Greetings Net-Happenings Lists,
I would like to forward with credits and courtesy to MITPRESS the
excellent books of the 21st Century..E-topia: "Urban Life, Jim--But Not
As We Know It" written by Prof. William J. Mitchell; Global Electronic
Commerce: Theory and Cases written by J. Christopher Westland and Theodore
H. K. Clark; Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 11 edited
by Michael S. Kearns, Sara A. Solla, and David A. Cohn and Architects of
the Information Society Thirty-Five Years of the Laboratory for Computer
Science at MIT written by Simson L. Garfinkel and edited by Hal Abelson.
The details with URLs & abstracts are given below! Enjoy the sites!
Thank you!
Sincerely
Arun Tripathi
From: Computer Science Editorial <computer_science@mitpress.mit.edu>
To: tripathi@statistik.uni-dortmund.de
Subject: New Books from MIT Press
NEW BOOKS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE FROM THE MIT PRESS
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E-topia
"Urban Life, Jim--But Not As We Know It"
William J. Mitchell
<http://mitpress.mit.edu/promotions/books/MITTHF99>
The global digital network is not just a delivery system for email, Web
pages, and digital television. It is a whole new urban
infrastructure--one that will change the forms of our cities as
dramatically as railroads, highways, electric power supply, and telephone
networks did in the past. In this new book, William J. Mitchell examines
this new infrastructure and its implications for our future daily lives.
6 x 9, 192 pp., cloth ISBN 0-262-13355-5
Global Electronic Commerce
Theory and Cases
J. Christopher Westland and Theodore H. K. Clark
<http://mitpress.mit.edu/promotions/books/WESGHF99>
Over the past two decades, businesses in virtually every sector of the
world economy have benefited from the technologies of electronic
commerce--the automation of commercial transactions using computer and
communications technologies. Electronic commerce has spurred far-reaching
changes in business, on multiple fronts, using many technologies. This
book provides a practical understanding of these technologies and their
use in e-commerce.
7 x 9, 541 pp., 61 illus., cloth ISBN 0-262-23205-7
Simply Scheme
Introducing Computer Science
second edition
Brian Harvey and Matthew Wright
<http://mitpress.mit.edu/promotions/books/HARSH2F99>
This introduction to computer science and computer programming in Scheme
is for non-computer science majors with a strong interest in the subject
and for computer science majors who lack prior programming experience.
The text allows the student to experience the computer as a tool for
expressing ideas, not as a frustrating set of mathematical obstacles.
This goal is supported by the use of Scheme, a modern dialect of Lisp,
designed to emphasize symbolic programming.
8 x 9, 612 pp., 30 illus., cloth ISBN 0-262-08281-0
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 11
edited by Michael S. Kearns, Sara A. Solla, and David A. Cohn
<http://mitpress.mit.edu/promotions/books/KEAAHF99>
The annual conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) is
the flagship conference on neural computation. It draws preeminent
academic researchers from around the world and is widely considered to be
a showcase conference for new developments in network algorithms and
architectures. The broad range of interdisciplinary research areas
represented includes computer science, neuroscience, statistics, physics,
cognitive science, and many branches of engineering, including signal
processing and control theory. Only about 30 percent of the papers
submitted are accepted for presentation at NIPS, so the quality is
exceptionally high. These proceedings contain all of the papers that were
presented.
7 x 10, 112 pp., cloth ISBN 0-262-11245-0
A Bradford Book
Architects of the Information Society
Thirty-Five Years of the Laboratory for Computer Science at MIT
Simson L. Garfinkel
edited by Hal Abelson
<http://mitpress.mit.edu/promotions/books/GARSHF99>
This book, published in celebration of The Massachusetts Institute of
Technology’s Laboratory for Computer Science’s thirty-fifth anniversary,
chronicles the laboratory’s history, achievements, and continued
importance to computer science. The essays are complemented by historical
photographs.
7 1/2 x 7 1/2, 92 pp., 25 illus., cloth ISBN 0-262-07196-7
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