Survival. It's the primary instinct built into every living thing. Computer programmer Ian Daniels has designed his latest masterpiece, the Survivor Program. Able to boost the creativity and cunning,
Survival. It's the primary instinct built into every living thing. Computer programmer Ian Daniels has designed his latest masterpiece, the Survivor Program. Able to boost the creativity and cunning,
International Trade Subsidy Rules and Tax and Financial Export Incentives is an inquiry into the interrelations between international trade subsidy rules and the use of tax and financial export incent
She argues with her mother. She occasionally skips class. And she alternately crushes on two totally different boys. But Chloe King is by no means your typical teenager. The girl can scale buildings
Dr. Sherwin Nuland, author of the National Book Award-winning How We Die, once again combines knowledge, compassion, and elegance of expression to shed light on the workings of our bodies from the per
Two renowned investment advisors and authors of the bestseller The Great Reckoning bring to light both currents of disaster and the potential for prosperity and renewal in the face of radical changes
In this eloquent first-person account of a family drama that changed the face of American business, the man who transformed IBM into the world's largest computer company reflects on his lifelong partn
Learning how to write C/C++ code is only the first step. To be a serious programmer, you need to understand the structure and purpose of the binary files produced by the compiler: object files, static
Students studying computer animation and computer games have to be familiar with geometry, matrices, vectors, rotation transforms, quaternions, curves and surfaces, and as computer graphics software b
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
Taking readers to the cutting edge of physics, mathematics, and computer science, Julian Brown tells the dramatic story of the groundbreaking efforts to create a fundamentally new kind of computer tha
This book covers performance analysis of computer networks, and begins by providing the necessary background in probability theory, random variables, and stochastic processes. Queuing theory and sim
Pete McRae, a robotics software programmer with a background in genetic engineering and neuroscience believes machines, in the very near future, will not only have the ability to think but will also h
In response to the myriad of complexly interconnected health and socioeconomic problems that wreak their worst destruction in the world's poorest communities, an equally complex developmental-aid indu
In response to the myriad of complexly interconnected health and socioeconomic problems that wreak their worst destruction in the world's poorest communities, an equally complex developmental-aid indu
The book 'How Jesus Became The World's Best Selling Brand', in a lucid narrative, explores the human side of a being whose birthday remains the world's most celebrated and commercialized event/season,
The author, who died in 1984, is well-known both as a person and through his research in mathematical logic and theoretical computer science. In the first part of the book he presents the new classica
On August 6, 1945, when the world's first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, the Furuta family was living one mile away from the hypocenter. Five year old Kikuko, her mother, Masako, and her two br
On August 6, 1945, when the world's first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, the Furuta family was living one mile away from the hypocenter. Five year old Kikuko, her mother, Masako, and her two br
This Festschrift volume contains the proceedings of the conference Mathematical Methods in Computer Science, MMICS 2008, which was held during December 17-19, 2008, in Karlsruhe, Germany, in memory of
Pleskit, the world's first alien third grader, hopes to use her father's molecule compressor to teach a bully a lesson, but an accident shrinks both the bully and their teacher, with hilarious results
The world's foremost academic expert on UFOs and alien abductions provides the first evidence-based explanation of a mystery that has perplexed scientists for decades. Based on more than 700 hypnotic
Israeli Jews and Palestinians appear side by side for the first time in this remarkable book to share powerful feelings and reflections on growing up in one of the world's longest and most dangerous c
The 1980s and 1990s experienced a proliferation of schools implementing Computer-Based Learning (CBL) and/or Computer-Based Training (CBT) because of today's technological growth. As Technology Educat
Through personal stories this book demonstrates that generations 50 years apart in their college experiences share a committment to address the world's troubles as their own and to make a difference i
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
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 contents the esssential knowledge on world's systems, technological facts and world's civilizations basing on etymological points. It depics what the mankind needs to comprehend for a proper
This book contents the esssential knowledge on world's systems, technological facts and world's civilizations basing on etymological points. It depics what the mankind needs to comprehend for a proper
The LNCS series reports state-of-the-art results in computer science research, development, and education, at a high level and in both printed and electronic form. Enjoying tight cooperation with the
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 28th International Workshop on Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science, WG 2002, held in Cesky Krumlov, Czech Republic in June 2002.The 36 re
Straight from the CEO reveals the practical, far-reaching insights of the world's top CEOs, including: Royal Dutch/Shell's Cor Herkstroter, mastermind of the most ambitious makeover among the world's
Today, Microsoft commands the high ground of the information superhighway by owning the operating systems and basic applications programs that run on the world's 170 million computers. Beyond the unqu
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval, CMMR 2013, held in Marseille, France, in October
Content-based 3-D object retrieval has attracted extensive attention recently and has applications in a variety of fields, such as, computer-aided design, tele-medicine,mobile multimedia, virtual real
In many computer vision applications, objects have to be learned and recognized in images or image sequences. This book presents new probabilistic hierarchical models that allow an efficient represent
Proceedings of the First Symposium on Aviation Maintenance and Management collects selected papers from the conference of ISAMM 2013 in China held in Xi’an on November 25-28, 2013. The book presents s
The title of this book is a pun on the use of the preposition “onto” with the aim of recalling “Ontology”, the term commonly adopted in the computer science community to indicate the study of the form
In this primer for IT specialists on the aspects of molecular biology and medicine that lend themselves to the application of computer science, budding bioinformaticians will find clear explanations o
