Media Resource Control Protocol (MRCP) is a new IETF protocol, providing a key enabling technology that eases the integration of speech technologies into network equipment and accelerates their adoption resulting in exciting and compelling interactive services to be delivered over the telephone. MRCP leverages IP telephony and Web technologies...
The proceedings covers advanced and multi-disciplinary research on design of smart computing and informatics. The theme of the book broadly focuses on various innovation paradigms in system knowledge, intelligence and sustainability that may be applied to provide realistic solution to varied problems in society, environment and...
8 books in 1 — your key to exploring and running Linux!
Your one-stop guide to installing, using, even programming five Linux distributions
Here's Linux in eight handy minibooks — plus a DVD with Fedora Core 3 and Knoppix ready to install! This helpful reference walks you step by step through installation and setup for...
Building electronics into clothing is a major new concept that opens up a whole array of multi-functional, wearable electro-textiles for sensing/monitoring body functions, delivering communication facilities, data transfer, individual environment control, and so on. Fashion articles will carry key pads for mobile phones and connections for...
For a comprehensive, easy-to-swallow guide to OpenCL Programming, this book is out on its own. That's because it teaches through examples and covers everything from parallel sorting to optimization in simple stages.
Overview
Learn about all of the OpenCL Architecture and major APIs.
A practical and concise book that teaches XML from the ground up. This tutorial style presents various XML methodologies and techniques in an easy to understand way, building a basis for further exploration.
XML is essentially an enabling technology, dry and boring on its own. As a result, most books on the market are...
The revised edition of this book is designed with a greater emphasis on text and collocation, in keeping with recent trends in the world of English as a Foreign Language. It also incorporates the many changes to the revised proficiency examination from December 2002, such as word formation and multiple word meaning. The book is also intended for...
This book discusses the use of PHP to implement web applications based on REST architectural principles. Web services are a popular breed of web application technologies in today's programmable Web, and REST is the most popular style used in there. This book uses real-world examples as well as step-by-step guidelines to explain how to...
A funny thing happened on the way to the twenty-first century. Computers became more human. By “human,” I don’t mean “humanoid.” I only mean that the computer has evolved from being a stodgy office tool to a revolutionary home appliance and entertainment system, a device designed to help us manage and enjoy our...
This book focuses on chemical and nanophotonic technology to be used to develop novel nano-optical devices and systems. It begins with temperature- and photo-induced phase transition of ferromagnetic materials. Further topics include: energy transfer in artificial photosynthesis, homoepitaxial multiple quantum wells in ZnO, near-field...
Rischpater's second edition has new coverage of HTML, WAP 2.0, XML, Palm's WCA and iMode in detail and improves the text of the first edition with time-tested information.
THE WIRELEss WEB is here to stay. More than a billion people now use wireless
devices, up from a paltry 200 million devices when I wrote the first...
The main focus of this book is innovation for developing countries: what is the innovation for, what are the current conditions of the innovation, and how to effectively innovate in developing economies. It contains the latest insights and analyses of innovation based on intensive interviews as well as primary and secondary data of...
