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Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics I (v. 1)

Springer, 2006

This book contains a collection of papers presented at the 1st International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO). The purpose of ICINCO is to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested in the application of informatics to Control, Automation and Robotics. The research papers focus on real...

Troubleshooting LC Systems: A Comprehensive Approach to Troubleshooting LC Equipment and Separations

Humana Press, 1989

Major advances in instrumentation and technology have made high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) a pervasive tool in virtually all areas of chemical and biomedical research today. Despite HPLC's enormous growth, technical problems still bedevil most users at least occasionally.

Based on their immensely successful short...

Encyclopedia of Multimedia Technology and Networking

Information Science Publishing, 2008

Multimedia technology and networking are changing at a remarkable rate. Despite the telecoms crash of 2001, innovation in networking applications, technologies, and services has continued unabated. The exponential growth of the Internet, the explosion of mobile communications, the rapid emergence of electronic commerce, the restructuring of...

Middleware for Network Eccentric and Mobile Applications

Springer, 2009

Middleware is a critical foundation needed to leverage the development of a wide range of mobile and ubiquitous applications. Intrinsic challenges when building such middleware require the combination of expertise from areas like distributed systems, networking, software engineering, and application development.

This textbook provides a...

The Business and Culture of Digital Games: Gamework and Gameplay

Sage Publications, 2006

"Fusing digital technologies and cultural creativity, exploiting global networks of production and distribution with little regulation and embodying the liberal ideas of individual choice and agency, digital games seem to epitomize global post-industrial neo-liberal cultural products. Kerr finds reality a bit more complex. For all their...

Algorithm Design

Addison Wesley, 2005

Algorithm Design introduces algorithms by looking at the real-world problems that motivate them. The book teaches a range of design and analysis techniques for problems that arise in computing applications. The text encourages an understanding of the algorithm design process and an appreciation of the...

Foundations of Computer Science: C Edition (Principles of Computer Science Series)

W. H. Freeman, 1994

Aho and Ullman have created a C version of their groundbreaking text. As in that text, this book combines the theoretical foundations of computing with essential discrete mathematics. It follows the same organizations as its predecessor, with all examples and exercises in C.

This book was motivated by the desire we and others have had to...

Light Detectors, Photoreceptors, and Imaging Systems in Nature

Oxford University Press, 1995

"The book is of value . . . as a source of inspiration for biologists who are intrigued by the subject, as well as for engineers who are looking to biological structures for new ideas."--The Quarterly Review of Biology

"Wolken has synthesized information from physics, chemistry, biology, and engineering to provide an...

Superstition: Belief in the Age of Science

Princeton Press, 2008

From uttering a prayer before boarding a plane, to exploring past lives through hypnosis, has superstition become pervasive in contemporary culture? Robert Park, the best-selling author of Voodoo Science, argues that it has. In Superstition, Park asks why people persist in superstitious convictions long after science has shown...

The Everyday Language of White Racism (Blackwell Studies in Discourse and Culture)

John Wiley & Sons, 2008

In The Everyday Language of White Racism, Jane H. Hill explores the myth that White racism is fading in the western world. Instead she reveals it to be a pervasive and highly adaptive cultural system, one that has endured in various forms for hundreds of years. Hill’s incisive analysis of everyday talk and text shows how language...

The Business and Culture of Digital Games: Gamework and Gameplay

Sage Publications, 2006

Peer-to-Peer Computing for Mobile Networks: Information Discovery and Dissemination

Springer, 2008

Wireless devices are becoming smaller, more user-friendly and more pervasive. Peer-to-Peer Computing for Mobile Networks: Information Discovery and Dissemination discusses research results on data dissemination in mobile networks and peer-to-peer systems for mobile devices.

An important research challenge within this book is to...

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