Product DescriptionMaking Sense of Design Effective design is at the heart of everything from software development to engineering to architecture. But what do we really know about the design process? What leads to effective, elegant designs? The Design of Design addresses these questions. These new essays by Fred Brooks contain extraordinary insights for designers in every discipline. Brooks pinpoints... 

Product Description Bryant and O’Halloran explain the important and enduring concepts underlying all computer systems, and show the concrete ways that these ideas affect the correctness, performance, and utility of application programs. The book’s concrete and hands-on approach will help readers understand what is going on “under the hood” of a computer system. This book focuses... 

Product Description Bryant and O’Halloran explain the important and enduring concepts underlying all computer systems, and show the concrete ways that these ideas affect the correctness, performance, and utility of application programs. The book’s concrete and hands-on approach will help readers understand what is going on “under the hood” of a computer system. This book focuses... 

Product DescriptionThe classic textbook for computer systems analysis and design, Computer Organization and Design, has been thoroughly updated to provide a new focus on the revolutionary change taking place in industry today: the switch from uniprocessor to multicore microprocessors. This new emphasis on parallelism is supported by updates reflecting the newest technologies with examples highlighting... 

Product DescriptionThe era of seemingly unlimited growth in processor performance is over: single chip architectures can no longer overcome the performance limitations imposed by the power they consume and the heat they generate. Today, Intel and other semiconductor firms are abandoning the single fast processor model in favor of multi-core microprocessors–chips that combine two or more processors... 

ISBN13: 9780764197048 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionThis best-selling review manual has been thoroughly updated to reflect the College Board’s elimination of the Level AB course and the updated Level A syllabus. The new edition presents three full-length AP practice exams for the Level A course. The first exam is a diagnostic test...