Now that you’ve come up with a great idea for a game, what do you do? We hope that this book will help you answer that question. Game design is a challenging task because it requires the understanding of art, programming, audio/sound, and business.And, even with all those bases covered, you need to be able to put it all down on paper in...

Microsoft has recently changed its certification program to contain three primary series: Technology, Professional, and Architect. The Technology Series of certifications is intended to allow candidates to target specific technologies and is the basis for obtaining the Professional Series and Architect Series of certifications. The...

Digital sculpting is the use of tools to push, pull, smooth, grab, pinch or otherwise manipulate a digital object as if it were made of a real-life substance such as clay. Mudbox is the premier sculpting solution for digital artists, allowing them to naturally and easily sculpt detailed, organic characters and models in a way that feels like...

If you’ve decided that Jamaica sounds like the perfect place to relax, feel free to start unwinding right now, ecause we’ve done all the legwork for you. Below you’ll find carefully compiled lists of the best that Jamaica has to offer, from beaches and dive sites to resorts, restaurants, and sight-seeing—and nearly...

Learn how you can use ASP.NET to accomplish real-world, professional tasks. Incorporating five hands-on projects, Microsoft ASP.NET Professional Projects is your key to unlocking the power of ASP.NET. Each project is based on a real-world situation. Work your way through as you build a Web-enabled personal finance manager, develop an...

"AI Techniques for Game Programming" takes the difficult topics of genetic algorithms and neural networks and explains them in plain English. Gone are the tortuous mathematic equations and abstract examples to be found in other books. Each chapter takes readers through the theory a step at a time, explaining clearly how they can...

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The ServiceWave conference series is committed to being the premier European forum for researchers, educators and industrial practitioners to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, experiences and concerns in software services (or the “Future of the Internet of Service”) and related underlying infrastructure...

It is a pleasure and an honour both to organize ICB 2009, the 3rd IAPR/IEEE International Conference on Biometrics. This will be held 2–5 June in Alghero, Italy, hosted by the Computer Vision Laboratory, University of Sassari. The conference series is the premier forum for presenting research in biometrics and its allied technologies:...

When in 1986 Yves Kodratoff started the European Working Session on Learning at Orsay, France, it could not be foreseen that the conference would grow year by year and become the premier European conference of the field, attracting submissions from all over the world. The first European Conference on Principles of Data Mining and Knowledge...

Microsoft has recently changed its certification program to contain three primary series: Technology, Professional, and Architect. The Technology Series of certifications are intended to allow candidates to target specific technologies and are the basis for obtaining the Profes sional Series and Architect Series of certifications. The...

The 12th International Conference on the Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP 2006) was held in Nantes, France, September 24–29, 2006. Information about the conference can be found on theWeb at http://www.sciences. univ-nantes.fr/cp06/. Information about past conferences in the series can be found at...