This book is a selection of the revised contributions that were initially submitted to the International Workshop on Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval (AMR 2007). The workshop was organized at the University Pierre and Marie Curie in Paris, France, during July 5–6, 2007.
The goal of the AMR workshops is to intensify the exchange...
Metro apps are an important addition to Microsoft Windows 8, providing the cornerstone for a single, consistent programming and interaction model across desktops, tablets, and smartphones. The Metro app user experience is very different from previous generations of Windows applications: Metro-style apps are full-screen and favor a usability...
OS X was first released to the public over a decade ago as Mac
OS X Beta (code-named Kodiak). The decade after that saw
Mac OS X go from an interesting oddity unsuited to daily work
to a usable operating system with little third-party support to
everything most people want out of an operating system and a...
This book is intended primarily for the workplace training practitioner, working partly or entirely in the traditional four - walled classroom. It will also be of use to those working in delivering training online via web conferencing tools, such as WebEx or Elluminate, and those involved in instructional design work for both traditional and...
Today is the most exciting time to be working in nanotechnology, and bionanotechnology
in particular. Chemistry, biology, and physics have revealed
an immense amount of information on molecular structure and
function, and now we are poised to make use of it for atomic-level engineering.
New discoveries are being made every day, and...
A recent CBS poll revealed that, as a result of corporate scandals at Enron, WorldCom,
Adelphia Communications, and others, a whopping two-thirds of Americans believe that
corporate executives are dishonest. This overall assessment is even worse now than during
the last financial crises, the savings and loan debacle of the 1980s....
The origin of queueing theory and its application traces back to Erlang’s historical
work for telephony networks as recently celebrated by the Erlang Centennial, 100
Years of Queueing, Copenhagen, recalling his first paper in 1909. Ever since, the
simplicity and fundamental flavour of Erlang’s famous expressions, such as his...
As you move through this book you may notice that this book doesn’t gently flow from one topic to another like a lot of technical books.This is intentional asmany of the subjects covered in this book are going to be related, but separate fields of study. As you move through the various chapters in this book you’ll be able to...
Over the past three decades, governments have ceded economic control to a new elite of free-market operatives and their colleagues in national and international institutions like the IMF, the World Bank, and the World Trade Organization. They promised economic stability but have delivered chaos. Their speculation has left the global economy...
Its 77 Academy pages make the Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals a short book, certainly by Kantian standards. Readers of the Critique of Pure Reason or the Metaphysics of Morals can easily get the impression – true or not – that they are looking at a ‘patchwork’ of previously existing material. The Groundwork is...
Metro apps are an important addition to Microsoft Windows 8, providing the cornerstone for a single, consistent programming and interaction model across desktops, tablets, and smartphones. The Metro app user experience is very different from previous generations of Windows applications: Metro apps are full-screen and favor a usability style...
Steve Jobs revealed the original iPad on January 27, 2010, finally confirming rumors that had been swirling for years: Apple was making a tablet computer! And when that first iPad model hit stores a few months later, the public snapped up 300,000 the day it went on sale.
Less than a year later after the first one arrived, Apple put...
