Legally Free Computer Books
This free online book “PVM: Parallel Virtual Machine: A Users’ Guide and Tutorial for Network Parallel Computing” introduces distributed computing, discusses where and how to get the PVM software, provides an overview of PVM and a tutorial on setting up and running existing programs, and introduces basic programming techniques. …
Numerical Computation Guide by Sun Microsystems. This manual describes the floating-point environment supported by software and hardware on SPARCTM and x86 platforms running the Solaris operating system. …
Free eBook “Intelligent Vision Systems for Industry” by Bruce G. Batchelor and Paul F. Whelan. The application of intelligent imaging techniques to industrial vision problems is an evolving aspect of current machine vision research. …
Free eBook “Image processing and data analysis: The multiscale approach” by Jean-Luc Starck, Centre d’´ Etudes de Saclay and Fionn Murtagh. …
Free online book “A short introduction to operating systems” by Mark Burgess. An operating system is a layer of software which takes care of technical aspects of a computer’s operation. …
Free online book “Funding a Revolution: Government Support for Computing Research” addresses how the U.S. computing and communication industries achieved developmental fertility, on what they are built. Funding a Revolution examines the history of computing since World War II to elucidate the federal government’s role in funding computing research, supporting the education of computer scientists and engineers, and equipping university research labs. …
Information technology has been touted as a boon for productivity, but measuring the benefits has been difficult. This volume examines what macroeconomic data do and do not show about the impact of information technology on service-sector productivity. …
In this book, industry and academic experts provide a detailed assessment of the current state of the art for building trustworthy networked information systems. They propose new directions for research in computer and network security, software technology, and system architecture. …
Virtual Reality is the first integrated treatment of the topic, presenting current knowledge along with thought-provoking vignettes about a future where SE is commonplace. …
Free eBook “Parallel Complexity Theory” by Ian Parberry. This research monograph contains information on the foundations of a complexity theory for parallel computation. Parallel Complexity Theory, formerly published by Pitman & Wiley in 1987. Parallel complexity theory, the study of resource-bounded parallel computation, is surely one of the fastest-growing areas of theoretical Computer Science (ed: this book was written in 1987). …