Publisher: Springer; 1 edition
Language: English
ISBN: 0387955046
Paperback: 296 pages
Data: May 6, 2005
Format: PDF
Description: Although computer graphics games and animations have been popular for more than a decade, recently personal computers evolved to support real-time, realistic-looking interactive games. OpenGL, a technology standard to develop CG applications, has had incredible momentum in both the professional and consumer markets. Once only the domain of production houses, OpenGL has grown to be the standard for graphics programming on all platforms, personal computers, and workstations. Now more than ever, people are eager to learn about what it takes to make such productions, and how they can be a part of them. Current literature on how to make movies/games focus more on the technology (OpenGL, DirectX, etc) and their APIs rather than on the principles of computer graphics. However, understanding these principles is the key to dealing with any technology API. The aim of "Principles of Computer Graphics and OpenGL" is to teach readers the principles of computer graphics. Hands-on examples developed in OpenGL illustrate the key concepts, and readers develop a professional animation, following traditional processes used in production houses. By the end of the book, readers will be experts in the principles of computer graphics and OpenGL. They will be able to develop their own professional quality games via the same approach used in production houses.

Publisher: Que Pub; 4th Bk&Cdr edition
Language: English
ISBN: 078971728X
Paperback: 300 pages
Data: September 1998
Format: PDF
Description: How Computers Work is the premier four-color guide to PCs. Using hundreds of pages of detailed, color drawings, How Computers Work, not only tells, but shows readers everything from how a signal travels through a circuit to why your game c -With more than 600,000 copies sold, How Computers Work is the classic graphic reference with four color explanations of how computers really work -Features the best graphics, drawings and details of all past editions for readers of all levels in one complete visual package -Features an all new, updated CD-ROM with animated footage of the inside of your PC. See in full motion how the inside of your computer really works

Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann; 1st edition
Language: English
ISBN: 1558607005
Paperback: 528 pages
Data: August 7, 2001
Format: PDF
Description: Increasingly, scientists and engineers must quickly and efficiently analyze and visualize extremely large sets of data. Interactive Data Language, IDL, was designed to address just this need. A popular data analysis and visualization programming environment, IDL is used worldwide by scientists and engineers in fields as diverse as the physical sciences, medical physics, and engineering test and analysis.
In Practical IDL Programming, Liam E. Gumley provides a solid foundation in the fundamentals of procedural programming in IDL. He presents concise information on how to develop IDL programmers that are well structured, reliable, and efficient. The example programs in the book demonstrate key concepts and provide functionality that can be applied immediately. In addition, the book offers readers practical tips and advice on IDL programming, which they would otherwise discover only after years of experience.

Publisher: Digital Press
Language: English
ISBN: 1555582907
Paperback: 362 pages
Data: September 27, 2002
Format: PDF
Description: Socially Responsible IT Management shows IT professionals how to overcome the social crisis that has resulted from the wide-spread use of information technology. By responsibly managing security threats, protecting individual privacy, reducing hazardous waste, and minimizing other negative effects on IT staff and computer users, as well as ordinary citizens around the world, IT professionals can benefit the society at large and reap rewards for their own organizations as well.
Scandals at Enron, Andersen, Sotheby's and Christie's, Merrill Lynch, and Tyco are fueling a crisis of confidence in business. Regulators, voters, investors, customers, and employees are demanding that businesses be more socially responsible. Rhetoric is not enough, all organizations need to demonstrate that they are living up to social expectations. Erbschloe shows managers how to take charge of key aspects of their IT operations and follow a morally, ethically, and legally correct path to success.
· Supported by author speaking tour and "Computer Economics" website, www.computereconomics.com
· Step-by-step instructions on how to accomplish objectives of privacy and security
· Explains principles of ergonomics, energy efficiency, and recycling that can bring return on investment

Publisher: Newnes; 4 edition
Language: English
ISBN: 0750645822
Paperback: 520 pages
Data: July 15, 2002
Format: PDF
Description: New, updated and expanded topics in the fourth edition include: EBCDIC, Grey code, practical applications of flip-flops, linear and shaft encoders, memory elements and FPGAs. The section on fault-finding has been expanded. A new chapter is dedicated to the interface between digital components and analog voltages.

*A highly accessible, comprehensive and fully up to date digital systems text
*A well known and respected text now revamped for current courses
*Part of the Newnes suite of texts for HND/1st year modules

Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 1 edition
Language: English
ISBN: 0521703751
Paperback: 208 pages
Data: September 3, 2007
Format: PDF
Description: This book provides an introduction to Bluetooth programming, with a specific focus on developing real code. The authors discuss the major concepts and techniques involved in Bluetooth programming, with special emphasis on how they relate to other networking technologies. They provide specific descriptions and examples for creating applications in a number of programming languages and environments including Python, C, Java, GNU/Linux, Windows XP, Symbian Series 60, and Mac OS X. No previous experience with Bluetooth is assumed, and the material is suitable for anyone with some programming background. The authors place special emphasis on the essential concepts and techniques of Bluetooth programming, starting simply and allowing the reader to quickly master the basic concepts before addressing advanced features.

Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
Language: English
ISBN: 0123743001
Paperback: 600 pages
Data: January 15, 2008
Format: PDF
Description: Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) was conceived in 1996 as a signaling protocol for inviting users to multimedia conferences. With this development, the next big Internet revolution silently started. That was the revolution which would end up converting the Internet into a total communication system which would allow people to talk to each other, see each other, work collaboratively or send messages in real time. Internet telephony and, in general, Internet multimedia, is the new revolution today and SIP is the key protocol which allows this revolution to grow.

Publisher: Syngress
Language: English
ISBN: 1597492272
Paperback: 900 pages
Data: October 19, 2007
Format: PDF
Description: The Best Damn Security Manager's Handbook Periodhas comprehensive coverage of all management isuses facing IT and security professionals. Compiled from the best of the Syngress and Butterworth Heinemann libraries and authored by business continuity expert Susan Snedakers, this volume is an indispensable addition to a serious security professional's toolkit.

Coverage includes Business Continuity, Risk Assessment, Protection Assets, Project Management, Security Operations, and Security Management, and Security Design & Integration.

* An all encompassing book, covering general security management issues and providing specific guidelines and checklists.
* Anyone studying for a security specific certification or ASIS certification, will find this a valuable resource.
* The only book to cover all major IT and security management issues in one place: disaster recover, project management, operations management, risk assessment.

Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
Language: English
ISBN: 0765615835
Paperback: 742 pages
Data: December 30, 2005
Format: PDF
Description: This major new reference for students, faculty, and professionals of American corporate governance, modern financial history, and securities law begins with an examination of the collapse of the Enron Corporation and other financial scandals that arose in the wake of the market downturn of 2000. Jerry W. Markham, author of the award-winning Financial History of the United States and former SEC counsel, provides context and analysis to the modern era of corporate curruption.
The book examines the SEC's full disclosure system in corporate governance and the role of accountants in that system, including Arthur Andersen LLP, the Enron auditor that collapsed after it was accused of obstructing justice. The author chronicles the meltdown in the telecom sector that gave rise to accounting scandals at Nortel, Lucent, Qwest, Global Crossing, Adelphia, and WorldCom. He traces other accounting and governance failures at Rite Aid, Xerox, Computer Associates, AOL Time Warner, Vivendi, HealthSouth, and Hollinger. Markham also covers such Wall Street scandals as the Martha Stewart trial, the financial analyst conflicts, and the mutual fund trading abuses.

Publisher: Springer; 2nd ed. 1997. Corr. 4th printing edition
Language: English
ISBN: 0387948414
Paperback: 668 pages
Data: June 28, 2005
Format: DJVU
Description: This is a logically self-contained introduction to analysis, suitable for students who have had two years of calculus. The book centers around those properties that have to do with uniform convergence and uniform limits in the context of differentiation and integration. Topics discussed include the classical test for convergence of series, Fourier series, polynomial approximation, the Poisson kernel, the construction of harmonic functions on the disc, ordinary differential equation, curve integrals, derivatives in vector spaces, multiple integrals, and others. One of the author's main concerns is to achieve a balance between concrete examples and general theorems, augmented by a variety of interesting exercises. Some new material has been added in this second edition, for example: a new chapter on the global version of integration of locally integrable vector fields; a brief discussion of L1-Cauchy sequences, introducing students to the Lebesgue integral; more material on Dirac sequences and families, including a section on the heat kernel; a more systematic discussion of orders of magnitude; and a number of new exercises.

Publisher: Springer; 2nd ed. 2003. Corr. 4th printing edition
Language: English
ISBN: 0387953825
Paperback: 520 pages
Data: October 5, 2007
Format: PDF
Description: This graduate textbook covers topics in statistical theory essential for graduate students preparing for work on a Ph.D. degree in statistics. The first chapter provides a quick overview of concepts and results in measure-theoretic probability theory that are usefulin statistics. The second chapter introduces some fundamental concepts in statistical decision theory and inference. Chapters 3-7 contain detailed studies on some important topics: unbiased estimation, parametric estimation, nonparametric estimation, hypothesis testing, and confidence sets. A large number of exercises in each chapter provide not only practice problems for students, but also many additional results. In addition to the classical results that are typically covered in a textbook of a similar level, this book introduces some topics in modern statistical theory that have been developed in recent years, such as Markov chain Monte Carlo, quasi-likelihoods, empirical likelihoods, statistical functionals, generalized estimation equations, the jackknife, and the bootstrap. Jun Shao is Professor of Statistics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Also available: Jun Shao and Dongsheng Tu, The Jackknife and Bootstrap, Springer- Verlag New York, Inc., 1995, Cloth, 536 pp., 0-387-94515-6.

Publisher: Dover Publications; Dover Ed edition
Language: English
ISBN: 0486438082
Paperback: 256 pages
Data: August 11, 2004
Format: DJVU
Description: This text illustrates the fundamental simplicity of the properties of orthogonal functions and their developments in related series. Begins with a definition and explanation of the elements of Fourier series, and examines Legendre polynomials and Bessel functions. Also includes Pearson frequency functions and chapters on orthogonal, Jacobi, Hermite, and Laguerre polynomials, more. 1941 edition.

Publisher: Dover Publications
Language: English
ISBN: 048649568X
Paperback: 240 pages
Data: March 29, 2004
Format: DJVU
Description: This text surveys the approaches and basic results of all three classes of algebraic functions. Starting with a treatment of single-valued analytic functions, it introduces algebraic and rational functions and proceeds to the Riemann surface of an algebraic function, integrals of rational functions, and Abel's theorem. 1933 edition

Publisher: friends of ED
Language: English
ISBN: 1590595424
Paperback: 576 pages
Data: October 31, 2005
Format: PDF
Description: Foundation Flash 8 is the book you need if you're looking for a solid foundation in Flash 8 Basic and Flash 8 Professional.
Thousands upon thousands of designers have already learned from its previous editions and it's easy to understand why.

The fourth edition of friends of ED's legendary beginner Flash book, Foundation Flash 8 uses a series of structured exercises and detailed discussions to help you start your exploration of Flash. The detailed tutorial style will ensure that you retain the knowledge you gain and are able to draw upon it throughout your Flash career. Foundation Flash 8 features a running case study that evolves into a fully functional Flash website as you work through the tutorials, so you'll immediately see everything that you learn being used in a practical project.

Publisher: University of Texas Press
Language: English
ISBN: 0292734581
Paperback: 288 pages
Data: January 15, 2002
Format: PDF
Description: Too often dismissed as escapist entertainment or vilified as mass manipulation, popular cinema in the Third Reich was in fact sustained by well-established generic conventions, cultural traditions, aesthetic sensibilities, social practices, and a highly developed star system—not unlike its Hollywood counterpart in the 1930s. This pathfinding study contributes to the ongoing reassessment of Third Reich cinema by examining it as a social, cultural, economic, and political practice that often conflicted with, contradicted, and compromised the intentions of the Propaganda Ministry. Nevertheless, by providing the illusion of a public sphere presumably free of politics, popular cinema helped to sustain the Nazi regime, especially during the war years.

Publisher: ISTE Publishing Company; 1 edition
Language: English
ISBN: 1905209495
Paperback: 368 pages
Data: February 4, 2008
Format: PDF
Description: This book features four workshops from the INTEROP-ESA international conference, organized by the INTEROP NoE (Interoperability Research for Networked Enterprises Applications and Software Network of Excellence).
It highlights key topics related to interoperability of enterprise applications and software. The workshops are related to the conference topics and will enable researchers to explore new research ideas for the future.

Publisher: Berg Publishers
Language: English
ISBN: 185973636X
Paperback: 256 pages
Data: March 1, 2003
Format: PDF
Description: While music lovers from all over the world have tried to recreate the ambience of French cafés by playing music from stars such as Piaf, Trénet and Chevalier, intellectuals, sociologists and policy makers in France have been embroiled in passionate debate about just what constitutes 'real' French music. In the late 1950s and 1960s a wave of Anglo-American rock 'n' roll and pop hit Europe and disrupted French popular music forever. The cherished sounds of the chanson were sidelined, fragmented or merged with pop styles and instrumentation. From this point on, French music and music culture have been splintered into cultural divides - pop culture vs high culture; mass culture vs 'authentic' popular culture; national culture vs Americanization. This book investigates the exciting and innovative segmentation of the French music scene and the debates it has spawned. From an analysis of the chanson as national myth, to pop, rap, techno and the State, this book is the first full-length study to make sense of the complexity behind the history of French popular music and its relation to 'authentic' cultural identity.

Publisher: Springer; 1 edition
Language: English
ISBN: 3540719555
Paperback: 249 pages
Data: June 11, 2007
Format: PDF
Description: This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed postproceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Programming Multi-Agent Systems, ProMAS 2006, held in Hakodate, Japan, in May 2006 as an associated event of AAMAS 2006, the 5th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems.

The 12 revised full papers presented together with 2 invited articles are organized in topical sections on uncertainty of agents, lightweight devices for business and e-commerce applications, component-based agents for MAS simulation, dynamic logic programming in MAS, rule-based agents, affective agents and reinforcement agents, BDI agent frameworks, creation, execution, mobility and communication of agents, agent-like communication, validation, debugging and testing, multi-agent techniques and issues, multi-agent programming, as well as multi-agent platforms and organization.

Publisher: Springer; 1 edition
Language: English
ISBN: 3540243968
Paperback: 231 pages
Data: March 14, 2005
Format: PDF
Description: Ad hoc and sensor networks are making their way from research to real-world deployments. Body and personal-area networks, intelligent homes, environmental monitoring or inter-vehicle communications: there is almost nothing left that is not going to be smart and networked. While a great amount of research has been devoted to the pure networking aspects, ad hoc and sensor networks will not be successfully deployed if security, dependability, and privacy issues are not addressed adequately.

As the first book devoted to the topic, this volume constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the First European Workshop on Security in Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks, ESAS, 2004, held in Heidelberg, Germany in August 2004. The 17 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 55 submissions. Among the key topics addressed are key distribution and management, authentication, energy-aware cryptographic primitives, anonymity and pseudonymity, secure diffusion, secure peer-to-peer overlays, and RFIDs.

Publisher: ISTE Publishing Company
Language: English
ISBN: 1905209592
Paperback: 288 pages
Data: February 4, 2008
Format: PDF
Description: In the context of Distributed and Real-time Embedded Systems (DRES), system developers are faced with reducing system development cost and time while developing correct (relating to safe and QoS properties) and increasingly complex systems. To take up this challenge, Model Driven Development (MDD) advocates the intensive use of models and model transformations on several levels of abstraction.
This book includes contributions from academic and professional experts on a range of topics related to MDD practices, methods and emerging technologies. After introducing general concepts about modeling and how to implement model transformations, two presentations provide an overview of the MARTE profile. Coverage is then given to the most common aspects of MDD for DRES: structuring architectures using components, designing hardware architecture, evaluation and validation through tests and performance analysis. Finally, guidance is given as to how and why MDD should be used by presenting a tool to support MDD and describing an industrial application of MDD concepts.

Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann; 1 edition
Language: English
ISBN: 1558607595
Paperback: 496 pages
Data: August 10, 2007
Format: PDF
Description: Russ Eberhart and Yuhui Shi have succeeded in integrating various natural and engineering disciplines to establish Computational Intelligence. This is the first comprehensive textbook, including lots of practical examples. -Shun-ichi Amari, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan

This book is an excellent choice on its own, but, as in my case, will form the foundation for our advanced graduate courses in the CI disciplines. -James M. Keller, University of Missouri-Columbia

The excellent new book by Eberhart and Shi asserts that computational intelligence rests on a foundation of evolutionary computation. This refreshing view has set the book apart from other books on computational intelligence. The book has an emphasis on practical applications and computational tools, which are very useful and important for further development of the computational intelligence field. -Xin Yao, The Centre of Excellence for Research in Computational Intelligence and Applications, Birmingham

Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional; 3 edition
Language: English
ISBN: 0321193121
Paperback: 416 pages
Data: May 5, 2005
Format: CHM
Description: Direct from the creators of CSS, this is the definitive guide to CSS, today's indispensable standard for controlling the appearance of any Web or XML document. This book doesn't just show how to use every significant CSS 1 and 2.x feature; it carefully explains the "why" behind today's most valuable CSS design techniques. You'll find practical, downloadable examples throughout—along with essential browser support information and best practices for building high-impact pages and applications.

Cascading Style Sheets: Designing for the Web, Third Edition covers every CSS 2.1 improvement and fix, from new height/width definitions in absolutely positioned elements to new clip property calculations. Clear, readable, and thorough, it's the one must-have CSS resource for every Web developer, designer, and content provider. Coverage includes

Publisher: Springer; 1 edition
Language: English
ISBN: 354000579X
Paperback: 357 pages
Data: June 30, 2004
Format: PDF
Description: By presenting state-of-the-art aspects of theoretical computer science and practical applications in various fields, this book commemorates the 60th birthday of Thomas Ottmann.

The 26 research papers presented span the whole range of Thomas Ottmann's scientific career, from formal languages to algorithms and data structures, from topics in practical computer science like software engineering or database systems to applications of Web technology, groupware, and e-learning.

Publisher: Scholastic; Board edition
Language: English
ISBN: 1586682202
Paperback: 13 pages
Data: January 2002
Format: PDF
Description: Third in the best-selling of Barney¹s photo baby board books, HOORAY FOR MOMMIES features mommies playing, feeding, bathing, and loving their babies. And Barney loves them, too! This book, filled with photos and simple text, is perfect for Mother¹s DayŠ and every day!

Publisher: Springer; 1 edition
Language: English
ISBN: 1402078676
Paperback: 258 pages
Data: June 1, 2004
Format: PDF
Description: An Application Science For Multi-Agent Systems addresses the complexity of choosing which multi-agent control technologies are appropriate for a given problem domain or a given application. Without such knowledge, when faced with a new application domain, agent developers must rely on past experience and intuition to determine whether a multi-agent system is the right approach, and if so, how to structure the agents, how to decompose the problem, and how to coordinate the activities of the agents, and so forth. This unique collection of contributions, written by leading international researchers in the agent community, provides valuable insight into the issues of deciding which technique to apply and when it is appropriate to use them. The contributions also discuss potential trade-offs or caveats involved with each decision.

An Application Science For Multi-Agent Systems is an excellent reference for anyone involved in developing multi-agent systems.