Art or science?Which of these is the right way to think of the field of visualization?
This is not an easy question to answer, even for those who have many years of
experience in making graphical depictions of data with a view to helping people
understand them and take action. When we look at beautiful hand-drawn pictures
of...
In less than half a decade, the iOS platform has changed the way that we, the public, think about our mobile computing devices. Only a few years ago, we were thrilled by phones with postage-stamp-sized screens, tinny audio, built-in tip calculators, and text-based web browsing. Times have indeed...
We are pleased to present the 2012 edition of Ubuntu Unleashed. Ubuntu is a Linuxbased computer operating system that has taken the world by storm. From its humble beginning in 2004, Ubuntu has risen to be the vanguard of desktop Linux, as well as a popular choice for servers.
Significant advances in optical fiber technology have created a need for an
up-to-date book about optical fiber fusion splicing. Over the past 15 years,
a variety of new optical fibers including rare-earth-doped fiber, dispersioncompensating
fiber, dispersion-matched fiber pairs, and microstructured fiber
have been introduced. These...
Pharmacists or their pharmaceutical equivalents have
been responsible for compounding medicines for cen
turies. Recently this role has been challenged in the
pharmaceutical literature with suggestions and recom
mendations that it is inappropriate for the pharmaceu
tical practitioner to compound medicines in a local
pharmacy...
With ever increasing frequency, financial studies in business are acquiring greater importance in the field of management as a consequence of the complexity of the problems arising in present day society. The old treaties that included certain aspects on the raising and placing of payment means have been relegated to history, leaving the way...
Mobile applications come in two basic flavors: native applications, which are compiled
programs that run natively on the device, and mobile web applications, which run
inside a web browser on the device.
Native applications get almost all of the press these days, especially given the financial
success of the iTunes App Store...
I am not an expert. I have never claimed to be an expert at anything
(at least not seriously done so), least of all an expert in forensic
analysis. I am not an expert in Windows Registry analysis. I am
simply, by profession, a responder and analyst with some work
and research experience in this area. I have also performed a
number...
Probability theory and fuzzy logic are the principal components of an array of methodologies
for dealing with problems in which uncertainty and imprecision play important roles.
In relation to probability theory, fuzzy logic is a new kid on the block. As such, it has been
and continues to be, though to a lesser degree, an object of...
Hacking and electronic crimes sophistication has grown at an exponential rate in recent years. In fact, recent
reports have indicated that cyber crime already surpasses the illegal drug trade! Unethical hackers better known
as black hats are preying on information systems of government, corporate, public, and private networks and
are...
There is probably no invention in the history of mankind that had such a profound
impact on our lives in such a short time as the World Wide Web. Twenty years ago,
Tim Berners-Lee has developed the first versions of HTML which allowed to weave
documents into the large hypertext document that we know today. It was soon realized
that...
