Real-time system

Author: Jane W.S. Liu
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Publish Date: 2002-11-01
Features: In the late 20th century, information science and technology, represented by computer and communication technologies, had a profound impact on the world economy, science and technology, military, education, and culture. The rapid popularization and application of information science and technology drove the vigorous development of the global information industry, bringing substantial returns to many countries. Entering the 21st century, especially with China's entry into the WTO, the international competition in the information industry will become even more intense. Although China's information industry achieved rapid development in the late 20th century, it still has a significant gap compared to developed countries, as well as countries like India and Ireland. The development speed of national informatization and the international competitiveness of the information industry will ultimately depend on the quality and quantity of information science and technology talent. To accelerate the cultivation of a large number of high-quality information technology talents, the Ministry of Education has taken an important measure: introducing outstanding foreign textbooks on information science and technology and promoting English teaching or bilingual education in schools with the necessary conditions. For this purpose, the Ministry of Education has asked Higher Education Press to first carry out pilot work on the introduction of information science and technology textbooks. At the same time, two requirements have been proposed: high quality and low price. With the efforts of Higher Education Press and the expert group of information science and technology textbook introduction, after a relatively short period, more than 20 introduced textbooks have been published in succession. Since their publication, these textbooks have received widespread praise. Many of them are classic works by renowned experts and professors in the field of world information science and technology and outstanding works reflecting the latest developments in information science and technology, representing the top level of information science and technology education in the world at present. Moreover, their prices are also highly competitive, comparable to domestically compiled textbooks of the same type. This textbook introduction project was jointly organized by the Higher Education Department of the Ministry of Education and Higher Education Press, with extensive participation from domestic experts and professors in the field of information science and technology. After multiple selections of a large number of foreign textbooks and referencing the curriculum settings of renowned universities both domestically and internationally, the textbooks were systematically introduced. Among them, the classic work "Operating System Concepts" by Professor Silberchatz, Vice President of the Information Science Research Center at Bell Labs, published by John Wiley & Sons, was introduced after repeated negotiations and significant efforts. Mr. William Stallings has written a series of information science and technology textbooks that are highly popular in the United States, with several of them awarded the Computer Science and Engineering Textbook Award by the Association of Computing Machinery. Two of his works are included in this batch of introduced textbooks. Mr. Jiawei Han, a Chinese scholar who studied in the United States, has written "Data Mining," a milestone work in the field. The classic work "Introduction to Algorithms," co-authored by Thomas Cormen of Dartmouth College and several scholars from MIT and Columbia University, was published in its second edition in 2001 after 11 years of refinement. Professor James Kurose, currently teaching at the University of Massachusetts in the United States, has received the Outstanding Teacher or Teaching Award ten times across three universities in the U.S. His edited "Computer Networking" has been widely acclaimed for its innovative structure and advanced content since its publication. In the effort to reduce the prices of introduced textbooks, Higher Education Press has done a lot of detailed work. This set of introduced textbooks embodies the characteristics of authority, systematicity, advancement, and economy.