The main motivation to write this book came from all our problems to find suitable material for a textbook that would really help us to teach the practical aspects of data analysis together with the needed theoretical underpinnings. Many books out there tackle either one or the other of these aspects (and, especially for the latter, there are...
You’re on your regular running route, just jogging along, and an idea for the next killer mobile app hits you. All the way home, you don’t even care what your time is, all you can think about is getting your idea out there. But how exactly do you do that? You’re no programmer, and that would take years, and time is...
Cryptography has made a peculiar journey to become a modern science. It had long been
associated with the military and with magic. The rst published work in the eld was
Steganographia, by an alchemist named Trithemius. Although written earlier, the book was
published in 1606. Cryptography has continued this connection with the arcane...
It is a great pleasure for me to write this foreword about a book that comes out
of one of the first research projects funded by ANR, the French National Research
Agency. ANR was established by the French government in 2005 to fund research
projects, based on competitive schemes giving researchers the best opportunities to
realize...
It is my pleasure and privilege to write the foreword for this book, whose results I
have been following and awaiting for the last few years. This monograph represents
the outcome of an ambitious project oriented towards advancing our knowledge of
the way the human visual system processes images, and about the way it combines
high...
5o, you want to write a novel? Great! Writing a novel Is a worthwhile goal.
It'll challenge you, stretch you, and change you. Getting It published will
gain you respect from your family and friends, and It may even earn you a bit
of fame and money.
But respect, fame, and money aren't the only reasons for writing a...
Systems Analysis and Design, Eighth Edition offers a practical, visually appealing approach to information systems development.
As the Dilbert cartoon suggests, it is always a good idea to know whether a project fits the
company’s overall strategy. You will learn more about the relationship between systems projects
and...
This is the joint post-proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on High
Performance Computing (ISHPC-VI) and the First International Workshop on
Advanced Low Power Systems 2006 (ALPS2006). The post-proceedings also
contain the papers presented at the Second HPF International Workshop: Experiences
and Progress (HiWEP2005) and the...
Well, it’s been a wild ride since the first edition of this book was released. At that
time, PowerShell had just shipped and had a fairly limited scope of influence. Things
have changed a lot. PowerShell now ships in the box with Windows (at least Windows
7 and Server 2008 R2). The number of PowerShell users is now in the hundreds...
This volume is a documenlation of I he main results in Ihe research area "Inte
gration of Software Specification Techniques for Applications in Engineering".
On one hand it is based on the Priority Program "Integration von Techniken der
Soflwarespezifikation fur ingenieurwissensehaftliehe Anwendungen", short Soft...
This guide was written for those who will manage or fund technology
projects with budgets between $25,000 and $500,000. Our goal is to
provide a quick-start guide for professional, smart, competent people
who are new to web project management, or who need some
guidance on how to manage a web project.
I first discovered the secrets of getting along with
people during my career as a fashion and advertising
photographer. Whether it was working with a single
model for a page in Vogue or 400 people aboard a ship to
promote a Norwegian cruise line, it was obvious that for
me photography was more about clicking with people...
