I wouldn t think it could be one s rst reading in the eld of parallel computation. However, with some real world experience in sequential software design and inspiration for applying parallelism, this book can be a very rich and educational resource. It is a bright light tower in the adventurous world of distributed and parallel computing. Finally, I thought it is worth mentioning that the book received the highest rating from readers who published their reviews on the web site of a very popular online book retailer. Review of Donald E. Knuth, Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About The University of Chicago Press, 2001, 257 pages. Reviewed by Ian Parberry7 , University of North Texas I was initially excited to receive this book to review, given that I ve occasionally had thoughts and even published an obscure paper about how complexity theory can tell us something about real life (in my case, knowledge and understanding). Knuth s book consists of transcripts of a series of six lectures given by Knuth at MIT in 1999 followed by the transcript of a panel discussion on Creativity, Spirituality, and Computer Science by Harry Lewis, Guy Steele, Manuela Veloso, Donald
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