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                          Out of Their Minds
       The Lives and Discoveries of 15 Great Computer Scientists
                     Dennis Shasha and Cathy Lazere

  A collection of 15 short biographies of great living computer 
scientists.  The technical level ranges from standard biography 
(untechnical) to a verbal description of the fundamental ideas in an 
algorithm, architecture, language or AI technique.

  For more information and excerpts, please see the WWW page at URL:
http://cs.nyu.edu/cs/faculty/shasha/outofmind.html

  Publisher: Copernicus, An Imprint of Springer-Verlag, New York, Inc.
   175 Fifth Avenue
   New York, New York 10010
   ISBN: 0-387-97922-1 (August, 1995)
   springer books 1-800- 777-4643 ($23)

  What the Critics Say:
``... a fascinating collection of profiles and interviews...''
L.R. Shannon, "Of Digital History," The New York Times, Science
Times section,  Tuesday, August 29, 1995; ``... lucidly written,
consistently interesting, full of beautiful insights, examples, 
and stories, and generally inspiring.  Also, lots of fun.''
David Gelernter, Professor of Computer Science, Yale University, 
author of Mirror Worlds, and 1939: The Lost World of the Fair.