Elsevier Publishes Landmark Book on Computer Architecture in Enhanced, Multimedia eBook

Elsevier Publishes Landmark Book on Computer Architecture in Enhanced, Multimedia eBook PR Newswire WALTHAM, Massachusetts, October 16, 2012 WALTHAM, Massachusetts, October 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach by John L. Hennessy and David A. Patterson now available in Inkling Edition Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, today thannounced the release of Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach, 5 Edition by John L. Hennessy (President of Stanford University) and David A. Patterson (Pardee Professor of Computer Science, University of California Berkeley) as an enhanced eBook. thAdapted from the classic textbook, Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach, 5 Edition, this interactive eBook from Inkling focuses on the dramatic and evolutionary developments in mobile and cloud computing. Using their quantitative approach to design and analysis, Hennessy and Patterson explore the ways in which software and technology in the cloud are accessed by cell phones, tablets, laptops, and other mobile computing devices. The running context in each chapter is computing for personal mobile devices (PMDs) and warehouse-scale computers, with examples from the real world that help to illustrate and describe the impacts of these revolutionary changes.