Algorithms to Live By by Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths is a book written for a general audience about a number of ideas in computer science and how they are applied in practice. Despite the widespread interest in all things related to computers, very few such books have been written, and I know of no others that cover the particular subjects included here. The book gives clear, almost entir...

High quality mathematical illustration has long been a specialized craft, akin to the layout ofmusical scores or mathematical formulæ. Illustrating a proof, or drawing a graph, used to be difficult, and it is easy to find errors in the drawings in old books. Drawing errors are of course a problem for the understanding of a proof. Unfortunately, such cases are still common in the current scienti...

Climate science is employing increasingly complex models and simulations to analyze the past and predict the future of Earth’s climate. This growth in complexity is creating a widening gap between the data being produced and the ability to analyze the datasets. Parallel computing tools are necessary to analyze, compare, and interpret the simulation data. The Parallel Climate Analysis Toolkit (P...

BCI is one of the most intriguing technologies among other HCI systems, mostly because of its capability of recording brain activities. Spelling BCIs, which help paralyzed people to maintain communication, are one of the striking topics in the field of BCI. In this scientific a spelling BCI system with high transfer rate and accuracy that uses SSVEP signals is proposed.In addition, we suggested...