Programming is an art. Although traditional art imitates life, programming simulates life.
Every abstract concept in programming, and to a great extent in the fi eld of computer science,
has its roots in our daily life. For example, humans and possibly all other living forms
were multiprocessing long before the term entered into...
Microsoft has introduced a large number of changes to the way that the .NET Framework operates. Familiar technologies have being altered, best practices replaced, and developer methodologies adjusted. Many developers find it hard to keep up with the pace of change across .NET's ever-widening array of technologies. The introduction of...
This lecture summarizes the material in a tutorial we gave at AAAI2008 [Grauman and Leibe,
2008]1. Our goal is to overview the types of methods that figure most prominently in object
recognition research today, in order to give a survey of the concepts, algorithms, and representations
that one might use to build a...
In a broad sense, speech dynamics are time-varying or temporal characteristics in all stages
of the human speech communication process. This process, sometimes referred to as speech
chain [1], starts with the formation of a linguistic message in the speaker’s brain and ends with
the arrival of the message in the...
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Beginning with an overview of functions of multiple variables and their...
Since 2001, the CERT® Insider Threat Center at Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute (SEI) has collected and analyzed information about more than seven hundred insider cyber crimes, ranging from national security espionage to theft of trade secrets. The CERT® Guide to Insider...
You've read everything you can find about middleware, CORBA, transaction
monitors, message brokers, enterprise JavaBeans, and other distributed
technologies. Now it's time to put them to work. Time to build
your company's first multi-tiered application. But where do you start?
How do you structure the programs? How...
Dr Donald Bailey starts with introductory material considering the problem of embedded image processing, and how some of the issues may be solved using parallel hardware solutions. Field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) are introduced as a technology that provides flexible, fine-grained hardware that can readily exploit parallelism within...
Most students study calculus for its use as a tool in areas other than mathematics. They desire information about why calculus is important, and where andhow it can be applied. I kept these facts in mind as I wrote this text. In particular, when introducing new concepts I often refer to problems that are familiar to students and that require...
Poorly performing enterprise applications are the weakest links in a
corporation ’ s management chains, causing delays and disruptions of
critical business functions. In trying to strengthen the links, companies
spend dearly on applications tuning and sizing; unfortunately, the only
deliverables of many of such ventures...
Grammar is a very old field of study. Did you know that the
sentence was first divided into subject and verb by Plato,
the famed philosopher from ancient Greece? That was
about 2,400 years ago! Ever since then, students all over
the world have found it worthwhile to study the structure
of words and sentences. Why? Because...
