This book is about learning how to write programs for LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT robots. The LEGO MINDSTORMS software and its NXT-G programming language are powerful tools that make it easy to write custom programs. This book will teach you how to get the most out of the NXT-G language as you acquire the programming skills necessary to...
The Windows Presentation Framework (WPF), Silverlight, and Windows Phone 7 are the latest technologies
for building flexible user interfaces (UI) for applications built with Microsoft technology.
All three rely on the XAML markup language to describe UI elements and layout, and you can program
applications for all three platforms with...
In case you haven’t heard, the digital camera market is exploding. At this point,
a staggering 98 percent of cameras sold are digital cameras. It’s taken a few
decades—the underlying technology used in most digital cameras was invented
in 1969—but film photography has been reduced to a niche activity.
Programming isn't hard. But it is hard to find learning materials that teach you to do interesting things with
programming. Other computer books go over many topics that most newbie coders don't need. This book will
teach you how to program your own computer games. You will learn a useful skill and have fun games to show for...
It’s been five years since the first edition of Introducing Character Animation with Blender came out, and a lot has changed in the world of Blender. Interest in Blender has exploded. When the first edition of this book came out, it was the only English-language book on Blender in print. Now, as this second edition of the book arrives,...
The chapters in this volume were presented at the July–August 2006 NATO
Advanced Study Institute on Imaging for Detection and Identification. The
conference was held at the beautiful Il Ciocco resort near Lucca, in the glorious
Tuscany region of northern Italy. For the eighth time we gathered at this
idyllic spot to explore and...
When Second Life launched in 2003. running on just 16
servers with barely 1 .ÐÐÐdedicated users, it was the
culmination of a kind of dream for me. One of the things
Td always been interested in, ever since I was a young
boy, was how we manipulate the world around us.
The world had so much stuff in it; there was always...
Just so you’re clear: it was not my idea to give a talk to Microsoft Research. I had learned embarrassingly little about computer science in my 18 years of life, and the last thing I wanted to do is to have that exposed in front of a bunch of genius PhDs in MSR. But my manager thought it’d be a great...
The rapid advance of technology has changed and influenced how we think about gathering digital
evidence. Soon after the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City on September 11,
2001, many young men and women volunteered to serve their country in different ways. For those
who did not choose the military, options included...
This earliest recorded attempt to regulate the engineering profession reminds
us, in the bluntest way possible, that the paramount purpose of engineering and
engineering design is to serve the user. One would assume that the engineer’s
responsibility to users is so self evident that it goes without saying. Various
professional...
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 37th International Workshop on Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science (WG 2011) took place in Tepl´a Monastery, Czech Republic, during June 21–24, 2011. It was attended by 80 participants who came from all over the world not only to deliver or listen to interesting talks, but also to celebrate the 65th birthday of Ludek...
