Graphics & Visualization: Principles and Algorithms is aimed at undergraduate
and graduate students taking computer graphics and visualization courses. Students
in computer-aided design courses with emphasis on visualization will also
benefit from this text, since mathematical modeling techniques with parametric
curves and...
.NET Gadgeteer is a wonderful system for constructing prototypes of electronic
gadgets. It is supported by a range of modules that are connected to
a Mainboard with plug-in cables.
This book will lead you through the process of installing the necessary software
onto your computer and then take...
In recent years, federal oversight of public expenditures
has sought to integrate performance and budgeting. Notably,
the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) was
passed in 1993 “in response to questions about the value
and effectiveness of federal programs” (GAO, 1997, p. 11).
GPRA and other mandates...
If you've done some Arduino tinkering and wondered how you could incorporate the Kinect in your
projects — or the other way around — this book is for you.
If you haven’t actually done any tinkering but you are looking for a good way to get started, this
book might also be for you. Even though...
The design of reliable industrial and commercial power systems is of considerable interest to
many people. Prior to 1962, a qualitative viewpoint was taken when attempting to achieve
this objective. The need for a quantitative approach was first recognized in the early 1960s
when a small group of pioneers led by W. H. Dickinson...
In the forty years since I started working in the field, and indeed for some years before that (almost since Calvin Mooers coined the term information storage and retrieval in the 1950s), there have been a significant number of books on information retrieval. Even if we ignore the more specialist research monographs and the...
Microsoft SharePoint 2010: Business Connectivity Services helps small and medium-sized businesses as well as bigger organizations put their business
data to work—and create valuable business solutions. Use Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010, Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, or Microsoft
SharePoint Online (part of...
Optimization is an extremely important area in science and technology which provides
powerful and useful tools and techniques for the formulation and solution of
a multitude of problems in which we wish, or need, to find a best possible option
or solution. It has been an important area of research for more than half a century,...
The Microsoft .NET Framework introduces many concepts, technologies, and terms. My goal in this
chapter is to give you an overview of how the .NET Framework is designed, introduce you to some of
the technologies the framework includes, and define many of the terms you’ll be seeing when you start
using it....
It was not long ago that database systems were revolutionized through the birth of
the relational concepts and theory, which are now materialized in most commercial
database management systems. It was then thought that data should be structured
in a rather simple way to support the day-to-day business operations. This
has...
When we, the authors of this book, first learned what Microsoft’s plans were for Analysis Services in the SQL Server 2012 release, we were not happy. Analysis Services hadn’t acquired much in the way of new features since 2005, even though in the meantime it had grown to become the biggest-selling OLAP tool. It seemed as...
Windows Presentation Foundation has been in release since late 2006,
as a part of the then .NET 3.0 Framework, also preinstalled on Windows Vista at the time.
It promised to change the way rich client applications are written, and eventually replace
the old, Win32-based Windows Forms.
