OpenCL (Open Computing Language) is the first royalty-free standard for cross platform, parallel programming of modern processors found in personal computers, servers, mobiles, and embedded devices. OpenCL greatly improves speed and responsiveness for a wide spectrum of applications in numerous market categories, from gaming and entertainment...

OpenGL^®  ES^™ is the industry’s leading software interface and graphics library for rendering sophisticated 3D graphics on handheld and embedded devices. The newest version, OpenGL ES 3.0, makes it possible to create stunning visuals for new games and apps, without compromising device performance or...

Your software needs to leverage multiple cores, handle thousands of users and terabytes of data, and continue working in the face of both hardware and software failure. Concurrency and parallelism are the keys, and Seven Concurrency Models in Seven Weeks equips you for this new world. See how emerging technologies such as actors and...

Harvard Business Review calls it the sexiest tech job of the 21st century. Data scientists are in demand, and this unique book shows you exactly what employers want and the skill set that separates the quality data scientist from other talented IT...

• Learn to deliver superior server-to-server communication through the networking channels
• Gain expertise of the networking features of your own applications to support various network architectures such as client/server and peer-to-peer
• Explore the issues that impact scalability,...

The 97 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 304 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on distributed AI and multi-agent...

Image Acquisition and Processing with LabVIEW fills a hole in the LabVIEW technical publication range. It is intended for competent LabVIEW programmers, as a general training manual for those new to National Instruments (NI) Vision application development and a reference for more-experienced vision programmers. It is assumed that readers have...

Electrostatic discharge (ESD) continues to impact semiconductor manufacturing, semiconductor components and systems, as technologies scale from micro- to nano electronics. This book introduces the fundamentals of ESD, electrical overstress (EOS), electromagnetic interference (EMI), electromagnetic compatibility (EMC), and latchup, as well as...

Recently, criterion functions based on information theoretic measures (entropy, mutual information, information divergence) have attracted attention and become an emerging area of study in signal processing and system identification domain. This book presents a systematic framework for system identification and information processing,...