November 4, 2009

Interesting New Books (11/4/2009)

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Here are some new books that may catch your interest.  These books are sitting on the New Book Shelf in the E&S Library for your review…

  • Wireless and mobile networking:  2nd IFIP WG 6.8 Joint Conference, WMNC 2009 / Jozef Wozniak, Jerzy Konorski, Ryszard Katulski, Andrzej R. Pach.  Berlin:  Springer.  Call #:  TK5103.2 .W57454X 2009
  • Limits of graphs in group theory and computer science / G. Arzhantseva, A. Valette.  Lausanne, Switzerland:  EPFL Press.  Call #:  QA174.2 .L56 2009
  • Computing with social trust / Jennifer Golbeck.  London:  Springer.  Call #:  QA76.9 .C66 C66X 2009
  • Biosignal and medical image processing / John L. Semmlow.  2nd ed.  Boca Raton, FL:  CRC Press.  Call #:  R857 .O6 S463 2009
  • Security in a Web 2.0 world:  A standards-based approach / C. Solari.  Chichester, UK:  Wiley.  Call #:  TK5105.88817 .S65 2009
  • Neural-symbolic cognitive reasoning / Artur S. d’Avila Garcez, Luis C. Lamb, Dov M. Gabbay.  Berlin:  Springer.  Call #:  QA76.87 .D39 2009
  • Radio-frequency electronics:  Circuits and applications / Jon B. Hagen.  2nd ed.  Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press.  Call #:  TK6560 .H34  2009
  • Computational modeling methods for neuroscientists / Erik De Schutter.  Cambridge, MA:  MIT Press.  Call #:  QP357.5 .C625 2010



 

November 4, 2009

New Synthesis Lectures (Sept/Oct 2009)

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The following new titles were published in September and October:

 

October 29, 2009

Interesting New Books (10/29/2009)

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Here are some new books that may catch your interest.  These books are sitting on the New Book Shelf in the E&S Library for your review…

  • Quantum nanoelectronics:  An introduction to electronic nanotechnology and quantum computing / Edward L. Wolf.  Wenheim:  Wiley-VCH.  Call #:  TK7874.84 .W65X 2009
  • Logical labyrinths / Raymond M. Smullyan.  Wellesley, MA:  A.K. Peters.  Call #:  QA9 .S575 2009
  • The art of agent-oriented modeling / Leon S. Sterling, Kuldar Taveter.  Cambridge, MA:  MIT Press.  Call #:  QA76.76 .I58 S757 2009
  • The myths of security:  What the computer security industry doesn’t want you to know / John Viega.  Sebastopol, CA:  O’Reilly.  Call #:  QA76.9 .A25 V54X 2009
  • Artificial intelligence for games / Jan Millington, John Funge.  2nd ed.  Burlington, MA:  Elsevier.  Call #:  QA76.76 .C672 M549 2009
  • Web mining applications in e-commerce and e-services / I-Hsien Ting, Hui-Ju Wu.  Berlin:  Springer.  Call #:  ZA4235 .W43X 2009
  • Cloud computing:  Implementation, management, and security / John W. Rittinghouse, James F. Ransome.  Boca Raton, FL:  CRC Press.  Call #:  TK5105.88813 .R58  2010
  • Modeling with data:  Tools and techniques for scientific computing / Ben Klemens.  Princeton:  Princeton University Press.  Call #:  QA276 .K546 2009



 

October 16, 2009

Halloween Science Fun

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It’s that time of year again!  Here are some creepy, ghoulish but fun sites to check out…

      Check out “kreepy komputers” and even ghostly robots!
      Did you know there’s even a “candy hierarchy” and other fun questions answered here!
 

October 16, 2009

Notable Quotes

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I’ve added a new tab in the upper right corner of this blog.  Librarians are frequently asked about important quotes and who made them.  So I decided to post some notable ones that I consider my favorites.  Some are related to the sciences and some are not.  I’ll post whenever I add any new ones.

 

October 12, 2009

Interesting New Books (10/12/2009)

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Here are some new books that may catch your interest.  These books are sitting on the New Book Shelf in the E&S Library for your review…

  • Machine learning for spatial environmental data:  Theory, applications and software / Mikhail Kanevski, Alexei Pozdnoukhov and Vadim Timonin.  Lausanne, Switzerland:  EPFL Press; Boca Raton, FL:  CRC Press.  Call #:  Q33.2 .K36X 2009
  • Nanoelectronics:  Principles and devices / Mircea Dragoman, Daniela Dragoman.  2nd ed.  Boston:  Artech House.  Call #:  TK7874.8 .D73 2009
  • Signal processing techniques for knowledge extraction and information fusion / Danilo Mandic, Toshihisa Tanaka.  New York:  Springer Science+Business Media.  Call #:  TK5102.9 .S54X
  • The web application hacker’s handbook:  Discovering and exploiting security flaws / Dafydd Stuttard, Marcus Pinto.  Indianapolis, IN:  Wiley.  Call #:  TK5105.875 .I57 S85
  • Managing and mining uncertain data / Charu C. Aggarwal.  New York:  Springer.  Call #:  QA76.9 .D343 M36X 2009
  • Nanocomputers and swarm intelligence / Jean-Baptiste Waldner.  London:  ISTE; Hoboken, NJ:  Wiley.  Call #:  QA76.887 .W3513
  • Computing with cells:  Advances in membrane computing / Pierluigi Frisco.  Oxford:  Oxford University Press.  Call #:  QA76.887 .F75X 2009
 

October 8, 2009

Interesting New Books (10/8/2009)

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Here are some new books that may catch your interest.  These books are sitting on the New Book Shelf in the E&S Library for your review…

  • Trust Management III:  3rd IFIP WG 11.11 International Conference, IFIPTM 2009.  New York:  Springer.  Call #:  QA76.76 .R44 I35 2009
  • Twitter API:  Up and running / Kevin Makice.  Beijing; Sebastopol, CA:  O’Reilly.  Call #:  TK5105.888 .M35X 2009
  • Cyber security and global information assurance:  Threat analysis and response solutions / Kenneth J. Knapp.  Hershey, PA:  Information Science Reference.  Call #:  QA76.9 .A25 C918 2009
  • Games of no chance 3 / Michael H. Albert, Richard J. Nowakowski.  Cambridge; New York:  Cambridge University Press.  Call #:  QA269 .G374 2009
  • Semantic mining technologies for multimedia databases / Dacheng Tao, Dong Xu, Xuelong Li.  Hershey, PA:  Information Science Reference.  Call #:  QA76.575 .S4495 2009
 

October 2, 2009

Access IEEE Xplore from Your Phone

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IEEE Xplore is one of the most heavily used databases for computer science.  So many of you will be pleased to learn that IEEE Xplore Mobile is now available in beta.

Check it out:  http://www.ieee.org/web/publications/subscriptions/info/xplore_mobile.html

 

September 29, 2009

Computer Science Librarian Comes to GHC!

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In response to demand, I will be visiting the Gates-Hillman Center on a weekly basis to offer research help, answer questions, and I will even return books to the library for you!

When:  Thursdays, 2 – 4 pm
Where:  6th floor Collaborative Commons (in the Alcove nearby)
How Often:  Weekly

Drop by when you get a chance.  Send your staff or students to meet with me.  Please don’t hesitate to ask for help!

Missy Harvey
Computer Science Librarian
Senior Librarian
Engineering & Science Library
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA  15213

Blog:    http://cslibrarian.net/
Website: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~missy/

 

September 16, 2009

Interesting New Books (9/16/09)

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Here are some new books that may catch your interest.  These books are sitting on the New Book Shelf in the E&S Library for your review…

  • Open source ecosystems:  Diverse communities interacting.  / Cornelia Boldyreff.  Berlin: New York:  Springer.  Call #:  QA76.76 .S46 O646X 2009
  • Architecting software intensive systems:  A practitioner’s guide / Anthony J. Lattanze.  Boca Raton, FL:  Auerbach.  Call #:  QA76.758 .L3285 2009
  • What’s next?  Dispatches on the future of science:  Original essays from a new generation of scientists / Max Brockman.  New York:  Vintage Books.  Call #:  Q147 .W43 2009
  • Beautiful security / Andrew Oram, Andrew.  Sebastopol, CA:  O’Reilly.  Call #:  TK5109.59 .B423X 2009
  • Design patterns in Ruby / Obie Fernandez.  Upper Saddle River, NJ:  Addison-Wesley.  Call #:  QA76.64 .O456
  • Programming groovy:  Dynamic productivity for the Java developer / Venkat Subramaniam.  Raleigh, NC:  Pragmatic Bookshelf.  Call #:  QA76.73 .G23 S83
  • Cryptography:  An introduction / V.V. Yaschenko.  Providence, RI:  American Mathematical Society.  Call #:  QA76.9 .A25 V85
 

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