What’s a spectacular entertainment device, runs thousands of apps, connects you to the Internet, lets you take high-resolution photos and videos, handles any email you can throw at it, is a wizard at Facebook and other social networking services, lets you videochat with people across the world, opens the world of electronic...

Don’t feel bad—I’ve given you an impossible exercise, but I promise the book will be filled with practical instead of ridiculous exercises from here on out. That’s because we’re going to...

What you are holding in your hands is the first Revit book in a new series. When we authors first sat down to learn Revit (eons ago), each of us was put into a room with a trainer, and over the course of four days, we clicked...

Maybe you've heard the story—or probably urban legend—about the university that didn't lay any grass or pour any concrete when it first opened, leaving the campus grounds as solid dirt. Then, as students began to traverse the campus from one class to the next, campus planners mapped the common paths they took, and then...

At first glance, Google+ (or Plus, the terms are interchangeable) seems awfully familiar. You can make Posts, like on...

You are holding the proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on the Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services. This workshop brings together the research and practitioner communities active in the area of economics and computer science to address the emerging interest in infrastructure, platform, and software services....

The main objective of the ADBIS series of conferences is to provide a highly visible forum for the dissemination of research accomplishments and to promote interactions and collaborations among the database and information systems research communities from Central and Eastern European countries and with the rest of the world. The ADBIS...

A dobe Photoshop is one of the most important computer programs of our age. It’s made photo editing a commonplace thing, something for the everyperson. Still, Photoshop can be a scary thing (especially that first purchase price!), comprising a jungle of menus and panels and tools and options and shortcuts as well as a bewildering...