Software quality assurance has never been more challenging -- nor more...

The question is all too familiar. The concern is real and legitimate. Technology and other project initiatives have grown faster than the ability of most companies to manage them—affecting the return on the investment of trillions of dollars...

Following on from the successful MPEG-2 standard, MPEG-4 Visual is enabling a new wave of multimedia applications from Internet video streaming to mobile video conferencing. The new H.264 ‘Advanced Video Coding’ standard promises impressive compression performance and is gaining support from developers and manufacturers. The first...

This 5 volume MRW (Major Reference Work) is entitled "Computer Aided and Integrated Manufacturing Systems". A brief summary description of each of the 5 volumes will be noted in their respective PREFACES. An MRW is normally on a broad subject of major importance on the international scene. Because of the breadth of a major...

This book offers everything the robotics hobbyist needs to learn - what it is - where to get it - how to get started - from the author of "Robot Builder's Bonanza!" Fascinated by the world of robotics but don't know how to tap into the incredible amount of information available on the subject? Clueless as to locating...

The Physical Nature of Consciousness contains twelve chapters that discuss recent and new perspectives on the relation between modern physics and consciousness.
Stuart Hameroff opens with an extended and updated exposition of the Penrose/Hameroff Orch-OR model, and subsequently addresses recent criticisms of quantum approaches...

Wish you could fix that faulty doorbell, hook up a motion detector, or maybe build your very own robot? This book will really get you charged up! It won't make...