Good Textbooks and Reference Books

• Computer language theory and compilation
  • Harold Abelson and Gerald J. Sussman, Structure and interpretation of computer programs, McGraw-Hill, ISBN 0262011530, 1996.
  • A. Aho, Ravi Sethi, and Jeffrey Ullman, Compilers, Principles, Techniques, and Tools, Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-20-110088-6, 1986.

• Communication systems
  • digital:
    Edward A. Lee and David G. Messerschmitt, Digital Communication, 2nd ed., Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1994, ISBN 0792393910.
  • real-time:
    Steven A. Tretter, Communication System Design Using DSP Algorithms: with Laboratory Experiments for the TMS320C30, Plenum Press, 1995, ISBN 0306450321.
  • theory:
    Simon Haykin, Communication Systems, John Wiley Sons, 3rd ed., 1994, ISBN 0-471-57176-8.

• Digital signal processing
  • advanced signal processing:
    Monson H. Hayes, Statistical Digital Signal Processing and Modeling, John Wiley and Sons, ISBN 0-471-59431-8, 1996.
  • exercises:
    C. Sidney Burrus, James H. McClellan, Alan V. Oppenheim, Thomas W. Parks, Ronald W. Schafer, and H. W. Schuessler, Computer-Aided Exercises for Signal Processing, Prentice-Hall, ISBN 0132198258, 1994.
  • introduction
    James H. McClellan, Ronald W. Schafer, and Mark A. Yoder, DSP First: A Multimedia Approach, Prentice-Hall, ISBN 0-13-243171-8, 1998.
  • laboratories:
    Virginia Stonick and Kevin Bradley, Labs for Signals and Systems Using MATLAB, PWS Publishing Co., ISBN 0-534-93808-6, 1995.
  • multidimensional signal processing:
    Daniel E. Dudgeon and Russell M. Mersereau, Multidimensional Digital Signal Processing, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, Prentice-Hall, ISBN 0-13-604959-1, 1984.
  • on digital signal processors:
    Phil Lapsley, Jeff Bier, Amit Shoham, and Edward A. Lee, DSP Processor Fundamentals: Architectures and Features, Berkeley Design Technology, Inc., 1996.
  • on microcontrollers:
    Dale Grover and Jack Deller, Digital Signal Processing and the Microcontroller, Prentice-Hall, ISBN 0-13-081348-6, 1999.
  • spatial array signal processing:
    Donald H. Johnson and Daniel E. Dudgeon, Array Signal Processing, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, Prentice-Hall, 1993.
  • stochastic signal processing:
    Charles W. Therrien, Discrete Random Signals and Statistical Signal Processing, Prentice Hall, ISBN 0-13-852112-3, 1992.
  • speech processing:
    Lawrence Rabiner and Bing-Hwang Juang, Fundamentals of Speech Recognition, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, ISBN 0-13-015157-2, 1993.
  • theory:
    Alan V. Oppenheim, Ronald W. Schafer, and John R. Buck, Discrete-Time Signal Processing, Prentice-Hall, ISBN 0-13-754920-2, 1999.

• Embedded systems
  • embedded software:
    S. S. Bhattacharyya, P. K. Murthy, and E. A. Lee, Software Synthesis from Dataflow Graphs, Kluwer Academic Press, ISBN 0-7923-9722-3, 1996.
  • specification/design:
    Stephen A. Edwards, Languages for Digital Embedded Systems, Kluwer Academic Press, ISBN 079237925X, 2000.

• Graduate school and beyond
  • guide to success:
    Robert L. Peters, Getting What You Came For: The Smart Student's Guide to Earning a Master's or a Ph.D., revised ed., Noonday Press, ISBN 0374524777, 1997.
  • guide to an academic career:
    Richard M. Reis, Tomorrow's Professor: Preparing for Academic Careers in Science and Engineering, IEEE Press, ISBN 0-7803-1136-1, 1997.

• Hardware Description Languages
  • Samir Palnitkar, Verilog HDL: A Guide to Digital Design and Synthesis, SunSoft Press, ISBN 0134516753, 1996.
  • Donald E. Thomas and Philip R. Moorby, The Verilog Hardware Description Language, 3rd ed., ISBN 0792397231, 1996.
  • Douglas Smith, HDL Chip Design, ISBN 0-9651934-3-8.

• High-level compiled languages
  • C programming, an introduction:
    Al Kelley and Ira Pohl, A Book on C: Programming in C, 2nd ed., Benjamin/Cummings, ISBN 0805300600, 1990.
    
  • C programming, programming techniques:
    Robert Sedgewick, Algorithms in C, Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-201-51425-7, 1990.
    Note that there are some errors in this book, especially in his geometrical algorithms.
  • C programming, reference book:
    Brian Kernighan and Rob Ritchie, The C Programming Language, 2nd ed., Prentice Hall, 1988, ISBN 0131103709.
  • C++ programming, user's guide:
    Bjarne Stroustrup, The C++ Programming Language, 3rd ed., Addison-Wesley, 1997, ISBN 0-201-88954-4.
  • C++ programming, programming style
    Tom Cargill, C++ Programming Style, Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-201-56365-7, 1992.

• High-level interpreted/compiled languages
  • Java, reference for its graphical user interface library:
    
    • David Geary, Graphic Java 2, vol. 1, 1998, ISBN 0130796662.
    • David Geary, Graphic Java 2, vol. 2, 1999, ISBN 0130796670.
  • Java, reference book:
    Ken Arnold and Gosling, The Java Programming Language, third edition, 2000, ISBN 0201704331.
  • Java tutorial:
    David Flanagan, Java in a Nutshell, 1999, ISBN 1565924878.
  • Perl, reference book:
    Larry Wall and Randal Schwartz, Programming Perl, O'Reilly and Associates, 1991, ISBN 0937175641.
  • Perl, tutorial:
    Randal Schwartz, Learning Perl, O'Reilly and Associates, 1993, ISBN 1565920422.
  • Tcl/Tk, reference book:
    John Ousterhout, An Introduction to Tcl and Tk, Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-201-63337-X, 1994.

• Image processing
  • overview:
    Rafael C. Gonzalez and Richard E. Woods, Digital Image Processing, Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-201-50803-6, 1992.
  • signal processing approach:
    Jae Lim, Two-Dimensional Signal and Image Processing, Prentice-Hall, ISBN 0139353224, 1990
  • color processing:
    R. W. G. Hunt, The Reproduction of Colour, Fountain Press, 5th ed., ISBN 0-86343-381-2, 1995.

• Mathematical software environments
  • Mathematica, reference guide:
    Stephen Wolfram, Mathematica: A System for Doing Mathematics by Computer, 2nd ed., Addison-Wesley, 1991.
  • Mathematica, user's guide:
    Nancy Blachman, Mathematica: A Practical Approach, Prentice-Hall, ISBN 0-13-563826-7, 1992.
  • Matlab, tutorial:
    Duane C. Hanselman and Bruce Littlefield, Mastering MATLAB 5: A Comprehensive Tutorial and Reference, ISBN 0138583668, Prentice Hall, 1997.

• Matrix Computation
  • Gilbert Strang, Linear Algebra and Its Applications, 0-15-551005-3, 1988.
  • Gene Golub and Charles Van Loan, Matrix Computations, ISBN 080185413X, 1996.
  • Thomas Kailath and Ali H. Sayed, eds., Fast Reliable Algorithms for Matrices with Structure, SIAM, ISBN 0898714311, 1999.

• Neural Networks
  • Baughman and Liu, Neural Networks in Bioprocessing and Chemical Engineering, 1995.
  • Christopher Bishop, Neural Networks for Pattern Recognition, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-853849-9, 1995.
  • Simon Haykin, Neural Networks: A Comprehensive Foundation, Macmillan, ISBN 0023527617, 1994.

• Software Engineering
  • James Rumbaugh, Ivar Jacobson, and Grady Booch, The Unified Modeling Language Reference Manual, Addison Wesley, ISBN 0-201-30998-X, 1998.

• Systems Theory
  • optimal linear filtering
    R. G. Brown and P. Y. Hwang, Introduction to Random Signals and Applied Kalman Filtering with Matlab Exercises, Wiley and Sons, 1996.
  • real-time optimal linear filtering
    C. K. Chui and G. Chen, Kalman Filtering: With Real-Time Applications, Springer-Verlag, 1991, ISBN 038754013X.

• Unix and Windows NT Operating systems
  • software development:
    Unix Software Development, Unix Press, 1992, ISBN 0130176907.
  • reference:
    W. Richard Stevens, Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment, Addison Wesley, 1992, ISBN 0-201-56317-7.
  • Unix system administration: Evi Nemeth, Garth Snyder, Scott Seebass, and Trent R. Hein, Unix System Administration Handbook, 2nd ed., Prentice Hall, ISBN 0-13-151051-7, 1995.
  • Windows NT system administration: Robert Cowart and Kenneth Gregg, Windows NT Server 4.0 Administrator's Bible, IDG Books Worldwide, Inc., ISBN 0-7645-8009-4, 1996.

• Wavelets
  • from a signal processing perspective:
    Martin Vetterli and Jelena Kovacevic, Wavelets and Subband Coding, Prentice Hall, ISBN 0-13-097080-8, 1995.
  • from mathematical and signal processing perspectives:
    Gilbert Strang and Troung Nguyen, Wavelets and Filter Banks, Wellesley-Cambridge Press, ISBN 0-9614088-2-0, 1996.