Computational experiments on algorithms can supplement theoretical analysis by showing what algorithms, implementations, and speed-up methods work best for specific machines or problems. This book guides the reader through the nuts and bolts of the major experimental questions: What should I measure? What inputs should I test? How do I...
Humans still obtain the vast majority of their sensory input through their visual system, and an enormous effort has been made to artificially enhance this sense. Eyeglasses, binoculars, telescopes, radar, infrared sensors, and photomultipliers all function to improve our view of the world and the universe. We even have telescopes in orbit...
One of the difficulties I had when trying to learn Node.js was how to get started.
The references that I found either dealed with quasi-academic topics such as datagrams
and event emitters, or else myopically focused on a topic without regard for
the big picture. This book takes you through the complete process of...
Over the past few years, many fundamental changes have occurred in data communications
and networking that will shape the future for decades to come. Networking
applications such as the Internet and World Wide Web have exploded into the business
world. High-speed modems providing megabit data rates (millions of bits per second)...
This book covers the design of next generation microprocessors in deep submicron CMOS technologies. The chapters in Design of High Performance Microprocessor Circuits were written by some of the world's leading technologists, designers, and researchers. All levels of system abstraction are covered, but the emphasis rests squarely...
You may ask why anyone would want to write yet another book about scientific
writing. There are many books on the subject, some more useful than others,
and the abundance of literature on this topic may confuse rather than guide.
I felt that this book was necessary for several reasons. During the past
years, I...
Some information and knowledge are usually represented by human language
like “about 100km”, “approximately 39 ?C”, “roughly 80kg”, “low speed”,
“middle age”, and “big size”. Perhaps some people think that they are subjective
probability or they are fuzziness....
Mobile apps are the rocket fuel powering the growth of the web today.
Everything is going mobile. If you’re starting a web business today
without a mobile strategy,
or if you have a mobile strategy but it isn’t the
center of your business, you’re going to have a hard time gaining any sort of
traction....
It was with great pleasure that I accepted the invitation of Springer to edit
this book.My association with the vascular endothelium covers a large part of
my scientific career and, as with any good long-standing relationship, it has
had moments of great excitement and periods of laborious construction. It
has sometimes been...
This book is the third in a set of books that address the trading markets. We use the term “trading markets” because that is the most general term we can find for the portion of the financial markets sometimes imprecisely referred to as the securities markets. (We explained these distinctions in Book 1, An Introduction to Trading...
A Bayesian approach can contribute to an understanding of the brain on multiple levels, by giving normative predictions about how an ideal sensory system should combine prior knowledge and observation, by providing mechanistic interpretation of the dynamic functioning of the brain circuit, and by suggesting optimal ways of deciphering...
We as a species are probably a little bit smarter than fish: at least we know
that we spend our lives “swimming” at the bottom of an ocean of air. About
4/5th of that ocean is the relatively harmless gas nitrogen. Around another
1/5 of it is the highly reactive and slightly toxic gas oxygen. The...
