The IBM Vienna Laboratory has made a significant contribution to the work on the semantic description of computer systems. Both the operational semantics descriptions ("VDL") and the later work on denotational semantics ("Meta-IV", "VEM") contain interesting scientific ideas. Partly because of the large...

Augmented reality (AR) is a direct or indirect view of real world scenes in which physical objects are annotated with, or overlaid by computer generated digital information. The past two decades have seen a fast growing body of research and development dedicated to techniques and technologies for AR. In particular, due to the recent...

Organizations of all sizes today find themselves increasingly awash in data, yet hungering for information to help them meet their business objectives. These corporations, from Main Street and Wall Street alike, have spent large amounts of time and money over the past 10 or so years implementing systems to help collect data on and...

This book is complete: my checklists and FileMaker databases have cross-indexed features, preferences, and the applications that ship with Mac OS X, to make certain that everything shows up somewhere in the book. It has been revised against the second update—Mac OS X 10.0.2. We have tried to include screen shots of almost every feature,...

Thousands of developers have discovered that JavaServer Pages represent the optimal solution for cross-platform web-based development. Now that they've mastered the basics of JSP, many are seeking to deepen and strengthen their expertise. In Advanced JavaServer Pages, best-selling Java author and former JavaSoft developer David Geary...

Standard advice for writing a preface tells the author to begin by answering the question, “Why did you write this book?” The published answers almost always include an explanation of how something is still missing in the already vast body of existing literature, and how the book in question represents a valiant attempt to...

We have been very pleased, beyond our expectations, with the reception of the first edition of this book. Bioinformatics, however, continues to evolve very rapidly, hence the need for a new edition. In the past three years, fullgenome sequencing has blossomed with the completion of the sequence of the fly and the first draft of the...

IN TRADITIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS, 3D objects are created using highlevel surface representations such as polygonal meshes, NURBS (nonuniform rational B-spline) patches, or subdivision surfaces. Using this modeling paradigm, visual properties of surfaces, such as color, roughness, and reflectance, are described by means of a shading...

Audit and Trace Log Management: Consolidation and Analysis is both a timely and much needed compilation of useful information around a topic that is becoming more and more critical to not only IT professionals and security practitioners, but to many other departments, such as legal, risk, and compliance, as well as auditors and...

Geometric algebra (GA) is a powerful new mathematical system for computational geometry. Although its origins can be traced back to Hermann Grassmann (1844), its development as a language for space–time geometry with applications to all of physics did not begin until 1966. Suddenly, in the year 2000 it was recognized that a specialized...

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Animation has got to be the greatest job in the world. When you get started, you just want to do everything, all at once, but can’t decide on one thing to start with. You animate a walk, you animate a run, maybe even a skip or jump, and it’s all gratifying in a way people outside of animation may never be lucky enough to...