Harry Grinnell, who was co-author James Coplien’s grandfather, was a
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Welcome to the Graphic Designer’s Digital Toolkit! Here you will learn the essential
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A wide spectrum of research areas have contributed to the development of objectoriented
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One of the most debated consequences regarding the increased availability and use
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In 1983 I left the International Institute for Aerospace Survey and Earth Sciences (ITC) and went to Wageningen Agricultural University, where I took the chair of “Land Surveying and Teledetection”. Up to that time I had been active mainly in geodesy and photogrammetry, but at Wageningen it soon became...
Every so often, a technology comes along that changes the way we go about our everyday business. This technology is called a disruptive technology and has such a significant benefit or improvement that people are willing to change their normal way of doing things to incorporate the new technology. Virtualization is one of those disruptive...
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Programmers may spend a good part of their careers scripting code to conform to commercial
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Twenty-one years ago, I read a book that changed my life. Today I hope to write a book
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