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Medicine by Design: The Practice and Promise of Biomedical Engineering

The Johns Hopkins University, 2006

A heart that once beat erratically has regained its natural rhythm. A woman paralyzed by an automobile accident is now able to resume her favorite hobby. Physicians using a robotic surgeon named da Vinci perform lifesaving operations. These are some of the feats of biomedical engineering, one of the fastest-moving areas in medicine. In this...

Mastering Autodesk VIZ 2007

Sybex, 2006

Turn Your Ideas Into High-Impact 3D Models and Animations

Transform flat drawings and concepts into impressive 3D visualizations that will amaze your clients with the comprehensive instruction you'll find in Mastering Autodesk VIZ 2007. Written by VIZ experts, this book shows you how to get the most out of...

Artificial Intelligence Illuminated

Jones and Bartlett Publishers, 2004

Artificial Intelligence Illuminated presents an overview of the background and history of artificial intelligence, emphasizing its importance in today’s society and potential for the future. The book covers a range of AI techniques, algorithms, and methodologies, including game playing, intelligent agents, machine learning, genetic...

Geo-Data: The World Geographical Encyclopedia

Gale, 2002

Gale is pleased to present the third edition of Geo-Data: The World Geographical Encyclopedia. This is the first new edition of Geo-Data since 1989, and it represents a complete revision and updating of that work. The purpose of the book remains unchanged: to provide the reader with the most detailed and comprehensive descriptions available for the...

Gravity from the Ground Up: An Introductory Guide to Gravity and General Relativity

Cambridge University Press, 2003

"...the text is...inviting, with exercises that have real-world application, such as exploring the energy of photons that cause sunburn." Stuart J. Goldman, Sky & Telescope

"Delightfully throrough yet easy to read." American Scientist

This book provides an accessible introduction to...

The Definitive Guide to Spring Web Flow

Apress, 2008

When I started working on Spring Web Flow at the end of 2004, web applications already accounted for a large part of the Java enterprise development space. I had used Struts on several projects at that point but always felt something was missing. Working with a proprietary framework on a few projects in the financial industry sparked my interest....

Meet the Kinect: An Introduction to Programming Natural User Interfaces (Technology in Action)

Apress, 2011

In this chapter you’ll unbox a new Kinect—or if you have one already, you’ll disconnect it from your Xbox. Then you’ll install some software, plug the Kinect into a computer, and take a look at what all of the fuss is about with this unique device. You’ll learn what the different components of the Kinect are and...

A Primer on Scientific Programming with Python (Texts in Computational Science and Engineering)

Springer, 2012

The aim of this book is to teach computer programming using examples from mathematics and the natural sciences. We have chosen to use the Python programming language because it combines remarkable expressive power with very clean, simple, and compact syntax. Python is easy to learn and very well suited for an introduction to...

Computer Vision for Visual Effects

Cambridge University Press, 2012

Modern blockbuster movies seamlessly introduce impossible characters and action into real-world settings using digital visual effects. These effects are made possible by research from the field of computer vision, the study of how to automatically understand images. Computer Vision for Visual Effects will educate students, engineers, and...

Everyware: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing

New Riders Publishing, 2006

From the RFID tags now embedded in everything from soda cans to the family pet, to smart buildings that subtly adapt to the changing flow of visitors, to gestural interfaces like the ones seen in Minority Report, computing no longer looks much like it used to. Increasingly invisible but present everywhere in our lives, it has moved off the desktop...

Software Project Secrets: Why Software Projects Fail

Apress, 2005

Previously a mentor at Exoftware, where his role took him to a variety of organizations, David Putnam has acted as an advisor on the management of software development projects to companies in three continents. Now the manager of CentaurNet, part of Centaur Publishing, David still regularly presents papers, workshops, and tutorials on the...

Planning for Survivable Networks

John Wiley & Sons, 2002

Keep your network safe from security disasters with a dependable recovery strategy

Companies are finally learning that a network disaster recovery plan is mandatory in these times, and they must be prepared to make difficult choices about network security.

In the information-packed pages of this book, Annlee Hines shares her...

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