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Python Essential Reference (3rd Edition) (Developer's Library)

Sams Publishing, 2006

Python Essential Reference, Second Edition, is the definitive guide to the Python programming language. Designed for programmers, it covers the core language, more than 100 modules in the standard library, and the techniques used to extend Python with compiled procedures in C or C++. Coverage expands upon and clarifies existing Python...

Enterprise Systems Education in the 21st Century

IGI Global, 2006

IT education, particularly at business colleges, is undergoing a transformation because of the emerging federated systems or enterprise-wide systems (ES). This follows a trend in industry, which uses complex software applications like SAP and others. This movement toward ES in industry has created major challenges for integrating ES into the...

Data Warehousing: Using the Wal-Mart Model (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems)

Morgan Kaufmann, 2000

At 70 terabytes and growing, Wal-Mart's data warehouse is still the world's largest, most ambitious, and arguably most successful commercial database. Written by one of the key figures in its design and construction, Data Warehousing: Using the Wal-Mart Model gives you an insider's view of this enormous project. Continuously drawing from...

The Internet of Things: From RFID to the Next-Generation Pervasive Networked Systems (Wireless Networks and Mobile Communications)

Auerbach Publications, 2008

Ubiquitous and pervasive technologies such as RFID and smart computing promise a world of networked and interconnected devices. Everything from tires to toothbrushes could soon be in communications range, heralding the dawn of an era in which today's Internet of People gives way to tomorrow's Internet of Things where billions of...

Session Initiation Protocol (SIP): Controlling Convergent Networks (McGraw-Hill Communication Series)

McGraw-Hill, 2008

Telephone networks have come a long ways in the last 100 years. Or have they? If one looks at how a telephone network works, not much has changed. Connections are still made through “dedicated” circuits connected end to end for the duration of a call. While switchboard operators have been replaced by digital switching systems, the...

Parallel Programming in OpenMP

Morgan Kaufmann, 2000

"This book will provide a valuable resource for the OpenMP community."

- Timothy G. Mattson, Intel Corporation

"This book has an important role to play in the HPC community-both for introducing practicing professionals to OpenMP and for educating students and professionals about parallel programming. I'm happy...

Jacquard's Web: How a Hand-Loom Led to the Birth of the Information Age

Oxford University Press, 2007

Circuits from silk? Today's technophiles probably have no idea how much today's computer technology owes to the invention of one ingenuous textile manufacturer in nineteenth-century France. Here, master storyteller James Essinger shows through a series of remarkable and meticulously researched historical connections how the Jacquard loom...

Moving Objects Databases (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems)

Morgan Kaufmann, 2005

This book represents a milestone in the synthesis of temporal and spatial database concepts and techniques. It unifies and organizes the existing research into a coherent whole and presents substantial new results and approaches in many areas. In each case it begins with what is known, then it introduces the new concepts in an abstract and...

Social Thinking--Software Practice

MIT Press, 2002

Software practice is everywhere: software development, design, and use as well as related management are shaping today’s technology and changing the way we engage in social relations at work and at home, in small groups and in the larger society. Scientific reflection on software practice aims at understanding and improvement; at the same...

Numerical Linear Approximation in C (CRC Numerical Analysis & Scientific Computing)

CRC Press, 2008

Illustrating the relevance of linear approximation in a variety of fields, Numerical Linear Approximation in C presents a unique collection of linear approximation algorithms that can be used to analyze, model, and compress discrete data. Developed by the lead author, the algorithms have been successfully applied to several...

Selected Topics in Approximation and Computation (International Series of Monographs on Computer Science)

Oxford University Press, 1995

". . .well written and well organized. . .It contains many exercises and can be used as a textbook in an advanced course on topics in approximation theory. . . .The book has a nice blend of theory and applications and should make a valuable reference book to researchers as well as teachers."--Mathematical Reviews

"The...

The Martian Principles for Successful Enterprise Systems: 20 Lessons Learned from NASAs Mars Exploration Rover Mission

John Wiley & Sons, 2006

When you need to land and operate a robot on Mars, "halfway" software is not an option. While helping to develop the Collaborative Information Portal, or CIP, for NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission, Ronald Mak identified and refined a set of principles that represent the fundamental goals necessary for any successful enterprise system....

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