The term photorealistic is thrown around a lot and is often undefined. Although it seems obvious—photorealistic means something looks like a photo—the word requires a greater explanation. There are many facets to photorealism. This is true because as a CG artist, you have control over everything. Achieving 100 percent realism...

The history of shells goes back some 30 years. In the early...

The main objective of a first course in operating systems is to develop an understanding of the fundamental concepts and techniques of operating systems. Most of the students are already exposed to diverse information on operating systems as a result of practical exposure to operating systems and literature on the Internet; such...

We all know that society is less than perfect and that crime could easily touch us all. If yon talk to friends and neighbours you will usually find that most of them have cither been the victim of crime or know somebody who has. People tear crime, they feel helpless because they think that there is nothing they can do to protect themselves,...

In that first edition, Ryan and I tried to cover every corner of...

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...

We are deluged by data—scientific data, medical data, demographic data, financial data, and marketing data. People have no time to look at this data. Human attention has become a precious resource. So, we must find ways to automatically analyze the data, to automatically classify it, to automatically summarize it, to...