This book is a short, focused introduction to MATLAB, a comprehensive
software system for mathematics and technical computing. It will
be useful to bothbeginning and experienced users. It contains concise
explanations of essential MATLAB commands, as well as easily understood
instructions for using...

Major Linux distributions such as Red Hat, Mandrake and SuSE, among others, have released mature, full-featured versions suitable for day to day use on an average computer user's day to day computer, including not only a complete operating system but also a Microsoft Office-compatible application suite and a plethora of additional tools...

Data mining analyzes large amounts of data to discover knowledge relevant to decision making. Typically, numerous pieces of knowledge are extracted by a data mining system and presented to a human user, who may be a decision-maker or a data-analyst. The user is confronted with the task of selecting the pieces of knowledge that are of the highest...

As data grows exponentially day-by-day, extracting information becomes a tedious activity in itself. Technologies like Hadoop are trying to address some of the concerns, while Solr provides high-speed faceted search. Bringing these two technologies together is helping organizations resolve the problem of information extraction from Big Data...

Building Java Programs: A Back to Basics Approach, Second Edition, introduces novice programmers to basic constructs and common pitfalls by emphasizing the essentials of procedural programming, problem solving, and algorithmic reasoning. By using objects early to solve interesting problems and defining objects later in the course, Building...

"There’s only one name in marketing: Phil Kotler. His latest may be his best–a summa that captures the best of his insights, as original today as when he first took pen in hand, forty years ago."
–Tom Peters, author of In Search of Excellence and...