Many colleges and universities offer a course in discrete mathematics. Students taking these courses are from many disciplines, one of the largest being computer science. As a part of the Mathematics Across the Curriculum project at Dartmouth, supported by the National Science Foundation,1 we proposed to create a discrete mathematics...

In the last three decades, machine learning research and practice have focused on batch learning usually using small datasets. In batch learning, the whole training data is available to the algorithm, which outputs a decision model after processing the data eventually (or most of the times) multiple times. The rationale behind this...

Humans receive the great majority of information about their environment through sight, and at least 50% of the human brain is dedicated to vision. Vision is also a key component for building artificial systems that can perceive and understand their environment. Computer vision is likely to change society in many ways; for example, it...

Environmental remote sensing is the measurement, from a distance, of the spectral features of the Earth’s surface and atmosphere. These measurements are normally made by instruments carried by satellites or aircraft, and are used to infer the nature and characteristics of the land or sea surface, or of the atmosphere, at the...

Well, it’s been a wild ride since the first edition of this book was released. At that time, PowerShell had just shipped and had a fairly limited scope of influence. Things have changed a lot. PowerShell now ships in the box with Windows (at least Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2). The number of PowerShell users is now in the hundreds...

Agile methodologies attack risk at its core. To identify risk early and often is the premise of agile security. Risk comes in many forms. Organizations face security threats every day. Risks are in the delivery and maintenance of the countermeasures. Agile IT Security focuses on the details of the steps in delivering and maintaining...

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The purpose of this book is to provide a practical compendium of algorithms for use in applications. Unlike most works on algorithms, this book is not a  textbook: you will not find implementation details left as an exercise for the reader, nor will you find highly theoretical discussions of algorithms with small  snippets of code...