Technology

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Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs has had a dramatic impact on computer science curricula over the past decade. This longawaited revision contains changes throughout the text. There are new implementations of most of the major Programming, systems in the book, including the interpreters and compilers, and the authors have incorporat...

Hardly a week passes without some highprofile court case that features intellectual property at its center. But how did the belief that one could own an idea come about And how did that belief change the way humankind lives and works William Rosen, author of Justinian's Flea, seeks to answer these questions and more with The Most Powerful Idea i...

A Science Friday pick for book of the year, 2019 One of America's top doctors reveals how AI will empower physicians and revolutionize patient care Medicine has become inhuman, to disastrous effect. The doctorpatient relationshipthe heart of medicineis broken: doctors are too distracted and overwhelmed to truly connect with their patients, and...

A Wall Street Journal Best Business Book of 2012A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2012In this revealing account of how the digital universe exploded in the aftermath of World War II, George Dyson illuminates the nature of digital computers, the lives of those who brought them into existence, and how code took over the world. In the 1940s and ‘50s, a s...

Documents the public reaction to the industrial revolution....

Aiming to tell the dark secrets of computer arithmetic, this title is suitable for library developers, compiler writers, and lovers of elegant hacks....

ONE OF AMAZON'S BEST BOOKS OF 2017 A look deep inside the new Silicon Valley, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Everything Store. Ten years ago, the idea of getting into a stranger's car, or walking into a stranger's home, would have seemed bizarre and dangerousyet today it is as common as ordering a book online. Companies like Ub...

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Second edition of the best selling Python book in the world. A fastpaced, nononsense guide to Programming, in Python. This book teaches beginners the basics of Programming, in Python with a focus on real projects.This is the second edition of the best selling Python book in the world. Python Crash Course, 2nd Edition is a straightforward introducti...

Meticulously scrutinizes the social and political consequences of our increasingly digitized world.' KirkusThe internet was meant to set us free.Tech has radically changed the way we live our lives. But have we unwittingly handed too much away to shadowy powers behind a wall of code, all manipulated by a handful of Silicon Valley utopians, ad me...

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Bitcoin has been hailed as an Internet marvel and decried as the preferred transaction vehicle for criminals. It has left nearly everyone without a computer science degree confused: how do you "mine" money from ones and zerosThe answer lies in a Technology, called blockchain. A generalpurpose tool for creating secure, decentralized, peertopeer a...

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Save time and trouble when using Scala to build objectoriented, functional, and concurrent applications. With more than 250 readytouse recipes and 700 code examples, this comprehensive cookbook covers the most common problems you?ll encounter when using the Scala language, libraries, and tools. It?s ideal not only for experienced Scala developer...

Leverage the numerical and mathematical modules in Python and its standard library as well as popular open source numerical Python packages like NumPy, SciPy, FiPy, matplotlib and more. This fully revised edition, updated with the latest details of each package and changes to Jupyter projects, demonstrates how to numerically compute solutions and m...

Among the many configuration management tools available, Ansible has some distinct advantages?it?s minimal in nature, you don?t need to install anything on your nodes, and it has an easy learning curve. This practical guide shows you how to be productive with this tool quickly, whether you?re a developer deploying code to production or a system adm...

The neverbeforetold story of the computer scientists and the NSA, Pentagon, and White House policymakers who invented and employ the wars of the present and future the cyber wars where every country can be a major power player and every hacker a mass destroyer, as reported by a Pulitzer Prizewinning security and defense journalist.In June 1983...

This revision of Manning's popular The Quick Python Book offers a clear, crisp introduction to the elegant Python Programming, language and its famously easytoread syntax.After exploring Python's syntax, control flow, and basic data structures, the book shows how to create, test, and deploy full applications and larger code libraries. It addresses...

Software is becoming more and more important across a broad range of industries, yet most Technology, executives struggle to deliver software improvements their businesses require.Leadingedge companies like Amazon and Google are applying DevOps and Agile principles to deliver large software projects faster than anyone thought possible. But most exe...

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The future is now. Acclaimed technologist and inventor Amir Husain explains how we can live amidst the coming age of sentient machines and Artificial Intelligence,?and not only survive, but thrive.Artificial ?machine? intelligence is playing an evergreater role in our society. We are already using cruise control in our cars, automatic checkout at t...

Deep learning is applicable to a widening range of Artificial Intelligence, problems, such as image classification, speech recognition, text classification, question answering, texttospeech, and optical character recognition. It is the Technology, behind photo tagging systems at Facebook and Google, selfdriving cars, speech recognition systems on ...

Since this Joltaward winning classic was last updated in 2008 (shortly after Java 6 was released), Java has changed dramatically. The principal enhancement in Java 8 was the addition of functional Programming, constructs to Java's objectoriented roots. Java 7, 8, and 9 also introduced language features, such as the trywithresources statement, th...

How can you bring out MySQL?s full power With High Performance MySQL, you?ll learn advanced techniques for everything from designing schemas, indexes, and queries to tuning your MySQL server, operating system, and hardware to their fullest potential. This guide also teaches you safe and practical ways to scale applications through replication, loa...

"Linux Kernel Development" details the design and implementation of the Linux kernel, presenting the content in a manner that is beneficial to those writing and developing kernel code, as well as to programmers seeking to better understand the operating system and become more efficient and productive in their coding. The book details the major subs...

In A Tour of C, Second Edition, Bjarne Stroustrup, the creator of C, describes what constitutes modern C. This concise, selfcontained guide covers most major language features and the major standardlibrary componentsnot, of course, in great depth, but to a level that gives programmers a meaningful overview of the language, some key exampl...

C 11 delivered strong support for multithreaded applications, and the subsequent C? and 17 updates have built on this baseline. C has better options for concurrency than ever before, which means it's an incredibly powerful option for multicore and parallel applications.This bestseller has been updated and revised to cover all the latest chan...

Artificial Intelligence, is one of the most exciting technologies of the century, and Deep Learning is in many ways the ?brain? behind some of the world?s smartest Artificial Intelligence, systems out there. Loosely based on neuron behavior inside of human brains, these systems are rapidly catching up with the intelligence of their human creators, de...

Like it or not, JavaScript is everywhere these days?from browser to server to mobile?and now you, too, need to learn the language or dive deeper than you have. This concise book guides you into and through JavaScript, written by a veteran programmer who once found himself in the same position. Speaking JavaScript helps you approach the language wit...

Every day, more and more people want to learn some HTML and CSS. Joining the professional web designers and programmers are new audiences who need to know a little bit of code at work (update a content management system or ecommerce store) and those who want to make their personal blogs more attractive. Many books teaching HTML and CSS are dry and...

If you know HTML & CSS then you know all about web page style and structure; now it's time to give those pages some behavior, some interactivity. Want to understand that code you've been copying and pasting into your web pages And do it in a way that won't put you to sleep Then Head First JavaScript Programming, is for you. Learning a Programming, ...

A stepbystep gentle journey through the mathematics of neural networks, and making your own using the Python computer language. Neural networks are a key element of deep learning and Artificial Intelligence,, which today is capable of some truly impressive feats. Yet too few really understand how neural networks actually work.This guide will take ...

"This book is an absolute mustread for all .NET developers. It gives clear do and don't guidance on how to design class libraries for .NET. It also offers insight into the design and creation of .NET that really helps developers understand the reasons why things are the way they are. This information will aid developers designing their own class l...

Talk directly to your system for a faster workflow withautomation capability Linux Command Line and Shell Scripting Bible is youressential Linux guide. With detailed instruction and abundantexamples, this book teaches you how to bypass the graphicalinterface and communicate directly with your computer, saving timeand expanding capability. This thir...

Learning a complex new language is no easy task especially when it s an objectoriented computer Programming, language like Java. You might think the problem is your brain. It seems to have a mind of its own, a mind that doesn't always want to take in the dry, technical stuff you're forced to study. The fact is your brain craves novelty. It's consta...

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Time is a precious commodity, especially if you're a system administrator. No other job pulls people in so many directions at once. Users interrupt you constantly with requests, preventing you from getting anything done. Your managers want you to get longterm projects done but flood you with requests for quickfixes that prevent you from ever gett...

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Author Cornelia Davis likes to say that "the cloud" is more about how you design your applications than where you deploy them. Cloud Native Patterns: Designing Changetolerant Software is your guide to developing strong applications that thrive in the dynamic, distributed, virtual world of the cloud. This book presents a mental model for cloudnati...

From the world's most renowned security technologist, Bruce Schneier, this 20th Anniversary Edition is the most definitive reference on cryptography ever published and is the seminal work on cryptography. Cryptographic techniques have applications far beyond the obvious uses of encoding and decoding information. For developers who need to know abou...

Want to write applications for iOS or the Mac This introduction to Programming, and the ObjectiveC language is the first step on your journey from someone who uses apps to someone who writes them. Based on Big Nerd Ranch's legendary ObjectiveC Bootcamp, this book covers C, ObjectiveC, and the common Programming, idioms that enable developers to ...

You code. And code. And code. You build only to rebuild. You focus on making your site compatible with almost every browser or wireless device ever put out there. Then along comes a new device or a new browser, and you start all over again.You can get off the merrygoround.It's time to stop living in the past and get away from the days of spaghett...

?The definitive master class in performance tuning Java applications? if you love all the gory details, this is the book for you.? ?James Gosling, creator of JavaImprovements in the Java platform and new multicore/multiprocessor hardware have made it possible to dramatically improve the performance and scalability of Java software. Now, two leading...

Praise for Design Patterns in Ruby " Design Patterns in Ruby documents smart ways to resolve many problems that Ruby developers commonly encounter. Russ Olsen has done a great job of selecting classic patterns and augmenting these with newer patterns that have special relevance for Ruby. He clearly explains each idea, making a wealth of experience ...

Best selling guide to the inner workings of the Linux operating system with over 50,000 copies sold since its release in 2014. This indepth guide to the various components of a Linux system covers topics like how the system boots, how networking works, and what the Linux kernel actually does. The Linux operating system is the power behind Android,...

Debunk the myth that JavaScript is not easily testable. Whether you use Node.js, Express, MongoDB, jQuery, AngularJS, or directly manipulate the DOM, you can testdrive JavaScript. Learn the craft of writing meaningful, deterministic automated tests with Karma, Mocha, and Chai. Test asynchronous JavaScript, decouple and properly mock out dependenci...

Python Algorithms explains the Python approach to algorithm analysis and design. Written by Magnus Lie Hetland, author of Beginning Python, this book is sharply focused on classical algorithms, but it also gives a solid understanding of fundamental algorithmic problemsolving techniques.The book deals with some of the most important and challenging...