CS Librarian News

Hunter Heyck has published two articles in the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing on Herbert Simon.  These articles are available to the Carnegie Mellon community and anyone else’s university whose library subscribes to IEEE Xplore:

• Defining the Computer: Herbert Simon and the Bureaucratic Mind–Part 1

• Defining the Computer: Herbert Simon and the Bureaucratic Mind–Part 2

It’s a sad day here at Carnegie Mellon.  We have lost one of our favorite professors whose “last lecture” garnered the attention of the world.  We were immensely proud of him.  We learned far more from him than just about computer science.  He has left a beautiful and lasting legacy for his wife and children.  And as you can see below, his words reached far beyond his original intended audience of his wife and 3 children…

School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon

http://www.scs.cmu.edu/news/releases/RandyPausch.html

Carnegie Mellon University

http://www.cmu.edu/homepage/beyond/2008/summer/an-enduring-legacy.shtml
http://www.cmu.edu/news/archive/2008/July/july25_pausch.shtml

Pittsburgh PostGazette
http://www.postgazette.com/pg/08207/899511-100.stm

Pittsburgh Tribune Review
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/breaking/s_579431.html

Wall Street Journal
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121699381188384657.html
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120951287174854465.html?mod=World-News

Gabriel Robins
http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/Randy/

Lustgarten Foundation
http://www.lustgartencommunity.org/NETCOMMUNITY/Page.aspx?pid=408&srcid=408

Disney Fans Sharing the Loss
http://www.passporterboards.com/forums/library-books-tv-movies-music/166687-rip-randy-pausch.html
http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1897456&referrerid=93883

CNN
http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/books/07/25/obit.pausch/index.html

Time
http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1826574,00.html

Yahoo
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080725/ap_en_ot/obit_pausch;_ylt=Av15A6UcRFNPQPtc._ZEzz.s0NUE

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
http://www.acm.org/news/featured/pausch

Parade
http://www.parade.com/articles/editions/2008/edition_04-06-2008/1My_Last_Lecture

Chronicle of Higher Education

http://chronicle.com/news/index.php?id=4880&utm_source=pm&utm_medium=en

USA Today

http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2008-07-25-pausch-obit_N.htm

Wired Science

http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/07/last-lecture-pr.html

ABC News / Good Morning America

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/LastLecture/

Brown University

http://www.brownalumnimagazine.com/recent_news/randy_pausch_82_loses_cancer_battle_2065.html

Here are a few new books that may catch your interest. At the moment, they’re sitting on the New Book Shelf in the E&S Library for your review…

• Quantum Computer Science:  An Introduction / N. David Mermin.  Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press.  Call #: QA76.889 .M47

• MEMS and Nanotechnology-Based Sensors and Devices for Communications, Medical and Aerospace Applications / A.R. Jha.  Boca Raton:  CRC Press.  Call #: TK7875 .J485 2008

• HCI Beyond the GUI:  Design for Haptic, Speech, Olfactory and Other Nontraditional Interfaces / Philip Kortum.  Amsterdam:  Elsevier/Morgan Kaufmann.  Call #:  QA76.9 .H85 H397 2008

• Optics:  Learning by Computing, with Examples using MathCAD, Matlab, Mathematica, and Maple / Karl Dieter Moller.  2nd ed.  New York:  Springer.  Call #: QC381 .M66

• Computing for Numerical Methods using Visual C++ / Shaharuddin Salleh, Albert Y. Zomaya, and Sakhinah Abu Bakar.  Hoboken, NJ:  Wiley Interscience.  Call #: QA76.73 .C154 S28 2008

• CMMI Survival Guide:  Just Enough Process Improvement / Suzanne Garcia and Richard Turner.  Upper Saddle River, NJ:  Addison-Wesley.  Call #:  TS155 .G23

• Algorithms and Networking for Computer Games / Jouni Smed and Harri Hakonen.  Chichester:  Wiley.  Call #:  QA76.76 .C672 S62

• If I Only Changed the Software, Why is the Phone on Fire?:  Embedded Debugging Methods Revealed:  Technical Mysteries for Engineers / Lisa Simone.  Amsterdam:  Elsevier/Newnes.  Call #:  QA76.6 .S572655

Here are a few new books that may catch your interest. At the moment, they’re sitting on the New Book Shelf in the E&S Library for your review…

• The Computer Engineering Handbook / Vojin G. Oklobdzija.  2nd ed.  Boca Raton, FL:  CRC Press  (v. 1: Digital Design and Fabrication; v. 2: Digital Systems and Applications).  Call #: TK7885 .C667X 2008

• Autonomous Robots and Agents / S.C. Mukhopadhyay and G.S. Gupta.  Berlin: Springer.  Call #: TJ211.495 .A984

• Enhancing Learning through Human Computer Interaction / Elspeth McKay.  Hershey:  Idea Group Reference.  Call #:  QA76.9 .H85 E535

• Heteroepitaxy of Semiconductors:  Theory, Growth, and Characterization / John E. Ayers.  Boca Raton, FL:  CRC Press.  Call #: QC611.8 .C64 A94

• Robotics: Science and systems III / Wolfram Burgard, Oliver Brock, and Cyrill Stachniss.  Cambridge:  MIT Press.  Call #: TJ210.3 .R6435 2008

• Founders at Work:  Stories of Startups’ Early Days / Jessica Livingston.  Berkeley:  Apress.  Call #:  HD62.5 .L59

The following new titles were published in June:

• Bridging the Gap Between Engineering and the Global World by Shobha K. Bhatia, Syracuse University and Jennifer Smith, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (Engineers, Technology, and Society Series)
• CAD/CAM of Sculptured Surfaces on Multi-Axis NC Machine by Stephen Radzevich, Eaton Corp. (Engineering Series)
• Computer Architecture Techniques for Power-Efficiency by Stefanos Kaxiras, University of Patras, Greece and Margaret Martonosi, Princeton University (Computer Architecture Series)
• Despeckle Filtering Algorithms and Software for Ultrasound Imaging by Christos Loizou, InterCollege Cyprus and Constantinos Pattichis, University of Cyprus (Algorithms and Software in Engineering Series)
• Engineering: Women and Leadership by Corri Zoli and Shobha Bhatia, Syracuse University, Valerie Davidson, University of Guelph, and Kelly Rusch, Louisiana State University (Engineers, Technology, and Society Series)
• Modern EMC Analysis Techniques I: Time-Domain Computational Schemes by Nikolaos Kantartzis and Theodoros Tsiboukis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Computational Electromagnetics Series)
• Modern EMC Analysis Techniques II: Models and Applications by Nikolaos Kantartzis and Theodoros Tsiboukis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Computational Electromagnetics Series)