Open source provides the competitive advantage in the Internet Age. According to the August Forrester Report, 56 percent of IT managers interviewed at Global 2,500 companies are already using some type of open source software in their infrastructure and another 6 percent will install it in the next two years. This revolutionary model...
The sixth edition of the Manual of Orthopaedics continues the recent trend of altering the content and the format to be of greater use to a wider audience of students and practicing physicians. This is the second edition which uses this title, which was changed from the Manual of Acute...
The First International ICST Conference on Mobile Networks and Management (MONAMI) was held in Athens, Greece during October 13–14, 2009, hosted by the National Technical University of Athens. Through what we hope will be a long-lasting series of events, this new international conference aims at bringing together top researchers,...
Bluetooth wireless technology is gradually becoming a popular way to replace existing wireline connections with short-range wireless interconnectivity. It is also an enabling technology for new types of applications. In this chapter we give a short background and a condensed description of how the Bluetooth system works. We will...
Agile has become today’s dominant software development paradigm, but agile methods remain difficult to measure and improve. Essential Skills for the Agile Developerfills this gap from the bottom up, teaching proven techniques for assessing and optimizing both individual and team agile practices.
Rapid evolution of technical advances in infrared sensor technology, image processing, “smart” algorithms, databases, and system integration paves the way for new methods of research and use in medical infrared imaging. These breakthroughs permit easy-to-use, high-sensitivity imaging that can address key issues of diagnostic...
The systematic study of human-computer interaction has arguably been the most significant factor driving the exponential increase in technology acceptance, diffusion, and utilization, over the past two decades, as well as the technology-driven productivity gains that have benefited a full spectrum of organizations.
Selling your company is a trying time, similar to selling your house. For those unfamiliar with this process, the challenging thoughts will be: 'How do I start?'; 'Who can help me?'; 'How much can I get for the business?'; 'Who is most likely to buy it, and where do I find them?'; 'When should I do it?'...
Testing has always been a part of software development. For decades, comprehensive testing was defined by complex manual test procedures backed by big budgets; but something revolutionary happened in 1998. In his Guide to Better Smalltalk, Smalltalk guru Kent Beck introduced an automated test framework called SUnit. This triggered an...
The phrase “computer science” is still, in some circles, battling for acceptance. Some people, not necessarily antagonistic to computers, consider it an illegitimate merger of two disconnected ideas (much as I feel myself about the phrase “computer literacy”). They don’t see where the science comes in;...
“Anatomical potential spaces” is an attractive and no more abstract concept
that offers new perspectives to a surgical world that is rapidily changing and
becoming more complex.
Powerful new technologies demand our attention and testify that our clinical
work and research are deeply influenced by...
We were early adopters of Extreme Programming (XP), testing on XP teams
that weren’t at all sure where testers or their brand of testing fit in. At the time,
there wasn’t much in the agile (which wasn’t called agile yet) literature about
acceptance testing, or how professional testers might contribute. We learned
not...
