This title is for the reader who is conversant with the C programming language and UNIX/Linux development. It provides detailed and solution-oriented information designed to meet the needs of programmers and application developers using the GTK+/Gnome libraries. Coverage complements existing GTK+/Gnome documentation, going into more depth on...
Following a seminar presentation, a member of the audience approached me to follow up on a point I had addressed. He explained that he worked in a bank, and also taught a graduate-level data mining course. He asked if I had any advice about how to turn the business description of a problem into a form that could be answered...
Our world faces an unprecedented energy crisis. Fuel shortages, skyrocketing energy prices, climate change, nuclear contamination, catastrophic oil spills and energy wars define the global scenario. The nonrenewable energy path of oil, natural gas, coal and nuclear is headed for a dead-end at an accelerated speed. In our race for survival we...
Smart Owners Guide Chihuahua is the first interactive breed book of it kind to offer new and novice owners a fun new way to learn about caring for their loyal companions. Chihuahua offers the most up-to-date online support with instant access to Club Chi™ where owners can meet and interact with other dedicated owners,...
More than ever before, today's Oracle DBA faces a database farm that is growing both in physical size and actual numbers. To keep these databases up and performing at exceptional levels, the database administrator needs more than a cobbled together set of scripts that they use to (hopefully) verify that everything is in order.
If you have this book in your hands, you’re a person who enjoys photography and wants to get more out of your photographs. You’re also probably at least somewhat familiar with Apple’s iPhoto application; maybe you’ve played around with it, but getting to know everything it can do seems daunting. Not to worry, this book...
Welcome to the official Apple Pro Training course for Aperture, the
powerful photo editing and management software from Apple. This
book includes a variety of real-world photography projects, which are
used as clear examples of the way Aperture works, from import and
organization to image editing and output.
Welcome to Internet and web programming and Internet & WorldWide Web How to Program,
Fourth Edition! At Deitel & Associates, we write programming language textbooks
and professional books for Prentice Hall, deliver corporate training worldwide and develop
Web 2.0 Internet businesses. The book has been...
Making a robot that looks and behaves like a human being has been the subject of many
popular science fiction movies and books. Although the development of such a robot
faces many challenges, the making of a virtual human has long been potentially possible.
With recent advances in various key technologies related to hardware and...
With the rapid increase of computational powers and availability of modern sensing, analysis
and rendering equipment and technologies, computers are becoming more and more intelligent.
Many research projects and commercial products have demonstrated the capability for a computer
to interact with human in a natural way by looking at...
Technology is at its best when it enables you to focus more on what you are doing rather than how you are doing it. iPhoto is definitely technology at its best. It does so many things that it takes a whole book to describe them to you — this book, in fact. iPhoto ’11 Portable Genius is your companion: It helps you get going with...
Over the years, the field of intelligent vehicles has become a major research theme
in intelligent transportation systems since traffic accidents are serious and growing
problems all over the world. The goal of an intelligent vehicle is to augment vehicle
autonomous driving either entirely or partly for the purposes of safety,...
