The Workshop on Medical Computer Vision (MICCAI-MCV 2010) was held in conjunction with the 13th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer – Assisted Intervention (MICCAI 2010) on September 20, 2010 in Beijing, China. The one-day workshop focused on recognition techniques and applications in medical imaging. The...
Welcome to the wonderful world of Oracle Application Express (APEX). You’re about to learn how to use a tool that we believe will revolutionize the way you think about and approach writing web-based Oracle systems. It certainly has for us.
Prior to the advent of APEX, developing fully interactive web based systems over data...
When the IT strategy calls for maximizing the value of social software for building effective teams, neither social networking nor team collaboration are sufficient on their own. IBM Lotus Quickr team collaboration software delivers the promise of social software, but ensuring that a business's social networking site is compliant, can be...
CakePHP is a rapid development framework for PHP that provides an extensible architecture for developing, maintaining, and deploying web applications. While the framework has a lot of documentation and reference guides available for beginners, developing more sophisticated and scalable applications require a deeper knowledge of CakePHP...
MongoDB, a cross-platform NoSQL database, is the fastest-growing new database in the world. MongoDB provides a rich document-oriented structure with dynamic queries that you’ll recognize from RDBMS offerings such as MySQL. In other words, this is a book about a NoSQL database that does not require the SQL crowd to re-learn how the...
Cloud computing is an innovative and exciting style of programming and using computers. It creates tremendous opportunities for software developers: cloud computing can provide an amazing new platform for building new kinds applications. In this chapter, we’ll look at the basic concepts: what cloud computing is, when and why...
Soft computing has been a major field of development in the previous couple of decades. The field attracts the attention of a large number of people. The highly multidisciplinary nature of the field further results in a large number of students studying soft computing. The various developments in application areas of soft computing in the...
SQL Server 2008 is Microsoft’s latest data platform providing data management and analytical solutions for the enterprise. The platform is trusted, ensures business continuity, and is more predictable and more scalable than ever before. Although similar to SQL Server 2005, SQL Server 2008 offers a tremendous number of new features and...
Nowadays it is hard to find an electronic device which does not use codes: for example, we listen to music via heavily encoded audio CD's and we watch movies via encoded DVD's. There is at least one area where the use of encoding/decoding is not so developed, yet: Flash non-volatile memories. Flash memory high-density, low power, cost...
Unlock the amazing story buried in your presentation—and forget boring, bullet-point-riddled slides forever! Guided by communications expert Cliff Atkinson, you’ll walk you through an innovative, three-step methodology for increasing the impact of your presentation. Discover how to combine classic storytelling techniques...
Object tracking is a broad and important fi eld in computer science, addressing
the most different applications in the educational, entertainment, industrial,
and manufacturing areas. Since the early days of computer vision, the state of
the art of visual object tracking has evolved greatly, along with the available
imaging devices...
Microsoft® SharePoint® 2010 is the fourth incarnation of the popular collaboration and
content management platform from Microsoft. With each release, the reach and capabilities
of SharePoint products and technologies have grown, offering new tools to organizations
and new opportunities to developers. With SharePoint 2010, you...
