New Books for CS – Jan 2010

 

  

Beautiful architecture

Database archiving : how to keep lots of data for a very long time

Emergent computer literacy : a developmental perspective

Game feel : a game designer’s guide to virtual sensation   Hacking exposed 6: network security secrets & solutions

Intelligent systems : modeling, optimization, and control

Knowledge discovery from sensor data

Microsoft Powershell, VBScript, and JScript bible

Software language engineering : creating domain-specific languages using metamodels

Standards battles in open source software : the case of Firefox

Library Hours for Winter 2010

Welcome back!

The Library Hours for Winter 2010  (January 6 – March 20, 2010)

Monday – Thursday  9:00 AM – 10:00 PM

Friday: 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM

Saturday: CLOSED

Sunday: 11:00 AM – 7:00 PM

EXCEPTIONS TO ABOVE:
January 15, 2010, Furlough Friday – CLOSED
January 18, 2010, Monday Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Birthday – CLOSED
January 22, 2010, Furlough Friday – CLOSED
February 12, 2010, Furlough Friday – CLOSED
February 26, 2010, Furlough Friday – CLOSED
March 12, 2010, Furlough Friday – CLOSED
March 13, 2010, Saturday, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM

Toolkit

W3 Schools: find all the Web-building tutorials you need, from basic HTML and XHTML to advanced XML, Multimedia and WAP.
DevGuru: Programmer’s quick reference resource
MSDN Online. Microsoft Developers Network provides a bounty of technical information, sample code, documentation, technical articles, and reference guides for developers using Microsoft tools, products, and technologies. It also contains standards and release information, as well as samples, downloads, and tutorials

Marttindale’s Calculators Online
Learn C/C++ Today. After furnishing some background and tools required for C and C++, this site lists several tutorials available on the Web.
Linux Documentation Project (LDP). LDP provides access to Linux guides (book length), HOWTOs (documents on specific subjects), FAQs (questions with answers), man pages (help with individual commands), and the “Linux Gazette” (a magazine with tips and tricks).
UNIXhelp for Users. This site contains helpful information for users of the UNIX operating system. It is organized by tasks, commands, concepts, and utilities, and includes a searchable glossary.
ReviewBooth Contains reviews of computer hardware and software
Symantec AntiVirus Research Center: virus encyclopedia
CODE Visual Parallel Programming System

Dictionaries

Online Dictionary of Computing. A searchable dictionary of acronyms, programming languages, tools, architectures, operating systems, networking, theory, mathematics, telecoms, institutions, companies, projects, products, and history.
Webopedia: Online Computer Dictionary for Internet Terms and Technical Support. An online dictionary of computer- and Internet-related terms.

Whatis An encyclopedia of information technology; it includes a comprehensive listing of every file format in the world.

Professional Associations

ACM: Association for Computing Machinery

ACM Special Interest Groups

AAAI: American Association for Artificial Intelligence

CRA: Computing Research Association

IEEE Computer Society

SIAM: the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

Internet Resources

ACM Curricula Recommendations: “defining what is taught at educational institutions around the world”

E-Print ArXiv : Open access to 568,698 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics

The Collection of computer science bibliographies
CogPrints “A free, full-text e-print archive of published, peer-reviewed journal postprints plus prepublication unrefereed preprints in the cognitive sciences, covering psychology, behavioral biology, computer science, linguistics, philosophy and related disciplines.

CORR: The Computing Research Repository

ECCC: Colloquium on Computational Complexity

MIT OpenCourseWare: “makes the MIT Faculty’s course materials used in the teaching of almost all of MIT’s undergraduate and graduate subjects available on the Web, free of charge.”

CiteSeer.IST: “A scientific literature digital library and search engine that focuses primarily on the literature in computer and information science.”
SCIRUS: “The most comprehensive science-specific search engine on the Internet”

Computer and Communication Standards 

Research Databases

ACM Digital Library

Collection of citations and full text from ACM journal and newsletter articles and conference proceedings.

Science Direct (Elsevier)

Journal articles in Computer Science and subfields.

Wiley InterScience

Journals, Online Books, and Reference Works in CS and Information Technologies.

Full-Text CS Journals Subscribed by CSUB Library

Full-Text CS Journals Subscribed by CSUB Library

Note: A link labeled as “Walter W. Stiern Library Holdings” will indicate that this journal is available in-print. All printed journals are alphabetically shelved on the second level of the library. Otherwise links will lead you to the full-text electronic journals.

Safari Technical Books

Safari Technical Books   — Electronic books via CSUB library

CSUB Library Catalog

CSUB Library Catalog — Find Books in the Library.

Books about computer science can be found on the 4th level of the library under call number starting with QA.