When I embarked on my career as a psychologist, I never imagined I’d end up
designing technology products and services. Funny where you end up in life, and
lucky for me all those years at university weren’t wasted: the business of understanding
humans and the way they behave is critical to designing....
Business Model Generation is a handbook for visionaries, game changers, and challengers striving to defy outmoded business models and design tomorrow's enterprises. If your organization needs to adapt to harsh new realities, but you don't yet have a strategy that will get you out in front of your competitors, you need...
It has been said, what we know and what we believe is of little consequence. It is
what we do that is important. When it comes to food safety, this point is certainly
true.
The main reason I decided to write this book is simple. It’s because I wish I
could have known 20 years ago (when I started my career in...
The monograph deals with an important application of computer vision and pattern
recognition in the area of medical science, more specifically reconstructive craniofacial
surgery. Craniofacial fractures are encountered very frequently in today’s fastpaced
society; the major causes being gunshot wounds, motor vehicle...
Everybody’s talking about cloud services today. It’s one of the hot new buzzwords, but
most of the conversation is about how to develop custom applications in the cloud.
While that is a really important topic, it ignores another very useful attribute of a distributed
cloud: as a great place to build and...
The process of identifying physical objects is such a fundamental part of our
experience that we seldom think about how we do it. We use our senses, of
course: we look at, feel, pick up, shake and listen to, smell, and taste objects
until we have a reference for them—then we give them a label. The whole...
The main reason for a fourth edition of Essential MATLAB for Engineers and Scientists is to keep up with MATLAB, now in its latest version (7.7 Version 2008B). Like the previous editions, this one presents MATLAB as a problemsolving tool for professionals in science and engineering, as well as students in those fields, who have no prior...
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a big field, and this is a big book. We have tried to explore the full breadth of the field, which encompasses logic, probability, and continuous mathematics; perception, reasoning, learning, and action; and everything from microelectronic devices to robotic planetary explorers. The book is...
This is a CS 2 book that presents classical data structures in an object-oriented programming (OOP) context using Java. This book also focuses on the basic principles of OOP and graphical user interface (GUI)-based programming – two paradigms essential for modern programming and problem solving. Our book is aimed principally at CS 2...
The term "multidimensional data" generally refers to data in which a given fact is quantified by a set of measures, obtained by applying one more or less complex aggregative function (from count or sum to average or percent, and so on) to raw data. Such measures are...
