The study of minimum paths on or around polyhedra in Euclidean 3-space is
of growing importance in robotics. This work presents new algorithms
based on extensions of the Voronoi diagram. Since experience with new algo-
rithms is also important, this work also describes a workbench to allow
experimentation.
In 2009, it is estimated that more than 1.5 billion people have access to the Internet, including
220 million in the U.S. alone. Throw in 338 million Chinese users, 55 million German users, 48
million British users, 38 million Russian users, and 67 million Brazilians, and you can see the
meaning of the word “world” in the...
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...
Well, it’s been a wild ride since the first edition of this book was released. At that
time, PowerShell had just shipped and had a fairly limited scope of influence. Things
have changed a lot. PowerShell now ships in the box with Windows (at least Windows
7 and Server 2008 R2). The number of PowerShell users is now in the hundreds...
Google's Android operating system for phones is definitely a moving target. During the production of this book's first version, the latest Android version available on a cutting-edge phone jumped from 1.6 to 2.2. In that time, too, phones made by HTC and Motorola became exceedingly popular, and modified versions of the Android...
This volume of LNCS contains the proceedings of the 6th European Performance
Engineering Workshop, held at Imperial College London during July 9–10, 2009.
This was the first in the EPEW series to be held in the UK, following on from the
highly successful workshops that were held in Toledo (2004), Versailles (2005),...
Peer-to-peer (P2P) has proven as a most successful way to produce large
scale, reliable, and cost-effective applications, as illustrated for file sharing or
VoIP. P2P storage is an emerging field of application which allows peers to
collectively leverage their resources towards ensuring the reliability and
availability of user...
Adobe's Stage3D (previously codenamed Molehill) is a set of 3D APIs that has brought 3D to the Flash platform. Being a completely new technology, there were almost no resources to get you acquainted with this revolutionary platform, until now.
This book will show you how to make your very own next-gen 3D games in Flash. If...
The title says "for Absolute Beginners." By that, I mean absolute beginners at programming. My original audience was teenagers whom I hope will go to college, get degrees in Mathematics, Computer Science, or Electrical Engineering (or perhaps Technical Communication or Graphic Design), and then enter the software industry. However,...
Very few industrial pumps come out of service and go into the
maintenance shop because the volute casing or impeller split down the
middle, or because the shaft fractured into four pieces. The majority of
pumps go into the shop because the bearings or the mechanical seal
failed.
Professor A. R. Butz was the first (and so far the only) writer to treat the entire Holocaust complex from the Revisionist perspective, in a precise scientific manner. This book exhibits the overwhelming force of historical and logical arguments which Revisionism had accumulated by the middle of the 70s. This new edition comes with several...
Writing remains to me an unusual practice that transforms my experience of the world whilst under the spell of writing. This book has had a particularly intensive birth, written as it is in the middle of the academic year and with everyday life swirling around it with all the attendant distractions. It has emerged from a number of related...
