 Practical Dojo Projects (Practical Projects)I’ve been developing software for a long time, by anyone’s count: over 25 years, about 15 or so of that “professionally” (meaning 15 years or so I’ve been getting paid to pretend I know what I’m doing). I’ve been doing web development specifically for something like 10 or so of those years. I can say, with... |  |  Historical Information Science: An Emerging UnidisciplineIt suggests that trends in information retrieval, research, and teaching using modern information technology point toward a unidisciplinary field, Historical Information Science, which potentially can grow out of older quantification and Social Science history, the interplay between History and Information Science, and new methodologies and... |  |  Advanced Video Coding: Principles and Techniques (Advances in Image Communication)In recent years, the paradigm of video coding has shifted from that of a frame-based approach to a content-based approach, particularly with the finalization of the ISO multimedia coding standard, MPEG-4. MPEG-4 is the emerging standard for the coding of multimedia content. It defines a syntax for a set of content-based functionalities, namely,... |