computer science

Book Reviews

• Daniel C. Dennett: Brainchildren
  Essays on Designing Minds
• Gary William Flake: The Computational Beauty of Nature**
  Computer Explorations of Fractals, Chaos, Complex Systems, and Adaptation
• Donald E. Knuth: The Art of Computer Programming**
  Fundamental Algorithms; Seminumerical Algorithms; Sorting and Searching
• Rafail Krichevsky: Universal Compression and Retrieval
• Christopher Langton: Artificial Life
  - articles from the first three issues of the journal
• Nancy A. Lynch: Distributed Algorithms**
  - for a deep understanding of formal methods
• Derek Partridge, Yorick Wilks: The Foundations of Artificial Intelligence
  A Sourcebook
• David G. Stork: HAL's Legacy
  2001's Computer as Dream and Reality

See also: Internet | computing | mathematics | networking

My honours thesis was on distributed minimum-spanning-tree algorithms, and the PhD thesis I abandoned had the title "Simulation and Analysis of Non-Optimal Hierarchical Link-State Routing Algorithms".