Re: Computer Theory Pedagogical Magazines/Papers

On Mar 22, 7:32 pm, aboSamoor <rmy...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Thanks Phil for help. Actually I am reading nowadays Spiser's book and
it is great one. :-D. Of course Wikipedia, I am reading many pages
everyday. I am insterested in mathematics. I am computer engineer and
I don't find engineering an interesting discipline. The idea I want
beside books something that is short interesting and not complicated
that I can read without many prerequisites or needing deep
concentration. If you can remember these blogs it will be
appreciated :).

On Mar 23, 12:28 am, cplxp...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

On Mar 22, 5:41 am, aboSamoor <rmy...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi,
Is there any magazine for computer science covering Theory and Systems
and not  industry and market trends that is not deep in content. I am
still undergraduate student and I want to read pedagogical papers and
magazines. In Physics and mathematics they have American/European
Journals of Physics/Mathematics, I don't know if there is anything
similar in computer science. Please, if you know any source of
articles that is good for learning computer science mention them :)

I don't know of any, but I probably wouldn't really know of such a
thing if it existed anyway.

However, there are good sources on the internet that can familiarize
you with whatever you're interested in.  Wikipedia is often laughed
at, but there are actually a lot of good (and fairly accurate, as far
as I know) articles there on theoretical CS topics there.  There are
also some good blogs that I've heard mentioned before, but I don't
remember what they are.

Is there a specific field you're interested in?  Obviously, Google
Scholar has more technical papers on various subjects in pretty much
all fields.

I was in a similar situation while I was an undergraduate...my
interest in theoretical CS was high, but my school's CS department was
terrible, and so I majored in math instead.  I got a quasi-education
in theoretical CS by buying/reading textbooks and reading what I could
understand.  (I also asked a lot of questions on USENET about concepts
I struggled with.)  Obviously, that's not nearly as good as going to
grad school, but it's better than nothing.

A great book you should consider is Michael Sipser's Introduction to
the Theory of Computation.  Being an introductory text, it strives to
render the concepts it presents in a very clear format that won't
intimidate people with little or no experience in theoretical CS.  I
found it immensely useful myself; however, it is pretty pricey.  If
you're interested, you can preview the book on Amazon here:

http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Theory-Computation-Second-Michael/...

I hope this helps.

-Phil

These are the names of the bloggers that another poster (Tim Chow)
mentioned:

"Lance Fortnow, Bill Gasarch, Scott Aaronson, Luca Trevisan"

This is from the thread on comp.theory called "why is this group so
dead?"

http://weblog.fortnow.com/
http://en.wordpress.com/tag/bill-gasarch/
http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/
http://in-theory.blogspot.com/

Glad you are enjoying Sipser's book.

-Phil
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