Abraham Silberschatz is a distinguished figure in computer science, holding a professorial chair at Yale University. His extensive writings have been published in numerous leading ACM and IEEE publications, professional conferences, and journals. Beyond technical literature, he has contributed opinion pieces to major newspapers, including The New York Times and The Boston Globe. His work reflects a deep expertise and significant contributions to the field of computer science.
Open-source operating systems, virtual machines, and clustered computing are among the leading fields of operating systems and networking that are rapidly changing. This book helps you master the fundamental concepts of operating systems. It also covers core knowledge and skills, including what operating systems are, and what they do.
This book provides improved and extensive coverage of concepts, database system internals and new tools and techniques. It is intended for a first course in databases at the junior or senior undergraduate, or first-year graduate level, and offers a complete background in the basics of database design, languages and system implementations. Concepts are presented using intuitive descriptions, and important theoretical results are covered, but formal proofs are omitted. The concepts and algorithms covered are based on those used in existing commercial or experimental database systems, and are presented in a general setting that is not tied to one particular database system.