The Datacenter as a Computer: An Introduction to the Design of Warehouse-Scale Machines, Second edition Synthesis Lectures on Computer Architecture July 2013, 154 pages, (doi:10.2200/S00516ED2V01Y201306CAC024) Luiz André Barroso Google, Inc. Jimmy Clidaras Google, Inc. Urs Hölzle Google, Inc. Abstract As computation continues to move into the cloud, the computing platform of in...(展开全部)

As computation continues to move into the cloud, the computing platform of interest no longer resembles a pizza box or a refrigerator, but a warehouse full of computers. These new large datacenters are quite different from traditional hosting facilities of earlier times and cannot be viewed simply as a collection of co-located servers. Large portions of the hardware and softwar...(展开全部)

This book describes warehouse-scale computers (WSCs), the computing platforms that power cloud computing and all the great web services we use every day. It discusses how these new systems treat the datacenter itself as one massive computer designed at warehouse scale, with hardware and software working in concert to deliver good levels of internet service performance. The book...(展开全部)

This popular text, publishing Spring 1999 in its Second Edition, introduces the mathematics underlying the pricing of derivatives. The increase of interest in dynamic pricing models stems from their applicability to practical situations: with the freeing of exchange, interest rates, and capital controls, the market for derivative products has matured and pricing models have bec...(展开全部)

Stephen Wolfram 是 Wolfram 语言、Wolfram｜Alpha 和 Mathematica 的创立者.他作为计算科学和技术的先驱之一，已做出了近 4 0 多年的贡献. 他从十几岁起便在物理研究中使用计算机，并有了很多重要发现，从而引导他于 2002 年完成了具有开创性意义的著作《一种新科学》. 自 1987 年创建 Wolfram Research 以来，Wolfram 博士一直担任该公司的 CEO. Wolfram Research 是全球最受尊崇的软件公司之一，以长期致力于科技创新而著称.

The book is yet unpublished and in draft which could be accessed via the author's homepage: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~tborgers/ Therefore, the ISBN is wrong and will be updated when the publication is complete.

What is the best way to auction an asset? How should a group of people organize themselves to ensure the best provision of public goods? How should exchanges be organized? In An Introduction to the Theory of Mechanism Design, Tilman Börgers addresses these questions and more through an exploration of the economic theory of mechanism design. Mechanism design is reverse game theo...(展开全部)

The Second Edition of this path-breaking collection gives students all the tools they need to understand and engage with major philosophical issues. Students are presented with clear yet thorough topic introductions, historical context, reading guides for challenging selections, and exclusive commissioned essays written by leading contemporary philosophers specifically for unde...(展开全部)

What is narrative? How does it work and how does it shape our lives and the texts we read? H. Porter Abbott emphasizes that narrative is found not just in literature, film, and theater, but everywhere in the ordinary course of people's lives. This widely used introduction, now thoroughly revised, is informed throughout by recent developments in the field and includes two new ch...(展开全部)

This text identifies, examines, and illustrates fundamental concepts in computer system design that are common across operating systems, networks, database systems, distributed systems, programming languages, software engineering, security, fault tolerance, and architecture. Through carefully analyzed case studies from each of these disciplines, it demonstrates how to apply the...(展开全部)