Posted: May 14th, 2008, 6:12am CEST
The first text of its kind, Stephen Chapman's best selling book on MATLAB has now been updated to reflect MATLAB 6.0. The first edition has been highly successful in engineering schools where introductory programming is taught using MATLAB rather than a traditional programming language. Although C, C++, and Java suit the needs of computer science students well, most engineering students will not be programmers by trade. Engineering students use computer tools to perform complex tasks such as scientific calculations, data analysis, simulations, and visualization: all skills students will use again in upper level classes. MATLAB provides several built in toolkits to help students accomplish these tasks, as well as an integrated devlopment environment. This book is distinctly unique from other MATLAB books in two ways. First, it is an introduction to MATLAB as a technical programming language rather than an introduction to the MATLAB environment. The author includes numerous pedagogical tools such as special boxes that highlight good programming practices, boxes that detail common pitfalls in MATLAB programming, and numerous programming exercises and examples. The book also makes wide use of MATLAB's predefined functions that provide tested solutions and time saved in writing subroutines or functions. Second, the book teaches students how to write clean, efficient, and documented programs using sound problem solving techniques. Top-down programming methodology is introduced to the students in Ch. 3 and is used consistently thoughout the rest of the book. This encourages students to think about the proper design of a program before beginning to code.
Engineering students use computer tools to perform complex tasks such as scientific calculations, data analysis, simulations, and visualization: all skill students will use again in upper level classes. MATLAB provides several built in toolkits to help students accomplish these tasks, as well as an integrated development environment. Softcover.
About the Author
Stephen J. Chapman is currently Manager of Technical Systems for British Aerospace Australia, in Melbourne, Australia. In this position, he provides technical direction and design authority for the work of younger engineers within the company. He is also continuing to teach at local universities on a part-time basis. Mr. Chapman is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (and several of its component societies). 
Posted: May 14th, 2008, 6:11am CEST
This book constitutes the strictly refereed post-workshop documentation of the ECAI'96 Workshop on Dialogue Processing in Spoken Language Systems, held in Budapest, Hungary, in August 1996, during ECAI'96.
The volume presents 16 revised full papers including a detailed introduction and survey paper by the volume editors. The papers are organized in sections on foundations of spoken language dialogue systems, dialogue systems and prosodic aspects of spoken dialogue processing, spoken dialogue systems-design and implementation, and evaluation of systems. The book reports on work being pursued both in academia and in industry as a crucial issue in speech processing.
Posted: May 14th, 2008, 6:10am CEST
Your guide to glide from campus to career
Make sure you get a good ROI (Return on Investment) from your college courses and career choices. Whether you're a student pounding the books or a graduate pounding the pavement, What Can You Do with a Major in Business? alerts you to diverse job options, some of which you probably haven't considered. It addresses specific concerns of business majors with valuable information, including:
- Advice on college and curriculum choices—courses, internships, advanced degrees, and more
- Tips to energize and expand your job search
- Profiles of real graduates, their jobs, and how they got them
- Objective audits of their careers from the manager of a recreational facility, a city/county administrator, a marketing field representative, a public relations specialist, and an import/export broker
- Overviews of typical salary levels, hours, and work environments
- Extensive additional resources, including Web sites, professional organizations, periodicals, and more
With practical information and enlightening insight from your peers in business careers, this book helps you analyze opportunities and choose a career that lets you make the most of your assets. Bottom line, that's the key to success.
The hottest jobs with America’s most popular college degree
Business is by far America’s most popular college major–more than a quarter of a million U.S. students receive business BAs each year. The most economical guide for students and grads to be sure they are aware of the range of opportunities a business degree can yield, What Can You Do with a Major in Business? explores hot jobs in areas such as finance, public relations, and marketing–with career paths, salary info, real-life profiles, and much more.
Series author Jennifer A. Horowitz (New York, NY) holds degrees from Columbia University's Teachers College and from Barnard College in writing. She has worked in New York City schools, with educational publishers, and as an advisor to parents of gifted children.
About the Author
Kate Shoup Welsh is a freelance writer and editor. During the course of her career, she has penned three books and cowritten a screenplay.
Posted: May 14th, 2008, 6:09am CEST
Your guide to glide from campus to career
This book helps you get from the lab to life! Whether you're considering majoring in biology, choosing a college or classes, or already have your degree and your lab coat, this is your definitive guide to diverse career opportunities, some of which you probably haven't considered. It goes beyond the basics to address specific concerns of biology majors with valuable information, including:
- Advice on college and curriculum choices—— courses, internships, advanced degrees, and more
- Tips to energize and expand your job search
- Profiles of real graduates, their jobs, and how they got them
- Eye-opening, objective information from a healthcare professional, education and outreach program manager, zookeeper, science reporter, healthcare attorney, and public health consultant
- Overviews of typical salary levels, hours, and work environments
- Extensive additional resources, including Web sites, professional organizations, periodicals, and more
- Licensing requirements
Learn what your peers in the work world like about their jobs—and what they don't. Learn about the routes they took and the mistakes they made. Then you'll be prepared to thoroughly examine your options and chart your course to success!
About the Author
Bart Astor is the author of numerous books, articles, and interactive programs that have appeared in national magazines and Web sites. He is a contributing author and editor for various college guides and publisher of the College Planning Quarterly, a national newsletter on college admission and financial aid.
Posted: May 14th, 2008, 6:08am CEST
The book provides the reader with a clear understanding of what software reuse is, where the problems are, what benefits to expect, the activities, and different forms of software reuse. The reader is also given an overview of what sofware components are, different kinds of components and compositions, a taxonomy thereof, and examples of successful component reuse. An introduction to software engineering and software process models is also provided. Consequences and influences of systematic reuse of software components are depicted, and activities like domain engineering, component engineering and application engineering are described. The importance of documentation is taken into consideration as well.
Explains what software reuse is, where the problems are, what benefits to expect, and the different forms of software reuse. Provides an overview of what software components are, different kinds of components and compositions and examples of successful component reuse.
Posted: May 14th, 2008, 6:07am CEST
Computer systems have evolved from early centralized computing systems into distributed computing systems. Distributed computing paradigms have also experienced a development from client-server paradigm to current mobile agent paradigm. Traditionally, Remote Procedure Call (RFC) is used in client-server paradigm. A client sends data to its server to invoke the execution of a remote static procedure on the server side and receives the results from the server after the computation is finished. RPC normally requires great amounts of data to be transferred across the network. Although the rapid growth of the Internet, especially the World Wide Web, provides an astounding amount of interconnected computing resources, most users' access to Internet resources are primarily restricted by the available network bandwidth. Compared to the speed of CPUs, the speed of network is still far behind. This fact stimulates seeking alternatives for moving data across a network to improve the computing efficiency.
Posted: May 14th, 2008, 6:06am CEST
DTS (Data Transformation Services) helps you create a transactional system to load and transform your data from and to a wide variety of sources. SQL Server DTS was introduced in the release of SQL Server 7.0; SQL Server 2000 sees the functionality and power of this outstanding and incredibly useful tool greatly increased. DTS can be used to maximum effect in data-driven applications, offering rapid and effective solutions to a wide range of common problems.
Professional SQL Server 2000 DTS provides a complete introduction to DTS fundamentals and architecture before exploring the more complex data transformations involved in moving data between different servers, applications, and providers. The book then focuses on DTS programming via the DTS object model, enabling developers to incorporate custom transformations and reporting capabilities into their applications. Advanced topics are explained including error handling, dynamic data loading, and data warehouses. With code and case studies, this book gives the reader a complete picture of how to use DTS to its fullest potential.
Who is this book for?
This book is principally aimed at database programmers and administrators who have a working knowledge of SQL Server, and who wish to take DTS beyond its most basic level and tailor it to their needs. It will also appeal to managers and project managers who want to gain an understanding of DTS and how it could benefit their businesses.
What does this book cover?
- A detailed explanation of the seventeen principal DTS tasks
- Connecting to, querying, and converting heterogeneous data
- Dynamic configuration of your DTS packages
- Enhancing your DTS packages with VBScript and Visual Basic
- Writing your own custom tasks
- Using DTS in a data-warehousing environment
- Employing DTS in other applications
About the Author
He also works as a Sr. SQL Server DBA and spends most of his time deep in DTS and SQL Server.
Todd Robinson (MCP, MCP+I, MCP+SB, MCSE, MCSE+I, MCSD, MCDBA, MCT, CCNA) lives in Atlanta, GA where he is an internet application developer and data warehousing guru for Metlife. He specializes in MTS/COM+, ASP, XML, SQL Server and related Windows DNA technologies. In addition to his normal job duties at Metlife, he is President of GradesNow.com an internet application service for teachers, students and parents to allow access to grades online.
