Given Apple’s advertising budget and ubiquitous ads, plus an enormous amount of media attention, it’s still difficult to determine just what an iPad is. Is it a media player or a business machine? Does it replace a laptop? There are other tablet computers on the market, as well as “netbooks” that act like...
My entire career has been about learning and applying new technologies. It has also
been about taking on new challenges related to technology and business. I enjoy
learning new things,and I like to share things that I have learned through writing
and public speaking. I like to help others learn challenging subjects,in particular...
Grid Computing was a vision of using and sharing computers and data in the early
1990s. The integration, coordination, and sharing of computer resources which are
geographically disperse among different physical domains and organizations
became an every day reality. This emerging infrastructure aims to provide a mechanism
for sharing...
Neural Networks, Second Edition provides a complete introduction to neural networks. It describes what they are, what they can do, and how they do it. While some scientific background is assumed, the reader is not expected to have any prior knowledge of neural networks. These networks are explained and discussed by means of examples, so that...
Results matter, whether you are a mathematician, scientist, or engineer. The time that you spend doing tedious mathematical calculations could be spent in more productive ways. Sage is an open-source mathematical software system that helps you perform many mathematical tasks. There is no reason to compute integrals or perform algebraic...
Every year ESWC brings together researchers and practitioners dealing with
different aspects of semantic technologies. Following a successful re-launch in
2010 as a multi-track conference, the 8th Extended Semantic Web Conference
built on the success of the ESWC conference series initiated in 2004. Through its
extended concept this...
If your intention is to improve, not just pick up some "tricks," you
should understand exactly what is going on with the most mportant part
of the riding package, the rider. After all. whether your bike works well
or not is measured in ten/thousandths of inches and millimeters, that's
how far machine technology has...
Search has been vital to artificial intelligence from the very beginning as a core technique in problem solving. The authors present a thorough overview of heuristic search with a balance of discussion between theoretical analysis and efficient implementation and application to real-world problems. Current developments in search such as...
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...
In the time since the 1986 edition of this book, the world of compiler design
has changed significantly. Programming languages have evolved to present new
compilation problems. Computer architectures offer a variety of resources of
which the compiler designer must take advantage. Perhaps most interestingly,
the venerable technology of...
In the early days of pattern recognition and statistical data analysis life was
rather simple: datasets were relatively small, collected from well-designed experiments,
analyzed using a few methods that had good theoretical background.
Explosive growth of the use of computers led to the creation of huge amounts of
data of all kinds,...
Desktop virtualization is a very broad topic, which can encompass various virtualization technologies.
This book is aimed at specifically addressing how to implement a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI)
solution using Citrix XenDesktop.
This book is not meant as a definitive guide to any one of the technologies...
