{"id":66,"date":"2008-01-15T14:02:18","date_gmt":"2008-01-15T22:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/archives\/2008\/01\/15\/66\/"},"modified":"2024-05-08T16:05:21","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T23:05:21","slug":"acm-classic-books-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/archives\/2008\/01\/15\/66\/","title":{"rendered":"ACM Classic Books Series"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Last summer, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acm.org\/\">ACM<\/a> posted PDF versions of some books in its <a href=\"https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/collections\/classics\">Classic Books Series<\/a>, which resulted from a poll of ACM members initiated by David Patterson, who was then ACM President. The books are accessible to anyone who creates a free ACM Web Account.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The available books <a href=\"https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/collections\/classics\">include<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Aho and Ullman: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/portal.acm.org\/citation.cfm?id=SERIES11430.578789\">The theory of parsing, translation, and compiling<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Allen: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/book\/10.5555\/542865\">Anatomy of LISP<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Apple: <a href=\"http:\/\/portal.acm.org\/citation.cfm?id=SERIES11430.573097\"><em>Macintosh human interface guidelines<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Brinch Hansen: <a href=\"http:\/\/portal.acm.org\/citation.cfm?id=SERIES11430.540365\"><em>Operating system principles<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Brinch Hansen: <a href=\"http:\/\/portal.acm.org\/citation.cfm?id=SERIES11430.540128\"><em>The architecture of concurrent programs<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Codd: <a href=\"http:\/\/portal.acm.org\/citation.cfm?id=SERIES11430.77708\"><em>The relational model for database management: version 2<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dahl, Dijkstra, and Hoare: <a href=\"http:\/\/portal.acm.org\/citation.cfm?id=SERIES11430.1243380\"><em>Structured programming<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Denning: <a href=\"http:\/\/portal.acm.org\/citation.cfm?id=SERIES11430.539308\"><em>Cryptography and data security<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Goldberg and Robson: <a href=\"http:\/\/portal.acm.org\/citation.cfm?id=SERIES11430.273\"><em>Smalltalk-80: the language and its implementation<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hoare and Jones: <a href=\"http:\/\/portal.acm.org\/citation.cfm?id=SERIES11430.63445\"><em>Essays in computing science<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hopcroft and Ulman: <a href=\"http:\/\/portal.acm.org\/citation.cfm?id=SERIES11430.1096945\"><em>Formal languages and their relation to automata<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>IBM: <a href=\"http:\/\/portal.acm.org\/citation.cfm?id=SERIES11430.1102026\"><em>IBM system\/360 principles of operation<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Papert: <a href=\"http:\/\/portal.acm.org\/citation.cfm?id=SERIES11430.1095592\"><em>Mindstorms: children, computers, and powerful ideas<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: I had neglected to include the book by Aho and Ullman..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: The URL above for the ACM Classic Books Series was updated to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acm.org\/classics\">http:\/\/www.acm.org\/classics<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: The URL was updated yet again, to <a href=\"https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/collections\/classics\">https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/collections\/classics<\/a>, and John Allen&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/book\/10.5555\/542865\"><em>Anatomy of LISP<\/em> <\/a>was added (see <a href=\"\/dustydecks\/archives\/2024\/04\/11\/1249\/\">John Allen (1937-2022) and <em>Anatomy of LISP<\/em><\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last summer, ACM posted PDF versions of some books in its Classic Books Series, which resulted from a poll of ACM members initiated by David Patterson, who was then ACM President. The books are accessible to anyone who creates a free ACM Web Account. The available books include: Update: I had neglected to include the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/archives\/2008\/01\/15\/66\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;ACM Classic Books Series&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1371,"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions\/1371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}