The International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) proceedings have been digitized back to the first volume in 1893, and these ICM Proceedings 1893-2006 are now freely available online, courtesy of the International Mathematical Union.

As you can see in our OskiCat record, the Mathematics Statistics Library will retain its print collection of these proceedings, and we have already ordered the 2010 Proceedings, soon to be published by World Scientific.

The Knovel University Challenge has begun!

All entries with a total of at least 3 correct answers will be placed into a random drawing for (1) iPad, (1) $500 US cash prize, and (8) $50 Amazon Gift Cards.

The drawing will take place on December 1st, 2010.    Good luck!

IEEE Press and Wiley have teamed up to provide Wiley-IEEE Press ebooks through the IEEEXplore Digital Library. The collection includes over 400 handbooks, introductory and advanced texts, reference works, and professional engineering books.

Subject areas covered include:

• Communications and networking
• Electromagnetics
• Components and circuits
• Power and energy

Being hosted on the IEEEXplore platform means that the books are full text searchable using the familiar IEEE interface and browsable by title. Books are also findable by title in OskiCat. Have an ebook reader? The chapters are in PDF format and can be downloaded and read on numerous ebook readers on the market.

This month's works include a title by UC Berkeley authors, Professor Jean Walrand and Postdoctoral researcher, Libin Jiang.

Synthesis Digital Library Update for August 2010

• Community Detection and Mining in Social Media by Lei Tang, Yahoo! Labs and Huan Liu, Arizona State University (Data Mining & Knowledge Discovery Series)
• Database Replication by Bettina Kemme, McGill University, Ricardo Jimenez Peris and Marta Patino-Martinez, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (Data Management Series)
• Fault-Tolerant Agreement in Synchronous Message-Passing Systems by Michel Raynal, University of Rennes, France (Distributed Computing Theory Series)
• Introduction to Arabic Natural Language Processing by Nizar Habash, Columbia University (Human Language Technologies Series)
• Relational and XML Data Exchange by Marcelo Arenas et al., Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile (Data Management Series)
• Scheduling and Congestion Control for Wireless and Processing Networks by Libin Jiang and Jean Walrand, University of California, Berkeley (Communication Networks Series)
• Survive and Thrive: A Guide for Untenured Faculty by Wendy Crone, University of Wisconsin, Madison