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In Virtual Memory, Homay King traces the concept of the virtual through the philosophical works of Henri Bergson, Gilles Deleuze, and Giorgio Agamben to offer a new framework for thinking about film,

A step-by-step beginner's guide for your sewing machineMy Sewing Machine Book is a clear, fun and fresh introduction to sewing on a machine for kids. Packed with easy sewing projects, templates and pa

Now that the shock of the virtual has subsided toward a 'new-normal' of computational interference in all areas of life, it is an advantageous moment to reflect on the passage through the virtual and

Virtual Victorians seeks to re-examine the networks of remediation that allow contemporary researchers to reconstruct the distant nineteenth century, which has at this point necessarily become an arti

Architecture and the Virtual is a study of architecture as it is reflected in the work of seven contemporary artists, working with the tools of our post-digital age. The book maps the convergence of v

The goal of machine learning is to program computers to use example data or pastexperience to solve a given problem. Many successful applications of machine learning exist already,including systems th

Multi-Agent Machine Learning: A Reinforcement Learning Approach is a framework to understanding different methods and approaches in multi-agent machine learning. It also provides cohesive coverage of

Human-Machine Interfaces for Industrial Robotic Cells, discusses how to make human-machine interfaces more natural and accessible to humans. Programming robots is still too complex and too slow. Cons

In the twenty-first-century digital world, virtual goods are sold for real money.Digital game players happily pay for avatars, power-ups, and other game items. But behind everyvirtual sale, there is a

What happens when learning in the "real world" is augmented by use of the virtual, and learning in virtual environments is augmented by use of the "real"? Augmented Education explores learning that ta

Making a Machine That Sees Like Us explains why and how our visual perceptions can provide us with an accurate representation of the external world. Along the way, it tells the story of a machine (a c

To advance in today's workplace requires virtual team skills. Most individuals assume their face-to-face skills will translate, but competency with virtual communication and teamwork requires an entir

This book provides comprehensive treatment of machine to machine (M2M) communication. It supplies an in-depth understanding of the various architectures for M2M systems and technologies that enable th

Written for both scholars and practitioners, this volume focuses on the design, management, use and impacts of Virtual Communities (VCs) from technological, social and economic perspectives. It brings

Invaluable, hard-to-find information on the optimum purchase, design, and installation of large-scale, ultra-expensive machine tools.Written by an engineer with many years of experience in the machine

Embodied conversational agents (ECA) and speech-based human–machine interfaces can together represent more advanced and more natural human–machine interaction. Fusion of both topics is a challenging a

Millions of children visit virtual worlds every day. In such virtual play spaces asHabbo Hotel, Toontown, and Whyville, kids chat with friends from school, meet new people, constructavatars, and earn

As virtual reality expands from the imaginary worlds of science fiction and pervades every corner of everyday life, it is becoming increasingly important for students and professionals alike to unders

Since the publication of the companion volume Researching Learning in Virtual Worlds in 2010, there has been a growth not only in the range and number of educational initiatives taking place in virtua

This book presents modern machine element theory in a format and with a pedagogy that is favorable to junior students taking a Machine Design course. Using an advanced pedagogy and a proven combinatio

Leading Virtual Project Teams addresses the challenges today’s virtual project management environment poses to traditional methods of leadership and communication. It provides the virtual project mana

The growth of interest in virtual worlds and other online spaces for children and young people raises important issues for literacy educators and researchers. This book is a timely and much-needed col

The five-year European research program SKILLS (Multimodal Interfaces for Capturing and Transfer of Skills) was conducted to evaluate and exploit robotic and virtual environment technologies for train

Explore the multidisciplinary nature of complex networks through machine learning techniquesStatistical and Machine Learning Approaches for Network Analysis provides an accessible framework for struct

Digital media present opportunities for new types of consumption including desiring, buying, collecting, making, and even selling digital virtual goods. To these activities we can add those taking pla

Medication errors can have serious, and at times, life threatening consequences. VIRTUAL MEDICATION SAFETY FOR TECHNICIANS is a multimedia learning tool designed to simulate the day-to-day experience

Intended for researchers, this volume collects quantitative and qualitative studies on virtual work practices, possibilities, and limitations. Four studies from the University of North Carolina examin

Virtual Reality has the potential to provide descriptive and practical information for medical training and therapy while relieving the patient or the physician. Multimodal interactions between the us

The Virtual Fields Method: Extracting Constitutive Mechanical Parameters from Full-field Deformation Measurements is the first and only one on the Virtual Fields Method, a recent technique to identify

Computer and Machine Vision: Theory, Algorithms, Practicalities (previously entitled Machine Vision) clearly and systematically presents the basic methodology of computer and machine vision, covering

Machine learning is an interdisciplinary field of science and engineering that studies mathematical theories and practical applications of systems that learn. This book introduces theories, methods and applications of density ratio estimation, which is a newly emerging paradigm in the machine learning community. Various machine learning problems such as non-stationarity adaptation, outlier detection, dimensionality reduction, independent component analysis, clustering, classification and conditional density estimation can be systematically solved via the estimation of probability density ratios. The authors offer a comprehensive introduction of various density ratio estimators including methods via density estimation, moment matching, probabilistic classification, density fitting and density ratio fitting, as well as describing how these can be applied to machine learning. The book provides mathematical theories for density ratio estimation including parametric and non-parametric conve

This comprehensive textbook introduces readers to the three-tiered, Model-View-Controller (MVC) architecture by using Hibernate, JSPs, and Java Servlets. These three technologies all use Java, so that

This book presents a guide to the core features of Java – and some more recent innovations – enabling the reader to build skills and confidence though tried-and-trusted stages, supported by exercises

This text is an unbound, binder-ready edition.Big Java: Late Objects is a comprehensive introduction to Java and computer programming, which focuses on the principles of programming, software engineer

In this comprehensive resource on virtual worlds/environments and their implications for the real world, Ivory (communication, Virginia Tech Gaming and Media Effects Research Laboratory) describes the

An online, interactive way for students to explore astronomy, Virtual Astronomy Laboratories allows students to have a hands-on lab experience from their computers. Enhance students' understanding of

Godwired offers an engaging exploration of religious practice in the digital age. It considers how virtual experiences, like stories, games and rituals, are forms of world-building or "cosmos construc

The newest communication technologies are profoundly changing the world's politics, economies, and cultures, but the specific implications of online gameworlds remain mysterious. The Virtual Future e

The fusion between virtuality and reality has created a new quality of experience establishing metaverses and virtual worlds. Second Life, Twinity, Entropia Universe or Fregger have experienced rapid

A manual for both designers and users, comprehensively presenting the current state of experts' knowledge on virtual reality (VR) in computer science, mechanics, optics, acoustics, physiology, psychol