Communities have built collections of information in a collaborative manner for
centuries. Around 250 years ago, more than 140 people wrote l’Encyclopedie in 28
volumes with 70,000 articles. More recently, Wikipedia has demonstrated how
collaborative efforts can be a powerful method of building a massive data storage. It
is...
The term photorealistic is thrown around a lot and is often undefined. Although it seems obvious—photorealistic means something looks like a photo—the word requires a greater explanation. There are many facets to photorealism. This is true because as a CG artist, you have control over everything. Achieving 100 percent realism...
A comprehensive guide to global warming and the steps we must take to combat it.
The evidence continues to mount: melting ice caps, rising temperatures, increasingly frequent natural disasters. As the devastating effects of global warming come into sharper focus, societies must work to both mitigate greenhouse gas...
PowerShell is becoming the de facto administration tool for Microsoft
Server products. The ability to script out reusable steps and code makes life
easier for administrators, developers, and managers alike. With the latest
release of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, PowerShell is the recommended
administration...
As it turns out Bennis underestimated the impact that bad leadership
can have. A combination of greed, hubris, flawed judgment, and miscalculation
has made the Enron debacle seem almost quaint by comparison
to the global financial crisis that we now face. Although numerous pundits
and scholars have advanced many reasons for the...
Automatic speech recognition suffers from a lack of robustness with respect to
noise, reverberation and interfering speech. The growing field of speech recognition
in the presence of missing or uncertain input data seeks to ameliorate those
problems by using not only a preprocessed speech signal but also an estimate of
its...
This book is based in part on my earlier work. Pattern Recognition: Applications to Large Data-Set Problems, published by Marcel Dekker: Inc. in 1984. It was originally intended that this volume be a second editon of that work. However, due to the tremendous
amount of material added it seemed that a new title. Pattern Recognition...
We would like to welcome you to the proceedings of the 2009 International Conference
on Security Technology (SecTech 2009), which was organized as part of the
2009 International Mega-Conference on Future Generation Information Technology
(FGIT 2009), held during December 10–12, 2009, at the International Convention
Center Jeju,...
An open source content management system (CMS) like Drupal can be a great
resource for anyone who would like to develop and maintain a website. In the
past, in order to make a website, you had to manually assemble all the files and
develop a fair amount of technical expertise; however, a CMS can automate and
significantly simplify...
This book is the revised and extended version of a Pfr.D. dissertation submitted
to the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of
California at Berkeley. Many of the ideas presented in this book have their roots in
discussions with Eugene Wong, my mentor and thesis advisor. I would like to thank
Gene...
TO THOSE OF US WHO PAY ATTENTION to such things, the world of software development
has changed a lot in the last few years. In the .NET world, Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2010 is
undoubtedly the most successful development environment. Since the release of the fi rst .NET
version in February 2002, this product has undergone dramatic...
We wrote this book because we love games. We also love sound and music, and we love what they
can bring to games to make them thrilling, involving, and moving. We want you to be able to
try out your sound and your music in a real game. For a book whose examples are based exclusively
around one piece of software, it may appear...