PIC Microcontroller: An Introduction to Software & Hardware Interfacing

Focus On Photon Mapping (Game Development)

Premier Press, 2003

From the basics of the nature of light to ray tracing and photon rendering, you'll learn how to bring a new dimension of reality to the graphics in your games. By beginning with the standard foundations of ray tracing and radiosity, you'll quickly learn how photon mapping has been able to combine the positive aspects of each...

Handbook of Compliant Mechanisms

John Wiley & Sons, 2013

A fully illustrated reference book giving an easy-to-understand introduction to compliant mechanisms

A broad compilation of compliant mechanisms to give inspiration and guidance to those interested in using compliant mechanisms in their designs, the Handbook of Compliant Mechanisms includes graphics and descriptions of many...

Minds and Computers: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence

Edinburgh Univ Pr, 2007

This is a book about minds. It is also about computers. Centrally, we will be interested in examining the relation between minds and computers.

The idea that we might one day be able to construct some artefact which has a mind in the same sense that we have minds is not a new one. It has featured in entertaining and frightening fictions...

Pentaho Reporting 3.5 for Java Developers

Packt Publishing, 2009

Pentaho Reporting lets you create, generate, and distribute rich and sophisticated report content from different data sources. Knowing how to use it quickly and efficiently gives you the edge in producing reports from your database. If you have been looking for a book that has plenty of easy-to-understand instructions and also contains lots of...

The Marino Mission: One Girl, One Mission, One Thousand Words; 1,000 Need-to-Know *SAT Vocabulary Words

Cliffs Notes, 2005

One unforgettable story.1,000 unforgettable SAT vocabulary words.

Alexa McCurry leads an ordinary teenager's life in upstate New York—until she embarks on a summer adventure in Central America. While working at a potentially boring internship in a marine DNA lab, she befriends a local boy, José, and a remarkable dolphin,...

Oracle Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence Solutions

John Wiley & Sons, 2007

Up-to-date, comprehensive coverage of the Oracle database and business intelligence tools

Written by a team of Oracle insiders, this authoritative book provides you with the most current coverage of the Oracle data warehousing platform as well as the full suite of business intelligence tools. You'll learn how to...