802.11 Wireless Networks: The Definitive Guide (O'Reilly Networking)

Distributed Operating Systems

Prentice Hall, 1994

As distributed computer systems become more pervasive, there is a need for a book that explains how their operating systems are designed and implemented. This book, which is a revised and expanded Part II of the best selling MODERN OPERATING SYSTEMS, fulfills that need. KEY TOPICS: It covers the material from the original...

Nanoscale Devices: Fabrication, Functionalization, and Accessibility from the Macroscopic World (NanoScience and Technology)

Springer, 2009

The evolution of the microelectronics is controlled by the idea of scaling. However, the scaling of the device size below 10 nm is expected to be impossible because of physical, technological and economic reasons. Fundamental considerations (based on Heisenberg's principle, Schrödinger equation, decoherence of quantum states, and Landauer...

Welding Robots: Technology, System Issues and Application

Springer, 2005

From car manufacturing to the production of niche products, welding is now one of the most widespread and successful applications of industrial robotics.

Welding Robotics: Technology, System Issues and Application is a detailed overview of robotic welding at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The last few years-worth of...

Multiscale Theory of Composites and Random Media

CRC Press, 2018

This is the first book to introduce Green-function-based multiscale theory and the corresponding finite element method, which are readily applicable to composites and random media. The methodology is considered to be the one that most effectively tackles the uncertainty of stress propagation in complex heterogeneities of random...

iPod & iTunes For Dummies

For Dummies, 2004

Connect your iPod or iPod mini to your Mac or PC

Here's just what you need to know to have music wherever you go!

Music is the language of love, and now both Mac and Windows lovers can jam with iPod! This handy guide shows you how to set up your iPod, load songs (legally), edit playlists, find your way around the iTunes music...

What is EPUB 3

O'Reilly, 2011

Publishing has always been driven by content and the ephemeral “reading experience.” Until recently, the industry has struggled to adapt this experience to the demands of consumers used to getting what they want, when they want, and how they want in the now decade-old digital millennium. A new breed of reading devices has...