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The following books are reviewed: Electrical and Control Engineering & Materials Science and Manufacturing by S. Qin and X. Li; Power Cable Technology by S.K. Ganguli and V. Kohli; Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Information Science (EEEIS2015) by J. Wang and X. Li; Electronic Design Automation for IC System Design, Verification, and Testing (Volume 1), 2nd Edition by L. Lavagno, I.L. Markov, G. Martin, and L.K. Scheffer; Electronic Design Automation for IC Implementation, Circuit Design, and Process Technology (Volume 2), 2nd Edition by L. Lavagno, I.L. Markov, G. Martin, and L.K. Scheffer; High Temperature Corrosion by A. S. Khanna; Micro Energy Harvesting D. Briand, E. Yeatman, and S. Roundy; Introduction to the RF Design Using EM Simulators by H. Kogure, Y. Kogure, and J.C. Rautio. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

We begin our feature series with a profile of Len Dissado. We spoke over Zoom, with Dissado joining in from his “house made of books,” where he estimates there are at least a thousand volumes. In a thoughtful, and at times hilarious, conversation, we discussed his prolific work and everything from badminton to Greek coffee. Dissado shared more stories and endless insights into science and society than we could include in an article. Speaking with him was a delight, and what follows is a mere glimpse into the life of this incomparable man. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reviews the book "Scientific Writing and Communication Papers, Proposals, and Presentations," by Angelika H. Hofmann.

In this paper, the effects of oscillator phase noise (PN) with arbitrary spectral characteristics on the self-interference (SI) cancelation capability of a full-duplex radio (FDR) transceiver are addressed, and design considerations for optimized phase-locked loop (PLL) design in FDR are given. This paper first presents a full-duplex transceiver model that inherently mitigates most of the phase-noise effects from the SI signal. The remaining effect of the PN is then analyzed, and closed-form expressions for the SI power are derived. In the simulations part, a practical PLL-type oscillator is used, which is based on the arbitrary mask phase-noise model. Analytical derivations are verified with the simulations, and the SI cancelation performance is thoroughly studied with various parameters. Design considerations are finally given for oscillator design in FDR transceivers, with the help of tangible parameters of the PLL-type oscillators. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reviews the book "Genetic Programming 1998: Proceedings of the Third Annual Conference," edited by J. R.Koza, K. Chellapilla, K. Deb, M. Dorigo, D. B. Fogel, M. H. Garzon, D. E. Goldberg, H. Iba and R. L. Riolo.

Reviews the book `Neural Networks Papers on the Internet,' by Wlodzislaw Duch.

This book is a comprehensive tutorial on photovoltaic technology. It is wonderfully written with very clear, concise, and in-depth technical explanations of photovoltaic (PV) devices and systems with many practical details that would help the researcher or engineer understand the technical details of PV array systems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reviews the book "Paper Prototyping: The Fast and Easy Way to Design and Refine User Interfaces," by Carolyn Snyder.

The article reviews several books, including "Analysis and Synthesis of Networked Control Systems," by Yuanqing Xia, Mengyin Fu and Guo-Ping Liu, "Control of Linear Parameter Varying Systems With Applications," edited by Javad Mohammadpour and Carsten W. Scherer, and "Dynamics of Charged Particulate Systems: Modeling, Theory and Computation," by Tarek I. Zohdi.

Software engineering (SE) is a multidimensional field that involves activities in various areas and disciplines, such as computer science, project management, and system engineering. Though modern SE curricula include designated courses that address these various subjects, an advanced summary course that synthesizes them is still missing. Such a course would enable young practitioners to get a comprehensive description of SE, to experience a genuine software development process, and to appreciate the relations and tradeoffs between the various domains of SE. This paper proposes a multidimensional SE course framework aimed at giving SE students just such comprehensive, cross-paradigm, practical, and theoretical experience and background. The course is organized along four axes: a) fundamentals of SE; b) practices and tools; c) productization; and d) technology evolution. Each of these axes, in themselves multifaceted, enables an examination of SE on various scales and from different perspectives; together they create a holistic multidimensional description of SE. The course is evaluated according to accepted criteria highlighting the course scope, pedagogic decisions, and relevance. The authors also describe their experience of teaching the course three times in the Tel Aviv University and the academic college of Tel-Aviv-Yaffo, Israel. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reviews the book 'Selected Papers on Analysis of Algorithms,' by Donald E. Knuth.

Presents a listing and summary of new books released on the topic of control systems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reviews the book 'Web-Based Training,' edited by Badrul Khan.

The article reviews Jeannine Mosely's exhibition to be held at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts on June 8, and at the Siggraph 2008 Convention in Los Angeles on August.

The article reviews several books on control systems, designs and theories, including "Complex Networks: Results of the 2009 International Workshop on Complex Networks (CompleNet 2009)," edited by Santo Fortunato, Giuseppe Mangioni, Ronaldo Menezes and Vincenzo Nicosia,"Real-Time Iterative Learning Control: Design and Applications," by Jian-Xin Xu, Sanjib K. Panda and Tong H. Lee and "Robust Power System Frequency Control," by Hassan Bevrani.

The article reviews the book "Handbook of Research on Open Source Software: Technological, Economic, and Social Perspectives," edited by Kirk St. Amant and Brian Still.

This book gives engineering educators a useful global perspective on the state of ethics education in their discipline. The principle strength of the book is the geographical diversity of the 17 contributors to this volume. Not only is India represented, but so is the U.S., U.K, Holland, Spain, Denmark, Finland, Malaysia, and Sudan. Obviously, Europe and Asia have a strong presence and there are multiple entries from the U.S., but there is alas nothing from South America or Australia. The book consists of a series of short essays by, for the most part, professors whose job it is to teach professional ethics to engineering students. Strange to say there is no one here from industry describing what ethical practices he/she might require in a newly hired engineer. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As the first narrative to integrate the many dimensions of cybernetics into a single narrative, this book presents a new answer to this crucial question. For Ronald Kline, cybernetics was most critically a site of contestation, and more specifically of what sociologists term boundary work. Practitioners continuously fought over and redrew the borders of cybernetics, demarcating it from adjacent disciplines like information theory, general systems theory, and bionics, and dividing cybernetics itself into subdisciplines like management cybernetics and medical cybernetics. Many of the founders of the field had the ambition to create a universal discipline, but Kline emphasizes their failure to do so, as practitioners disagreed about the content of cybernetics, fractured it into more narrowly defined disciplines, or carried lessons back to traditional disciplines and, thus, abandoned the project of building a new one. Kline's emphasis on boundary work is supported by his careful attention to shifting alliances, discourses, and research programs. He points out, for example, that the cofounders of cybernetics who attended the Macy Conferences in the 1940s and 1950s focused on feedback and circular causality only in their first meetings; after about 1949, they fixed their attention firmly on the question of how to measure information. Concepts and discourses of information remain a central dimension of the book from that point forward; it devotes a chapter to how scientists constructed information theory as a distinct discipline in the 1950s, and another to how the phrases information technology and information society became ubiquitous tools for making sense of technology and society in the 1980s and 1990s. Kline's accounts of the relationships between cybernetics and the fringe are strongest in these accounts of the 1950s, when many of those involved were canonical founders of cybernetics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a fast codebook search method for improving the quantization complexity of full-search vector quantization (VQ). The proposed method is built on the planar Voronoi diagram to label a ripple search domain. Then, the appropriate codeword can easily be found just by searching the local region instead of global exploration. In order to take a step further and obtain the close result full-search VQ would, we equip the proposed method with a duplication mechanism that helps to bring down the possible quantizing distortion to its lowest level. According to the experimental results, the proposed method is indeed capable of providing better outcome at a faster quantization speed than the existing partial-search methods. Moreover, the proposed method only requires a little extra storage for duplication. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The following books are reviewed in this issue of the publication: High Power Microwave Tubes—Basics and Trends, V. Kesari and B. N. Basu; A-Level Chemistry's Best Kept Secrets!—What Top Students Know That You Don't, D. Tan and L. Pereira; An Introduction to Chemical Kinetics, C. Vallance; Control of Power Electronic Converters and Systems, Volume 1, F. Blaabjerg; Wireless Sensor Systems for Extreme Environments, H. F. Rashvand and A. Abedi; Transformer Aging-Monitoring and Estimation Techniques, T. K. Saha and P. Purkait; Quantum Field Theory, H. Fritzsch. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The two-dimensional (2-D) prolate spheroidal wave function (2-D PSWF) method was previously introduced as an efficient method for trading off between spatial and temporal resolution in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), with minimal penalty due to truncation and partial volume effects. In the 2-D PSWF method, the k-space sampling area and a matching 2-D PSWF filter, with optimal signal concentration and minimal truncation artifacts, are determined by the shape and size of a given convex region of interest (ROI). The spatial information in the reduced k-space data is used to calculate the total image intensity over a nonsquare ROI instead of producing a low-resolution image. This method can be used for tracking dynamic signals from non-square ROIs using a reduced k-space sampling area, while achieving minimal signal leakage. However, the previous theory is limited to the case of rectilinear sampling. In order to make the 2-D PSWF method more suitable for dynamic studies, this paper presents a generalized version of the 2-D PSWF theory that can be applied to nonrectilinear data acquisition methods. The method is applied to an fMRI study using a spiral trajectory, which illustrates the methods efficiency at tracking hemodynamic signals with high temporal resolution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reviews the book "Collision-Based Computing," edited by Andrew Adamatzky.

High-Frequency Magnetic Components, 2nd Edition by M. K. Kazimierczuk, Electric Power Distribution Engineering, 3rd Edition by T. Gonen, GIS Gas-Insulated Substations by H. Koch, editor, Filamentary Ion Flow by F. Lattarulo and V. Amoruso, Fundamentals of Picoscience by K. D. Sattler, Editor, High-Voltage Test and Measuring Techniques by W. Hauschild and E. Lemke, High Voltage Engineering by F. A. M. Rizk and G. N. Trinh, Chemistry of Nanomaterials by C. N. R. Rao, [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Reviews the book "Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE International Conference on Evolutionary Computation."

The following books are reviewed in this issue of the publication: Pantograph and Contact Line System, J. Wu; Engineering Analysis with ANSYS Software, 2nd Edition, T. Stolarski, Y. Nakasone, and S. Yoshimoto; Thermosets—Structure, Properties, and Applications, 2nd Edition, Q. Guo; Current Signature Analysis for Condition Monitoring of Cage Induction Motors—Industrial Application and Case Histories, W. T. Thomson and I. Culbert; Printable Solar Cells, N. D. Sankir and M. Sankir; Black TiO2 Nanomaterials for Energy Applications, X. Chen and Y. Cui; [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The following two books are reviewed: ENIAC ENIAC in Action: Making and Remaking the Modern Computer (Haigh, T., et al; 2016) and FastLane: Managing Science in the Internet World (Misa, T.J. and Yost, J.R.; 2015). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reviews the book `From Memex to Hypertext,' edited by James M. Nyce and Paul Kahn.

This book is a compendium of papers edited by Ahmed S. Khan, an educator and researcher at DeVry University in Addison, IL, U.S.A. DeVry University, whose presence now is mainly but not exclusively online, is a descendant of the former DeVry Technical Institute. The same kinds of technology that enable us to put billions of transistors on a single chip have led to the ability to make increasingly complex nanostructures for a wide variety of other uses, ranging from electronics to chemistry and medicine. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Reviews the book "Adaptive Computing in Design and Manufacture," by I. C. Parmee.

Reviews the book 'The Peopleware Papers: Notes on the Human Side of Software,' by Larry L. Constantine.

The article reviews the book "UAV Cooperative Decision and Control: Challenges and Practical Approaches," by Tal Shima and Steven Rasmussen.

Reviews the book `Sonet/SDH: A Sourcebook of Synchronous Networking,' edited by C. A. Siller and M. Shafi.

Reviews the book "Electronics on Unconventional Substrates--Electrotextiles and Giant-Area Flexible Circuits," edited by M.S. Shur, P.M. Wilson and D. Urban.

The article describes several courses offered at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, New York, namely Computer Science 401/402 and Electrical Engineering 401/402. It outlines the goals, objectives, and requirements of these courses, which are basically introductory courses to design and project management. It describes the measures taken to ensure that students get the most out of a multidisciplinary approach to teaching research and development. It features Gibraltar, a hardware and software system for mobile device security developed by students taking the courses described here.

Reviews the book "Convex Optimization," by Stephen Boyd and Lieven Vandenberghe.

A theory is developed for jointly minimizing the bit error rate (BER) between the desired and decoded signals with respect to the coefficients of transmitter and receiver finite impulse response (FIR) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) filters. The original signal is assumed to be a vector time-series with equally likely memory less Bernoulli vector components. The channel model constitutes of a known FIR MIMO transfer function and Gaussian additive noise independent of the original signal. The channel input signal is assumed to be power constrained. Based on the formulas obtained, an iterative numerical optimization algorithm is proposed. When compared with other design methods available in the literature, the proposed method yields better results due to the generality of the model considered and the joint optimization of the transmitter-receiver pair. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reviews the book 'Understanding Writing Blocks,' by Keith Hjortshoj.

The following books are reviewed: Computational Intelligence Applications in Smart Grids by A.F. Zobaa and A. Vaccaro; Tailoring of Nanocomposite Dielectrics by T. Tanaka and A.S. Vaughan; Smart Microgrids-Lessons from Campus Microgrid Design and Implementation by H. Farhangi; Principles and Applications of Ubiquitous Sensing by W. Dargie; Understanding Symmetrical Components for Power System Modeling by J.C. Das; Internet of Things and Data Analytics Handbook by H. Geng; Physics of Digital Photography by A. Rowlands [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Books reviewed are: Photovoltaic Laboratory-Safety, Code-Compliance,and Commercial Off-the-Shelf Equipment, by P. T. Parrish, CRC Press Taylor & Francis Group; Dielectrics in Electric Fields,2nd Edition by, G. G. Raju CRC Press Taylor & Francis Group; Advanced Piezoelectric Materials-Science and Technology by K. Uchino, editor Woodhead Publishing; Introduction to Modern Power Electronics, 3rd Edition, by A. M. Trzynadlowski John Wiley & Sons Inc.; Engineering Electrodynamics, by J. Turowski and M. Turowski CRC Press Taylor & Francis Group; Discharge in Long Air Gaps-Modeling and Applications, by A. Beroual and I. Fofana IOP Publishing; Impedance Source Power Electronic Converters by Y. Liu, H. Abu-Rub, F. Blaabjerg, O.Ellabban, and P. C. Loh, John Wiley & Sons Inc. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The books that reviewed are: Sensors and Actuators, 2nd Edition C. W. de Silva; Short-Range Optical Wireless?Theory and Applications M. Kavehrad, M. I. Sakib Chowdhury, and Z. Zhou; Handbook for the Chemical Analysis of Plastic and Polymer Additives, 2nd Edition M. Bolgar, J. Hubball, J. Groeger, and S. Meronek; Handbook of Power Management Circuits H. Kobayashi and T. Nabeshima, Editors; Introduction to the Micromechanics of Composite Materials H. Yin and Y. Zhao; Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics, Volume 7, 2016 M. Cristina Marchetti and S. Sachdev, Editors; Building Valve Amplifiers, 2nd Edition M. Jones; Nanomaterials?A Guide to Fabrication and Applications S. Krishnamoorthy and K. Iniewski, Editors [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This is an important and provocative book that effectively describes some major concerns of our era. Her target is electronic communications media that emerged in our time ? most notably the smartphone and handheld mobile devices like the iPad. Lest you think that the telephone?s ability to shape history and civilization are nothing compared to our newest communications gadets. The author believes in the power of conversation and see the new forms of electronic communication as eroding ways in which people communicate with one another. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]