Message from the Editors
While COVID-19 continues to disrupt everyday life around the world, vaccines are no longer a distant hope but a reality which should gradually enable communities to come back together in person. Artificial Intelligence (AI), sometimes assailed as a threat to our society, has played a major role in this by radically catalysing vaccine research and development, meaning something which has traditionally taken years to develop has become possible in months.[1] Hot on the heels of this, Google DeepMind’s AI system AlphaFold has been recognised as a solution to working out the “protein folding problem”, something which has stood as one of biology’s grandest challenges for the past 50 years and could further revolutionise life sciences and medicine, again demonstrating the positive impact AI can have on scientific discovery and everyday life.[2]
AI will continue to form an important part of the CRC Press Computer Science publishing program –including a new series of short accessible books entitled AI for Everything, which is in rapid development – alongside a wide range of other topics which are driving this exciting field forwards.
[1] https://spectrum.ieee.org/artificial-intelligence/medical-ai/what-ai-can-and-cant-do-in-the-race-for-a-coronavirus-vaccine [2] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03348-4
New & Notable Titles
Below, we've curated some of our most notable titles. To receive an exam copy of a book that you are interested in considering for use in a course, click on the Request Inspection Copy link on that book's page to make your request. You will be asked to provide some basic information about yourself and the course you are teaching.
Featured Titles
Visualizing with Text
November 02, 2020 by A K Peters/CRC Press
ISBN: 9780367259266
Paperback
298 Pages
Interactive Visual Data Analysis
May 01, 2020 by A K Peters/CRC Press
ISBN: 9780367898755
Paperback
362 Pages
Discovering Computer Science: Interdisciplinary Problems, Principles, and Python Programming
October 28, 2020 by Chapman & Hall
ISBN: 9780367472498
Paperback
542 Pages
A Tour of Data Science: Learn R and Python in Parallel
November 12, 2020 by Chapman & Hall
ISBN: 9780367895860
Paperback
216 Pages
Anyone Can Code: The Art and Science of Logical Creativity
November 24, 2020 by Chapman & Hall
ISBN: 9780367199692
Paperback
600 Pages
Consumer Health Informatics: Enabling Digital Health for Everyone
December 14, 2020 by Chapman & Hall
ISBN: 9781138337459
Hardback
262 Pages
Programming Media Art Using Processing: A Beginner's Guide
December 17, 2020 by Chapman & Hall
ISBN: 9780367508289
Paperback
248 Pages
Object-Oriented Design Choices
January 19, 2021 by Chapman & Hall
ISBN: 9780367820183
Paperback
348 Pages
The Cloud Computing Book: The Future of Computing Explained
July 01, 2021 by Chapman & Hall
ISBN: 9780367706807
Hardback
288 Pages
An Introduction to IoT Analytics
March 04, 2021 by Chapman & Hall
ISBN: 9780367686314
Paperback
372 Pages
AI for Immunology
January 28, 2021 by CRC Press
ISBN: 9780367654658
Paperback
160 Pages
C# Game Programming Cookbook for Unity 3D
March 25, 2021 by CRC Press
ISBN: 9780367321642
Paperback
316 Pages
Series Spotlight
Chapman & Hall/CRC Data Science Series
Reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of the field, this new book series brings together researchers, practitioners, and instructors from statistics, computer science, machine learning, and analytics. The series will publish cutting-edge research, industry applications, and textbooks in data science.
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Authors in the Media
In celebration of the publication of Data Sketches by Nadieh Bremer and Shirley Wu, we have compiled a list of articles written by the authors. Check them out below!
- The authors discuss their eccentric vision for data viz with BuiltIn
- Nightingale explores the impact of the original projects and the development of the book
- Browse video introductions to AI on the AI Knowledge Hub
- Follow the project on Twitter!
New Blog Post
How to Introduce Your Students to IoT Analytics
Written by Harry G. Perros, Author of An Introduction to IoT Analytics.
‘What is IoT?’
Firstly, begin by explaining to the students that IoT, Internet of Things, is a paradigm shift that is slowly becoming part of our daily lives. There are numerous IoT applications in all aspects of our lives, such as, applications for smart cities, structural health, traffic congestion, smart environment, smart water, smart metering, assisted living, healthcare, security and emergency, smart retail, smart agriculture, and smart animal farming. I like to describe it to my non-technical friends as: “whatever has nothing to do with the Internet, will be eventually connected to the Internet!”. In fact, connectivity to the Internet is only a small part of IoT. An IoT application is a closed-loop system that consists of sensors, a server, a network connecting the sensors to the server, and a database that stores the information (...)