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Data Compression: The Complete Reference

Springer, 2004

Giambattista della Porta, a Renaissance scientist, was the author in 1558 of Magia Naturalis (Natural Magic), a book in which he discusses many subjects, including demonology, magnetism, and the camera obscura. The book mentions an imaginary device that has since become known as the “sympathetic telegraph.” This device was to have...

The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 4A: Combinatorial Algorithms, Part 1

Addison Wesley, 2011

The TITLE of Volume 4 is Combinatorial Algorithms, and when I proposed it I was strongly inclined to add a subtitle: The Kind of Programming I Like Best. Mv editors have decided to tone down such exuberance, but the fact remains that programs with a combinatorial flavor have always been my favorites.

On the other hand I've...

The Government Machine: A Revolutionary History of the Computer

MIT Press, 2003

Sitting in the reading rooms of the Public Record Office in London, a historian is in the center of a museum of organization. Copies of the catalogue to the museum fill several walls (although these are now complemented by online versions). The catalogue lists are dominated by references to objects of one kind: the file. The file has in its...

Unicode Explained

O'Reilly, 2006

Fundamentally, computers just deal with numbers. They store letters and other characters by assigning a number for each one. There are hundreds of different encoding systems for mapping characters to numbers, but Unicode promises a single mapping. Unicode enables a single software product or website to be targeted across multiple...

Resumes for Computer Careers (Professional Resumes Series)

McGraw-Hill, 2008

Power up your resume!

You've worked hard for your computing degree; now it's time to take that education and put it to work. Get an edge on the other job applicants with Resumes for Computer Careers. This helpful resource is packed with expert advice on creating concise, stylish resumes that will instantly get you...

The Early Mathematical Manuscripts of Leibniz (Dover Books on Mathematics)

Dover Publications, 2005

This text features Leibniz's own accounts of his work and comprises critical and historical notes and essays. An informative Introduction leads to the "postscript" to Leibniz's 1703 letter to James Bernoulli, his "Historia et Origio Calculi Differentialis," and manuscripts of the period 1673-77. Essays by C. I....

Weighing the World: The Reverend John Michell of Thornhill (Archimedes)

Springer, 2011

The book about John Michell (1724-93) has two parts. The first and longest part is biographical, an account of Michell’s home setting (Nottinghamshire in England), the clerical world in which he grew up (Church of England), the university (Cambridge) where he studied and taught, and the scientific activities he made the center of his...

Payroll: A Guide to Running an Efficient Department

John Wiley & Sons, 2005

Payroll: A Guide to Running an Efficient Department
is a guide to
improving the payroll department through increasing its efficiency
and compliance. It combines the tasks the payroll department
must do with the most efficient ways available to do them.
With the demands made upon today’s payroll department—to...

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Guide to LaTeX (4th Edition) (Tools and Techniques for Computer Typesetting)

Addison Wesley, 2003

LaTeX is the text-preparation system of choice for scientists and academics, and is especially useful for typesetting technical materials. This popular book shows you how to begin using LaTeX to create high-quality documents. The book also serves as a handy reference for all LaTeX users. In this completely revised edition, the authors cover the...

Riddles of the Sphinx and Other Mathematical Puzzle Tales (New Mathematical Library Series/No. 32)

Mathematical Association of America, 1987

This is the third and final collection of puzzle columns that I contributed to Isaac Asimov' s Science Fiction Magazine over a period of about ten years. The format follows that of two previous anthologies: Science Fiction Puzzle Tales (1981) and Puzzles from Other Worlds (1984).

Each chapter poses a problem answered in the First Answers...

Data Compression: The Complete Reference

Springer, 2006

Data compression is one of the most important techniques in computing engineering. From archiving data to CD-ROMs and from coding theory to image analysis, many facets of computing make use of data compression in one form or another. This book is intended to provide an overview of the many different types of compression: it includes a taxonomy, an...

The Executive Guide to E-mail Correspondence: Including Model Letters for Every Situation

Career Press, 2006

Sit down at the keyboard and cinch that deal! Press the send button and get the account!

Writing skills are more important than ever in determining business success. They can make the difference between climbing the corporate ladder and getting stuck on a low rung. An e-mail that's clear, concise, and targeted will get more than just a...

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