Selected Readings

I like reading. Among the books I read, I strongly recommend some of them here. The books are clustered into following categories.

• Among the last 10 books I read
• Beyond computer science
• General computer science
• Must-read textbooks in computer science

Among the last 10 books I read

• 南渡记, by 宗璞
• 倚天屠龙记, by 金庸
• Modeling the Internet and the Web: Probabilistic Methods and Algorithms, by Pierre Baldi, Paolo Frasconi, Padhraic Smyth, Wiley, 2003.
• 飞狐外传, by 金庸
• 雪山飞狐, by 金庸
• Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age, by Duncan J. Watts, Norton, 2004.
• 侠客行, by 金庸.
• The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown, Doubleday; 1st ed edition, 2003.
• Imitation of Life: How Biology Is Inspiring Computing, by Nancy Forbes, The MIT Press, 2004.
• Behind Deep Blue: Building the Computer that Defeated the World Chess Champion, by Feng-Hsiung Hsu, Princeton University Press, 2004.

Beyond Computer Science

• The Elements of Style (4th Edition), by William Strunk Jr., E.B. White and Roger Angell, Longman, 2000.

General Computer Science

• Out of Their Minds: The Lives and Discoveries of 15 Great Computer Scientists, by Dennis Shasha and Cathy Lazere, Copernicus, 1998.

Must-read/Very Useful Textbooks in Computer Science

• Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer Science (2nd Edition), by Ronald L. Graham, Donald E. Knuth, and Oren Patashnik, Addison-Wesley, 1994.
• Databases and Transaction Processing: An Application-Oriented Approach, by Philip M. Lewis, Arthur Bernstein, and Michael Kifer, Addison Wesley, 2002.
• Database Systems Concepts (4th Edition, with Oracle CD), by Abraham Silberschatz, Henry F. Korth, and S. Sudarshan, McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math, 2001.
• Database Systems: The Complete Book, by Hector Garcia-Molina, Jeffrey D. Ullman, and Jennifer D. Widom, Prentice Hall, 2001.
• Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques, by Jiawei Han and Micheline Kamber, Morgan Kaufmann, 2000.
• Introduction to Algorithms (2nd Edition), by Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, and Clifford Stein, The MIT Press, 2001.
• An Introduction to Bioinformatics Algorithms, by Neil C. Jones and Pavel A. Pevzner, Bradford Books, 2004.
• Machine Learning, by Tom M. Mitchell, McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math, 1997.
• Mining the Web, by Soumen Chakrabarti, Morgan Kaufmann, 2003.
• Modern Information Retrieval, by Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Berthier Ribiero-Neto, and Berthier Ribeiro-Neto, Pearson Education, 1999.
• Modern Operating Systems (2nd Edition), by Andrew Tanenbaum, Prentice Hall, 2001.

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