Learn IT - Books tags creativity

Crypto Anarchy, Cyberstates, and Pirate Utopias

MIT Press, 2001

In Crypto Anarchy, Cyberstates, and Pirate Utopias, Peter Ludlow extends the approach he used so successfully in High Noon on the Electronic Frontier, offering a collection of writings that reflects the eclectic nature of the online world, as well as its tremendous energy and creativity. This time the subject is the emergence...

Hard Disk Drive: Mechatronics and Control (Control Engineering)

CRC Press, 2006

The hard disk drive (HDD) is an excellent example of the practical application of precision mechatronics. Hard Disk Drive: Mechatronics and Control describes the control aspects of an HDD, explains difficulties faced by designers, provides solutions, and highlights challenges of future-generation drives. Combining academic interests with...

Artificial Intelligence and Literary Creativity: Inside the Mind of Brutus, A Storytelling Machine

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1999

Now that IBM's Deep Blue computer beat the world's greatest human chess player, Gary Kasparov, this book will see if a story can be written better by a human or a machine.

This book marks the marriage of logic and creativity.

While it may be true that incompatible humans often wed, there are doubtless unions of a less palpable...

Raspberry Pi Cookbook for Python Programmers

Packt Publishing, 2014

Over 50 easy-to-comprehend tailor-made recipes to get the most out of the Raspberry Pi and unleash its huge potential using Python

Overview

Install your first operating system, share files over the network, and run programs remotely

Unleash the hidden potential of the Raspberry Pi's...

Textpattern Solutions: PHP-Based Content Management Made Easy

Friends of Ed, 2007

Textpattern is a powerful, PHP-based content management system that allows you to build pretty much any kind of data-driven website quickly and easily. It is very popular among designers and developers alike, and has an active community of users. Sound good? Well, you're in luckthe book you're holding now shows you how to use every aspect of...

bash Cookbook: Solutions and Examples for bash Users

O'Reilly, 2007

Every modern operating system has at least one shell and some have many. Some shells are command-line oriented, such as the shell discussed in this book. Others are graphical, like Windows Explorer or the Macintosh Finder. Some users will interact with the shell only long enough to launch their favorite application, and then never emerge from...

Silence on the Wire: A Field Guide to Passive Reconnaissance and Indirect Attacks

No Starch Press, 2005

There are many ways that a potential attacker can intercept information, or learn more about the sender, as the information travels over a network. Silence on the Wire uncovers these silent attacks so that system administrators can defend against them, as well as better understand and monitor their systems.

Silence on the...

The Artful Universe Expanded

Oxford University Press, 2005

Our love of art, writes John Barrow, is the end product of millions of years of evolution. How we react to a beautiful painting or symphony draws upon instincts laid down long before humans existed. Now, in this enhanced edition of the highly popular The Artful Universe, Barrow further explores the close ties between our aesthetic appreciation and...

Business Creativity: Breaking the Invisible Barriers

Palgrave Macmillan, 2005

Many companies and organizations have found it difficult to develop creative skills. The authors argue that while individuals have inherent creativity there are a number of assassins or barriers that block individual creative development. This bold new approach to creativity enhancement will focus upon how to remove barriers and create...

Indra's Net and the Midas Touch: Living Sustainably in a Connected World

MIT Press, 2011

We live today in a global web of interdependence, connected technologically, economically, politically, and socially. As a result of these expanding and deepening interdependencies, it has become impossible fully to control -- or foretell -- the effects of our actions. The world is rife with unintended consequences. The first law of human...

Peer-to-Peer : Harnessing the Power of Disruptive Technologies

O'Reilly, 2001

The term "peer-to-peer" has come to be applied to networks that expect end users to contribute their own files, computing time, or other resources to some shared project. Even more interesting than the systems' technical underpinnings are their socially disruptive potential: in various ways they return content, choice, and...

Foundation Actionscript 3.0 Animation: Making Things Move!

Friends of Ed, 2007

In this book, you'll learn

All the ActionScript 3.0 (including math and trigonometry functions) and Flash rendering techniques you'll need to start animating with code

Basic motion principles such as velocity, acceleration, friction, easing, and bouncing

How to handle user interaction via the keyboard and...

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