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After fulfilling every objective of a top secret mission to Jupiter's Ganymede and now only days from home, four NASA astronauts learn from their computer systems analyst in Houston through an unautho
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By the year 2050, great advances have been made in the realm of computer science, but the most sophisticated computer ever to have been built is about to be revealed to the world. The brainchild of Pr
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Computer Vision/Computer Graphics Collaboration Techniques, MIRAGE 2009, held in Rocquencourt, France, in May 2009
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This book describes a new design approach for energy-efficient, Domain-Specific Instruction set Processor (DSIP) architectures for the wireless baseband domain. The innovative techniques presented ena
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A Communist coalition force, spearheaded by the displaced Soviets, are preparing to attack the United States and free world aided by their spies in the US Senate, National Security Agency (NSA), CIA,
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Kyler was a street kid skateboarder once, and then later a heroin addict that hit rock bottom. Beaten and broken, her only salvation was suicide. After an overdose, she was saved and slowly aided back
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