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$The Definitive Guide to How Computers Do Math : Featuring the Virtual DIY Calculator$

The Definitive Guide to How Computers Do Math : Featuring the Virtual DIY Calculator

John Wiley & Sons, 2005

The Basics of Computer Arithmetic Made Enjoyable and Accessible—with a Special Program Included for Hands-on Learning

"The combination of this book and its associated virtual computer is fantastic! Experience over the last fifty years has shown me that there's only one way to truly understand how computers work; and that is to learn...

Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmers' Guide, Second Edition

Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2004

Ruby is an increasingly popular, fully object-oriented dynamic programming language, hailed by many practitioners as the finest and most useful language available today. When Ruby first burst onto the scene in the Western world, the Pragmatic Programmers were there with the definitive reference manual, Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic...

Distributed and Parallel Systems: From Cluster to Grid Computing

Springer, 2007

The sixthAustrian-HungarianWorkshop onDistributed and Parallel Systems is organized jointly byUniversity of Innsbruck and theMTASZTAKIComputer and Automation Research Institute. The series of workshops started as a small regional meeting early in the nineties, and since then it evolved a lot and became an acknowledged international scientific...

Core Servlets and JavaServer Pages (JSP)

Prentice Hall, 2000

Servlets and JavaServer Pages dramatically simplify the creation of dynamic Web pages and Web-enabled applications. With Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE), these tools have come of age, earning the support of an unprecedented range of Web and application servers on every major operating system. This book is a comprehensive guide for every...

Encyclopedia of Creation Myths

ABC Clio, 1994

A myth is a narrative projection of a given cultural group's sense of its sacred past and its significant relationship with the deeper powers of the surrounding world and universe. A myth is a projection of an aspect of a culture's soul. In its complex but revealing symbolism, a myth is to a culture what a dream is to an...

MPLS: Next Steps, Volume 1 (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Networking)

Morgan Kaufmann, 2008

Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) is a data plane and control technology that is used in packet (that is Internet Protocol) networks. Now over ten years old, it has taken root firmly as a fundamental tool in many service provider networks. The last ten years have seen a considerable consolidation of MPLS techniques and protocols. This has...

Computability Theory: An Introduction to Recursion Theory

Academic Press, 2010

The study of the class of computable partial functions (i.e., recursive partial functions) stands at the intersection of three fields: mathematics, theoretical computer science, and philosophy.

Mathematically, computability theory originates from the concept of an algorithm. It leads to a classification of functions according...

Learning OpenCV: Computer Vision with the OpenCV Library

O'Reilly, 2008

Learning OpenCV puts you right in the middle of the rapidly expanding field of computer vision. Written by the creators of OpenCV, the widely used free open-source library, this book introduces you to computer vision and demonstrates how you can quickly build applications that enable computers to "see" and make decisions based on the...

The Nuclear Imperative: A Critical Look at the Approaching Energy Crisis (Topics in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality)

Springer, 2006

Part of this book was originally written in 1976 when some thirty copies were printed and distributed to interested parties. A wider distribution was planned but never carried out. In re-reading the first edition written 29 years ago, I am struck by the fact that arguments for a nuclear-powered future and a need to develop portable synfuels and new...

Learning SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services

Packt Publishing, 2009

Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services 2008 is the third generation Microsoft reporting software that is more tightly integrated with SQL Server 2008 than ever before. It provides a complete server-based platform that is designed to support a wide variety of reporting needs, including managed enterprise reporting, special purpose reporting,...

Fitness for Geeks: Real Science, Great Nutrition, and Good Health

O'Reilly, 2012

This inquisitive and highly useful book shows the hacker and maker communities how to bring science and software into their nutrition and fitness routines.

The digital age has made a big splash with new web-connected gear in the sports/fitness world. Fitness for Geeks covers many of these new self-tracking...

The Martian Principles for Successful Enterprise Systems: 20 Lessons Learned from NASAs Mars Exploration Rover Mission

John Wiley & Sons, 2006

When you need to land and operate a robot on Mars, "halfway" software is not an option. While helping to develop the Collaborative Information Portal, or CIP, for NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission, Ronald Mak identified and refined a set of principles that represent the fundamental goals necessary for any successful enterprise system....

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