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The chief goal of this text is to familiarize students with the concepts that provide the basis for modern digital computers. It seeks a balance between an over emphasis on the details of a specific machine and the need to provide students with hands-on experience. The body of the text presents general principles; however, this presentation has been organized so that laboratory exercises, providing the necessary hands-on experience, can be easily integrated with the material in the book. ... Read more

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Good first couple of chapters, but skims over important stuff.
The first two chapters of this book are helpful. The first chaper talks about converting bases and the second chapter just gives you an introduction to logic design. These are the only two helpful chapters. What I really didn't like about this book was that they just talked about an very important topic briefly. This was the RTL(Register Transfer Language). They talked about this in 1-2 pages even though the book needed to go into much more detail in this important topic.

I also didn't like how the book never posted solutions to ANY of its excercise problems that they gave to the reader at the end of the chapter. The book could have atleast given solutions to the odd ones.

But in defense of this book, they did do a good job of explaining instruction overlap(chapter 4) and the one, two, three adress architectures and the Load/Store architecture of Risc. This is all in chapter 4, so I would say that this is also a good chapter to read.

But in regards to opcodes, instructions, how many opcode bits and are in each type of adress architecture, memory banks, RTL, Its very poor. This was supposed to be explained in Chapter 3, but the author does a horrendous job of explaining it. If your taking a class alongside this book, you better hope that you have an instructor who clearly explains these types of concepts to you.

In conclusion, this book has its good moments(Chapter 1, 2, 4), but it skims over really important concepts.

Hi Guys!
I have the 1992 edition.This book is not for the Joe Blow 'computer professional'.It is intensely academic. This book is NOT in 'lay' terms...also, it often glazes over EXTREMELY complex topics.The level of diction for this book isfairly high.Not recommended for your dime store MCSE.

Provides a nice overview but not much depth
This book provides a overview of how the computer operates internally, but lacks in real world or specific examples.Many of the questions/examplesare overly generic because the author tries to cover many platforms insteadof just one or two major platforms. ... Read more

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Covers number system, digital devices, logic design, central processing unit, I/O processors and arithmetic processor, system software and programming. ... Read more

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A Good book for students
This is one of my most favorite computer science books. If some chapters in this book (especially chapter 13 & 14) could be replaced with newer stuffs in this field, I will give 4 stars to this wonderful book.Theauthor is the person who totally understand teaching arts and can expressthe very complicated materials in a simple and clear way.So I like it. If you need one introductory book to the interface of both hardware &software, I recommend this book to you along with David A. Patterson'sComputer Organization and Design.As to my point, they're two of the bestchoices for your interest.

A Good book for students
This is one of my most favorite computer science books. If some chapters in this book (especially chapter 13 & 14) could be replaced with newer stuffs in this field, I will give 4 stars to this wonderful book.Theauthor is the person who totally understand teaching arts and can expressthe very complicated materials in a simple and clear way.So I like it. If you need one introductory book to the interface of both hardware &software, I recommend this book to you along with David A. Patterson'sComputer Organization and Design.As to my point, they're two of the bestchoices for your interest. ... Read more

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This case study rigorously investigates village spatial organization and vernacular architecture of the Early Neolithic village of Beidha in southern Jordan. Around 10,000 years ago, humans began to establish farming villages in a variety of settings across Southwest Asia. Yet the changes in community social organization associated with this fundamental economic development have remained largely unexplored. This volume reveals that fundamental changes occurred over time in the built environment. Individual households became more independent and public buildings were increasingly important venues for conducting community-wide activities that served to integrate the village. This study will be of interest both to Southwest Asian archaeologists and all those interested in how early villages were formed. ... Read more

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Current Grid enabling technologies consist of stand-alone architectures.A typical architecture provides middleware access to various services at different hierarchical levels.Computational Grids enable the sharing, selection and aggregation of a wide variety of geographically distributed computation resources (such as supercomputers, clusters of computers, storage systems, data sources, instruments, people etc.) and present them as a single, unified resource for solving large-scale computations and data intensive computing applications (e.g. engineering problems, molecular modelling for drug design, brain activity analysis, high energy physics, etc.)Grid Computing is a newly emerging research area, which aims to promote the development and advancement of technologies that provide seamless and scalable access to wide-area distributed resources.This book is an excellent reference for the realisation and use of various Grid technology issues.It contains a significant amount of expository and explanatory material, which is structured in a modular fashion.Working experts describe their implementation research including results that are divided into two parts of self-standing chapters, each part surveying several subjects of interest in the areas of web services, middleware and distributed and Grid computing methodologies.The book as a text and research material is aimed at graduate/postgraduate students and researchers working in the area of Grid technologies.It can also be used by educators at these levels to illustrate the use and methods of Grid computing.Because the mathematical analyses are lucid and various case studies are focused upon and dealt with, it can also serve as a good reference book for practitioners in this field worldwide. ... Read more

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Cooperative Buildings, CoBuild'99, held in Pittsburgh, PA, USA in October 1999. The 15 revised full papers presented together with two short papers, two posters, and one demo were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 33 submissions. The book is divided in chapters on integrated workplace design and architecture, critical technologies, meeting and conference environments, infrastructure, methodology and empirical studies, and networked home environments. ... Read more

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This hands-on guide aims to show how to anticipate change in today's business world, and respond to that change in order to come out on top. The text is illustrated with case studies, practical examples and step-by-step instructions. ... Read more

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A fundamental comprehensive of software reuse in business management and engineering. Provides strategies, analysis, and product line architecting advice. DLC: Software engineeringAmazon.com Review
Software reuse sounds great in principle (why rewrite code youhave always written once?), but converting principle to practice hasproved daunting. Software Reuse explains what it takes tobuild reusable software, from business characteristics to engineeringrequirements to techniques you can implement during design stages. ... Read more

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Great place to start
This is an excellent book for developers, architects, project managers, and development managers.It clearly explains how to adjust your development practices to achieve reuse at all levels.I found it particularly helpful in diagnosing common management issues that hinder reuse practices.This book has helped me gather the information needed to effectively establish reusability.

Read it, read it, read it!
Don't limit yourself to code reusability. This book goes further. Think about reusability from the beginning, put it into your analysis and design models.

The book talks about an _architecture_ and a _process_ toachieve software reusability. I found the book hard to read. Sometimes Ifelt they did not "hit-the-ground". My problem? I was thinking incode. Don't let that happen to you.

The authors talk about a completeorganized process to achieve reusability. The book is a must if you arethinking in reusability.

Read it!

A comprehensive approach to effective Software Reuse
Having reviewed this book before and after it's publication, I can say without a doubt that this is the best book to date on how to implement a effective, systematic reuse program. The book addresses all aspects of Software Reuse, from organizational factors to implementation technologies. All the authors have experience with implementing reuse programs in the real world, and they speak from experience as well as from expertise. If you are at all interested in Software Reuse, or with improving software development productivity, you need this book. ... Read more

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This book brings together seminal articles by leading scholars of technological and organizational systems, exploring the impact of 'modularity'. Modularity refers to an ability to take apart and put together differenct products and networks, or to 'mix and match' components in order to meet different user specifications. This is of key importance today where new systems such as the World Wide Web and many areas of the computer industry depend on it. The volume pulls together and defines an exciting new area of inquiry: into how our 'modular age' is reshaping the business eco-system.

• Includes contributions from leading scholars of technology and organization
  
• Modularity refers to an ability to take apart and put together different products and systems, or to 'mix and match' components in order to meet different user specifications.
  
• Consolidates and defines an area of inquiry that is becoming increasingly important with the development of web-based and 'network' industries.
  
• Sensitizes readers to the complexity of issues surrounding new modular products and systems created by e-business
  
• Encourages readers to make connections among different levels and disciplines.
  
• Initiates a debate around issues of modularity.
  
• Includes a commentary co-authored by the late Nobel Laureate Herbert A. Simon to whom the book is dedicated.

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Since its beginnings in 1977, the Aga Khan Award for Architecture has contributed enormously to the architecture profession in the Muslim world. With the foremost practitioners and experts on its first Steering Committee, its key statements were "A Search for Excellence" and "Quality of the Built Environment". This book documents the history of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture now in its fifth cycle. The text looks at architecture from a social, cultural and intellectual point of view and considers conservation projects and the building of institutions. There is also an informative retrospective of the awards. Contributors include Ron Lewcock, Suha Ozkhan, John de Monchaux, Don Mowatt, Hasan Uddin Khan, Mohammed Al-Asad, Peter Davey and many others. ... Read more

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This thematically arranged book displays the full range of the Aga Khan's patronage of architecture.

The Aga Khan is one of the most ardent patrons of architecture and historic preservation in the world. Since inheriting his title as spiritual leader of the Shia Imami Ismaili Muslims, usually known as Ismailis, fifty years ago, he has fostered and commissioned numerous structures and restored a multitude of buildings from North America to East Africa. The prestigious Aga Khan Award for Architecture, first given in 1980, recognizes projects that benefit the Muslim world for their excellence in contemporary design, community improvement and development, restoration, re-use, and area conservation. For the first time, this book presents projects from universities and historic restoration programs that bear the Aga Khan's name to religious centers, museums, and development efforts in more than twenty countries. Through the Aga Khan Development Network, the Aga Khan occupies a unique place in the world of architecture and this book reveals the range and breadth of his activities. ... Read more

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Reveals emerging techniques for answering the challenges senior managers face today: improving organizational quality, inspiring team performance, and creating powerful long-range strategy. Presents a proven model for understanding organizations and demonstrates how it can be used to effect positive change in organizational systems.

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An Excellent Book!
An Excellent Book.. A Must For All The Managers In Any Organistaion. ... Read more