D is for Digital: What a well-informed person should know about computers and communications is now available at CreateSpace, a division of Amazon. This book is based on COS 109, Computers in Our World. It explains how today's computing and communications world operates, from hardware through software to the Internet and the web. It includes enough detail that you can understand how these systems work, no matter what the reader's technical background. The social, political and legal issues that new technology creates are discussed as well, so one can understand the difficult issues we face and appreciate the tradeoffs that have to be made to resolve them. It's intended as a compact but detailed and thorough explanation of how computers and communications systems work, for non-technical readers who want to better understand the world they live in. It should be a useful source for technical readers who want something that will help their friends and family learn about digital systems. $14.95. The Kindle edition is also available: $9.95. A Japanese translation is also available (March 2013).

Hello, World! Opinion columns from The Daily Princetonian is now available as a Kindle book from Amazon. $2.99.

Research

• Document preparation archaeology
• AMPL modeling language for mathematical optimization
  • experimental user interfaces
  • try AMPL on the web
• Scripting languages
  • AWK
  • Experiments with Scripting and User-Interface Languages

• COS 109 home page, Fall 2011
• COS 333 home page, Spring 2009
• Independent work and senior theses
      advice on independent work
      letters of recommendation
  

• NJ voting machine study (October 2008)
• ;login: article on testing (USENIX Magazine, April 2006)
• Bibliography
• Book home pages
  • D is for Digital
  • AMPL: A Modeling Language for Mathematical Programming
  • The Practice of Programming
  • The C Programming Language
  • The Unix Programming Environment
  • The AWK Programming Language
• Daily Princetonian columns. The columns through the end of 2011 are now available as a Kindle ebook.
  • Hack Princeton (4/15/13)
  • Somewhere in time (3/4/13)
  • The very model of a modern major major (2/4/13)
  • D construction (11/26/12)
  • Watchbirds (10/22/12)
  • I don't belong here! (9/24/12)
  • Preview of coming attractions (4/16/12)
  • So you want to write a book (3/12/12)
  • Who goes there? (12/5/11)
  • Give me your undivided attention (11/7/11)
  • Powerless (10/3/11)
  • Spring is sprung (5/2/11)
  • Read any good books lately? (4/4/11)
  • Enter to grow in wisdom (3/1/11)
  • Antisocial networking (1/31/11)
  • Sic transit (11/30/10)
  • We're number one! (10/25/10)
  • Call me Ned (9/27/10)
  • Friends and family (4/26/10)
  • Action figures (3/29/10)
  • Millions, billions, zillions (2/22/10)
  • A sense of where you are (11/23/09)
  • Home alone (10/19/09)
  • How was your summer? (9/21/09)
  • What makes smart phones smart? (4/20/09)
  • Gladly learn, and gladly teach (3/23/09)
  • Washington crossings (2/16/09)
  • The ratings game (1/7/09)
  • What would Orwell do? (11/24/08)
  • Leading indicators (10/20/08)
  • Native guide (9/11/08)
  • By the numbers (4/21/08)
  • The bleeding edge (3/24/08)
  • Where the books are (2/18/08)
  • Making the grade (1/21/08)
  • Other princes (11/19/07)
  • By the dawn's early light (10/15/07)
  • Sometimes the old ways are best (09/17/07)
  • The Sons of Martha (05/07/07)
  • Lost and found (04/02/07)
  • What do they teach in professor school? (03/05/07)
  • Too precious to waste on the young? (02/05/07)
  • The sounds of music (12/04/06)
  • Can you hear me now? (11/06/06)
  • Advise and consent (10/02/06)

• home page at Bell Labs
• (mirror)
• Bell Labs 1127 alumni
• BTL Research in 1995: (10 MB in 4 images) 1 2 3 4

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