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The Second Age of Computer Science by Subrata Dasgupta
Publication Date: 2018-06-01
This book describes the evolution of computer science in this second age in the form of seven overlapping, intermingling, parallel histories that unfold concurrently in the course of the two decades.
Artificial Intelligence and Causal Inference by Momiao Xiong
Publication Date: 2022-02-03
The purpose of this book is to fill the gap between the AI and modern causal analysis for further facilitating the AI revolution. This book is ideal for graduate students and researchers in AI, data science, causal inference, statistics, genomics, bioinformatics, and precision medicine.
Summer of Simulation by John Sokolowski (Editor); Umut Durak (Editor); Navonil Mustafee (Editor); Andreas Tolk (Editor)
Publication Date: 2019-05-17
This book is based on the "Summer Simulation Multi-Conference" (SCSC), which has been a prominent platform for the dissemination of scholarly research in the M&S community for the last 50 years. In keeping with the conference's seasonal title, the authors have called this half-century "the summer of simulation," and it has led not only to simulation-based disciplines but also simulation as a discipline.
Ideas That Created the Future by Harry R. Lewis (Editor)
Publication Date: 2021-02-02
Classic papers by thinkers ranging from from Aristotle and Leibniz to Norbert Wiener and Gordon Moore that chart the evolution of computer science. "Ideas That Created the Future" collects forty-six classic papers in computer science that map the evolution of the field. It covers all aspects of computer science- theory and practice, architectures and algorithms, and logic and software systems, with an emphasis on the period of 1936-1980 but also including important early work.

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