books about: computational

books about: computational

books:

Computational

An Introduction to Systems Biology: Design Principles of Biological Circuits (Chapman & Hall/Crc Mathematical ...

Uri Alon

Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2006

Great Job
A superb intro to the field. The math is moderate and helpful. Network concepts and their ties to examples and theory are clearly and succinctly presented. This is a textbook but reads easily like a book. Covers key elements while connecting them by at least mention to ...

Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning, and Identity

Etienne Wenger

Cambridge University Press, 1999

excellent conceptual thinking
For those grappling with the need to understand and talk about how people come together and interact beyond the org. chart, this book has a lot to offer. Theoretically-based, it focuses on a social theory of learning that is broad enough to cover a wide range of human ...

The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing's Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing ...

Charles Petzold

Wiley, 2008

The kind of book I wish I'd written
Some books entertain, some inform; some confirm what you already knew, some make you change your mind about something. But then there are some books that just make you think "wow! I wish I'd written that". For me, Charles Petzold's The Annotated Turing falls into ...

Processing: Creative Coding and Computational Art (Foundation)

Ira Greenberg

friends of ED, 2007

Great introduction to programming for creative types
I teach Flash Actionscript at an Art College in Pasadena, and I am sometimes asked by my students for a good book to introduce them to programming fundamentals. Until I encountered this book, I was at a loss to find a good one, because so many programming books assume ...

Bioinformatics For Dummies (For Dummies (Math & Science))

Jean-Michel, Ph. D. Claverie, Cedric, Ph.D. Notredame

For Dummies, 2006

Good
I am a couple years into a PhD in bioinformatics, but this is the book I started with. I knew some biology and some computer science, but I still found a lot of the databases, etc. confusing and the field has a decided lack of simplified documentation (though it is ...

Complex Adaptive Systems: An Introduction to Computational Models of Social Life (Princeton Studies in ...

John H. Miller, Scott E. Page

Princeton University Press, 2007

very good introduction to the subject
A nice introduction material. You will learn how complex phenomena are currently studied . I will use this book as an intro material to complex systems in my economics course. My only complain is that the book scarcelly discuss aplications in social sciences!!! I ...

Speech and Language Processing (2nd Edition) (Prentice Hall Series in Artificial Intelligence)

Daniel Jurafsky, James H. Martin

Prentice Hall, 2008

Great introductions and reference book
I read the first edition of that book and it is terrific. The second edition is much more adapted to current research. Statistical methods in NLP are more detailed and some syntax-based approaches are presented. My specific interest is in machine translation and ...

Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation (Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and ...

Jean Lave, Etienne Wenger

Cambridge University Press, 1991

You'll need a light-heart to bear the blacksmith's anvil.
I wonder if two people have ever had so much fun writing a book together as Jean Lave and Etiene Wenger. Lave's choice of a cover illustration supports my point: she found the artwork at a beer-fest while visiting friends and studying in Europe. Lave and Wenger are ...

Introduction to the Theory of Computation, Second Edition

Michael Sipser

Course Technology, 2005

My choice for textbook in my computation theory class
I recently encountered this book at a publisher's booth at a computer conference and read it on the ride back home. This morning I made a trip to the college bookstore and notified them that it is the textbook that I will be using in my computation theory class this ...

F# for Scientists

Jon Harrop

Wiley-Interscience, 2008

All around outstanding
I wish more books were written at this level of quality. While this book can be used by anybody that wants to get up to speed with F#, it's also well suited for use as a text book for an undergraduate course in applied math or computer science (or reference for a ...

The Computational Beauty of Nature: Computer Explorations of Fractals, Chaos, Complex Systems, and Adaptation

Gary William Flake

The MIT Press, 2000

Real "How Nature Works". Already is "Legend in the Making."
I recently became interested a lot in Nature. Especially, being someone in the field of Computer Science, the computational aspect. And this book is by far one of my favourite among all the "How Nature Works" kind of books I've read. This Computational Beauty of Nature ...

Digital Dice: Computational Solutions to Practical Probability Problems

Paul J. Nahin

Princeton University Press, 2008

Delightful book
This is a delightful book showing how probability can be made to come alive by using Monte Carlo simulation. Wonderful examples are given to demonstrate this. A little experience in Excel or Matlab suffices to solve by simulation interesting probability problems ...

Bioconductor Case Studies (Use R)
Florian Hahne, Wolfgang Huber, ...

Springer, 2008

Bioconductor software has become a standard tool for the analysis and comprehension of data from high-throughput genomics experiments. Its application spans a broad field of technologies used in contemporary molecular biology. In this volume, the authors present a collection of cases to apply Bioconductor tools in the analysis of microarray gene ...

Computational Macroeconomics for the Open Economy
G. C. Lim, Paul D. McNelis

The MIT Press, 2008

Policy makers need quantitative as well as qualitative answers to pressing policy questions. Because of advances in computational methods, quantitative estimates are now derived from coherent nonlinear dynamic macroeconomic models embodying measures of risk and calibrated to capture specific characteristics of real-world situations. This text ...

A New Kind of Science

Stephen Wolfram

Wolfram Media, 2002

Big, Beautiful and Formidable
I received A New Kind of Science by Stephen Wolfram in July 2002. It sits on a shelf in a place of honor. Occasionally, I take it down and open it as one would an expensive Bible. Someday, I'll really study it. Until then I love its feel, its heft, its marvelous and ...