This fourth edition of the Wireless Data Handbook will begin to reach readers in 1999, the centennial year of Marconi’s first sale of data radio to the British Navy. For the army of fresh, young people now turning their impressive energy and intellect to this growing field, it is fitting to have enough historical perspective to...
How did British rule in India transform persons from lower social classes? Could Indians from such classes rise in the world by marrying Europeans and embracing their religion and customs? This book explores such questions by examining the intriguing story of an interracial family who lived in southern India in the mid-nineteenth century. The...
Databases are the nerve center of our economy. Every piece of your personal information is stored there—medical records, bank accounts, employment history, pensions, car registrations, even your children's grades and what groceries you buy. Database attacks are potentially crippling—and relentless.
Information is the lifeblood of knowledge, the flotsam of events and perspectives
created in every second of history. There is so much to capture and yet so little
time and so few resources to make sense of it all. Just as we get tantalisingly
close, the holy grail of true knowledge slips further over the horizon.
The height of Mt. Everest was first measured in 1850, but the closest any westerner got to Everest during the next 71 years, until 1921, was 40 miles. The Hunt for Mt. Everest tells the story of the 71-year quest to find the world's highest mountain. It's a tale of high drama, of larger-than-life characters-George...
Machine learning is a major subfield in computational intelligence (also called artificial intelligence). Its main objective is to use computational methods to extract information from data. Neural network methods, generally regarded as forming the first wave of breakthrough in machine learning, became popular in the late 1980s, while kernel...
In 1846, under the terms of the Treaty of Amritsar, the British sold the beautiful
valley of Kashmir to the Hindu Dogra ruler, Gulab Singh. It was not a sale in the
traditional sense of the word since Britain was not physically occupying the land it
sold, but rather a confirmation of an existing state of affairs where by Gulab Singh...
BETWEEN 1946 AND 1952, the British Raj, the world’s largest colony,
was transformed into the Republic of India, the world’s largest democracy.
Independence, the Constituent Assembly Debates, the founding of the
Republic, and India’s first universal franchise general election took place
amid the violence and...
Mark W. Zacher, University of British Columbia Clearly one of the best studies on international environmental politics.
"Bernstein convincingly and usefully rejects the role of epistemic communities as a driving force behind the norm change he identifies... Compelling... His attention to the role of ideas...
Content-Based Analysis Of Digital Video focuses on fundamental issues underlying the development of content access mechanisms for digital video. It treats topics that are critical to successfully automating the video content extraction and retrieval processes, and includes coverage of:
"A fascinating and urgently needed exploration of moral responsibility in wartime, focusing on the complex realities and demands since 9/11. This engagingly written and well-researched study challenges each of us to honor our better selves." --Richard Falk, University of California, Santa Barbara
This book is a practical guide to applying Model Driven Architecture (MDA) and patterns in order to create business applications more easily. It provides you with a proven catalog of archetype patterns: high-value model components that can be easily incorporated into Unified Modeling Language (UML) models. Each archetype pattern allows you to...
