Since the first edition of Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist came out in June 2008, we have been
encouraged by the reception the book has received. Practitioners from a wide variety of industries—
health care, energy, environmental science, life sciences, national intelligence, and publishing, to name
a few—have told...
Howdy folks. This book is your guide to learning Blender 2.6. It assumes no previous knowledge of
Blender, although old Blender users will find a lot to learn here too. Some beginner texts are dressed-up
reference manuals, while some try to teach everything and end up teaching nothing. This book will teach
you how to use Blender 2.6,...
Welcome to Yahoo User Interface 2.x Cookbook, the RAW edition. A RAW (Read As we
Write) book contains all the material written for the book so far, but available for you right
now, before it’s finished. As the author writes more, you will be invited to download the
new material and continue reading, and learning. Chapters in a RAW...
Welcome to the eighth edition of the Game Programming Gems series, started by Mark DeLoura in 2000. The first edition was inspired by Andrew Glassner‘s popular Graphics Gems series. Since then, other Gems series have started, including AI Gems and a new series focused on the capabilities of programmable graphics, the ShaderX series....
As semantic technologies prove their value with targeted applications, there are increasing opportunities
to consider their application in social contexts for knowledge, learning, and human development.
Semantic Web and Knowledge Management has been accepted as a critical enabler aiming to increase
knowledge-related performance...
On a weekly basis, some poor IT workers — both IT pros and developers — are saddled with new
projects and or technology they know nothing about and are asked to run with them. They ’ re
expected to be successful with little guidance, direction, or training. They ’ re also expected to pull
off these tremendous...
Every high-quality animated production begins with an idea and ends with a series of rendered frames. Getting
from the idea, to the finished product, involves many different stages that are often handled by various specialists
throughout a studio.
Each step along the way contributes to the final image in some way. The concept...
LEGO has been a part of my life since I was about four years old. My first sets were basic
LEGO SYSTEM sets. However, I soon lumped to the early TECHNIC sets that were
beginning to appear on the market. Because I was one of those kids who had to take everything
apart to figure out how it worked, TECHNIC seemed like a good fit for me....
A shell is a sophisticated way to control your computer—Unix, Linux, Microsoft Windows,
Mac OS X, and others. If you do more than the most basic operations, you can do many of them
more powerfully and quickly with a shell and your keyboard than by using a mouse.
The history of shells goes back some 30 years. In the early...
This is not a book about algorithms . Certainly, it is full of algorithms , but that 's
not what this book is about . This book is about possibilities . Its purpose is to
present you not only with the prerequisite mandatory knowledge of the available
problem-solving techniques , but more importantly to expand your ability to
frame...
Congratulations. You have been given your own project to run. If you are like most project managers, part of you is elated that your company has entrusted you with an important assignment, while the rest of you is petrified that it will soon discover the magnitude of its error. Whether the project is your first and you are being...
We have long felt that the traditional approach to teaching about Operating Systems
(OSs) was not the best approach. The purpose of this book is to support a different
approach to this task. When studying any complex domain of knowledge, the order
in which one learns the hierarchy of principles, laws, ideas, and concepts can make
the...
