Today's Web-enabled deluge of electronic data calls for automated methods of data analysis. Machine learning provides these, developing methods that can automatically detect patterns in data and then use the uncovered patterns to predict future data. This textbook offers a comprehensive and self-contained introduction to the field of machine learning, a unified, probabilistic approach. The coverage combines breadth and depth, offering necessary background material on such topics as probability, optimization, and linear algebra as well as discussion of recent developments in the field, including conditional random fields, L1 regularization, and deep learning. The book is written in an informal, accessible style, complete with pseudo-code for the most important algorithms. All topics are copiously illustrated with color images and worked examples drawn from such application domains as biology, text processing, computer vision, and robotics. Rather than providing a cookbook of different heuristic methods, the book stresses a principled model-based approach, often using the language of graphical models to specify models in a concise and intuitive way. Almost all the models described have been implemented in a MATLAB software package--PMTK (probabilistic modeling toolkit)--that is freely available online. The book is suitable for upper-level undergraduates with an introductory-level college math background and beginning graduate students.

数据时代已经到来，但数据分析、数据挖掘人才却十分短缺。由于“大数据”对每个领域的决定性影响，　相对于经验和直觉，在商业、经济及其他领域中基于数据和分析去发现问题并作出科学、客观的决策越来越重要。开源软件R是世界上最流行的数据分析、统计计算及制图语言，几乎能够完成任何数据处理任务，可安装并运行于所有主流平台，为我们提供了成千上万的专业模块和实用工具，是从大数据中获取有用信息的绝佳工具。　　本书从解决实际问题入手，尽量跳脱统计学的理论阐述来讨论R语言及其应用，讲解清晰透澈，极具实用性。作者不仅高度概括了R语言的强大功能、展示了各种实用的统计示例，而且对于难以用传统方法分析的凌乱、不完整和非正态的数据也给出了完备的处理方法。通读本书，你将全面掌握使用R语言进行数据分析、数据挖掘的技巧，并领略大量探索和展示数据的图形功能，从而更加高效地进行分析与沟通。想要成为倍受高科技企业追捧的、炙手可热的数据分析师吗？想要科学分析数据并正确决策吗？不妨从本书开始，挑战大数据，用R开始炫酷的数据统计与分析吧！　　本书内容：　　R安装与操作
数据导入/导出及格式化双变量关系的描述性分析回归分析
模型适用性的评价方法以及结果的可视化
用图形实现变量关系的可视化
在给定置信度的前提下确定样本量
高级统计分析方法和高级绘图

《算法设计手册(第2版)》是算法设计畅销书的最新版本，是设计实用且高效算法的最全面指导书。《算法设计手册(第2版)》揭密了算法的设计与分析，以简单易懂的写作风格，介绍了各种算法技术，着重强调了算法分析，全书包括两大部分，“技术”部分介绍了设计和分析计算机算法的各种方法，“资源”部分给出了大量的参考资源，以及算法实现的各种资源，此外，在作者的个人网址http：／／www．CS．sunysb．edu／～algorith／I-还提供了各种教学资源和参考材料，这些资源对读者很有参考价值。
《算法设计手册(第2版)》可以作为算法设计课程的主教材，也是程序人员、研究人员和学生的常备参考书。

"Simulation," writes Gary Flake in his preface, "becomes a form of experimentation in a universe of theories. The primary purpose of this book is to celebrate this fact."In this book, Gary William Flake develops in depth the simple idea that recurrent rules can produce rich and complicated behaviors. Distinguishing "agents" (e.g., molecules, cells, animals, and species) from their interactions (e.g., chemical reactions, immune system responses, sexual reproduction, and evolution), Flake argues that it is the computational properties of interactions that account for much of what we think of as "beautiful" and "interesting." From this basic thesis, Flake explores what he considers to be today's four most interesting computational topics: fractals, chaos, complex systems, and adaptation.Each of the book's parts can be read independently, enabling even the casual reader to understand and work with the basic equations and programs. Yet the parts are bound together by the theme of the computer as a laboratory and a metaphor for understanding the universe. The inspired reader will experiment further with the ideas presented to create fractal landscapes, chaotic systems, artificial life forms, genetic algorithms, and artificial neural networks.

This book introduces the geometry of 3-D vision, that is, the reconstruction of 3-D models of objects from a collection of 2-D images. It details the classic theory of two view geometry and shows that a more proper tool for studying the geometry of multiple views is the so-called rank consideration of the multiple view matrix. It also develops practical reconstruction algorithms and discusses possible extensions of the theory.

The P-NP problem is the most important open problem in computer science, if not all of mathematics. The Golden Ticket provides a nontechnical introduction to P-NP, its rich history, and its algorithmic implications for everything we do with computers and beyond. In this informative and entertaining book, Lance Fortnow traces how the problem arose during the Cold War on both sides of the Iron Curtain, and gives examples of the problem from a variety of disciplines, including economics, physics, and biology. He explores problems that capture the full difficulty of the P-NP dilemma, from discovering the shortest route through all the rides at Disney World to finding large groups of friends on Facebook. But difficulty also has its advantages. Hard problems allow us to safely conduct electronic commerce and maintain privacy in our online lives. The Golden Ticket explores what we truly can and cannot achieve computationally, describing the benefits and unexpected challenges of the P-NP problem.

《C 语言的科学和艺术(英文版)》是一本计算机科学的经典教材，强调软件工程和优秀的程序设计风格。此外，学生还可以从书中学习到ANSI C的基础知识，这些内容已经成为计算行业的标准。作者的写作风格使得书中深奥的概念变得易于理解和引人入胜。
《C 语言的科学和艺术(英文版)》集中讨论库和抽象的用法，这是当代程序设计技术中最基本的知识。作者使用库来隐藏C语言的复杂性，更加突出主题。使学生可以较好地掌握每一个主题的精髓。然后，进一步给出每个库的底层实现，较好地展示了库自身的抽象威力。