Beautiful mathematical ideas abound in multimedia software! Some are not
encountered until late in undergraduate or even postgraduate study, whereas they
can be appreciated and used much earlier. This book presents a few dozen such
pearls, strung together by their ubiquity in many applications. It is based on
the course Topics in...
From its beginnings, the Internet has fostered communication, collaboration and
networking between users. However, the first boom at the turn of the millennium
was mainly driven by a rather one-sided interaction: e-commerce, portal sites and
the broadcast models of mainstream media were introduced to theWeb. Over the
last six or seven...
The goal of this book is to teach you to think like a computer scientist. 1 like
the way computer scientists think because they combine some of the best fea
tures of Mathematics, Engineering, and Natural Science. Like mathematicians,
computer scientists use formal languages to denote ideas (specifically computa
tions). Like engineers,...
This book originates from the desire to perpetuate expertise in the field of
performance evaluation, particularly for telecommunication systems and
networks. It is obviously impossible to translate into a single work all the
facets of an activity which encompasses many systems and a great variety of
domains such as standardization,...
Welcome to the new Wiley Digital Field Guide for the Canon Speedlite System.
Whether you are holding this book or your new Canon Speedlite in your hands,
you are holding a fantastic tool that will assist you in creating awesome photographs
that you will be proud to display and share with your family and friends. Much has
changed in...
Bioinformatics is an emerging field in which statistical and computational techniques
are used extensively to analyze and interpret biological data obtained
from high-throughput genomic technologies. Genomic technologies allow us
to monitor thousands of biological processes going on inside living organisms
in one snapshot, and are...
This volume contains the proceedings of the 6th International Conference on
Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics 2011 (LACL 2011), held June 29-
July 1, 2011 in Montpellier, France. The LACL conferences aim at providing a
forum for the presentation and discussion of current research in all the formal
and logical aspects of...
The field of machine perception concerns the building of machines
that sense and interpret their environments. This book is about visual
perception. Potential applications for such systems include tasks such as
automation of industrial processes of inspection and assembly,
automated medical x-ray diagnosis, vehicle guidance and...
A constraint is a restriction on a space of possibilities; it is a piece of knowledge that
narrows the scope of this space. Because constraints arise naturally in most areas of
human endeavor, they are the most general means for formulating regularities that
govern our computational, physical, biological, and social worlds. Some...
This book is about solving partial differential equations (PDEs) . Such equations
are used to model a wide range of phenomena in virtually all fields of science
and technology. In the last decade, the general availability of extremely
powerful computers has shifted the focus in computational mathematics from
simplified model problems...
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A comprehensive guide to global warming and the steps we must take to combat it.
The evidence continues to mount: melting ice caps, rising temperatures, increasingly frequent natural disasters. As the devastating effects of global warming come into sharper focus, societies must work to both mitigate greenhouse gas...
