COMPUTER ORGANIZATION AND DESIGN – THE HARDWARE/SOFTWARE INTERFACE

David Patterson and John Hennessy move forward into the post-PC era with new examples, exercises and material highlighting the emergence of mobile computing and the cloud. This book adds a new concrete example, “going faster”, used throughout the text to demonstrate extremely effective optimisation techniques. Also new to this book is a discussion of the “eight great ideas” of computer architecture.

Published by: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers

HATCHING TWITTER

Nick Bilton chronicles the key figures who helped build Twitter, and who ultimately struggled to manage the influence and power they had been handed. The book is a business story that will shock, inspire and expose. Or, in 140 characters, ‘The Twitter Story: how a company built on betrayal & battles for power became a multibilliondollar business & accidentally changed the world.’

Published by: Sceptre

THE FIX – HOW ADDICTION IS TAKING OVER YOUR WORLD

Damian Thompson argues that human desire is in the process of being reshaped. In this book, Thompson shuns the concept of addiction as disease; he shows how manufacturers are producing substances like iPads and computer games that humans learn to like too much and supplement tradition addictions to alcohol, drugs and gambling.

Published by: Collins

DOING DATA SCIENCE

Cathy O’Neill and Rachel Schutt present work from data scientists from companies such as Google, Microsoft, and eBay, which share new algorithms, methods, and models by presenting case studies and the code they use. Topics covered in this book include: statistical inference, exploratory data analysis, and the data science process.

Published by: O’Reilly Media