UMTS is real. In a continuously growing number of countries we can walk in the stores of
mobile network operators or resellers and take UMTS PC cards or even third-generation (3G)
phones home and use them instantly. Every day the number of equipments and their feature
sets gets broader. The “dream” of multimedia on mobile...
This earliest recorded attempt to regulate the engineering profession reminds
us, in the bluntest way possible, that the paramount purpose of engineering and
engineering design is to serve the user. One would assume that the engineer’s
responsibility to users is so self evident that it goes without saying. Various
professional...
The 14th International Conference on Human–Computer Interaction, HCI International
2011, was held in Orlando, Florida, USA, July 9–14, 2011, jointly
with the Symposium on Human Interface (Japan) 2011, the 9th International
Conference on Engineering Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics, the 6th International
Conference on...
Ongoing economic challenges are affecting and impacting business and society in nearly every industry and geographical region. Taking decisive action to reprioritize the way we are doing business is a key focus for companies. Around the world, companies are taking the necessary measures that will enable us to adjust to today’s reality...
There is a strong need for advances in the fields of image indexing and retrieval and visual query languages for multimedia databases. Image technology is facing both classical and novel problems for the organization and filtering of increasingly large amounts of pictorial data. Novel kinds of problems, such as indexing and high-level...
Pro Android 4 shows you how to build real-world and fun mobile apps using the new Android SDK 4 (Ice Cream Sandwich), which unifies Gingerbread for smartphones, Honeycomb for tablets and augments further with Google TV and more.
This Android 4 book updates the best selling Pro Android 3 and covers everything...
Pure Data (Pd) is a programming language for digital audio and more. Written by Miller Puckette in the 1990s and under active development ever since, Pd has established itself as one of the leading open-source packages for computer music, and it remains largely interoperable with its commercial cousin, Max/MSP. A Pd program,...
The concept of the Internet has been a tremendous success by this time. Other than being a great source
of fun and enjoyment, millions of people around the world rely on the Internet for various tasks related
to their livelihoods. The overwhelming growth of the Internet and its users is now a reality, which has
put new thoughts...
I was recently invited to participate in a cyber security dinner discussion by a few
members of a well-known Washington, DC, think tank. The idea was that we could
enjoy a fine wine and a delicious meal while allowing our hosts to pick our brains about
this “cyber warfare stuff.” It seems that the new...
This book teaches you to create your own games for Android 3.0 tablets. After reading and working
through its examples, you’ll have gained command over the sensors, touchscreen, network capabilities,
and processing power of the many new tablet computers. Does that sound daunting? It isn’t. Instead of
going through the...
This is a book about designing computer hardware and specifically about designing small machines for embedded applications. It is intentionally hardware specific. There are plenty of books out there on writing code for embedded systems (such as Michael Barr's excellent Programming Embedded Systems in C and C++, another...
Accessibility is a difficult concept to define. There’s no single magic bullet solution that
will make all content accessible to all people. Perhaps that’s a strange way to preface a
book on accessible practices, but it’s also a reality you need to be aware of. Accessible
practices change, technologies evolve to...
