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Security Administrator Street Smarts: A Real World Guide to CompTIA Security+ Skills

Sybex, 2011

A step-by-step guide to the tasks involved in security administration

If you aspire to a career in security administration, one of your greatest challenges will be gaining hands-on experience. This book takes you through the most common security admin tasks step by step, showing you the way around many of the roadblocks you...

Safety-Critical Systems: Problems, Process and Practice: Proceedings of the Seventeenth Safety-Critical Systems Symposium Brighton, UK, 3 - 5 February 2009

Springer, 2009

The Safety-critical Systems Symposium (SSS), held each February for seventeen consecutive years, offers a full-day tutorial followed by two days of presentations of papers. This book of Proceedings contains all the papers presented at SSS’09.

The first paper accompanies the tutorial, which addresses one of the...

High Performance Computing: Programming and Applications (Chapman & Hall/CRC Computational Science)

CRC Press, 2010

The future of high-performance computing (HPC) lies with large distributed parallel systems with three levels of parallelism, thousands of nodes containing MIMD* groups of SIMD* processors. For the past 50 years, the clock cycle of single processors has decreased steadily and the cost of each processor has decreased. Most applications would...

Computational Photography: Methods and Applications (Digital Imaging and Computer Vision)

CRC Press, 2010

Computational photography is a new and rapidly developing research field. It has evolved from computer vision, image processing, computer graphics, and applied optics, and refers broadly to computational imaging techniques that enhance or extend the capabilities of digital photography. The output of these techniques is an image...

SOA Patterns

Manning Publications, 2012

Building distributed yet integrated systems remains a difficult problem to solve. First, it requires a solid understanding of the individual components to be connected. Next, we have to connect these components in a way that balances loose coupling against system-wide requirements, such as latency and security. Last...

HLSL and Pixel Shaders for XAML Developers

O'Reilly, 2012

Pixel Shaders are one of the more powerful graphic tools available for XAML programmers. I first encountered them in the Windows Presentation Foundation 3.5 SP1 release and was completely smitten. It didn’t take long to learn that I could create custom shaders, commonly called Effects in WPF, and add them to...

An Introduction to IMS: Your Complete Guide to IBM Information Management System (2nd Edition)

IBM Press, 2012

IBM’s Definitive One-Stop Guide to IMS Versions 12, 11, and 10: for Every IMS DBA, Developer, and System Programmer

Over 90% of the top Fortune® 1000 companies rely on IBM’s Information Management System...

Android UI Fundamentals: Develop &Design (Develop and Design)

Peachpit Press, 2012

There is a revolution happening in the technology industry. Touchscreen interfaces, combined with low-cost and ubiquitous smartphones, have created a perfect storm for disruptive innovation. Android is at the forefront of this change, bringing a free and open-source platform on which developers can create the next generation of...

Pharmaceutical Project Management, Second Edition (Drugs and the Pharmaceutical Sciences)

Informa Healthcare, 2008

This second edition of Pharmaceutical Project Management is published one decade after the first edition. What has changed over the past decade in drug development? Actually, a lot. The move to outsourcing has intensified and the successful management of relationships between sponsor and contractor is recognized to be a...

Bayesian Reasoning and Machine Learning

Cambridge University Press, 2012

We live in a world that is rich in data, ever increasing in scale. This data comes from many dierent sources in science (bioinformatics, astronomy, physics, environmental monitoring) and commerce (customer databases, nancial transactions, engine monitoring, speech recognition, surveillance, search). Possessing the knowledge as to...

Filtering, Control and Fault Detection with Randomly Occurring Incomplete Information

John Wiley & Sons, 2013

In the context of systems and control, incomplete information refers to a dynamical system in which knowledge about the system states is limited due to the difficulties in modelling complexity in a quantitative way. The well-known types of incomplete information include parameter uncertainties and norm-bounded nonlinearities. Recently, in...

The Adobe Photoshop CS3 Book for Digital Photographers

Peachpit Press, 2007

Scott Kelby was honored with Professional Photographer magazine’s highly coveted 2008 Hot One Award for The Adobe Photoshop CS3 Book for Digital Photographers. Here’s what Jeff Kent, the Hot One Editor at Professional Photographer, has to say about the book: “In a how-to published by Peachpit Press, Scott Kelby,...

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