The practice of compiler construction changes continually, in part because the designs of processors and systems change. For example, when we began to write Engineering a Compiler (eac) in 1998, some of our colleagues questioned the wisdom of including a chapter on instruction scheduling because out-of-order execution threatened to make...

The first edition, published in 2001, reviewed the multiple facets of the cosmetic field including the physiology of...

Hundreds of thousands of IT administrators, network administrators, and IT support technicians work daily with Windows 7. This well-organized, portable reference covers every facet of Windows 7, providing no-nonsense instruction that is readily accessible when you need...

When we began writing this book, we had a fundamental tenet: Write a clear handbook for creating the organization’s IT audit function and for performing their IT audits. We wanted this book to provide more than checklists and textbook theories but instead to provide real-life practical guidance from people who have performed IT...

Ten years ago, ASP.NET provided software developers with a means to write complex web applications with their existing Windows Forms skillsets. Today, it continues to be a robust framework for writing scalable applications, from small e-Commerce to enterprise-level CRM. But ten years later, with many business critical applications existing...

Computer graphics systems are capable of generating stunningly realistic images of objects that have never physically existed. In order for computers to create these accurately detailed images, digital models of appearance must include robust data to give viewers a credible visual impression of the depicted materials. In particular, digital...

This book will help you to understand and use all of the features provided by...

Every organization, no matter what the business involved, to achieve efficiency needs efficient people working for them. For a long time now, operating systems and applications have represented important tools in the work of these people and organizations. And if we are not capable of providing users with the proper tools, gaining an...

Doug and I have known each other online for many years. We both became Microsoft MVPs about 10 years ago, and have been friends ever since. Both of us had been writing for magazines for years. Although we’d been talking about writing a book together for about five years now, there had always been an impediment, usually work, and...

The classic definition of realism has been veridical realism. Does the picture pass the comparison test? That is, would an...

Computer science, like other mathematical fields, cannot live without a tight relationship with reality. However, such a relationship is, frankly, not very common. This is probably why people so enthusiastically welcome a true meeting of theory and practice. In that sense, the coming together of XML and tree automata theory was a...

The typical computational approach to object understanding derives shape information from the 2D outline of the objects. For complex object structures, however, such a planar approach cannot determine object shape; the structural edges have to be encoded in terms of their full 3D spatial configuration. Computer Vision: From Surfaces...