Writing code is easy. Managing humans is not. You need a book to help you do it, and this is it.

The text presents fundamental concepts and foundational techniques such as processor design, pipelined processors, memory and I/O systems, and especially superscalar organization and implementations.

"Presents the fundamentals of hardware technologies, assembly language, computer arithmetic, pipelining, memory hierarchies and I/O"--Provided by publisher.

" This book offers discourse and practical advice on the privacy issue in the age of big data, the rise of Facebook nation, and Total Information Awareness.

This new guide to JPEG and its technologies offers detailed information on the new JPEG signaling conventions and the structure of JPEG compressed data.

This book is your concise guide to Ansible, the simple way to automate apps and IT infrastructure.

"This book presents current research on all aspects of domain-specific language for scholars and practitioners in the software engineering fields, providing new results and answers to open problems in DSL research"--

This book describes warehouse-scale computers (WSCs), the computing platforms that power cloud computing and all the great web services we use every day.

This authoritative volume provides an optimal description of the principles and applications of computer network security in particular, and cyberspace security in general.

Audience The book is suitable for self-study or for use in classes. Most parts of the book have been used by the authors in their teaching of various topics including distributed systems, computer networks, and distributed database systems.