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Interfacing with C++: Programming Real-World Applications

Springer, 2006

This book is for people who are interested in learning and exploring electronic interfacing as well as C++ programming in a practicable and enjoyable way. Readers will learn to program a PC to do real-world things – not simply number crunching and graphics. They will also master how to write programs that interact with real-world devices...

Design for Emergence: Collaborative Social Play with Online and Location-Based Media, Volume 153 Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications

IOS Press, 2007

This thesis is an attempt to address the spontaneous, often unpredictable uses of technology that can foster feelings of social participation. A key idea is that social processes and dynamics advance technological design. Consider the most recent applications that are primarily focused on social interaction: social software (Allen, 2004),...

Java Media APIs: Cross-Platform Imaging, Media and Visualization

Sams Publishing, 2002

Java Media APIs: Cross-Platform Imaging, Media, and Visualization presents integrated Java media solutions that demonstrate the best practices for using this diverse collection. According to Sun MicroSystems, "This set of APIs supports the integration of audio and video clips, animated presentations, 2D fonts, graphics, and images, as well as...

NumPy 1.5 Beginner's Guide

Packt Publishing, 2011

An action packed guide for the easy-to-use, high performance, free open source NumPy mathematical library using real-world examples

The first and only book that truly explores NumPy practically

Perform high performance calculations with clean and efficient NumPy code

Analyze large data sets...

Numerical Issues in Statistical Computing for the Social Scientist (Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics)

John Wiley & Sons, 2003

At last—a social scientist's guide through the pitfalls of modern statistical computing
Addressing the current deficiency in the literature on statistical methods as they apply to the social and behavioral sciences, Numerical Issues in Statistical Computing for the Social Scientist seeks to provide readers with a unique practical...

Fundamentals of Digital Imaging

Cambridge University Press, 2009

The multi-billion dollar industry of digital imaging technology is an active research area with applications in our everyday lives in products such as digital cameras, scanners, printers and display systems. This book presents an introduction to the fundamentals of digital imaging, with emphasis on the basic operations of image capture and display...

Materials and Innovative Product Development: Using Common Sense

Butterworth-Heinemann, 2009

Harness the power of materials R&D within the design cycle and realize the massive economic benefits of new materials and innovation with traditional materials.

Innovation in product design starts with materials. Developing successful commercial products demands a sound understanding of the materials that go into those...

Organization Design: The Collaborative Approach

Butterworth-Heinemann, 2004

Naomi Stanford has produced the consummate guidebook for human resource professionals who are charged with shepherding a complex organization design project through to completion. It is full of useful tools to help manage the tricky but often overlooked softer aspects of organization change programs, such as communication plans, expectation...

Building IBM: Shaping an Industry and Its Technology

MIT Press, 1995

Beginning with the company's origins in the punched-card technology of the late nineteenth century, this wellresearched volume tells how IBM became so rapidly the dominant company in the computer industry. In doing so, it provides refreshing new insights on the origins and development of that industry.

The unique...

Numerical Polynomial Algebra

SIAM, 2004

This first book on the numerical analysis of polynomial systems is a stepping stone at the interface of symbolic computation and numerical computation. Bernard Sturmfels, Department of Mathematics, University of Berkeley

I am not familiar with any books that do such a careful job of combining numerical analysis with the algebra of...

Pythagoras' Revenge: A Mathematical Mystery

Princeton Press, 2009

The celebrated mathematician and philosopher Pythagoras left no writings. But what if he had and the manuscript was never found? Where would it be located? And what information would it reveal? These questions are the inspiration for the mathematical mystery novel Pythagoras' Revenge. Suspenseful and instructive, Pythagoras'...

How To Think Like A Computer Scientist: C++ Version

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2009

The goal of this book is to teach you to think like a computer scientist. 1 like the way computer scientists think because they combine some of the best fea tures of Mathematics, Engineering, and Natural Science. Like mathematicians, computer scientists use formal languages to denote ideas (specifically computa tions). Like engineers,...

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