Computing and Information Technology

Driven by demand from the entertainment industry for better and more realistic animation, technology continues to evolve and improve.

This is one book of a four-part series, which aims to integrate discussion of modern engineering design principles, advanced design tools, and industrial design practices throughout the design process.

Digital Signal Processing, Second Edition enables electrical engineers and technicians in the fields of biomedical, computer, and electronics engineering to master the essential fundamentals of DSP principles and practice.

All the design and development inspiration and direction an digital engineer needs in one blockbuster book!

Cognitive Systems - Information Processing Meets Brain Science presents an overview of the exciting, truly multidisciplinary research by neuroscientists and systems engineers in the emerging field of cognitive systems, providing a cross-disciplinary examination of this cutting-edge area of scientific research.

Due to an ever-decreasing supply in raw materials and stringent constraints on conventional energy sources, demand for lightweight, efficient and low cost structures has become crucially important in modern engineering design.

API Design for C++ provides a comprehensive discussion of Application Programming Interface (API) development, from initial design through implementation, testing, documentation, release, versioning, maintenance, and deprecation.

Structured Parallel Programming offers the simplest way for developers to learn patterns for high-performance parallel programming.

The fifth edition of Essential MATLAB for Engineers and Scientists provides a concise, balanced overview of MATLAB's functionality that facilitates independent learning, with coverage of both the fundamentals and applications.

Discover the groundbreaking potential of augmented reality in special education with this comprehensive book, which fills a significant research gap and explores the transformative impact of AR/VR on teaching and learning experiences for individuals with disabilities.

Image Processing and Pattern Recognition covers major applications in the field, including optical character recognition, speech classification, medical imaging, paper currency recognition, classification reliability techniques, and sensor technology.

Usability Testing Essentials provides readers with the tools and techniques needed to begin usability testing or to advance their knowledge in this area.

The Basics of Cyber Warfare provides readers with fundamental knowledge of cyber war in both theoretical and practical aspects.

This is the only book that covers all the topics that any budding security manager needs to know!

The only book that instructs IT Managers to adhere to federally mandated certification and accreditation requirements.

Imagine how much easier creating web and mobile applications would be if you had a practical and concise, hands-on guide to visual design.

Computational Fluid Dynamics enables engineers to model and predict fluid flow in powerful, visually impressive ways and is one of the core engineering design tools, essential to the study and future work of many engineers.

The Second Edition is an updated revision to the authors highly successful and widely used introduction to the principles and application of the statistical theory of signal detection.

Modern Embedded Computing: Designing Connected, Pervasive, Media-Rich Systems provides a thorough understanding of the platform architecture of modern embedded computing systems that drive mobile devices.

"e;Stealing the Network: How to Own the Box is a unique book in the fiction department.

Since its first volume in 1960, Advances in Computers has presented detailed coverage of innovations in computer hardware, software, theory, design, and applications.

A firewall is as good as its policies and the security of its VPN connections.

Neural Systems for Robotics represents the most up-to-date developments in the rapidly growing aplication area of neural networks, which is one of the hottest application areas for neural networks technology.

One of the challenges of administering and supporting Microsoft(R) Outlook 2003 is that it stores settings in so many different places - in the Windows registry, as files in the user's profile folders, and in the information store itself.

Comprehensive resource encompassing recent developments, current use cases, and future opportunities for AI in disease detection AI in Disease Detection discusses the integration of artificial intelligence to revolutionize disease detection approaches, with case studies of AI in disease detection as well as insight into the opportunities and challenges of AI in healthcare as a whole.

Implementing Analytics demystifies the concept, technology and application of analytics and breaks its implementation down to repeatable and manageable steps, making it possible for widespread adoption across all functions of an organization.

Artificial Intelligence in Engineering Design is a three volume edited collection of key papers from the field of artificial intelligence and design, aimed at providing a description of the field, and focusing on how ideas and methods from artifical intelligence can help engineers in the design of physical artifacts and processes.

This collection represents the primary reference work for researchers and students in the area of Temporal Reasoning in Artificial Intelligence.

Graphics Gems V is the newest volume in The Graphics Gems Series.

This book is written with the IT professional in mind.

A recent survey stated that 52% of embedded projects are late by 4-5 months.

Search is not just a box and ten blue links.

Create physically realistic 3D Graphics environments with this introduction to the ideas and techniques behind the process.

Johnny Long's last book sold 12,000 units worldwide.

The second edition has been updated with all the key developments of the past three years, and includes new and expanded sections on digital video interfaces, DSP, DVD, video servers, automation systems, HDTV, 8-VSB modulation and the ATSC system.

This innovative textbook presents the key foundational concepts for a one-semester undergraduate course in the theory of computation.

Data are an organization's sole, non-depletable, non-degrading, durable asset.

Programming Language Pragmatics, Third Edition, is the most comprehensive programming language book available today.

This new textbook in signals and systems provides a pedagogically rich approach to what can commonly be a mathematically dry subject.

Intelligent agents are employed as the central characters in this new introductory text.

The need to professionally and successfully conduct computer forensic investigations of incidents and crimes has never been greater.

It is now possible to predict the future when it comes to crime.

Perfectly intelligent programmers often struggle when forced to work with SQL.

Although recognized as a key to the design process, prototyping often falls victim to budget cuts, deadlines, or lack of access to sophisticated tools.

Clustered configuration first hit the scene nearly 20 years ago when Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) introduced the VaxCluster.

Computation and Storage in the Cloud is the first comprehensive and systematic work investigating the issue of computation and storage trade-off in the cloud in order to reduce the overall application cost.

Petroleum Production Engineering, A Computer-Assisted Approach provides handy guidelines to designing, analyzing and optimizing petroleum production systems.

El Manual de PHP es una guía para principiantes que permite desarrollar aplicaciones web en corto tiempo.

Este libro ha sido pensado para todos aquellos que estén interesados en conocer el lenguaje de programación Java, en él encontrara: aspectos básicos, estructuras de control, arreglos, métodos, manipulación de cadenas de caracteres, interfaz gráfica de usuario, gráficos, programación orientada a objetos, manejo de excepciones, hilos, archivos, trabajo con redes y bases de datos.

Up and Running with Autocad(R) 2013 started out as a set of classroom notes that outlined, in an easy to understand manner, exactly how AutoCAD is used and applied, in contrast to theoretical musings or clinical descriptions of the commands as found in other books.