In its first edition this book successfully enabled readers, with little or no prior knowledge of computing or statistics, to develop reliable and valid tests and scales for assessment or research pur
Self-stabilization, an important concept to theoreticians and practitioners in distributed computing and communication networks, refers to a system's ability to recover automatically from unexpected f
Reveals how to master every aspect of Windows 2000 Professional, from installation, tune-ups, and software to the Internet, multimedia, mobile computing, and advanced topics. Registry tweaking and net
Illustrates key computing concepts using examples in the most popular programming languages. This is an essential guide for the hundreds of thousands of students studying Introduction to Computer Scie
A tutorial explaining how to write real programs for the Java virtual machine, the abstract computing machine that enables the Java platform to host applications on any computer or operating system wi
As a young professor at MIT in the 1920s, Vannevar Bush (1890-1974) did seminal work on analog computing and was a cofounder of Raytheon, whose initial success was based on long-lasting radio tubes. B
Drawing on linguistic stylistics, reader-response criticism, and literary and linguistic computing, Hoover analyzes William Golding's 1955 second novel about the contact between Neanderthal and early
Windows may rule the world of popular computing on PCs around the globe, but DOS still has a place in the hearts and minds of computer users who vaguely remember what a C prompt looks like. Even if D
Whether you're a longtime WordPerfect user or you're new to this venerable, feature-packed word processing program, Corel WordPerfect 8 For Windows For Dummies has what you need. Authors and computing
Volume 1: "Symbolic Computing" Volume 2: "Advanced Techniques" Volume 3: "Beyond Programming" This series is for people--adults and teenagers--who are interested in computer programming because it's f
Continuing the trend-watching of Technology 2001, which discussed the technologies that could well define the computing and communications environment that lies ahead, The Future of Software assemble
Foreword by Bjarne Stroustrup Software is generally acknowledged to be the single greatest obstacle preventing mainstream adoption of massively-parallel computing. While sequential applications are ro
Cutting through a raft of technical data, Thomas Landauer explains and illustrates why computers are in trouble and why massive outlays for computing since 1973 have not resulted in comparable product
Developments in parallel computing in recent years have made it possible to build multi-processor architectures that enable efficiency and speed in today's computing environment. Parallel Algorithms a
July 6-8, 1994 * the Massachusetts Institute of Technology The field of artificial life has recently emerged through the interaction of research in biology, physics, parallel computing, artificial in
Concurrent Constraint Programming introduces a new and rich class of programming languages based on the notion of computing with partial information, or constraints, that synthesize and extend work on
Concurrent Constraint Programming introduces a new and rich class of programming languages based on the notion of computing with partial information, or constraints, that synthesize and extend work on
A source on the rapidly changing field of optical computing. Readers are taken through the relevant concepts of classical and Fourier optics, digital logic and digital image processing. In addition to
In this personal memoir, electrical engineer David Lundstrom recalls the heyday ofearly computing - the rise of Control Data out of the Univac division of Sperry Rand, such milestonecomputer systems a
Since the publication of the first edition, parallel computing technology has gained considerable momentum. A large proportion of this has come from the improvement in VLSI techniques, offering one to
Secondary analysis has assumed a central position in social science research as existing survey data and statistical computing programmes have become increasingly available. This volume presents strat
Using Information Technology,4/e integrates solid,practical coverage of communications and the Internet/WWW throughout while covering the fundamental computing concepts surrounding the digital age inc
"Herb Schildt tells his programmers what they want and need to know--simply, clearly, concisely, and authoritatively." --ACM Computing Review World-renowned programming author Herb Schildt brings you
This concordance to the complete extant works of Livy was compiled at the Harvard Computing Center and contains approximately 500,000 entries. The Oxford Text was used for Books I–XXXV, the Teubner fo
Scientific findings have indicated that emotions play an essential role in decision making, perception, learning, and more - that is, they influence the very mechanisms of rational thinking. Not only
Winner, 1988, category of Computer Science, Professional/Scholarly Publishing Annual Awards Competition presented by the Association of American Publishers, Inc. "Optical Computing "provides the first
McClelland and Rumelhart's "Parallel Distributed Processing "was the first book to present a definitive account of the newly revived connectionist/neural net paradigm for artificial intelligence and c
