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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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 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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Unix: the textbook (3rd ed.)
Sarwar S., Koretsky R., Chapman & Hall/CRC, Boca Raton, FL, 2017. 1380 pp. Type: Book (978-1-482233-58-2)
This 1380-page, five-pound behemoth of a “textbook” is unlikely to burden the backpacks of operating system (OS) students, but it certainly provides a definitive academic and professional reference for one of the mo...
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Learning Unix for OS X: going deep with the terminal and shell (2nd ed.)
Taylor D., O’Reilly Media, Inc., Sebastopol, CA, 2016. 238 pp. Type: Book (978-1-491939-98-7)
Apple’s OS X is (mostly) Unix (UNIX is a trademarked term [1]), as it was derived from the University of California, Berkeley’s Berkeley software distribution (BSD) Unix, but with a few non-Unix features. And while ...
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The design and implementation of the FreeBSD operating system (2nd ed.)
McKusick M., Neville-Neil G., Watson R., Addison-Wesley Professional, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2014. 928 pp. Type: Book (978-0-321968-97-5)
BSD UNIX is perhaps one of the most influential operating systems (OS) other than Microsoft Windows. Now more than 40 years old, its features and technologies continue to shape modern OS research, development, and computer science (CS)...
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