ACM Books

ACM Books is a new series of high quality books for the computer science community. Collection 1 was published by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) with Morgan & Claypool Publishers. Collection 2 is published by ACM and distributed by Morgan & Claypool.

The books are available for individuals in print and e-book format on this site.

Purchasing for libraries is available through the ACM at their web site: ACM Books.

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	Edsger Wybe Dijkstra Krzysztof R. Apt, Tony Hoare Edsger Wybe Dijkstra (1930–2002) was one of the most influential researchers in the history of computer science, making fundamental contributions to both the theory and practice of computing. Early in his career, he proposed the single-sourc… Publication Date: July, 2022 Read More
	Spatial Gems John Krumm, Andreas Züfle, Cyrus Shahabi PRE-PUB SAVINGS! This book presents fundamental new techniques for understanding and processing geospatial data. These “spatial gems” articulate and highlight insightful ideas that often remain unstated in graduate tex… Publication Date: July, 2022 Read More
	Weaving Fire into Form Brygg Ullmer, Orit Shaer, Ali Mazalek, Caroline Hummels This book investigates multiple facets of the emerging discipline of Tangible, Embodied, and Embedded Interaction (TEI). This is a story of atoms and bits. We explore the interweaving of the physical and digital, toward understanding some of t… Publication Date: July, 2022 Read More
	Circuits, Packets, and Protocols James L. Pelkey, Andrew L. Russell, Loring G. Robbins Circuits, Packets, and Protocols tells the story of the engineers, entrepreneurs, investors, and visionaries who laid the groundwork and built the foundations of the Internet. In the late 1960s, two American corporate behe… Publication Date: April, 2022 Read More
	Probabilistic and Causal Inference Hector Geffner, Rina Dechter, Joseph Halpern Professor Judea Pearl won the 2011 Turing Award “for fundamental contributions to artificial intelligence through the development of a calculus for probabilistic and causal reasoning.” This book contains the original articles that led to the awar… Publication Date: Marc Read More
	Applied Affective Computing Leimin Tian, Sharon Oviatt, Michal Muszynski, Brent Chamberlain, Jennifer Healey, Akane Sano This book offers readers an overview of the state-of-the-art and emerging themes in affective computing, including a comprehensive review of the existing approaches to affective computing systems and social signal processing. It prov… Publication Date: February, 2022 Read More
	The VR Book Jason Jerald “Dr. Jerald has recognized a great need in our community and filled it. The VR Book is a scholarly and comprehensive treatment of the user interface dynamics surrounding the development and application of virtual reality. I have made it a re… Publication Date: November 4, 2015 Read More
	Theories of Programming Cliff B. Jones, Jayadev Misra Sir Tony Hoare has had an enormous influence on computer science, from the Quicksort algorithm to the science of software development, concurrency and program verification. His contributions have been widely recognised: He was awar… Publication Date: October, 2021 Read More
	The Handbook on Socially Interactive Agents Birgit Lugrin, Catherine Pelachaud, David Traum The Handbook on Socially Interactive Agents provides a comprehensive overview of the research fields of Embodied Conversational Agents, Intelligent Virtual Agents, and Social Robotics. Socially Interactive Agents (SIAs), wheth… Publication Date: September, 2021 Read More
	Software Kim W. Tracy Software history has a deep impact on current software designers, computer scientists, and technologists. System constraints imposed in the past and the designs that responded to them are often unknown or poorly understood by students and prac… Publication Date: September, 2020 Read More
	Event Mining for Explanatory Modeling Laleh Jalali, Ramesh Jain This book introduces the concept of Event Mining for building explanatory models from analyses of correlated data. Such a model may be used as the basis for predictions and corrective actions. The idea is to create, via an iterative … Publication Date: May, 2021 Read More
	Intelligent Computing for Interactive System Design (Eds.) Parisa Eslambolchilar, Mark Dunlop, Andreas Komninos Intelligent Computing for Interactive System Design provides a comprehensive resource on what has become the dominant paradigm in designing novel interaction methods, involving gestures, speech, text, touch and brain-controlled interaction, em… Publication Date: February, 2021 Read More
	Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist, Third Edition Dean Allemang, James Hendler, Fabien Gandon Enterprises have made amazing advances by taking advantage of data about their business to provide predictions and understanding of their customers, markets, and products. But as the world of business becomes more interconnected and global, enterpris… Publication Date: August, 2020 Read More
	Code Nation Michael J. Halvorson Code Nation explores the rise of software development as a social, cultural, and technical phenomenon in American history. The movement germinated in government and university labs during the 1950s, gained momentum through cor… Publication Date: May, 2020 Read More
	Computing and the National Science Foundation, 1950-2016 Peter A. Freeman, W. Richards Adrion, William Aspray This organizational history relates the role of the National Science Foundation (NSF) in the development of modern computing. Drawing upon new and existing oral histories, extensive use of NSF documents, and the experience of two of the authors as se… Publication Date: November, 2019 Read More
	Concurrency: The Works of Leslie Lamport Dahlia Malkhi This book is a celebration of Leslie Lamport’s work on concurrency, interwoven in four-and-a-half decades of an evolving industry: from the introduction of the first personal computer to an era when parallel and distributed multiprocessors are abunda… Publication Date: October, 2019 Read More
	Providing Sound Foundations for Cryptography: On the work of Shafi Goldwasser and Silvio Micali Oded Goldreich Cryptography is concerned with the construction of schemes that withstand any abuse. A cryptographic scheme is constructed so as to maintain a desired functionality, even under malicious attempts aimed at making it deviate from its prescribed behavio… Publication Date: October, 2019 Read More
	The Essentials of Modern Software Engineering Ivar Jacobson, Harold Bud Lawson, Pan-Wei Ng, Paul E. McMahon, Michael Goedicke TEXTBOOK DESCRIPTION (see below for Professionals) The first course in software engineering is the most critical. Education must start from an understanding of the heart of software development, from … Publication Date: July, 2019 Read More
	The Handbook of Multimodal-Multisensor Interfaces, Volume 3 Sharon Oviatt, Bjorn Schuller, Philip R. Cohen, Daniel Sonntag, Gerasimos Potamianos, Antonio Krueger The Handbook of Multimodal-Multisensor Interfaces provides the first authoritative resource on what has become the dominant paradigm for new computer interfaces-user input involving new media (speech, multi-touch, hand an… Publication Date: June, 2019 Read More
	Hardness of Approximation Between P and NP Aviad Rubinstein Nash equilibrium is the central solution concept in Game Theory. Since Nash’s original paper in 1951, it has found countless applications in modeling strategic behavior of traders in markets, (human) drivers and (electronic) routers in congested netw… Publication Date: June, 2019 Read More

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