From: Benjamin Goldberg
Subject: Book of great researchers in computer science
Date:
Message-ID: <44bon1$sob@cmcl2.NYU.EDU>
A colleague of mine, Dennis Shasha, has co-written a book based
on interviews with 15 famous computer scientists. I'm posting
this note here because both John Backus and John MacCarthy
are featured in the book.
Below is more information, if you are interested.
-Ben Goldberg
Dept. of CS, NYU
OUT OF THEIR MINDS
The Lives and Discoveries of 15 Great Computer Scientists
Dennis Shasha and Cathy Lazere
A collection of 15 short biographies of great living computer
scientists. The technical level ranges from standard biography
(untechnical) to a verbal description of the fundamental ideas in an
algorithm, architecture, language or AI technique. The more you know,
the more you'll enjoy the book, but people who simply like biographies
also like the book.
For more information and excerpts, please see
http://cs.nyu.edu/cs/faculty/shasha/outofmind.html
Publisher:
Copernicus
An Imprint of Springer-Verlag, New York, Inc.
175 Fifth Avenue
New York, New York 10010
ISBN: 0-387-97992-1 (August, 1995), $23.
To order by phone: (US and Canada) 1-800-777-4643;
(Other Americas, Europe, and Africa) (49) 30-82-071, Berlin office; and
(Asia and Australia) (852) 72-73-96-98, Hong Kong office.
To order by email: (US, Canada, and Mexico) ······@springer-ny.com
(elsewhere) ······@springer.de