Search citeseer.nj.nec.com for papers in the book, I bet you'll find many of them for free (too lazy to check).

<t>If you are looking to deisgn a whole DBMS, look for C. J. Date's books, not only his is text book the standard, its been a standard for years (I believe its currently in its 8th edition). Not too long ago he also started writing about temporal databases...although his doesn't seem to focus on tim...

<t>I used to work at Knight Securities (equities branch). As nasdaq market makers they were the largest (might still be). About a couple of years ago things were abit chaotic there, lots of management turnover. For a while the derivatives guys were running the whole operation. At least the ones in m...

thanx, very helpful. I wasn't sure how different "class room material" is from what actual quants do.

<r>How different are pricing models such as the binomial model for us options from the systems used by large financial companies? For example, <URL url="http://finance.bi.no/~bernt/gcc_prog/">http://finance.bi.no/~bernt/gcc_prog/</URL> has wonderful material, but would a bank or a hedge fund ever th...