The Essential Guide to Flash CS4 AIR Development720 pages | friends of ED; 1 edition (December 22, 2008) | 1430215887 | PDF | 4 Mb
Embrace the Flash Platform and learn how to build desktop applications using the AIR SDK alongside Flash CS4.
Understand and use the ActionScript 3.0 AIR APIs.
Create applications that interact with any operating system to create, read, and write local files.
Write applications that can run both online and offline, automatically checking for Internet connectivity.
Build AIR applications that communicate with a local SQLite database.
Foundation Silverlight 2 Animation448 pages | friends of ED; 1 edition (November 3, 2008) | 1430215690 | PDF | 3 Mb
See the power of Silverlight in action
Learn the building blocks of animation in Silverlight 2
Includes over 180 example Silverlight projects
Silverlight is a phenomenally powerful animation tool, but few people know how to unlock its potential. Foundation Silverlight 2 Animation gives you the keys to all of that power.
Sharing a Vision: Systems and Algorithms for Collaboratively-Teleoperated Robotic Cameras188 pages | Springer; 1 edition (January 22, 2009) | 354088064X | PDF | 5 Mb
The monograph written by Dezhen Song is focused on a robotic camera simultaneously controlled by multiple online users via the Internet. A challenging match between the collaboratively tele-operated robotic cameras and the needs from nature environment observation is sought, which greatly extends the domain of online robots in both application and technology development directions, including building construction site monitoring, public space surveillance, and distance education. New solutions are proposed which demonstrate the enormous potential of Internet-based infrastructures for immediate success in the market.
Intelligent Environments: Methods, Algorithms and Applications (Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing)211 pages | Springer; 1 edition (October 23, 2008) | 1848003455 | PDF | 4 Mb
This innovative book discusses engineering solutions for the automatic understanding of a complex scene via multi-modal arrays of sensors. It focuses on research dealing with robotic platforms that augment an environment. In particular, it considers the study of information fusion methods, the study of algorithms for ontology learning from tabula rasa information and the integration of new types of sensors into existing networks of heterogeneous sensors. It also concentrates on the development and deployment of fielded solutions in public spaces and the evaluation of systems.
Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM): A Practical Introduction and Survival Guide384 pages | Springer; 1 edition (July 24, 2008) | 354074570X | PDF | 6 Mb
This is the first Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) book to introduce this complex imaging standard from a very practical point of view. It is aimed at a broad audience of radiologists, clinical administrators, information technologists, and digital medicine practitioners. It provides a gradual, down-to-earth introduction to DICOM and is accompanied by an analysis of the most common pitfalls and problems associated with its implementation. Whether you are running a teleradiology project or writing DICOM software, this book is for you; it will prepare you for any DICOM project or problem solving and will help you to take full advantage of this powerful tool.
