Non-photorealistic computer graphics is a multidisciplinary field in the research
community, involving computer arts, computer graphics, computer
vision, digital image/video processing and visual cognitive psychology. It
aims at the computer generation of images and animations that are made
in part “by hand” in appearance,...
In less than a decade, the online delivery of software has transformed
the business software landscape. The concept of online delivery is
simple: A software company develops an application, hosts the
software on its own servers, and makes it available to companies over
the Internet. Companies sign up to use the application and pay for...
CSS3, the newest version of the style sheet language of the web, is less
about creating new effects and more about accomplishing the beautiful
web design effects you’re familiar with in fantastic new ways—ways
that are more efficient and produce more usable and flexible results
than the techniques we’ve been using...
From the moment it was published almost ten years ago, Elements of User Experience became a vital reference for web and interaction designers the world over, and has come to define the core principles of the practice. Now, in this updated, expanded, and full-color new edition, Jesse James Garrett has refined his...
This book contains the papers of the 7th Computer and Games Conference
(CG 2010) held in Kanazawa, Japan. The conference took place during
September 24–26, 2010 in conjunction with the 15th Computer Olympiad and
the 17th World Computer Chess Championship.
The Computer and Games conference series is a major international...
Welcome to the CompTIA Security+ SY0-201 Cert Guide. The CompTIA Security+
Certification is widely accepted as the first security certification you should attempt
to attain in your information technology (IT) career. The CompTIA Security+
Certification is designed to be a vendor-neutral exam that measures your knowledge
of...
Information security has become a critical component in the stability and progress
of the modern world. With high expectations from the public and stringent regulations
from legislative and industry bodies, never have the pressures on corporations,
governments and other organizations been so great to protect their own data as well
as...
Brimming with beautiful pictures, this successful book guides you through a project-based, progressive curriculum so that you can build all the essential skills to enhance photographs creatively and professionally with Photoshop CS3. If you are an aspiring professional, enthusiastic amateur photographer, or a student learning photography,...
Developing software with testable requirements is the theme of this book. A
testable requirement is one with an acceptance test. Acceptance tests drive the
development of the software. As many development groups have experienced,
creating acceptance tests prior to implementing requirements decreases defects
and...
In the past decade, the movement to lighter-weight and increasingly agile methods
has been the most significant change to affect the software enterprise since the
advent of the waterfall model in the 1970s. Originated by a variety of thought and
practice leaders and proven in real-world, successful experiments, the methods
have proven...
This is the first comprehensive introduction to Support Vector Machines (SVMs), a new generation learning system based on recent advances in statistical learning theory. SVMs deliver state-of-the-art performance in real-world applications such as text categorisation, hand-written character recognition, image classification, biosequences...
Given so many other programming languages in the world, why should you learn Python
as your first exposure to computer programming? Well, the real answer is that your
instructor selected the both the language and this textbook for the course, so what choice
do you have? Nonetheless, let me explain why this was a very good decision.
