Meeting the growing demands for speed and quality in rendering computer graphics images requires new techniques. Practical parallel rendering provides one of the most practical solutions. This book addresses the basic issues of rendering within a parallel or distributed computing environment, and considers the strengths and weaknesses of...

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When I first started working with Microsoft Visual C# .NET, I was immediately struck by how productive my coding sessions became. Even though I was working with the pre-Beta release, the development environment and the .NET Framework simplified much of the work that I was doing. The increased productivity was due to four...

To really shine in your job interview and to get that dream job, the questions you ask must be at least as memorable as the answers you give. Today it's the questions you ask that set you apart from the dozens­­even hundreds­­of qualified candidates...

Legendary programming author Herbert Schildt distills and organizes the essential elements of C and C++ into a convenient and easy-to-use format that gives you quick, accurate answers to your C/C++ programming questions. You’ll quickly locate clear, concise explanations of the C and C++ programming syntax, keywords, operators,...

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E-Business Expectations provides a critical review of the process of evolving a product or service from prototype to practical technology. Written by renown expert on technology issues, this book provides business executives and managers...

Fork algebras are a formalism based on the relational calculus, with interesting algebraic and metalogical properties. Their representability is especially appealing in computer science, since it allows a closer relationship between their language and models. This book gives a careful account of the results and presents some applications of...