My interest in this subject started when I joined the broadcast equipment manufacturer,
Chyron. For a few years I was the product manager for their playout automation and
asset management product lines. These were one of the first applications that gave
television broadcasters the means to manage the ingest, storage, archiving, and...
Back in 1997, when I began my career as a professional web developer, I started working with
Classic ASP. After a brief training period in a few different programming languages such as C++
and Java, I was thrown in at the deep end and assigned to a project to build an Intranet application
for a large consultancy firm in the Netherlands...
THE “CLOUD” IS ONE OF THE MOST tossed-around words these days in any IT conversation. But
what does it mean? And what are the implications of the cloud for SharePoint? In fact, there are
many implications for SharePoint with the cloud, ranging from extending existing solutions to use
code or services that are deployed to the...
It is an obvious fact now that the Internet is becoming part of our life. More and more
contents are delivered over the Internet. As the heterogeneity in the Internet increases,
content providers are considering adaptive content delivery to achieve better user
satisfaction. However, so far there are still no thorough study of how...
The book is about computer vision and action recognition & understanding. If you have
a basic knowledge on image processing and would like to study or to do research on
action/activity understanding and recognition in computer vision and related arenas –
then this is the book for you!
This Seventh Edition of Basic Neurochemistry: Molecular, Cellular and Medical Aspects is appearing near to the 50th anniversary of the founding of neurochemistry as a discipline. This seems an appropriate time to examine the progress of neurochemistry and of this book. To make this brief, we will look at only two topics, which may be...
Over the course of the past two decades Islamism has exercised a growing influence
on politics in Muslim countries from Morocco to Malaysia. In some
instances this trend has led to regime change as in Iran and Sudan, but more
often, it has ensconced Islamic norms, symbols, and rhetoric in the public
sphere, and in the process,...
XAML is ubiquitous today. Whether with Silverlight, WPF, WF, various XPS formats, or XML-based formats, XAML is being used in a whole lot of Microsoft platform- based technologies. Though based on XML, XAML is unlike most other markup languages, because it is strongly linked to CLR assemblies through its objects.
Movies Made for Television in 2004 celebrates 40 full television seasons. As I wrote in the introduction in 1980 to the
original (single) volume that chronicled the genre, the range was as esthetically and technically wide at the time as it
would remain through the years since as any theatrical offerings – within its restricted...
PEOPLE TAKE UP MOBILE DEVELOPMENT these days for a lot of reasons. For some it is all about learning something new, but for many it comes out of necessity of a job or career. Perhaps you see mobile development as the next big thing, just like client-server development was in the 1990s, or web development became in the 2000s. Maybe...
Management information systems produce the information that managers
use to make important strategic decisions. They formthe basis for management
reports, both financial and non-financial, and as such they are a vital
component of modern business management. Few managerial decisions
are taken without consulting the data captured by...
During the last 3 decades, the field of telecommunications has witnessed tremendous growth. Proliferation of the Internet has started a true revolution that is expected to continue through the foreseeable future. Three factors have played major roles in the unprecedented growth of this field:
