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"Derek Jeter is undoubtedly the most talked about, argued about,
cheered, booed and ultimately respected baseball player of his
generation. And as public a figure as he has been, he is in many
ways the least known. That changes now as Ian O'Connor, one of the
best sports writers anywhere, goes deep and does what no one has
quite been able to do: Tell us a bit about who Derek Jeter really
is."--Joe Posnanski, author of "The Machine"
"Deftly told."--"Washington Post"
In "The Captain," Ian O'Connor draws on unique access to Derek
Jeter and more than 200 new interviews to reveal how a biracial kid
from Michigan became New York's most beloved sports figure and the
face of the steroid-free athlete. O'Connor takes us behind the
scenes of a legendary baseball life, from Jeter's early struggles
in the minor leagues, when homesickness and errors threatened a
stillborn career, to the heady days of Yankee superiority and
nightlife, to the battles with former best friend A-Rod. All along
the way, Jeter has made his Hall-of-Fame destiny look easy. But
behind that leadership and hero's grace there are hidden struggles
and complexities that have never been explored, until now.
This book provides a broad overview of current research in optical
interconnect technologies and architectures. Introductory chapters
on high-performance computing and the associated issues in
conventional interconnect architectures, and on the fundamental
building blocks for integrated optical interconnect, provide the
foundations for the bulk of the book which brings together leading
experts in the field of optical interconnect architectures for data
communication. Particular emphasis is given to the ways in which
the photonic components are assembled into architectures to address
the needs of data-intensive on-chip communication, and to the
performance evaluation of such architectures for specific
applications.
This book provides a broad overview of current research in
optical interconnect technologies and architectures. Introductory
chapters on high-performance computing and the associated issues in
conventional interconnect architectures, and on the fundamental
building blocks for integrated optical interconnect, provide the
foundations for the bulk of the book which brings together leading
experts in the field of optical interconnect architectures for data
communication. Particular emphasis is given to the ways in which
the photonic components are assembled into architectures to address
the needs of data-intensive on-chip communication, and to the
performance evaluation of such architectures for specific
applications.
This book discusses the opportunities offered by disruptive
technologies to overcome the economical and physical limits
currently faced by the electronics industry. It provides a new
methodology for the fast evaluation of an emerging technology from
an architectural prospective and discusses the implications from
simple circuits to complex architectures. Several technologies are
discussed, ranging from 3-D integration of devices (Phase Change
Memories, Monolithic 3-D, Vertical NanoWires-based transistors) to
dense 2-D arrangements (Double-Gate Carbon Nanotubes,
Sublithographic Nanowires, Lithographic Crossbar arrangements).
Novel architectural organizations, as well as the associated tools,
are presented in order to explore this freshly opened design
space.
Design technology to address the new and vast problem of
heterogeneous embedded systems design while remaining compatible
with standard "More Moore" flows, i.e. capable of simultaneously
handling both silicon complexity and system complexity, represents
one of the most important challenges facing the semiconductor
industry today and will be for several years to come. While the
micro-electronics industry, over the years and with its spectacular
and unique evolution, has built its own specific design methods to
focus mainly on the management of complexity through the
establishment of abstraction levels, the emergence of device
heterogeneity requires new approaches enabling the satisfactory
design of physically heterogeneous embedded systems for the
widespread deployment of such systems.
Heterogeneous Embedded Systems, compiled largely from a set of
contributions from participants of past editions of the Winter
School on Heterogeneous Embedded Systems Design Technology (FETCH),
proposes a necessarily broad and holistic overview of design
techniques used to tackle the various facets of heterogeneity in
terms of technology and opportunities at the physical level, signal
representations and different abstraction levels, architectures and
components based on hardware and software, in all the main phases
of design (modeling, validation with multiple models of
computation, synthesis and optimization). It concentrates on the
specific issues at the interfaces, and is divided into two main
parts. The first part examines mainly theoretical issues and
focuses on the modeling, validation and design techniques
themselves. The second part illustrates the use of these methods in
various design contexts at the forefront of new technology and
architectural developments.
Surprisingly, one of sport's most contentious, complex, and
defining clashes played out not in the boxing ring or at the line
of scrimmage but on the genteel green fairways of the world's
finest golf courses. Arnie and Jack. Palmer and Nicklaus. Their
fifty-year duel, in both the clubhouse and the boardroom, propelled
each to the status of American icon and pushed modern golf to the
heights and popularity it enjoys today.
Arnie was the cowboy, with rugged good looks, Popeye-like forearms,
a flailing swing, and charm enough to win fans worldwide. Jack was
scientific, precise, conservative, aloof, even fat and awkward.
Ultimately, Nicklaus got the better of Palmer on the course,
beating him in major victories 18-7. But Palmer bested Nicklaus
almost everywhere else, especially in the hearts of the public and
in endorsement dollars. By the end of this page-turning narrative,
we see that each man wanted what the other had: Arnold wanted the
trophies. Jack wanted the love.
In the tradition of John Feinstein and Mark Frost, Ian O'Connor has
written a compelling account of one of the greatest rivalries in
sports history.
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