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Programming Language Design Concepts

John Wiley & Sons, 2004

The first programming language I ever learned was ALGOL60. This language was
notable for its elegance and its regularity; for all its imperfections, it stood head and
shoulders above its contemporaries. My interest in languages was awakened, and
I began to perceive the benefits of simplicity and consistency in language design....

Social Solidarity and the Gift

Cambridge University Press, 2004

This book is the result of more than ten years of research and teaching about the themes of the gift and solidarity. It all started in 1992 when, in conversations with anthropologist Willy Jansen, I was put on the track of the gift literature. This was followed by an invitation from the Dutch newspaper Trouw on the occasion of its fiftieth...

Computer Vision-Guided Virtual Craniofacial Surgery: A Graph-Theoretic and Statistical Perspective

Springer, 2011

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...

Cryptography for Internet & Database Applications

John Wiley & Sons, 2002

Cryptography is the gold standard for security. It is used to protect the transmission and storage of data between two parties by encrypting it into an unreadable format. Cryptography has enabled the first wave of secure transmissions, which has helped fuel the growth of transactions like shopping, banking, and finance over the world's biggest...

Designing Steel Structures for Fire Safety

CRC Press, 2009

Structural design in fire conditions is conceptually similar to structural design in normal temperature conditions, but often more difficult because of internal forces induced by thermal expansion, strength reduction due to elevated temperatures, much larger deflections, and numerous other factors. Before making any design decisions it is...

Hierarchical Neural Networks for Image Interpretation (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

Springer, 2003

It is my pleasure and privilege to write the foreword for this book, whose results I have been following and awaiting for the last few years. This monograph represents the outcome of an ambitious project oriented towards advancing our knowledge of the way the human visual system processes images, and about the way it combines high...

Expert Oracle Exadata

Apress, 2015

Expert Oracle Exadata, 2nd Edition opens up the internals of Oracle's Exadata platform so that you can fully benefit from the most performant and scalable database hardware appliance capable of running Oracle Database. This edition is fully-updated to cover Exadata 5-2 and Oracle Database 12c. If you're new to Exadata,...

Data Structures and Algorithms Using Python and C++

Franklin Beedle & Associates, 2009

THIS BOOK is intended for use in a traditional college-level data structures course (commonly known as CS2). This book assumes that students have learned the basic syntax of Python and been exposed to the use of existing classes. Most traditional CS1 courses that use Python will have covered all the necessary topics, and some may have covered a...

Nonlinear Dynamics in Geosciences (Aegean Conferences)

Springer, 2007

From June 12-16, 2006 over eighty scientists from around the world gathered in Rhodes, Greece to attend the conference “20 Years of Nonlinear Dynamics in Geosciences”. The editors of this book organized the conference. It was sponsored by Aegean Conferences and was endorsed by the American Meteorological Society and...

The Ruby Way, Second Edition: Solutions and Techniques in Ruby Programming (2nd Edition)

Addison Wesley, 2006

Ruby is an agile object-oriented language, borrowing some of the best features from LISP, Smalltalk, Perl, CLU, and other languages. Its popularity has grown tremendously in the five years since the first edition of this book.

The Ruby Way takes a “how-to” approach to Ruby...

The Ultimate VB.NET and ASP.NET Code Book

Apress, 2003

Have you noticed that the majority of .NET books seem intent on hiding you from real-world code? You can buy a 1,500-page draft excluder, study it intensively for a month, and still be none the wiser as to how to write basic programs. This book isn’t like that.

Within these pages, you’ll learn how to create exciting new...

The Internet and E-commerce

Thorogood, 2003

As we use the Web as a platform for more and more of our business activities, it is vital that companies and their legal advisers are aware of the legal implications and liabilities that they are exposed to. This special Report looks at the law of e-commerce and the common pitfalls that Internet businesses continue to fall into. Supported by...

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