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Advances in Mobile Robotics: Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots and the Support Technologies

World Scientific Publishing, 2008

This book provides state-of-the-art scientific and engineering research findings and developments in the area of mobile robotics and associated support technologies. It contains peer-reviewed articles presented at the CLAWAR 2008 conference. Robots are no longer confined to industrial manufacturing environments; rather, a great deal of interest is...

MySQL Clustering

MySQL Press, 2006

Clustering is the final component of MySQL that makes it truly enterprise-level and able to compete fully with proprietary databases such as Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server. The increased number of high-demand, high-productivity corporations and institutions choosing MySQL, including MIT, the Department of Homeland Security,...

Handbook of Firearms and Ballistics: Examining and Interpreting Forensic Evidence

John Wiley & Sons, 2008

Does the gunshot residue reveal how far from the target a weapon was fired? Is there any trace evidence to prove the accused handled a specific firearm? What is the likely behaviour of a ricocheting bullet? Do the marks on a bullet prove categorically that it was fired from a particular weapon? These are all issues (amongst others) that the fully...

Beginning Programming For Dummies

For Dummies, 2006

New techniques make programming easier and more fun

Discover principles and best practices that let you program in many languages

So you always thought programmers were superior beings from another galaxy? Surprise! Programming isn't all that difficult when you know how. Here's the fun and easy route to writing programs that work...

Climbing and Walking Robots: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference CLAWAR 2004

Springer, 2005

These Proceedings are a collection of selected papers presented at the Seventh International Conference organised by the EC GROWTH Thematic Network on Climbing and Walking Robots (CLAWAR). This conference, that was held in Madrid (September 2004), builds upon the highly successful previous Conferences held in Brussels (November 1998), Portsmouth...

Climbing and Walking Robots : Proceedings of the 8th International Conference

Springer, 2006

The interest in climbing and walking robots (CLAWAR) has intensified in recent years, and novel solutions for complex and very diverse applications have been anticipated by means of significant progress in this area of robotics. Moreover, the amalgamation of original ideas and related innovations, search for new potential applications and the use...

Rob Milne: A Tribute to a Pioneering AI Scientist, Entrepreneur and Mountaineer, Volume 139 Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications

IOS Press, 2006

This festschrift celebrates the life of a remarkable man.

Rob Milne died while climbing Mount Everest early on 5th June 2005 Nepal Time. He was 48. He is survived by his wife Val and his two children Alex and Rosemary. His untimely death was a tragedy, but Rob packed 96 years of living into his 48 years of life. In any one of his three...

The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life

Random House, 2020

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Everybody tells you to live for a cause larger than yourself, but how exactly do you do it? The author of The Road to Character explores what it takes to lead a meaningful life in a self-centered world.

“Deeply moving, frequently eloquent and...

Natural Cures "They" Don't Want You To Know About

Alliance Publishing, 2005

Kevin Trudeau blows the lid off a nest of deception and double standards concerning general and individual health in this new book, "Natural Cures 'They' Don't Want You To Know About." Kevin has risked government prosecution to bring you the full story of an intricate conspiracy.

From the retail supermarket outlets of huge, publicly...

Mission Critical Windows 2000 Server Administration

Syngress Publishing, 2000

To put it in terms understandable to the many former English majors who now manage Windows networks: if Everyman were a system administrator, he'd run Windows 2000 Server. It supports pretty much any business requirement, yet it's user-friendly enough that anyone can learn to be an administrator with a bit of study. Mission Critical! Windows...

The Basics of Information Security: Understanding the Fundamentals of InfoSec in Theory and Practice

Syngress Publishing, 2011

Boring, boring, boring. Isn’t this what immediately comes to mind when one sees books on foundational concepts of information security? Monotonous coverage of theory, dry details of history, brief yet inadequate coverage of every topic known to man, even though you know that you’ll never be hired by the NSA as a...

Autonomous Robotic Systems (Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences)

Springer, 1998

This book constitutes the presentations made at the Advanced Research Workshop on Autonomous Robotic Systems, which was held at the University of Coimbra, Portugal, June 1997. The aim of the meeting was to bring together leading researchers in the area of autonomous systems for mobility and manipulation, and the aim of this book is to share the...

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