Even at the beginning of the 21st century, we are far from becoming paperless. Pen and paper is still the only truly ubiquitous information processing technology. Pen-and-paper user interfaces bridge the gap between paper and the digital world. Rather than replacing paper with electronic media, they seamlessly integrate both worlds in a...
Information is the most valuable resource in the 21st century. Whether for a
consumer looking for a restaurant in San Francisco, a small business woman checking
textile prices in Bangalore, or a financial services executive in London studying
stock market trends, information at the moment of decision is key in providing the...
Go-to guide for using Microsoft's updated Hyper-V as a virtualization solution
Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V offers greater scalability, new components, and more options than ever before for large enterprise systems and small/medium businesses. Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Installation and Configuration Guide is...
Spend less, see more. This is the philosophy behind Pauline Frommer’s guides. Written by travel expert Pauline Frommer (who is also the daughter of Arthur Frommer), and her team of hand-picked writers, these guides show how to truly experience a culture, meet locals, and save money along the way.
Software development would seem to be a quintessential example of today's Internet-enabled "knowledge work"--a global profession not bound by the constraints of geography. In Coding Places, Yuri Takhteyev looks at the work of software developers who inhabit two contexts: a geographical area--in this case, greater Rio de...
Get the most out of Costa Rica with this comprehensive guide, featuring 3D aerial views, cutaways and floor plans of all the major sites and dedicated pages to the country s abundance of flora and fauna, national parks and volcanoes. Sample the flavor of the country region by region, with full-color detailed maps of towns and comprehensive...
New Orleans should come with a warning label. No,
no, not about hurricanes. Forget that. That’s like
solely identifying San Francisco and Los Angeles
with earthquakes. No, this is about the city itself. See,
there’s this group of residents whom locals call the “never
lefts.” They are the people who...
A beautifully designed visual history of Morning Breath, Inc., the Brooklyn-based boutique design studio whose collaborators include renowned musical artists (from Jay Z to the Foo Fighters) as well as such top brands as Vans and Adidas.
In 1996 while working at the in-house design department at Think...
The original Handbook of Evolutionary Computation (Back et a1 1997) was
designed to fulfil1 the need for a broad-based reference book reflecting the
important role that evolutionary computation plays in a variety of disciplinesranging
from the natural sciences and engineering to evolutionary biology and
computer...
Elaine Marieb After receiving her Ph.D. in
zoology from the University of Massachusetts at
Amherst, Elaine N. Marieb joined the faculty of the
Biological Science Division of Holyoke Community
College. While teaching at Holyoke Community
College, where many of her students were pursuing
nursing degrees, she developed a...
This book presents a remarkable collection of chapters that cover a wide range of topics in the areas of information and communication technologies and their real-world applications. It gathers the Proceedings of the Future of Information and Communication Conference 2019 (FICC 2019), held in San Francisco, USA from March 14 to 15,...
Practical Data Science with R lives up to its name. It explains basic principles without the theoretical mumbo-jumbo and jumps right to the real use cases you'll face as you collect, curate, and analyze the data crucial to the success of your business. You'll apply the R programming language...
