Bestselling author Jeff Carlson is back with a fully updated revision of the  iMovie Visual QuickStart Guide. Completely overhauled for iMovie HD and iDVD 5, this book uses step-by-step instructions and loads of illustrations to get readers up to speed quickly in the process of making movies with iMovie and creating Hollywood-quality...

This book is really the end product of over a decade of work, on and off, on diagrammatic reasoning in artificial intelligence (AI). In developing this book, I drew inspiration from a variety of sources: two experimental studies, the development of two prototype systems, an extensive literature review and analysis in AI,...

Congratulations on the purchase of your new BlackBerry Storm2. You’re going to be amazed at how versatile this little device is, how many ways you can use it to stay in touch with others, and how many “apps” are available for you to play and work with. You’ll love GPS, texting, adding participants to a phone...

Pro Expression Blend 4 is for .NET developers and graphical artists who want to learn the ins and outs of the Expression Blend integrated development environment. You may know already that this tool can be used to build Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Silverlight, and Windows Phone 7 applications; however, this book will take...

I start the book with an overview of Keynote, move on to creating your first presentation, and...

Since you picked this book, the odds will be that you are already familiar with Joomla! VirtueMart. You will agree that this open source e-commerce solution is definitely amazing and feature-rich. That's why you want to stick with it. However, you still find there are some things here and there that don't quite fit your requirements....

In developing the New Perspectives Series, our goal was to create books that give students the software...

When the first edition of this book was published, the idea of combining a text on digital design with one on VHDL seemed novel. At about the same time, several other books with similar themes were published. This book has now been adopted by several universities as a core text. Moreover, the first edition has now been translated into...

Approximation algorithms have developed in response to the impossibility of solving a great variety of important optimization problems. Too frequently, when attempting to get a solution for a problem, one is confronted with the fact that the problem is NP-haid. This, in the words of Garey and Johnson, means "I can't find an...

The important role that discrete structures plays in computer science is gaining recognition. Computing Curricula 2001 (CC2001), the latest curriculum recommendation for computer- related education, was a joint undertaking of the Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers/Computer Society (IEEE/CS) and the Association for...

As far as I know, the systematic study on chalcogenide glasses as semiconductors was initiated around the 1950s by a research group headed by B.T. Kolomiets of the Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute. During the half-century that followed, amorphous semiconductors have acquired their own citizenship as an unchallenged, independent area of...