Beginning with the company's origins in the punched-card technology of the late nineteenth century, this wellresearched volume tells how IBM became so rapidly the dominant company in the computer industry. In doing so, it provides refreshing new insights on the origins and development of that industry.

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Mit der Einführung von Windows Vista hat Microsoft den Prozess der Installation und Bereitstellung des Betriebssystems signifikant umgestellt.Hardware- und sprachneutrale Abbilder (Images), neue Tools zur individuellen Anpassung der Bereitstellung und XML-basierte Antwortdateien erlauben Ihnen eine individuelle Anpassung von Windows...

If you think that mastering Ajax is too difficult, guess again. You can create Web applications that look and feel like desktop...

Neural networks usually work adequately on small problems but can run into trouble when they are scaled up to problems involving large amounts of input data. Circuit Complexity and Neural Networks addresses the important question of how well neural networks scale - that is, how fast the computation time and number of neurons grow as the...

Evolutionary robotics is a new technique for the automatic creation of autonomous robots. Inspired by the Darwinian principle of selective reproduction of the fittest, it views robots as autonomous artificial organisms that develop their own skills in close interaction with the environment and without human intervention. Drawing heavily on...