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Great Events From History: The 20th Century, 1941-1970

Salem Press, 2007

This is a unique resource: Nothing is comparable with this much depth or numbers that covers so many 20th century events.??AAGreat Events from History: The Twentieth Century, 1941-1970??AA, is the ninth installment in Salem Press' ongoing ??AAGreat Events from History??AA series. This six-volume set contains 1,112 essays on more than 1,100...

Origins and Foundations of Computing: In Cooperation with Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum

Springer, 2009

The book examines how intellectual developments in logic and mathematics were gradually matched by technical solutions in first mechanics and then electronics, and how the resulting machines found application in engineering, science and business.

The author was among the pioneers of computing science, and he offers a personal and...

PC Magazine Linux Solutions

John Wiley & Sons, 2006

So you've decided to find out about Linux.

Who better to fill you in than PC Magazine?

If you can imagine something you'd like your computer to do, you can probably do it with versatile, economical, powerful Linux. Here's how to tap that power, from installation to Linux desktop environments...

Introduction to Information Theory and Data Compression, Second Edition

CRC Press, 2003

An effective blend of carefully explained theory and practical applications, this text imparts the fundamentals of both information theory and data compression. Although the two topics are related, this unique text allows either topic to be presented independently, and it was specifically designed so that the data compression section requires...

Compression for Great Video and Audio, Second Edition: Master Tips and Common Sense (DV Expert)

Focal Press, 2009

It was the fall of 1989, and I was taking a computer animation class at UMass Amherst (I went to Hampshire College, another school in the Five Colleges consortium). We were using long-gone tools like Paracomp Swivel 3D to create a video about robots. This was well before After Effects, so we were using Macromind Director 1.0 as a very basic...

Computational Line Geometry (Mathematics and Visualization)

Springer, 2010

The geometry of lines occurs naturally in such different areas as sculptured surface machining, computation of offsets and medial axes, surface reconstruction for reverse engineering, geometrical optics, kinematics and motion design, and modeling of developable surfaces. This book covers line geometry from various viewpoints and aims towards...

Principles of Network and System Administration

John Wiley & Sons, 2000

Burgess fine book … is a well-articulated introduction to a corpus of guiding principles for systems administrators … I consider this an important book … I think that Burgess will become part of the required reading for future (and current) systems administrators. Peter Salus, Usenix Association Features

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Service Provision: Technologies for Next Generation Communications

John Wiley & Sons, 2004

This book provides the first overview of the service technologies available to telecoms operators working in a post-convergence world. Previous books have focused either on computer networks or on telecoms networks. This is the first to bring the two together and provide a single reference source for information that is currently only to be found...

Foundations of Knowledge Acquisition:: Machine Learning (The International Series in Engineering and Computer Science)

Springer, 1993

The two volumes of Foundations of Knowledge Acquisition document the recent progress of basic research in knowledge acquisition sponsored by the Office of Naval Research. This volume is subtitled Machine Learning, and there is a companion volume subtitled Cognitive Models of Complex Learning. Funding was provided by a five-year Accelerated...

The Fractal Structure of Data Reference: Applications to the Memory Hierarchy

Springer, 2000

For purposes of understanding its performance, a computer system is traditionally viewed as a processor coupled to one or more disk storage devices, and driven by externally generated requests (typically called transactions). Over the past several decades, very powerful techniques have become available to the performance analyst attempting to...

Fundamentals of Database Systems (4th Edition)

Addison Wesley, 2003

This book introduces the fundamental concepts necessary for designing, using, and implementing database systems and applications. Our presentations stresses the fundamentals of database modeling and design, the languages and facilities provided by the database management systems, and system implementation techniques. The book is meant to be used as...

Apple Training Series: Mac OS X Server Essentials v10.6: A Guide to Using and Supporting Mac OS X Server v10.6

Peachpit Press, 2009

This book is based on the same criteria used for Apple’s official training course, Mac OS X Server Essentials 10.6, an in-depth exploration of Mac OS X Server v10.6. This book serves as a self-paced tour of the breadth of functionality of Mac OS X Server and the best methods for effectively supporting users of Mac OS X Server systems....

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