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Rules of Play: Game Design Fundamentals

MIT Press, 2003

For hundreds of years, the field of game design has drifted along under the radar of culture, producing timeless masterpieces and masterful time-wasters without drawing much attention to itself-without, in fact, behaving like a "field" at all. Suddenly, powered by the big bang of computer technology, game design has...

Professional Sitecore Development

Wrox Press, 2012

RECENT YEARS HAVE SEEN DRAMATIC EXPANSION in the use of mobile computing and social media on the Internet. Organizations show increasing interest in web analytics, and will soon comprehend the importance of engagement and experience management and monitoring. With the increasing value of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and the...

Scala in Depth

Manning Publications, 2012

In fall 2010 Michael Stephens from Manning contacted me about writing a Scala Book. I was working for a small virtualization/security startup where I had been learning Scala and applying it to our codebase. During that first conversation Michael and I discussed the Scala ecosystem and what kind of a book would best...

Handbook of Industrial and Hazardous Wastes Treatment

CRC Press, 2004

Environmental managers, engineers, and scientists who have had experience with industrial and hazardous waste management problems have noted the need for a handbook that is comprehensive in its scope, directly applicable to daily waste management problems of specific industries, and widely acceptable by practicing environmental...

Mac Kung Fu: Over 300 Tips, Tricks, Hints, and Hacks for OS X Lion (Pragmatic Programmers)

Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2011

Mac OS X Lion represents the pinnacle of software engineering. I confidently assert this as somebody who’s not only used every operating system on practically every type of computer but also written entire magazines and books about them.

Put simply, OS X “just works,” and like millions of others, I value...

Complex Networks: Second International Workshop, CompleNet 2010, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, October 13-15, 2010

Springer, 2012

The International Workshop on Complex Networks—CompleNet (www.complenet.org)—was initially proposed in 2008 with the first workshop taking place in 2009. The initiative was the result of efforts from researchers from the Bio-Complex Laboratory in the Department of Computer Sciences at Florida Institute of...

Digital Control and Estimation: A Unified Approach (Prentice Hall Information and System Sciences Series)

Prentice Hall, 1990

Many books already exist on the topics of digital control and estimation. The prospective reader of this book might well then ask. "why another book in this area?"

One problem with the existing literature is that it emphasizes the differences between discrete and continuous theory. This dichotomy is largely...

Java Software Solutions: Foundations of Program Design, Update JavaPlace

Addison Wesley, 2002

This book is about writing well-designed software. To understand software, we must first have a fundamental understanding of its role in a computer system. Hardware and software cooperate in a computer system to accomplish complex tasks. The nature of that cooperation and the purpose of various hardware components are important...

Encyclopedia of Parallel Computing (Springer Reference)

Springer, 2011

Parallelism, the capability of a computer to execute operations concurrently, has been a constant throughout the history of computing. It impacts hardware, software, theory, and applications. The fastest machines of the past few decades, the supercomputers, owe their performance advantage to parallelism. Today, physical limitations...

Encyclopedia of Parallel Computing

Springer, 2012

Mathematical Problems in Image Processing

Springer, 2001

It is surprising when we realize just how much we are surrounded by images. Images allow us not only to perform complex tasks on a daily basis, but also to communicate, transmit information, represent and understand the world around us. Just think, for instance about digital television, medical imagery, video-surveillance, etc....

Operating Systems: A Spiral Approach

McGraw-Hill, 2009

We have long felt that the traditional approach to teaching about Operating Systems (OSs) was not the best approach. The purpose of this book is to support a different approach to this task. When studying any complex domain of knowledge, the order in which one learns the hierarchy of principles, laws, ideas, and concepts can make the...

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