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| | Mobile Computing HandbookThe debut of small, inexpensive, yet powerful portable computers has coincided with the exponential growth of the Internet, making it possible to access computing resources and information at nearly any location at almost any time. This new trend, mobile computing, is poised to become the main technology driver for a decade to come. There are many... | | Encyclopedia of Civil War ShipwrecksOn the evening of February 2, 1864, Confederate Commander John Taylor Wood led 250 sailors in two launches and twelve boats to capture the USS Underwriter, a side-wheel steam gunboat anchored on the Neuse River near New Bern, North Carolina. During the ensuing fifteen-minute battle, nine Union crewmen lost their lives, twenty were wounded,... |
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Location-Based Information Systems: Developing Real-Time Tracking Applications
Location-based services (LBS) are nally coming out of research labs and getting
into the hands of nal users. It is fairly common to see cellular carriers
and private companies oering LBS to locate your children, friends, and sites
of interest, track assets, enhance the security of key personnel, help people
with disabilities use... | | Handbook of Global Logistics: Transportation in International Supply Chains
Global logistics entails tradeoffs in facility location, distribution networks, the routing and scheduling of deliveries by different modes of travel (e.g., air, water, truck, rail), procurement, and the overall management of international supply chains. In an increasingly global economy, then, logistics has become a very important matter in... | | |
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Learning Swift: Building Apps for macOS, iOS, and Beyond
Get valuable hands-on experience with Swift, the open source programming language developed by Apple. With this practical guide, skilled programmers with little or no knowledge of Apple development will learn how to code with the latest version of Swift by developing a working iOS app from start to finish.
You’ll... | | Wirelessness: Radical Empiricism in Network Cultures
Motion, to take a good example, is originally a turbid sensation, of which the native
shape is perhaps best preserved in the phenomenon of vertigo. (James 1996a, 62)
Between 1999 and 2009, a “ turbid ” or disordered sensation of change was
felt as wireless connections expanded and eroded the edges of the Internet... | | |
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