书名：算法技术手册（影印版）

作者：George T. Heineman, Gary Pollice, Stanley Selkow 著

国内出版社：东南大学出版社

出版时间：2009年04月

页数：343

书号：978-7-5641-1632-3

原版书出版商：O'Reilly Media

 

George T. Heineman is an associate professor of computer science at Worcester
Polytechnic Institute. His research interests are in software engineering. He coedited
the 2001 book Component-Based Software Engineering: Putting the Pieces
Together (Addison-Wesley). George was the program chair for the 2005 International
Symposium on Component-Based Software Engineering.

 

 

 

GaryPPollice将自己归类为臭脾气的老古董，他在业界花了35年的时间，试图成为其成长过程中想要成为的人。即使他尚未成熟，在2003年，他还是毅然决然地进入学术殿堂。在那里，他一直在摧残下一代软件开发者的心智，以近乎激进的观念，如“软件是为客户开发的；学习如何扮演团队的一分子；设计和程序的品质、优雅性及正确性都很重要；只要你是一个伟大的程序员，就算是一个程序狂也无妨。”
Gary是伍斯特理工学院（Worcester Polytechnic Institute，WPI）的实训教授（Professor of Practice，这是指成为教授之前具有实际工作的经验），他与妻子 Vikki以及两只狗 Aloysius 与 Ignatius住在马萨诸塞州中部。你可访问他在 WPI 的主页，http://web.cs.wpi.edu/~gpollice/。别客气，有关于本书的抱怨或鼓励，请尽管留言给他。

Gary Pollice is a self-labeled curmudgeon (that's a crusty, ill-tempered,
usually old man) who spent over 35 years in industry trying to fi gure out
what he wanted to be when he grew up. Even though he hasn't grown up yet,
he did make the move in 2003 to the hallowed halls of academia where he
has been corrupting the minds of the next generation of software developers
with radical ideas like, "develop software for your customer, learn how to
work as part of a team, design and code quality and elegance and correctness
counts, and it's okay to be a nerd as long as you are a great one."
Gary is a Professor of Practice (meaning he had a real job before becoming a
professor) at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He lives in central Massachusetts
with his wife, Vikki, and their two dogs, Aloysius and Ignatius. You can visit
his WPI home page at http://web.cs.wpi.edu/~gpollice/. Feel free
to drop him a note and complain or cheer about the book.


Gary Pollice is a self-labeled curmudgeon (that’s a crusty, ill-tempered, usually
old man) who spent more than 35 years in industry trying to figure out what he
wanted to be when he grew up. Even though he hasn’t grown up yet, he did make
the move in 2003 to the hallowed halls of academia, where he has been corrupting
the minds of the next generation of software developers with radical ideas like,
“develop software for your customer,” “learn how to work as part of a team,”
“design and code quality and elegance and correctness counts,” and “it’s OK to be
a nerd as long as you are a great one.”
Gary is a professor of practice (meaning he had a real job before becoming a
professor) at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He went to WPI because he was so
impressed with the WPI graduates that he’s worked with over the years. He lives
in central Massachusetts with his wife, Vikki, and their two dogs, Aloysius and
Ignatius. When not working on geeky things he...well he’s always working on
geeky things. You can see what he’s up to by visiting his WPI home page,
http://web.cs.wpi.edu/~gpollice/. Feel free to drop him a note and complain or
cheer about the book.

 

 

 

Stanley Selkow, a professor of computer science at Worcester Polytechnic Institute,
received a B.S. in electrical engineering from Carnegie Institute of Technology
in 1965, and a Ph.D. in the same area from the University of Pennsylvania in 1970.
From 1968 to 1970 he was in the public health service at the National Institutes of
Health at Bethesda, Maryland. Since 1970 he has been on the faculty at universities
in Knoxville, Tennessee and Worcester, Massachusetts, as well as Montreal,
Chonqing, Lausanne, and Paris. His major research has been in graph theory and
algorithm design.

 

 

The animal on the cover of Algorithms in a Nutshell is a hermit crab (Pagurus bernhardus). More than 500 species of hermit crabs exist. Mostly aquatic, they
live in saltwater in shallow coral reefs and tide pools. Some hermit crabs,however, especially in the tropics, are terrestrial. The robber crab, which can grow as large as a coconut, is one such example. Even terrestrial hermit crabs carry a small amount of water in their shells to help them breathe and keep their abdomens
moist.
Unlike true crabs, hermit crabs do not have a hard shell of their own and must seek refuge from predators in the abandoned shells of gastropods (snails). They are particularly fond of the discarded shells of periwinkles and whelks. As they grow bigger, they have to find a new shell to inhabit. Leaving any part of themselves exposed would make them more susceptible to predators; in addition, not having a well-fitted shell stunts their growth. Because intact gastropod shells are limited, shell competition is an issue.
Hermit crabs are decapod (which literally means “ten footed”) crustaceans. Of their five pairs of legs, the first two are pincers, or grasping claws, the larger one of
which they use to defend themselves and shred food. The smaller claw is used for eating. The second and third pairs of legs help them walk, and the final two pairs help keep them in their shells.
Characteristic of crustaceans, hermit crabs do not have an internal skeleton but rather a hard exoskeleton of calcium. They also have two compound eyes, two pairs of antennae (which they use to sense smells and vibration), and three pairs of mouthparts. Near the base of the their antennae is a pair of green glands that excretes waste.
Sea anemones (water-dwelling, predatory animals) are often found attached to hermit crabs’ shells. In exchange for transportation and a helping of the hermit crab’s leftovers, sea anemones help to ward off the hermit crab’s marine predators,such as fish and octopus. Other predators include birds, other crabs, and some mammals (man included).
Known as the “garbage collectors of the sea,” hermit crabs will eat mostly anything, including dead and rotting material on the seashore, and thus they play an important role in seashore cleanup. As omnivores, their diet is varied and includes everything from worms to organic debris, such as grass and leaves.