., Houck D., Hensel H., Lloyd P., McDonald A., Frazier J., Cisco Press, Indianapolis, IN, 2023. 336 pp. Type: Book (137899734)
“Don’t trust anyone” is common advice in many spy novels and movies. Good advice as well for modern Internet-connected network infrastructures, where there are no longer demarcations between internal-only and external access poin...
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Sep 25 2023 |
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Murach's R for data analysis
McCoy S., Mike Murach & Associates, Inc., Fresno, CA, 2022. 557 pp. Type: Book (1943873038)
To paraphrase a popular political meme, “What should entry-level data analysts know and when should they know it?” And then, how should they learn it? Certain data exploration and analysis programming skills, for R, Python, and SQL, ar...
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Jun 19 2023 |
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Data analysis for social science: a friendly and practical introduction
Llaudet E., Imai K., PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS, Princeton, New Jersey, 2023. 256 pp. Type: Book (0691199434)
Earl Babbie’s classic textbook The practice of social research, which went to its 15th edition in 2021 [1], is a standard reference for social science students and researchers. Its comprehensive review of research methods is still of ...
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May 31 2023 |
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A hacker’s mind: how the powerful bend society’s rules, and how to bend them back
Schneier B., W. W. Norton, New York, NY, 2023. 304 pp. Type: Book (0393866661)
By thinking like a hacker, that is, understanding why and how complex systems can fail by finding and taking unfair advantage of imperfections, we might be able to minimize or eliminate unwanted and potentially catastrophic misuse. Common examples...
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Mar 29 2023 |
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Ethical machines: your concise guide to totally unbiased, transparent, and respectful AI
Blackman R., HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW, Cambridge, MA, 2022. 224 pp. Type: Book (1647822815)
It has been nearly a quarter-century since Ray Kurzweil considered the emergence of “spiritual machines” [1], and twice that time since Arthur Clarke introduced us to HAL’s murderous insanity [2]. The field of artificial intellig...
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Dec 16 2022 |
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Natural language processing projects: build next-generation NLP applications using AI techniques
Kulkarni A., Shivananda A., Kulkarni A., Apress, New York, NY, 2022. 336 pp. Type: Book (978-1-484273-85-2)
Natural language processing (NLP) is now quite widely used in many domains, including commerce, social media, and other text analysis tasks. Paired with artificial intelligence (AI), it enables powerful data analytics tools for prediction, automat...
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Nov 11 2022 |
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Computational thinking: a perspective on computer science
Xu Z., Zhang J., Springer International Publishing, Cham, Switzerland, 2021. 345 pp. Type: Book (978-9-811638-47-3), Reviews: (2 of 2)
Is computational thinking (CT) a high-level, domain-independent set of skills applicable at all education levels, elementary through university, or is it uniquely specific to computer science (CS) education? Search for books and other publications...
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Oct 12 2022 |
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Statistics for data scientists: an introduction to probability, statistics, and data analysis
Kaptein M., van den Heuvel E., Springer International Publishing, Cham, Switzerland, 2022. 348 pp. Type: Book (978-3-030105-30-3)
One would hope that professionals calling themselves data scientists would have extensive training in both statistical theory and practice. Yet current data analytics curricula, while naturally including at least one general statistics...
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