Under mandate of Section 253, Study and Report on Effectiveness of Air Force Science and Technology Program Changes, of the Fiscal Year 2002 National Defense Authorization Act (Public Law 107-107; U.S. Congress, 2001), the U.S. Air Force contracted with the National Research Council (NRC) to conduct the present study. In response,...

Did you ever imagine yourself writing a computer game and being able to make money selling it? With Apple’s iTunes App Store and the accompanying mobile devices iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad, it’s now easier than ever. Of course, that doesn’t mean it’s easy— there’s still a lot to learn about game...

At the heart of the book is the Deitel signature “live-code approach.” Concepts are presented in the context of complete working...

PHP Master is aimed at intermediate PHP developers—those who have left their newbie status behind, and are looking to advance their skills and knowledge. Our aim as authors is to enable developers to refine their skills across a number of areas, and so we’ve picked topics that we felt have stood us in the best stead to grow...

Today is the most exciting time to be working in nanotechnology, and bionanotechnology in particular. Chemistry, biology, and physics have revealed an immense amount of information on molecular structure and function, and now we are poised to make use of it for atomic-level engineering. New discoveries are being made every day, and...

Most books about SQL Server take one of the two approaches. The first approach is to provide a broad introduction to SQL Server administration. While overviews are great for beginners, they don't provide enough information, leaving the reader wanting for details and practical advice. The second approach is to attempt to cover every...

The book is aimed at junior, senior...

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...

The book is aimed at junior, senior and...

While books and journals of high quality have proliferated in discrete and compu- tational geometry during recent years, there has been to date no single reference work fully accessible to the nonspecialist as well as to the specialist, covering all the major aspects of both fields. The Handbook of Discrete and Computational Geometry...

The REX School/Symposium *A Decade of Concurrency - Reflections and Perspectives' was the final event of a ten year period of cooperation between three Dutch research groups working on the foundations of concurrency. Ever since its inception in 1983. the goal of the project has been'to contribute to the crossfertilization...