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In the early 1990s, the establishment of the Internet brought forth a
revolutionary viewpoint of information storage, distribution, and processing:
the World-Wide Web is becoming an enormous and expanding
distributed digital library. Along with the development of the Web, image
indexing and retrieval have grown into research areas...
THIS BOOK GREW OUT OFMY EXPERIENCE OF WORKING WITH DATA FOR VARIOUS COMPANIES IN THE TECH
industry. It is a collection of those concepts and techniques that I have found to be the
most useful, including many topics that I wish I had known earlier—but didn’t.
My degree is in physics, but I also worked as a software...
The 16th edition of the International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies
– Ada-Europe 2011—took place in the John McIntyre Conference Centre,
Edinburgh (UK). Previous editions of the conference were held in Switzerland
(Montreux 1996 and Geneva 2007), United Kingdom (London 1997 and York
2005), Sweden (Uppsala...
In The Art and Science of Java, Stanford professor and well-known leader in Computer Science Education Eric Roberts emphasizes the reader-friendly exposition that led to the success of The Art and Science of C. By following the recommendations of the Association of Computing Machinery’s Java Task Force, this first edition...
C# Programming: From Problem Analysis to Program Design requires no previous introduction
to programming and only a mathematical background of high school algebra.The book
uses C# as the programming language for software development; however, the basic programming
concepts presented can be applied to a number of other languages. Instead...
Social Learning Systems and Communities of Practice is a collection of classical and contemporary writing associated with learning and systemic change in contexts ranging from cities, to rural development to education to nursing to water management to public policy. It is likely to be of interest to anyone trying to understand how to think...
Since the World Wide Web became widely available in the
mid 1990s, Web-based applications have developed rapidly.
The Web has come to be used by a range of people for many
different purposes, including online banking, e-commerce,
distance education, social networking, data sharing, collaborating
on team projects, and...
Welcome to the sixth edition of Learning Perl, updated for Perl 5.14 and its latest
features. This book is still good even if you are still using Perl 5.8 (although, it’s been
a long time since it was released; have you thought about upgrading?).
If you’re looking for the best way to spend your first 30 to 45 hours...
The opportunities provided by Cloud Computing solutions allowed for significant growth within an industry that continues to mature and develop at a rapid pace.
The primary goal of this book and course is to provide the quality education and support materials needed to enable the understanding and application of Cloud Computing in a wide-range...
“Which digital camera should I buy? What is the best holiday for me and
my family? Which is the best investment for supporting the education of my
children? Which movie should I rent? Which web sites will I find interesting?
Which book should I buy for my next vacation? Which degree and university
are the best for my...
This book is an attempt to bring together current research in the domain of interactive
horizontal displays. The book integrates and summarises findings from the
most important international tabletop research teams. It provides a state-of-the-art
overview and allows for the discussion of emerging and future directions in research
and...
