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Ambient Intelligence: A Novel Paradigm

Springer, 2004

If the space around us could adapt to our needs and intentions, then our lives
would be much simpler. We would have to spend less time on our daily chores,
we would be more productive and, hopefully, we would live in a less worrisome
and, most likely, more secure world.

Ideally, it would be great if we could live our lives...

The Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet

Scribner, 1996

"Few false ideas have more firmly gripped the minds of so many intelligent men than the one that, if they just tried, they could invent a cipher that no one could break," writes David Kahn in this massive (almost 1,200 pages) volume. Most of The Codebreakers focuses on the 20th century, especially World War II. But its reach is...

The Art of War for Security Managers: 10 Steps to Enhancing Organizational Effectiveness

Butterworth-Heinemann, 2007

I graduated from Long Island University in 1991 with a bachelor’s degree in political science. In the years since, much of the specifi c material I learned has been forgotten in the whirlwind of family and career life. Even so, there are some important lessons I still recall. Dr. Donald Baker often told us undergraduate students that states...

UMTS Networks and Beyond

John Wiley & Sons, 2009

An all-encompassing coverage on UMTS Networks including an in-depth discussion of current work on UMTS evolution and 4G .

UMTS Networks and Beyond offers a comprehensive introduction to the networking aspects of UMTS and the networks coming after UMTS. The book is unique in that it systematically...

The Artful Universe Expanded

Oxford University Press, 2005

Our love of art, writes John Barrow, is the end product of millions of years of evolution. How we react to a beautiful painting or symphony draws upon instincts laid down long before humans existed. Now, in this enhanced edition of the highly popular The Artful Universe, Barrow further explores the close ties between our aesthetic appreciation and...

The Science and Art of Using Telescopes (Patrick Moore's Practical Astronomy Series)

Springer, 2009

Amateur astronomers have to start somewhere. Most begin by buying a modest astronomical telescope and getting to know the night sky. After a while, many want to move on to the next stage, but this can be problematic. The magazines advertise a mass of commercially-made equipment – some of it very expensive – which can represent a major...

Transactions on Edutainment I (Lecture Notes in Computer Science / Transactions on Edutainment) (No. 1)

Springer, 2008

This journal subline serves as a forum for stimulating and disseminating innovative research ideas, theories, emerging technologies, empirical investigations, state-of-the-art methods, and tools in all different genres of Edutainment, such as Game-based Learning and Serious Games, Interactive Storytelling, Virtual Learning Environments, VR-based...

Human Ear Recognition by Computer (Advances in Pattern Recognition)

Springer, 2008

Biometrics deals with recognition of individuals based on their physiological or behavioral characteristics. The human ear is a new feature in biometrics that has several merits over the more common face, fingerprint and iris biometrics. Unlike the fingerprint and iris, it can be easily captured from a distance without a fully cooperative...

RFID Systems: Research Trends and Challenges

John Wiley & Sons, 2010

This book provides an insight into the 'hot' field of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Systems

In this book, the authors provide an insight into the field of RFID systems with an emphasis on networking aspects and research challenges related to passive Ultra High Frequency (UHF) RFID systems. The book reviews...

Handbook of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering: Recent Advances

World Scientific Publishing, 2005

The Handbook of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering is the first comprehensive handbook covering these two important areas that have become interwoven in recent years. Many international experts contribute to this Hand book. Each article is written in a way that a practitioner of software engineering and knowledge engineering can...

GeoSpatial Semantics: 4th International Conference, GeoS 2011, Brest, France, May 12-13, 2011

Springer, 2011

The fourth edition of the International Conference on Geospatial Semantics (GeoS 2011) was held in Brest, France, during May 12–13, 2011.

Geospatial semantics (GEOS) is an emerging research area in the domain of geographic information science. It aims at exploring strategies, computational methods, and tools to support...

Calculus (Stewart's Calculus Series)

Brooks Cole, 2007

Success in your calculus course starts here! James Stewart's CALCULUS texts are world-wide best-sellers for a reason: they are clear, accurate, and filled with relevant, real-world examples. With CALCULUS, Sixth Edition, Stewart conveys not only the utility of calculus to help you develop technical competence, but also gives you an...

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