Software continues to become more and more complex, while software consumers’ expectations for performance, reliability, functionality, and speed-to-market are also growing exponentially. H. S. Lahman shows how...

Featuring the contributions of prominent researchers from academia and industry,...

Think of all the popular data visualization works out there—the ones that you always hear in lectures or read about in blogs, and the ones that popped into your head as you were reading this sentence. What do they all have in common? They all tell an interesting story. Maybe the story was to convince you of something. Maybe it was to...

When I decided to do a sabbatical with Symantec Research Labs Europe in the beautiful French Riviera, I was asked to work on a project about Voice over IP (VoIP) security. The goal of the VAMPIRE Project1 was to understand the threats and vulnerabilities of VoIP systems, and to inform the direction of further research efforts....

You have just bought your new Windows Phone 7 device and would like to start developing applications. You need to know the device’s hardware characteristics such as screen resolution and memory capability—but also which sensors and services it provides. Finally, you need to understand what the Windows Phone 7 operating system...

Geronimo is a free, open source J2EE™ application server. It comes with everything you need to run standard J2EE applications developed against the J2EE 1.4 specifications, and it is also backward-compatible to J2EE 1.3 and J2EE 1.2. Furthermore, its modular design makes it easy to customize, extend, or replace core server...

In developing the New Perspectives Series, our goal was to create books that give students the software...

My degree is in physics, but I also worked as a software...

The use of symbol sequences to study dynamical systems originates in the work of Kocbe [Koc27, Koe29] and Morse [Mor87j, who both used symbol saliences to code geodesies on a...

This book is intended for an object-oriented course in data structures and algorithms. The implementation language is Java, and it is assumed that students have taken a first course in programming, not necessarily in Java. That course should have covered the fundamental statements and data types, as well as arrays. Chapter 0 supplies...

An Introduction to Programming with C++, Sixth Edition uses the C++ programming language to teach programming concepts. Th is book is designed for a beginning programming course. Although the book provides instructions for using the Microsoft® Visual C++® and Dev-C++ compilers, it can be used with most C++ compilers, often...

Embedded computer systems are electronic systems that include a microcomputer to perform specific dedicated tasks. The computer is hidden inside these products. Embedded systems are ubiquitous. Every week millions of tiny computer chips come pouring out of factories like Freescale, Microchip, Philips, Texas Instruments, Silicon Labs,...