🐻 Cornell Electrical & Computer Engineering unofficial reading list, fall 2026
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Sophomore level
Digital Logic & Computer Organization ECE 2300
- Digital Design & Computer Architecture, RISC-V Edition by Harris & Harris
Senior level
Random Signals in Communications & Signal Processing ECE 4110/5110
- Probability, Statistics & Random Processes For Electrical Engineering by Alberto Leon-Garcia
Robot Perception ECE 4240/5240
- Information-Driven Planning & Control by Ferrari & Wettergren
Digital Signal Processing & Statistical Inference ECE 4250/5250
- Signals, Systems & Inference by Oppenheim & Verghese
Computer Architecture ECE 4750/5740
AI Hardware ECE 4950-002/6950
- How to Scale Your Model: A Systems View of LLMs on TPUs by Austin et al.
- The Perceptron & All the Things It Can’t Perceive by Jeremy Kun
- Domain-Specific Hardware Accelerators by Dally et al.
- There’s Plenty of Room at the Top: What will Drive Computer Performance after Moore’s Law? by Leiserson et al.
- Roofline: An Insightful Visual Performance Model for Multicore Architectures by Williams et al.
- A Domain-Specific Supercomputer for Training Deep Neural Networks by Jouppi et al.