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Machine Translation: Its Scope and Limits

Springer, 2008

Machine Translation (MT) is both an engineering technology and a measure of all things to do with languages and computers—whenever a new theory of language or linguistics is offered, an important criteria for its success is whether or not it will improve machine translation.

This book presents a history of machine translation (MT) from...

Advanced Data Structures

Cambridge University Press, 2008

Advanced Data Structures presents a comprehensive look at the ideas, analysis, and implementation details of data structures as a specialized topic in applied algorithms. Data structures are how data is stored within a computer, and how one can go about searching for data within. This text examines efficient ways to search and update sets of...

Information Security Architecture: An Integrated Approach to Security in the Organization, Second Edition

Auerbach Publications, 2006

Information Security Architecture, Second Edition incorporates the knowledge developed during the past decade that has pushed the information security life cycle from infancy to a more mature, understandable, and manageable state. It simplifies security by providing clear and organized methods and by guiding you to the most effective resources...

Feature Extraction & Image Processing, Second Edition

Academic Press, 2008

We will no doubt be asked many times: why on earth write a new book on computer vision? Fair question: there are already many good books on computer vision in the bookshops, as you will find referenced later, so why add to them? Part of the answer is that any textbook is a snapshot of material that exists before it. Computer vision, the art of...

Best Practices in Business Technology Management

Auerbach Publications, 2008

A Tour de Force of Business Technology Management

Despite the exponential growth of computing and communications technology, the inertia of old business technology management practices still drives most investment decisions in this area. Companies spend too much money on new technology, while their business models and...

Algorithms and Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks (Wiley Series on Parallel and Distributed Computing)

John Wiley & Sons, 2008

Boukerche is well-known and established international researcher in the field of wireless mobile networks and distributed systems. This is one of the first publications to focus on wireless ad hoc and sensor networks with a concentration on algorithms and protocols providing you with a comprehensive resource to learn about the continuous advances...

Access Denied: The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering (Information Revolution and Global Politics)

MIT Press, 2008

This book is a testament to collaboration. About five years ago, it became clear to several of us—at the University of Cambridge, Harvard Law School, and the University of Toronto—that we might accomplish more by working together, across institutions and continents, than we could by going it alone. Since that time, the Oxford Internet...

The Routledge Dictionary of Gods, Goddesses, Devils and Demons

Routledge, 2004

This dictionary covers, in one volume, over 1800 of the most important deities and demons from around the world. From classical Greek and Roman mythology to the gods of Eastern Europe and Mesopotamia, from Nordic giants to Islamic jinns and Egyptian monsters, it is packed with descriptions of the figures most worshipped and feared around the world...

Encyclopedia of Geographic Information Science

Sage Publications, 2007

“Most of the topics in this encyclopedia will remain important for years to come. Many of the topics here are germane to geography such as the Modifiable Areal Unit Problem, spatial autocorrelation, mental maps, and scale. For these reasons as well as for its sheer readability and usefulness, I believe that...

The Philosophy of Mathematical Practice

Oxford University Press, 2008

Contemporary philosophy of mathematics offers us an embarrassment of riches. Among the major areas of work one could list developments of the classical foundational programs, analytic approaches to epistemology and ontology of mathematics, and developments at the intersection of history and philosophy of mathematics. But anyone familiar with...

The Physics of Interstellar Dust (Series in Astronomy and Astrophysics)

Taylor & Francis, 2002

All of the material is presented clearly and concisely.
- Tom Hartquist in A&G

It is by far the most comprehensive, detailed, and in depth work ever published on this subject. The book derives all of the relevant physics for interstellar dust from first principles. It includes all of the necessary physics of dust grains,...

Computational Systems Bioinformatics: Csb2007 Conference Proceedings, University of California, San Diego, USA, 13-17 August 2007

Imperial College Press, 2007

This volume contains about 40 papers covering many of the latest developments in the fast-growing field of bioinformatics. The contributions span a wide range of topics, including computational genomics and genetics, protein function and computational proteomics, the transcriptome, structural bioinformatics, microarray data analysis, motif...

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