From: LARRY KLAES (ljk4_at_msn.com)
Date: Fri Feb 20 2004 - 07:23:12 PST
>From: "The MIT Press" <lists_at_mail-mitpress.mit.edu>
>Reply-To: "The MIT Press" <lists_at_mail-mitpress.mit.edu>
>Subject: New Titles in Computer Science
>Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:07:41 -0500
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>| Computer Science and Intelligent Systems
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>| 2/20/2004
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>The MIT Press is pleased to announce these new titles in Computer Science
>and Intelligent Systems.
>As an MIT e-list subscriber, you can get these titles at a savings of
>20% off -- simply purchase them through our website and enter code
>MW1006 during the checkout process. This 20% discount is applicable to
>your entire book purchase, so you may want to browse around! Please
>note that this discount is applicable to book orders only. It is not
>valid for previously-placed orders, journal subscriptions, or online
>products.
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>Beowulf Cluster Computing with Linux, Second Edition
>By William Gropp, Ewing Lusk and Thomas Sterling
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>The completely updated second edition of a guide to Beowulf cluster
>computing.
>December 2003 ISBN 0-262-69292-9 $40.00/£25.95 (CLOTH)
>TABLE OF CONTENTS AVAILABLE:
>http://mitpress.mit.edu/item.asp?ttype=2&tid=9947&mlid=252
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>Turing (A Novel about Computation)
>By Christos H. Papadimitriou
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>The world of computation according to Turing, an interactive tutoring
>program, as told to star-crossed lovers; a novel.
>November 2003 ISBN 0-262-16218-0 $24.95/£16.95 (CLOTH)
>TABLE OF CONTENTS AVAILABLE:
>http://mitpress.mit.edu/item.asp?ttype=2&tid=9910&mlid=252
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>Windows and Mirrors
>Interaction Design, Digital Art, and the Myth of Transparency
>By Jay David Bolter and Diane Gromala
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>The experience of digital art and how it is relevant to information
>technology.
>November 2003 ISBN 0-262-02545-0 $29.95/£19.95 (CLOTH)
>TABLE OF CONTENTS AVAILABLE:
>http://mitpress.mit.edu/item.asp?ttype=2&tid=9906&mlid=252
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>Rules of Play
>Game Design Fundamentals
>By Katie Salen and Eric Zimmerman
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>An impassioned look at games and game design that offers the most
>ambitious framework for understanding them to date.
>October 2003 ISBN 0-262-24045-9 $49.95/£32.95 (CLOTH)
>SAMPLE CHAPTERS/TABLE OF CONTENTS AVAILABLE:
>http://mitpress.mit.edu/item.asp?ttype=2&tid=9802&mlid=252
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>The Scheme Programming Language
>Third Edition
>By R. Kent Dybvig
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>The thoroughly updated third edition of a popular introductory and
>reference text for standard Scheme, with examples and exercises.
>October 2003 ISBN 0-262-54148-3 $35.00/£22.95 (PAPER)
>TABLE OF CONTENTS AVAILABLE:
>http://mitpress.mit.edu/item.asp?ttype=2&tid=9946&mlid=252
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>Scalable Input/Output
>Achieving System Balance
>Edited by Daniel A. Reed
>
>The major research results from the Scalable Input/Output Initiative,
>exploring software and algorithmic solutions to the I/O imbalance.
>October 2003 ISBN 0-262-68142-0 $35.00/£22.95 (PAPER)
>TABLE OF CONTENTS AVAILABLE:
>http://mitpress.mit.edu/item.asp?ttype=2&tid=10037&mlid=252
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>Tracing Genres through Organizations
>A Sociocultural Approach to Information Design
>By Clay Spinuzzi
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>A sociocultural study of workers' ad hoc genre innovations and their
>significance for information design.
>October 2003 ISBN 0-262-19491-0 $35.00/£22.95 (CLOTH)
>TABLE OF CONTENTS AVAILABLE:
>http://mitpress.mit.edu/item.asp?ttype=2&tid=9951&mlid=252
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>Me++
>The Cyborg Self and the Networked City
>By William J. Mitchell
>
>How the transformation of wireless technology and the creation of an
>interconnected world are changing our environment and our lives.
>October 2003 ISBN 0-262-13434-9 $27.95/£18.95 (CLOTH)
>TABLE OF CONTENTS AVAILABLE:
>http://mitpress.mit.edu/item.asp?ttype=2&tid=9895&mlid=252
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>Women, Art, and Technology
>Edited by Judy Malloy
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>A sourcebook of documentation on women artists at the forefront of
>work at the intersection of art and technology.
>October 2003 ISBN 0-262-13424-1 $39.95/£25.95 (CLOTH)
>TABLE OF CONTENTS AVAILABLE:
>http://mitpress.mit.edu/item.asp?ttype=2&tid=9905&mlid=252
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>Scalable Input/Output
>Achieving System Balance
>Edited by Daniel A. Reed
>
>The major research results from the Scalable
>Input/Output Initiative, exploring software and algorithmic
>solutions to the I/O imbalance.
>October 2003 ISBN 0-262-68142-0 $35.00/£22.95 (PAPER)
>TABLE OF CONTENTS AVAILABLE:
>http://mitpress.mit.edu/item.asp?ttype=2&tid=10037&mlid=252
>
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>Reasoning about Uncertainty
>By Joseph Y. Halpern
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>Using formal systems to represent and reason about uncertainty.
>October 2003 ISBN 0-262-08320-5 $55.00/£35.95 (CLOTH)
>TABLE OF CONTENTS AVAILABLE:
>http://mitpress.mit.edu/item.asp?ttype=2&tid=9952&mlid=252
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>Also of Interest:
>New from The MIT Press Journals:
>Information Technologies and International Development
>Ernest J. Wilson III and Michael L. Best, Editors-in-Chief
>
>Information Technologies and International Development (ITID) will be
>the premier journal in its field, focusing on the intersection of
>information and communication technologies with international
>development. Readers from academia, the private sector, NGOs, and
>government interested in the "other four billion"—the share of the
>world population whose countries are not yet widely connected to the
>Internet nor widely considered in the design of new information
>technologies—will find ITID the perfect resource.
>
>The full text of the first issue of ITID is available online for free
>(registration required for some articles).
>Quarterly (Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer)
>Founded: 2003
>ISSN 1544-7529
>E-ISSN 1544-7537
>Information Technologies and International Development Home Page:
>http://mitpress.mit.edu/item.asp?ttype=4&tid=59&mlid=252
>Information Technologies and International Development Orders and Renewals:
>http://mitpress.mit.edu/item.asp?ttype=4&tid=59&mode=p&mlid=252
>
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