In the forty years since I started working in the field, and indeed for some years before that (almost since Calvin Mooers coined the term information storage and retrieval in the 1950s), there have been a significant number of books on information retrieval. Even if we ignore the more specialist research monographs and the...
The term “video compression” is now a common household name. The field of still
image and video compression has matured to the point that it is possible to watch
movies on a laptop computer. Such is the rapidity at which technology in various
fields has advanced and is advancing. However, this creates a need for some to...
The future of high-performance computing (HPC) lies with large distributed parallel systems with three levels of parallelism, thousands of nodes containing MIMD* groups of SIMD* processors. For the past 50 years, the clock cycle of single processors has decreased steadily and the cost of each processor has decreased. Most applications would...
The purpose of this collection is to present some of the diversity of ideas
and studies about species that can be classifi ed as “ecosystem engineers.”
As with any developing concept, we fi nd disagreement about the
meaning and usefulness of this term in the literature and among ourselves.
The idea for the book...
An Introduction to LTE explains the technology used by 3GPP Long Term Evolution. The book covers the whole of LTE, both the techniques used for radio communication between the base station and the mobile phone, and the techniques used for signalling communication and data transport in the evolved packet core. It avoids unnecessary...
Thanks for picking up this book. You are obviously in the
mood for change, and you have already admitted to yourself
that you might need a bit of help. That’s two massive steps
already. People set up businesses when they get fed up
with the way other companies do things, or if they have a
brilliant idea, or if they...
The purpose of this book is to collect and to present the results of theoretical and empirical research
into various aspects of Knowledge Management (KM), innovation and, especially, the conjunction of
KM and innovation. To this end, chapters are included from both academics and practitioners, and the
contributions represent...
When I started HubSpot in June 2006 with my business partner, Dharmesh Shah, our experiences with marketing agencies led us to almost entirely avoid working with them. In fact, we designed our original business model around selling our marketing software directly to end customers, and developed an internal marketing team that would not be...
In 1999, I packed everything I owned into my car for a cross-country trip to begin my
new job as Staff Researcher at the University of California, Berkeley Computer Science
Department. It was an optimistic time in my life and the country in general. The economy
was well into the dot-com boom and still a few years...
Thinking is what sets human beings apart from the rest of the animal
kingdom. And thinking is what distinguishes each individual human from
all the others. We think differently, and that makes us different people,
because it also makes us do things in a host of different ways. Companies
differ too, due to the fact that they think...
The supply chain of both manufacturing and commercial enterprises comprises a highly distributed environment,
in which complex processes evolve in a network of companies (see Figure 1). Such processes
include materials procurement and storage, production of intermediate and final products, warehousing,
sales, customer service, and...
