The analysis of experimental data is at heart of science from its beginnings. But it was the advent of digital computers in the second half of the 20th century that revolutionized scientific data analysis twofold: Tedious pencil and paper work could be successively transferred to the emerging software applications so sweat and tears...

This book is intended for an introductory course in digital logic design, which is a basic course in most electrical and computer engineering programs. A successful designer of digital logic circuits needs a good understanding of basic concepts and a firm grasp of computer-aided design (CAD) tools. The purpose of our book is to provide...

The area of pattern recognition and computer vision, after over 35 years of continued development, has now reached its maturity. The theories, techniques and algorithms are mostly well developed. There are a number of applications which are still being explored. New approaches motivated by applications and new computer architectures...

Which of these fields are involved in robotics? You may choose from the following: engineering, electronics, psychology, sociology, biology, physics, artificial intelligence, math, art, mechanical design, mechanical construction, computer programming, sound synthesis, vision, ultrasonics, linguistics, microelectronics, process control,...

Welcome to the Home Technology Integrator (HTI+) Exam Cram 2! This book is designed to help you prepare to take—and pass—the Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA) certification exams HT0-101, "Residential Systems," and HT0-102, "Systems Infrastructure and Integration." This...

With the millions of apps in the crowded Apple iTunes App Store, it can be difficult to get your apps noticed. How can you make your app stand out from the crowd and get it the reviews it deserves?  iOS Wow Factor shows you how to get noticed! It explains how to go beyond the basics and where to "break the rules"...

My interest in this subject started when I joined the broadcast equipment manufacturer, Chyron. For a few years I was the product manager for their playout automation and asset management product lines. These were one of the first applications that gave television broadcasters the means to manage the ingest, storage, archiving, and...

This volume is a documenlation of I he main results in Ihe research area "Inte gration of Software Specification Techniques for Applications in Engineering". On one hand it is based on the Priority Program "Integration von Techniken der Soflwarespezifikation fur ingenieurwissensehaftliehe Anwendungen", short Soft...

Artificial Intelligence's long-term goal is to build the human level of artificial intelligence. AI was born 50 years ago, in the bumpy road has made encouraging progress, in particular, machine learning, data mining, computer vision, expert systems, natural language processing, planning, robotics and related applications have...

Beginning Kinect Programming with the Microsoft Kinect SDK gets you up and running developing Kinect applications for your PC using Microsoft tools and the official SDK. You will have a working Kinect program by the end of the first chapter! The following chapters will open up the secrets of three-dimensional vision, skeleton...