Parallel and Distributed Computing and Networks

Igor Zabel (1958-2005) was one of Slovenia's foremost curators and writers. Published as a part of JRP - Ringier's "Documents" critical writings series (published with Les presses du reel), this impor

"Union de Interactional Casa Barragan" is Japanese multimedia artist Noritoshi Hirakawa's meditation on the relationship between people and buildings, using Luis Barragan's home and studio. Hirakawa's

This book is Volume 2 of First German Reader for Beginners. There are simple and funny German texts for easy reading. The book consists of Elementary course with parallel German-English texts. The aut

The Swiss painter Uwe Wittwer (born 1954) finds the source material for his still lifes, interiors, landscapes and portraits on the Internet, digitally manipulating the images before finally endowing

Considered a key indicator of the progress and current state of the field, the TOP500 list has become a globally recognized tool for classifying technology trends in high-performance computing (HPC).

1. 本書是繼《六度分隔》之後，社會科學領域最重要的作品。作者發現：相距三度之內是強連接，強連接可以引發行為；相聚超過三度是弱連接，弱連接只能傳遞信息。2. 本書講述了社會網絡是如何形成的以及對人類現實行為的影響，如對人類的情緒、親密關係、健康、經濟的運行和政治的影響等，並特別指出，三度影響力（即朋友的朋友的朋友也能影響到你）是社會化網絡的強連接原則，決定著社會化網絡的功能。3. 本書提出大量看似

First published in German in 1913 and widely considered to be Paul Scheerbart's masterpiece, "Lesabendio" is an intergalactic utopian novel that describes life on the planetoid Pallas, where rubbery s

Ping-pong is the most popular racquet sport in the world. And no wonder: it is one of the few sports that is genuinely enjoyable to play at any skill level and at any age. From the fluorescent-lit bas

This book is the first complete documentation of the "Greenheads" series by Laylah Ali (born 1968), created between 1996 and 2005. Consisting of over 80 works, Ali's exquisitely rendered gouache-on-pa

The Internet needs networks! This book covers developments in all aspects of Internet and data networks. It includes future aspects of the Local Area Network, Wide Area Networks and the Internet and

Straddling fine art and fashion photography, the German-born, London-based photographer Norbert Schoerner (born 1966) has presented his work in many different contexts, from international gallery show

Specially designed to parallel the material in Pharmacology for Pharmacy Technicians, 2nd Edition, this helpful workbook provides in-depth study and review of the ASHP content requirements for pharmac

Undertaken in the wake of the 2009 financial crisis, Jacqueline Hassink's "The Table of Power 2" portrays desks and tables in the headquarters of 50 companies listed by "Fortune" magazine as the globa

After finding a lost address book, the artist sets out to understand its owner by randomly interviewing contacts to learn more about the personality and past of its owner.

Everett Singh must rescue his father from one of the billions of parallel universes where he has been banished, take care of himself and his crew in a frozen wasteland, and battle the villainous Charl

From her work in dance and choreography to her films and writings, Yvonne Rainer (born 1934) has established herself as one of the America's greatest living artists. This first collection of her poems

This is a book about the computer revolution of the mid-twentieth century and thepeople who made it possible. Unlike most histories of computing, it is not a book about machines,inventors, or entrepre

Process Control Systems (PCS) are distributed control systems (DCS) that are specialized to meet the requirements of the process industries. Many processes and plants of that domain have high safety a

Presents an essay on Andrew Wyeth's most famous painting, "Christina's World," discussing the artist's inspiration, specific details, and the controversies surrounding both the work and his life after

Anne Tyng (born 1920) explores the potentials of geometry through her architectural and teaching practices. Since the 1950s, when she worked closely with Louis Kahn and independently pioneered space-f

The use of open-source software (OSS)--readable software source code that can becopied, modified, and distributed freely--has expanded dramatically in recent years. The number ofOSS projects hosted on

Charles H. Ferguson, who electrified the world with his Oscar-winning documentary Inside Job, now explains how a predator elite took over the country, step by step, and he exposes the networks of acad

At nearly 500 pages, this tome is the first comprehensive monograph on Eike Becker Architekten, a Berlin firm that operates at the intersection of architecture and urban planning. Featuring 28 project

From his earliest years as a child prodigy, Lucian Freud prided himself on his virtuoso drawing skills. The interplay in his work between paper (for both drawing and etching) and canvas was a defining

DOUBLE FAULT is the 2nd book in The Vortex Series where Cassie and Trent’s problems have only just begun. As they fight through the repercussions of creating a parallel world, other dangers are lurkin

This attractive clothbound monograph surveys the career of Vancouver artist Elspeth Pratt, whose colorful sculptures using "poor" materials such as cardboard, polystyrene, balsa wood and vinyl occupy

As the power of computing has grown over the past few decades, the field of machinelearning has advanced rapidly in both theory and practice. Machine learning methods are usuallybased on the assumptio

When evil versions of himself and best friend Nate appear one day, teenaged Ephraim embarks on a dangerous odyssey through parallel worlds to make things right.

While fifteen-year-old Ellie tries to find her missing eleven-year-old brother, Danny, in alternating chapters Danny dreams of a parallel quest in a fantasy world of dragons and shapeshifters that he

In this groundbreaking book, Adrian Bejan takes the recurring patterns in nature—trees, tributaries, air passages, neural networks, and lightning bolts—and reveals how a single principle of physics, t

This book guides students through an exploration of the idea that thinking might beunderstood as a form of computation. Students make the connection between thinking and computing bylearning to write

Sicilian filmmaker Rosa Barba (born 1972) interrogates and decontextualizes the language of mainstream moviemaking through the medium of film itself and in sculptural installations. This selection of

Blending theoretical results with practical applications, this book provides an introduction to random matrix theory and shows how it can be used to tackle a variety of problems in wireless communications. The Stieltjes transform method, free probability theory, combinatoric approaches, deterministic equivalents and spectral analysis methods for statistical inference are all covered from a unique engineering perspective. Detailed mathematical derivations are presented throughout, with thorough explanation of the key results and all fundamental lemmas required for the reader to derive similar calculus on their own. These core theoretical concepts are then applied to a wide range of real-world problems in signal processing and wireless communications, including performance analysis of CDMA, MIMO and multi-cell networks, as well as signal detection and estimation in cognitive radio networks. The rigorous yet intuitive style helps demonstrate to students and researchers alike how to choose

Born in the 1890s on opposite sides of the Atlantic, friends for more than forty years, Dorothy Thompson and Rebecca West lived strikingly parallel lives that placed them at the center of the social a

They were teachers, students, chemists, writers, and housewives; a singer at the Paris Opera, a midwife, a dental surgeon. They distributed anti-Nazi leaflets, printed subversive newspapers, hid resis

"Machine Learning is rapidly becoming one of the most important areas of general practice, research and development activity within Computing Sci- ence. This is re ected in the scale of the academic r

Showcases the art of twelve revolutionary artists from the twentieth century, and offers commentaries on each artist's practices, life, and significant pieces.

Vision is a massively parallel computational process, in which the retinal image istransformed over a sequence of stages so as to emphasize behaviorally relevant information (such asobject category an

Dark magic, unknown enemies, monsters of every stripe--FBI profiler Jace Valchek has seen it all. In this bizarre parallel universe, shape-shifting werewolves and blood-thirsty vampires don't even war

Dark magic, unknown enemies, monsters of every stripe—FBI profiler Jace Valchek has seen it all. In the bizarre parallel universe of DD Barant's Bloodhound Files, shape-shifting werewolves and blood-t