Philosophy and Computer Science (Explorations in Philosophy)

Internet & World Wide Web: How to Program (4th Edition)

Prentice Hall, 2007

Welcome to Internet and web programming and Internet & WorldWide Web How to Program, Fourth Edition! At Deitel & Associates, we write programming language textbooks and professional books for Prentice Hall, deliver corporate training worldwide and develop Web 2.0 Internet businesses. The book has been...

The Mazzel Ritual: Culture, Customs and Crime in the Diamond Trade

Springer, 2009

The academic study of diamonds is as multi-faceted as the precious stones themselves. Mineralogists and geographers have written about them, as have historians and economists and students of art and fashion. They each shine their light on a different aspect of this source of luminous radiance. But who would venture to describe the entire...

LEGO Mindstorms Masterpieces: Building Advanced Robots

Syngress Publishing, 2003

In LEGO Mindstorm Masterpieces, some of the world's leading LEGO Mindstorms inventors share their knowledge and development secrets. The unique style of this book will allow it to cover an incredibly broad range of topics in unparalleled detail. Chapters within the book will include detailed discussions of the mechanics that drive the robot - and...

Understanding COM+

Microsoft Press, 1999

Developing enterprise applications has traditionally been a long, painful, and expensive task because applications developers often have to reinvent the wheel by writing, from scratch, the entire infrastructure needed to scale business logic up to the enterprise level. That's where COM+ comes in. It's an advanced Component Object Model (COM)...

Director's Third Dimension: Fundamentals of 3D Programming in Director 8.5 (With CD-ROM)

Sams Publishing, 2001

Director's Third Dimension has been designed with the Director developer with little or no 3D experience in mind. The purpose is threefold: To explain the fundamental concepts necessary to begin working with 3D; To demonstrate how these concepts manifest themselves in Director; To demonstrate strategies for the application of these concepts...

Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government Saving Privacy in the Digital Age

Penguin Press, 2002

The telegraph, telephone, radio, and especially the computer have put everyone on the globe within earshot— at the price of our privacy. It may feel like we're performing an intimate act when, sequestered in our rooms and cubicles, we casually use our cell phones and computers to transmit our thoughts, confidences,...