The book collects and condenses the experience of years of teaching compiler courses and doing research on formal language theory, on compiler and language design, and to a lesser extent on natural language processing. In the turmoil of information technology developments, the subject of the book has kept the same fundamental...

Today is the most exciting time to be working in nanotechnology, and bionanotechnology in particular. Chemistry, biology, and physics have revealed an immense amount of information on molecular structure and function, and now we are poised to make use of it for atomic-level engineering. New discoveries are being made every day, and...

With the advent of version 2 of the iPhone system, Apple proved they could do a remarkable thing — adapt their existing Cocoa computer application programming framework to make applications for a touch-based device with limited memory and speed and a dauntingly tiny display. The resulting Cocoa Touch framework, in fact, turned...

Computers play an increasingly important role in our society. A breakdown of all computer systems would cause a breakdown of almost all activities of daily life. Furthermore, personal computers are available in almost every home in the industrialized world. But there is one sector where computers have a more strategic role, and that...

Technology is at its best when it enables you to focus more on what you are doing rather than how you are doing it. iPhoto is definitely technology at its best. It does so many things that it takes a whole book to describe them to you — this book, in fact. iPhoto ’11 Portable Genius is your companion: It helps you get going with...

Foreword by Capodagli and Lynn Jackson, coauthors of "The Disney Way". All businesses have customers, but how many of them deliver unforgettably good customer service? "Secret Service" reveals the hidden systems of the few exceptional companies that do: what actions they take behind the scenes to consistently surpass...