Handbook on Hyperbaric Medicine

Technology Matters: Questions to Live With

MIT Press, 2006

Winner, 2009 Sally Hacker Prize given by the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT). and Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2006

Technology matters, writes David Nye, because it is inseparable from being human. We have used tools for more than 100,000 years, and their central purpose has not always been to...

Kanban in Action

Manning Publications, 2014

Summary

Kanban in Action is a down-to-earth, no-frills, get-to-know-the-ropes introduction to kanban. It's based on the real-world experience and observations from two kanban coaches who have introduced this process to dozens of teams. You'll learn the principles of why kanban works, as well as...

Oracle Database 12c Performance Tuning Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (Expert's Voice in Oracle)

Apress, 2013

Performance problems are rarely "problems" per se. They are more often "crises" during which you’re pressured for results by a manager standing outside your cubicle while your phone rings with queries from the help desk. You won’t have the time for a leisurely perusal of the manuals, nor to lean back and read a...

Watermarking Systems Engineering

CRC Press, 2004

The growth of the Internet has fueled the demand for enhanced watermarking and data hiding technologies and has stimulated research into new ways to implement watermarking systems in the real world. Watermarking Systems Engineering: Enabling Digital Assets Security and Other Applications presents the principles of watermarking system design and...

Multimedia Programming with Pure Data

Packt Publishing, 2013

A comprehensive guide for digital artists for creating rich interactive multimedia applications using Pure Data

Overview

Carefully organized topics for interactive multimedia professional practice

Detailed reference to a large collection of resources in the open source communities to...

Control of Interactive Robotic Interfaces: A Port-Hamiltonian Approach (Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, no. 29)

Springer, 2007

From the reviews:

"This book deals with the important problem of modeling and controlling the interaction between two physical systems—from one side the robot and from the other side its environment. … It is a suitable tool to formally model physical systems based on the energy concept and its relations. The authors introduce...