| The past few decades have seen some amazing advances in technology. Many of these changes have had a direct and measureable impact on the way people live, work, and play. Communication tools, such as cell phones, satellites, and the Internet, allow people to keep in constantcontact across longer distances and from the most remote places. In fields related to medicine, existing technologies— digital imaging devices, robotics and lasers, for example—are being used to redefine surgical procedures and diagnostic techniques. As technology has become more complex, however, so have the related ethical, legal, and safety issues. |
|
|
 Software Automatic Tuning: From Concepts to State-of-the-Art Results
Software automatic tuning is a technology paradigm enabling software adaptation to a variety of computational conditions. Originating from the stream of research works on highperformance computing, it is considered to be the most promising approach to the required performance advancements on the next generation supercomputing platforms. Also,... |  | The Facts on File Geometry Handbook (The Facts on File Science Handbooks)Geometry is the study of shape, form, and space, and is of interest for its own sake as well as for its many applications in the sciences and the arts. Geometry is an integral part of mathematics, drawing upon all other areas in its development, and in turn contributing to the development of other parts of mathematics.
The roots of... | | Alfresco 3 Web Content Management
Alfresco provides a robust, easy to use, and scalable web content framework for managing multiple websites leveraging a common web infrastructure. If you are interested in configuring and building a new website quickly, determined to create a scalable infrastructure to stage multiple websites, and want to secure and control the content being... |
Cecil Essentials of MedicineMedicine has evolved dramatically over the past century from a healing art in which standards of practice were established on the basis of personal experience, passed on from one practitioner to the next, to a rigorous intellectual discipline steeped in the scientific method. The application of the scientific method has led to major advances in the... | | Nuendo Power!Whether you are a musician, recording engineer, sound designer, video editor, or other type of
media author, certainly you have noticed that the demands of audio production in today’s multimedia
environment have increased dramatically. With the proliferation of surround sound systems in theaters,
homes, and specialized... | | |
|
